The Smart Travel Guide

Wacken Open Air, the biggest metal music festival in the world, will take place between 4-7th of August, in Germany. The town is situated 50 km from Hamburg, and visitors can go to the festival by car. You can go as well by Metal Travel Bus from Hamburg, but with a prior booking. Access in the metal festival area is allowed on 4th of August, at 0.00 and the other zones belonging to Wacken Open Air Festival will open on Wednesday, at 8 o’clock, 10 and 11 (Headbanger’s Ballroom). Teenagers under 16 will not be allowed to come alone to the concert and the ones who are 18 must leave the area before midnight.

Underaged must have a parent agreement with them, where an adult takes the responsability for them. The greatest Metal Music Festival in the World, Wacken Open Air, is at its 21st edition and it will entertain its 70.000 fans with famous artists like Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Slayer, Arch Enemy, Amorphis, Anvil, Candlemass, Cannibal Corpse, Corvus Corax, Immortal, Kamelot, Lake of Tears, Nightmare, OverKill, Soulfly, Stratovarius, Tarja, Tyr, U.D.O., W.A.S.P. and many others. Taking into account that tickets for the festival were sold 200 days before the event and there will be many music enthusiasts, there are also many security restrictions, such as – knives or any sharp items, screwers, glass objects.


If you want to buy something to drink, then you can get yourself a beer or any alcoholic drink from there.You can use showers for 2,50 euro. Just next to the showers, there are towels available. There will be 8 supermarkets selling sandwiches, plastic knives and forks, the festival beer, Wacken Beer. The ticket price includes also the so-called Full Metal Bag, that contains, among others: headphones, pen, raincoat and a condom. But who wants to get one, has to hurry up because there is a limited number.


The access with recording cameras is strictly forbidden, as well as with bracelets that have more than 1,5 cm pricks. The ones that want to test their vocal skills can go to the Karaoke area, which is open during night, too, after the concerts from Headbangers-Ballroom. The Wacken Open Air Rock Music Festival had its first edition in 1990, with just few music bands performing.

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Blackenberge is a Belgian town, situated on the coast. Among the Marching Event, Flower Parade, Carnival Parade tourists will also enjoy visiting Blackenberge Sand Festival. Blackenberge Sand Festival has been gathering every year, since 1997, thousands of tourists from all countries, who come to see the beautiful wonders created by 40 sand artists, who come from the four corners of the globe. This year, ‘Sand World, Around the World’ lasts from May, 28th until August, 31st, in the Kon, daily from 10 A.M. till 7 P.M. This year also,

Blackenberge Sand Festival in Belgium provides its visitors a unique journey, among one of the most popular 100 attractions, from castles to ery high bridges and famous building, from 40 countries like China, India, Brazil, Peru, Russia, Turkey, USA, Greece and many more. The artists working for this festival come from Belgium, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Mexico. They use 80 lorry loads of Belgian sand which will turn into real wonders of this world. The Blackenberge Festival aims at obtaining the world record in matter of the longest sand sculpture festival in the world, being 841,80 metres long. Alexander Deman, festival organiser asserted that “It is a real trip around the world. Never before have so many artists come to Blankenberge. With this world record, we are already the biggest sand museum in the world.”


Visitors can enjoy 171 3D sculptured scenes, from each continent – 73 European, 43 Asian, 19 African, 17 North American, 10 South American and 9 Oceanian, who draw in the same place the most visited places in the world, most of which are full of historical value. Because of the risk of bad weather, such as rain, organisers have left only the Pyramids, the Taj Mahal and the Eiffel Tower outside, whereas all the other sand sculptures are situated in two tents.

Tickets are available both at the Festival kiosk and on the trains. Children benefit from discount, as well as students and disabled persons. The Sand Sculptures Festival in Belgium is situated at a short walking distance from the train station, that is less than 1 kilometer. The tram stops right near the entrance, opposite the Sea Life Centre. If you want to go by bus, then you can take a free bus route. Wheelchair users have a special pathway.

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3D Express Coach is the soon-to-be ecological solution for traffic jams in China. Shenzhen Huashi Future Parking Equipment has proposed the design for the new bus, which will go above the road and other cars, called ‘3D Express Coach‘. According to the research made, traffic jams will be reduced by 30% during the period this bus functions. It is claimed to cost about 500 million yuan, which means only 10 per per cent of the cost of an equivalent subway system. The new bus will have 1400 passengers capacity for one way, and it will be placed above the rest of the traffic. This is also because China overcame USA in matters of greenhouse gas rate, and it took the decision to reduce air pollution.

3D Express Coach is also named “three-dimensional fast bus” and it will travel at speeds of up to 37 mph and it will be 15 feet high. Moreover, because it is projected as an ecofriendly means of transportation, it will be solar-powered.

Cars will easily go under this bus will be warned, through an alarm as they drive when it was about to make a turn and also when they drive too close from the bus wheels. Inside 3D Express Coach a ladder will help passengers in case of emergency. The front and rear of the buses will emit ultrasonic waves to keep trucks or too-tall cars from entering the “tunnel.”

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