For $4.4 million dollars US each guests to The Galactic Suite Space Resort, expected to open in 2012, will be treated to three days in the pod (including transportation) orbiting 450 km above the Earth. Circling the globe every 80 minutes, the pod will allow guests to take in 15 sunrises while floating around their suites.
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Storm watchers run from the deck at a hotel on Medano Beach as a large wave overtakes their perch as Hurricane Rick approaches Cabo San Lucas October 19, 2009, a popular tourist resort at the Southern tip of Baja California, Mexico. Hurricane Rick has claimed its first victim as it churned up Mexico's Pacific Coast whipping up a giant wave which swept away a Mexican at the Los Cabos tourist resort, authorities said Monday.
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Tourists walk in the flooded Saint-Mark's Square in Venice on November 3, 2009. The high water, a convergence of high tides and a strong sirocco wind, stood at 110 centimeters.
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A woman sits next to a gravesite during Day of the Dead celebrations at the cemetery in Arocutin, Mexico, early Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. According to tradition, candles are lit to guide wandering souls back to their families during Day of the Dead.
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A general view of Morjana restaurant during the grand opening of the Mazagan Beach Resort on October 30, 2009 in El Jadida, Morocco. Kerzner International have launched a brand new 500-room tourist destination in Morocco boasting an 18-hole golf course designed by Gary Player, a 7km stretch of beach, luxury boutiques, eight restaurants, casino, nightclub, a spa and one of the largest conference centres in the region.
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A tourist passes along a ledge at the 'Adalaj-Ni-Vav' step well in Gandhinagar district some 35 km from Ahmedabad on October 21, 2009. Built in 1498 and intricately carved, Adalaj-Ni-Vav belongs to the multi-level step wells historically frequented by travellers and caravans as stopovers along trade routes.
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Tourists look at a preserved segment of the Berlin wall (1961-1989) at East Side Gallery on Berlin's Muhlen Strasse on October 25, 2009. Germany will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall on November 9, 2009.
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Musician Dave Carroll, of the pop-folk band Sons Of Maxwell, holds his repaired Taylor guitar in Halifax on Wednesday July 9, 2009. Carroll has become an internet sensation after posting a revenge song about airline customer service on YouTube with his song "United Breaks Guitars." Carroll's guitar sustained serious damage while travelling to a performance in the United States.
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This image made available by Norway's Kristiansand Regional Customs Service, Tuesday Oct 27, 2009, shows how an unidentified 22-year-old Norwegian man attempted to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into Norway under his clothes, after travelling on a ferry from Hirtshals, Denmark. Customs agent Helge Breilid said Monday that the man was apprehended in the southern town of Kristiansand with 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos under his clothes.
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The Wrapped Room is one of many creative and even bizarre rooms at the Propeller Island City Lodge, shown photographed February 14, 2002 in Berlin, Germany. Owner, artist and musician Lars Stroschen designed the rooms of the hotel, which now has 28 rooms and has been open since June, 2001.
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