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Chinese New Year holidays around the world

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Gong Xi Fa Cai in 2014, the Year of the Horse .  Image: colourlovers.com Our planet is actually very beautiful with cultural diversity, so that we can see a variety of festive events from various tribal, ethnic, religious and cultural variety of nations, such as the Chinese New Year, Japanese New Year, Balinese New Year ( Nyepi ), or Thanks Giving and so on.  Although we do not participate we celebrate the significance of religion or culture of other nations, but the excitement and happiness that they feel, is a blessing for anyone. Openness between nations and respect each other will undoubtedly bring peace to all mankind. Year of the Snake was soon replaced with the Year of the Horse in the late 2014's. A line up of exciting New Year celebration events await. Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the   Chinese calendar . The Chinese year 4712 begins on Jan. 31, 2014.

Coffee tour in Bali

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Beautiful Coffee plantation in Bali.  Image:  sumabeachlifestyle.com If you live in the USA or Europe might you begin to be familiar with the fantastic coffee from Indonesia, especially the Kopi Luwak? If you have not heard, then immediately rent a movie called Bucket List, starring Jack Nicholson who plays a lonely millionaire who loved Kopi Luwak coffee from Sumatra, Indonesia.  He does not know exactly why civet coffee is so tasty, has a different scent compared to instant coffee and other coffee. He also does not know how to get their coffee with the genre "Luwak". In one of these scenes, eventually Jack was very surprised and ended up laughing out loud at Morgan Freeman's explanation about the process of "Kopi Luwak" or civet coffee. Are you also curious and want to know?