Floating House

There is a growing interest in houseboats in Germany. The reason for this interest is the comfort of these boats, but due to the Corona epidemic, many Germans are now turning to in-house boats for entertainment.

    

Tourismus in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern -Many boats are ready for tourists on the outskirts of Berlin. There are also small boats and large boats with many rooms. Houseboats are very easy to operate. In about two hours, tourists are taught how to operate a houseboat. Houseboats run at a speed of only eight kilometers per hour.

The light sound of the houseboat engine and the flow of water create a very relaxed atmosphere. The surrounding landscapes, the house and the people you see are all passing by with them slowly.

Some houseboats are much more comfortable. Some boats have rooms, toilets, showers and even kitchens. In recent years, houseboats have become much more comfortable and attractive to tourists.

German citizens now like to celebrate such holidays. April-October are the best months to visit. Many tourists have already booked houseboats this summer.

Italy is home to the water city of Venice, with its canals and flowing waters of the Baltic Sea, but "Ginovi" floating on the surface of Lake Nokoi, near the city of Cotono in Benin, West Africa. The village is inhabited, which tourists have dubbed the "Venice of Africa"   and it has become a popular tourist destination.

 

The village was built in the mid-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by the Tofino tribe in the middle of the lake to protect it from attacks by Fan warriors. The Tofino tribesmen were taken prisoner and sold into slavery by European merchants. According to the Fan tribe, their deities were not allowed to enter the lake due to some religious restrictions, which the Tofino tribesmen took advantage of to build a wooden house in the middle of the lake. Saved from The people of Tofino, Africa, were extremely intelligent despite living in an uncivilized and savage environment, and the way in which the tribesmen inhabited the area, which covers miles of surface water, amazes even today's scientific and civil engineering experts. ۔

In the deep waters of the lake, they built huge wooden beams and planks of huts with the help of bamboo poles, which were covered with thatched roofs, thatched roofs and mats. Along the lake, there are overgrown grasses and small plants, which make the view around the village very attractive. The people of the tribe had built this water settlement under their "ideology of necessity" to save their lives from the bloodthirsty people of the Fan tribe, but today it has become such a rare masterpiece of architecture that people are far away. any People come from far area and wide to see it. The water village has a population of more than 20,000 and is living a much happier life than the rest of Africa.

At first glance, this village, spread over miles over an hour's drive from the city of Cotonou, feels as if we are passing by an area whose homes have been flooded. Its inhabitants are never cut off from the outside world. But when you enter this village, you find that it is a wooden village floating on the lake, which has become the center of attraction for tourists in the form of beautiful handicrafts. One of the features of this village is very interesting. Every inhabitant here has their own self-made means of travel, which they have built in the form of boats by cutting down tree trunks. They also travel by boat to meet relatives.

The villagers' livelihood depends on farming, which they do on the shores of the lake, but in the last few years, tourism, fishing and fish farming have flourished. Although the village has not been formally declared a tourist destination, it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on October 31, 1996.

In this floating village, you can find all kinds of essentials, but there is also a soft drink shop. There is also a hotel built here, built with the help of wooden poles and wooden planks, the planks of this hotel are painted red and white, with arches in Chinese style, which look very beautiful ۔ They have all the basic facilities for the accommodation of tourists, but in addition to the accommodation of tourists, the hotel is also a center of entertainment for the village nobles and carefree youth, where people take boats in the evening. They start coming here and spend time here till late at night in various hobbies. The village also has small restaurants and a health center to provide medical services to the villagers, in which the serving doctor lives a short distance away and All the houses, shops, restaurants and hotels in this village have been built by erecting long wooden poles several feet above the surface of the lake. There is also a floating bazaar along the waterfront where women shopkeepers sell a variety of goods and commodities. The village has a tradition of communal life and all the residents live in a spirit of love, brotherhood and self-sacrifice. Another example is a children's school in the middle of the lake. The school is built entirely on a small artificial island in the middle of the water. In addition to their courage, hard work and mutual unity, intelligence is involved in creating this island. All the soil for the construction of the island has been brought from the plains on the shores of the lake, which was a very difficult task, but the villagers with their courage and perseverance made an impossible task possible. The people of the village surrounded From the hills and dunes, rocks and gravel were loaded into boats and placed at a certain place at the bottom of the lake. Then they filled it with soil and filled it so much that instead of water, dry land emerged as an island. He then turned the school into a masterpiece of architecture.

Apart from farming, most of the villagers have made fishing and tourism their livelihood. ۔ He acts as a guide for tourists visiting the village, taking them on a boat tour of the houses built on the edge of his aquatic village, providing them with groceries, from which he earns so much. So that All people can live happily ever after. Fishermen have invented a very unique way of catching fish, they have made cages with the help of big bamboo poles and nets in which they put bait and put it in the bottom of the lake. Seeing the fodder, the fish come and are trapped in a cage-like net due to the automatic door being closed. They are taken out to be sold in the market or supplied to a restaurant by the lake, where people can sit and enjoy delicious fish and rice dishes. Are But trade in this village also takes place under a unique system. Here women have equal status with men. They hand over the hunted fish to their wives, who are responsible for selling the fish - after which they sell it at the local market to provide food and other necessities for their children and husbands. 

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A water village like Guinea, called Nesolizo, is located 360 km west of Accra, the capital of Ghana, in West Africa. All the houses in this village are built with the help of beams and leaves cut from the trees above the lake called "Tandane". Compared to Benin's Tofino tribes, their way of life is based on a purely natural environment, but some tourists consider it a beautiful combination of ancient and modern environments. do not have. The inhabitants of this area are living a natural life without any alteration in the natural environment. The small islands around the village are home to colorful birds, various species of monkeys, crocodiles and turtles.

According to ancient African legends, 1100 years ago, the ancestors of the inhabitants of this region belonged to the region of Ghana, which at that time was considered as an independent kingdom. That area is now part of Mali, another African nation. In the 15th century, in order to acquire gold mines and fertile land, the area was invaded by the "Mende" tribes living near the border and heated up a carnage in their area. Had to leave his home and run anyaway. When they ran to a place, their god appeared in the form of a snail and brought them to Ghana. But in Ghana, too, they faced various wars and tribal attacks that forced them to flee. Their deity reappeared and they followed him to the lake "Tandane". After coming here, he assured them of the water of the lake He said that this lake would not only protect them from war and savage tribes but also provide them with food and drink. those people cut down the trees as per the instructions of the deity and buried their big beams, long bamboo poles in the bottom of the lake and joined the wooden planks to form a platform, after which beautiful huts were built. On the surface, a water settlement called Nezo Lizo came into existence. Their houses are made of wood, in which tree trunks and special types of palm branches are used. Their roofs are made of tree leaves and bark, all the houses are connected to each other by wooden bridges. In the local language, 'Nazima' means water level, hence its name Nazulizo proposal Happened The people of this area are protesting. The Tandans also worship the lake as their deity. Tuesday is of special importance to them and has the status of sanctity Yes, on this day neither boats nor fish are caught in the lake. Many villagers do not even eat snails out of devotion to their deity.

Their lives depend on fish and other aquatic life. From an early age they are taught to make nets, repair and catch fish by putting them in the water. Most of the villagers are now using the lake fields for farming purposes. For this purpose, they have allocated two hectares of land on which they grow vegetables, bananas, coconuts and pineapples. Most of these items are used by the people themselves, while the surplus crops are sold by taking them to a market six kilometers away from the village. The village, like the water village of Guinea, has been dubbed "Venice II" by tourists, and in 2000 the UNESCO World Heritage Site was declared a World Heritage Site. Boats are seldom used here as wooden houses are connected to each other by bridges. There is no doctor in this village. does not exist. 

Malaria caused by mosquitoes is common here. People have a few boats with engines that are used to take sick and pregnant women to the nearest doctor. It is an attractive area for tourism, but due to the lack of accommodation, most tourists come to Anzolizo on a one-day tour and spend the night in rest houses in the nearby Bayon area. Many projects have been launched for the development of tourism in this floating town. Residents of the settlement have been provided with electricity, mobile phones and satellite facilities. Educational institutions have been set up to acquaint the slum dwellers with modern life, with teachers appointed by the Ghanaian Ministry of Education. Most of these teachers are university graduates who need experience in this field. Due to the lack of more facilities here, these people are more in this area Do not stay long Now, however, the villagers themselves have made arrangements for teacher training. In fact, this water village built on thatched huts shows a beautiful combination of ancient and modern life.