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Posted: 17 Feb 2011 08:46 PM PST

Outside the town of Kampot in southern Cambodia there is an abandoned French town called Bokor Hill Station. It was built in 1922, and the building of the town is just stunning but really old-looking. If you wonder why it was abandoned the answer is because of a war in the 70′s.

The town has a main building that has an amazing view over the ocean, and the other buildings are everything from a catholic church and houses to a casino. The town was built to work as a resort for the colonial French settlers that wanted to escape insanity of Phnom Penh.

The buildings are today really rusty and old, but it’s an open tourist attraction, so you can go anytime and visit the place. Maybe you’ll think it’s spooky but you will definitely get yourself a great experience. Another spooky abandoned place is this Russian theater.

Birth Of An Ant

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 07:48 PM PST

Seeing an ant be born is like watching a whole process of nursing and cleaning going on. The ants really help each other to come out of the cocoons they are born in. In most ant species only the queen ant lays eggs. The males she mated with soon die, and she only mate once.

The worker ants collect the eggs and care for the larvae and pupae. The pupae is the cocoon which looks like a rice grain. It is very necessary for the queens to produce as many ants as possible, because an average worker ant lives 2-3 weeks, so they need to be replaced in order to sustain the colony.

Here you can see the process of an ants birth in pictures. There is something about the ants that makes them look like caring creatures; they take care of each other, and it’s almost weird to think how such a small insect can understand that the ants need help to come out of their pupaes.