Top 09 London Attractions

visitlondon.com's top 09 most popular tourist attractions, based on visitor numbers.

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From the modern London Eye to the historic Tower of London, below are London's most visited tourist attractions.
Many of London's top 10 attractions are free, making them affordable places to soak up some culture – you can book to visit others via the buttons below. Whether you prefer history or modern art, you'll find it at one of these must-visit spots.
The list below is in order of popularity based on the latest available visitor numbers.
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British Museum

The world-famous British Museum exhibits the works of man from prehistoric to modern times, from around the world. Highlights include the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures and the mummies in the Ancient Egypt collection. Entry is free but special exhibitions require tickets.

National Gallery

The crowning glory of Trafalgar Square, London's National Gallery is a vast space filled with Western European paintings from the 13th to the 19th centuries. In this iconic art gallery you can find works by masters such as Van Gogh, da Vinci, Botticelli, Constable, Renoir, Titian and Stubbs. Entry is free but special exhibitions require tickets

Natural History Museum

As well as the permanent (and permanently fascinating!) dinosaur exhibition, the Natural History Museum boasts a collection of the biggest, tallest and rarest animals in the world. See a life-sized blue whale, a 40-million-year-old spider, and the beautiful Central Hall. Entry is free but special exhibitions require tickets.

Tate Modern

Sitting grandly on the banks of the Thames is Tate Modern, Britain's national museum of modern and contemporary art. Its unique shape is due to it previously being a power station. The gallery's restaurants offer fabulous views across the city. Entry is free but special exhibitions require tickets.

The London Eye

The London Eye is a major feature of London's skyline. It boasts some of London's best views from its 32 capsules, each weighing 10 tonnes and holding up to 25 people. Climb aboard for a breathtaking experience, with an unforgettable perspective of more than 55 of London's most famous landmarks – all in just 30 minutes!
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Science Museum

From the future of space travel to asking that difficult question: "who am I?", the Science Museum makes your brain perform Olympic-standard mental gymnastics. See, touch and experience the major scientific advances of the last 300 years; and don't forget the awesome Imax cinema. Entry is free but some exhibitions require tickets.

Victoria and Albert Museum

The V&A celebrates art and design with 3,000 years' worth of amazing artefacts from around the world. A real treasure trove of goodies, you never know what you'll discover next: furniture, paintings, sculpture, metalwork and textiles; the list goes on and on… Entry is free but special exhibitions require you to purchase tickets. 

Tower of London

Take a tour with one of the Yeoman Warders around the Tower of London, one of the world's most famous buildings. Discover its 900-year history as a royal palace, prison and place of execution, arsenal, jewel house and zoo! Gaze up at the White Tower, tiptoe through a medieval king's bedchamber and marvel at the Crown Jewels.
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Royal Museums Greenwich

Visit the National Maritime Museum - the world's largest maritime museum, see the historic Queen's House, stand astride the Prime Meridian at Royal Observatory Greenwich and explore the famous Cutty Sark: all part of the Royal Museums Greenwich. Some are free to enter; some charges apply

Traditional Villages in the Oman

Traditional Omani villages embodied the life of the Omanis in the past, in all its simplicity and harshness, and reflect the extent of its adaptation to the surrounding environment, demonstrating how to use natural resources to fulfil basic needs. 

Dubai travel places

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By boat

      An easier way of crossing the Dubai Creek is by abra, essentially a small ferry. Abra stations are located along the Creek on both the Bur Dubai and Deira sides, and the system of filling the boats is extremely efficient. The cross-river trip costs 1 Dirham (AED 1) per passenger, payable to the driver after the boat has left the station, and affords a very picturesque view of the city (not to be missed). Abras set off very regularly, and the tune is offered round-the-clock.

      

Abras can also be hired for a classified tour (for a price up for grabs with the driver but usually very cheap). This is quite a trendy activity at sunset on a clear day, particularly if the driver is able to make livelier the tour with stories about the structures on either side of the Creek. Just make confident that the purpose of one's abra hire is made clear at the outset--otherwise you will be in for a very cheap cross-river trip or a crowded secretive tour.

The Waterbus is another option for tourists who want to go by boat but avoid the abra swarm (or the heat). It is a part of Dubai's public transport system, so again a Red ticket, or any Nol card is required for the trip. Can be purchased at the waterbus station. The waterbus also features a 'tourist route' round trip - at the same time as it is expedient, it can get quite posh (Dh50 for an adult, Dh25 for a child)

The rivulet is also the home of many boats offering more comfortable (and correspondingly more expensive) tours, often in boats calculated to resemble dhows. Along with creek, Dubai marina also has their own Luxury Dinner boats and modern dhow cruises. Prices tend to be higher, mainly for dinner cruises with on-board pursuit.

Lalmai Moinamoti and Shalbon Bihar in Bangladesh

Lalmai Moinamoti and Shalbon Bihar

They are famous historical and archeological places around Comilla. These are a series of hillocks, where the Northern part is called Moinamoti and the Southern part is called Lalmai; and Shalbon Bihar is in the Middle of Lalmai and Moinamoti, which the was established in 8th century by King Buddadev. Salban Vihara, almost in the focal point of the Mainarnati-Lalmai hill range consists of 115 cells, built around a hard work courtyard with cruciform temple in the centre facing its only entrance way complex to the north adjoining on that of the Paharpur Monastery

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Kotila Mura positioned on a trampled knoll, about 5 km north of Salban Vihara surrounded by the Comilla Cantonment is a chocolate box Buddhist company. Here three stupas are bring into being side by side instead of the Buddhist "Trinity" or three jewels i.e. the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

Charpatra Mura is an out-of-the-way small lozenge temple situated about 2.5 km. north-west of kotila Mura stupas. The only loom to the shrine is from the East all the way through a gateway, which leads to a airy hall.

If you are in Comilla and already visited Lalmai, Moinamoti then don’t not succeed to take in to go Moinamoti museum – where you force come transversely the chronological gear bring into being in Lalmai & Moinamoti of 7th & 8th centuries. The Mainamati site Museum has a rich and mixed collected works of copper plates, gold and silver coins and 86 bronze objects. Over 150 bronze statues have been recovered mostly from the monastic cells, bronze stupas, stone sculptures and hundreds of terracotta plaques each measuring on an average of 9" high and 8" to 12" wide. Mainamati is only 114 km. from Dhaka City and is just a day's trip by road on way to Chittagong.


Mainamati An cut off low, dimpled range of hills, dotted -with more than 50 early Buddhist settlements of the 8th to 12th century A.D. known as Mainamati-Laimai range are complete through the centre of the district of Comilla.Salban Vihara, almost in the focus of the Mainarnati-Lalmai hill range consists of 115 cells, built around a airy courtyard with cruciform temple in the centre facing its only gateway complex to the north resembling that of the Paharpur Monastery.Kotila Mura situated on a flattened hillock, about 5 km north of Salban Vihara inside the Comilla Cantonment is a picturesque Buddhist establishment.

Here three stupas are found side by side in lieu of the Buddhist "Trinity" or three jewelry i.e. the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.Charpatra Mura is an isolated small oblong shrine situated about 2.5 krn. north-west of kotila Mura stupas. The only approach to the shrine is from the East through a gateway which leads to a roomy hall.The Mainamati site Museum has a rich and varied collection of copper plates, gold and silver coins and 86 bronze objects. Over 150 bronze statues have been recovered mostly from the monastic cells, bronze stupas, stone sculptures and hundreds of terracotta plaques each measuring on an average of 9" high and 8" to 12" wide. Mairiamati is only 114 km. from Dhaka City and is just a day's trip by road on way to Chittagong.

Ananda Vihara Mainamati Comilla in Bangladesh

Ananda Vihara situated in the archaeologically rich Kotbari region close to Comilla, is the major of the mainamati monuments. It also has the largest water tank in the area. This Vihara multipart was built by Anandadeva, the third ruler of the Early deva dynasty, at the end of the 7th or the beginning of 8th century AD. The contractors and brick hunters damaged this great establishment beyond recognition during the builders of the Cantonment did more spoil to it in following years.

The excavations approved out here are incomplete. The vocation done so far has revealed the outlines of a large shalvan vihara kind monastery, 198m square in size. The Vihara has similar rows of monastic cells given in four wings around a large cruciform shrine that stands majestically in the centre of a wide open courtyard.

Its imposing single entry in the middle of the north side is set in a broad and substantial front facade projected outwards. It is larger and more elaborate than that of Shalvan Vihara. The massive outer wall is also more pleasing due to the decorations of offsets and mouldings. The inner verandah wall is also decorated with mouldings and ornamental bricks. A few cells in the northern wing and a section of the southern part of the central shrine have been cleared. They show clear evidence of intensive occupation of the site for a long time

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Much work remains to be done yet. But the excavations did not continue beyond the initial stage. Its large size, earlier discoveries of a copperplate inscription, a hoard of 63 silver coins, many bronze images, terracotta sculptured plaques and pottery kilns outside the monastery indicate the potential importance of the site.