Te Whanganui-A-Hei (Cathedral Cove) Marine Reserve is a marine reserve on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand. Cathedral Cove is named after the cave located there, linking Mare’s Leg Cove to Cathedral Cove. Gemstone Bay and Stingray Bay are also located within the reserve.… Read More →
Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. It is located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona. Antelope Canyon includes two separate, photogenic slot canyon sections, referred to individually as Upper Antelope Canyon or The Crack and Lower Antelope Canyon or The Corkscrew. The Navajo name for Upper Antelope… Read More →
The Devil’s Marbles Conservation Reserve is located right in the middle of the “Northern Territory” in Australia. The Devil’s Marbles are a series of big round boulders some seem unlikely to stay in the position they are balanced today. Many layers of sandstone… Read More →
Iguazu Falls are waterfalls of the Iguazu River on the border of Brazilian state Paranáand Argentine province Misiones. The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu. The Iguazu River rises near the city of Curitiba. It flows through Brazil for most… Read More →
Old Helensburgh railway tunnels, New South Wales, Australia. The old Helensburgh railway station and old railway tunnels don’t look that bad today, they are located not too far from the current railway station. If you are ready to… Read More →
Mount Everest is the Earth’s highest mountain, with a peak at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level and the 5th tallest mountain measured from the centre of the Earth. It is located in the Mahalangursection of the Himalayas. The international border between China and Nepal runs across the precise… Read More →
The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its… Read More →
Phuket is an island off the south-west coast of Thailand in Asia. Phuket offers the adventure that most people dream of when they think of Thailand. Its lush green hills, soft beige beaches, and cerulean waters comprise an… Read More →
Maldives, officially the Republic of the Maldives and also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean consisting of a double chain of twenty-six atolls, oriented north-south, that lie between Minicoy Island (the southernmost part of Lakshadweep,India) and the Chagos Archipelago. The chains stand in the Laccadive… Read More →
Angkor is a region of Cambodia that served as the seat of the Khmer Empire, which flourished from approximately the 9th to 15th centuries. The word Angkor is derived from the Sanskrit nagara, meaning “city”. The Angkorian period began in AD 802, when the Khmer Hindu monarch Jayavarman II declared… Read More →
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