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Pacific

Cathedral Cove, New Zealand

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 →


America

Antelope Canyon, Arizona

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 →


Asia

The Great Wall of China

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 →


Asia

Maldives

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 →


Pacific

Kangaroo Island

Kangaroo Island is Australia’s third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island. It lies in the state of South Australia 112 km south-west of Adelaide at the entrance to Gulf St Vincent. Its closest point to the mainland is 13 km off  Cape Jervis on the tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula. Read More →


Europe

Jameos del Agua, Canary Islands

Los Jameos del Agua are located inside the volcanic tunnel created by the eruption of La Corona Volcano. It owes its name to the existence of an internal lake which constitutes a unique geological formation. It… Read More →


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