Karnak

The Karnak Temple Complex is located near Luxor, some 500 km south of Cairo, in Egypt which is mainly made of temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings. Karnak was the ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut. This can be seen as the world’s largest ancient religious site. It consists of four main parts as Precinct of Amun-Re, Precinct of Mut, the Precinct of Montu, and the dismantled Temple of Amenhotep IV. There also are a few smaller temples and sanctuaries located outside the enclosing walls of the four...

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Lake Baikal

With an average depth of 744.4 m, Lake Baikal nicknamed as Old Sister of Sister Lakes, is the world’s oldest and deepest of lakes found in Siberia containing around 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water. With a surface area of 31,722 km2, Lake Baikal is crescent in shape and provides living space o more than 1700 species of plants and animals and most of which are only found within the lake. On the eastern side of the lake reside the Buryat tribes who rear goats, camels, cattle and sheep....

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Wulingyuan Scenic Area

When you drive away about 20km from Changsha you will find this beautiful Wulingyuan area with Zhangjiajie, Tianzi Mountain, Shuoxiyu and Yangjia Boundary. This place is unique and famous for its natural landscape which comprises of sandstones, dense forests, deep ravines and its specialty is completed with peaks, deep canyons, flowing waters, thickest forests and mysterious caves. There are around 3000 peaks of quartz sandstones with variable heights and shapes. Among them, most significant are...

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Louvre Museum

Located on the right bank of the Seine, Louvre Museum is one of the world’s largest museums with nearly 35, 000 objects in display over 60,600 square metres. Museum is located at the Louvre Palace built in the late 12th century under Philip II. It was officially opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings. But it was closed again in 1796 because of structural problems but was opened again in 1801. The museum’s artifacts are divided into eight curatorial departments as Egyptian Antiquities;...

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Plitvice Lakes National Park

Founded in the Southeast Europe, Croatia, Plitvice Lakes National Park is the largest in the country extending over 296.85 square kilometers. It was founded in 1949 in the mountainous karst area at the border to Bosnia Herzegovina. The name Plitvice was designated due to the natural occurrence of lakes. Currently there are 16 lakes which are grouped into the 12 Upper Lakes and the four Lower Lakes. There have been shallow basins which were eventually filled with water constantly changing the limestone...

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Alhambra

Lying on the top of the hill of the Assabica on the southeastern border of the city of Granada, Andalusia in Spain is the Alhambra; a palace complex built around mid 14th century. Alhambra reflects Moorish culture and architecture to a great extent and Alhambra reflects the colour of the red clay of the surroundings but originally it was white washed. Also evidence from Arab texts also indicates that the fortress that is seen today was built during the Nasrid Dynasty.&nb...

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Uluru

Some may be familiar with Uluru as the Ayers Rock, which is a large sandstone rock formation found in central Australia. It is about 348m high with a circumference of 9.4km. Uluru is regarded as a sacred place for the Aboriginal people. William Gosse in 19 July 1873, named this as Ayers Rock in honour of Sir Henry Ayers who was the chief secretary of South Australia then. The significance of Uluru is the ability to change colour at different times of the day and year. Another in this territory is...

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Angel Falls

Found in Venezuela, Angel Falls is known as the world’s highest water fall. Starting from the Auyantepui Mountain in the Canaima National Park, the falls droops down to a depth of 979m from the top into the Kerep River aka Río Gauya. Due to the vast amount of height, the water usually turns into mist before catching the bottom. First ever person to fly over the falls is the US aviator Jimmie Angel. The falls was named after him. Sir Walter Raleigh is regarded as the first European to view the Falls...

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Stromboli

Stromboli is one of the eight Aeolian Islands found in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily. The specialty of this specific island is that it is home to one of the three active volcanoes of Italy. It is also known as the “Lighthouse of the Mediterranean” visibly in height of 926m above sea level with three active craters at the top. Geologically this volcano is special because of its horseshoe shaped depression generated within the last 13,000 years which is known as the Sciara del...

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Komodo Island

Komodo is one of the islands of Indonesia that lies between the neighboring islands, Sumbawa to the west and Flores to the east with an area of 390  km². Island is home for descendants of former convicts who were exiled to the island. Given the name Komodo to this island, it is world famous because of the world's largest lizard Komodo dragon is found roaming here and other small neighboring islands. Apart from this beast, Komodo Island also has a pink beach which is supposed to be...

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Jiuzhaigou Valley

Jiuzhaigou Valley means the valley of nine villages. It is actually a nature reserve found in the Aba Tibetan Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province of Southwestern China. This valley covers an area of about 72 000 hectares and is a part of the Min Shan mountain range on the edge of the Tibetan Himalayan Plateau. The specialty we find in Jiuzhaigou valley is the colourful lakes with varying heights of water curtains. Although there are originally nine villages found here, only seven of...

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Ganges at Varanasi

Ganges is the India’s most worshipped river with many religious aspects and Varanasi is well famous for Ganges and its activities and is one of the holiest cities in India. Earlier known as Banaras, Varanasi is found within Uttar Pradesh and it is truly a feast for visitors with warm welcoming citizens and heartfelt ceremonies and rich cultures woven around Ganges.&nb...

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Wat Phra Kaeo

Located in the city of Bankok, is the heart of all Buddhists in Thailand; Wat Phra Kaeo. There lies the Emerald Lord Buddha in central ubosoth and this statue is in standing form with a height of 66cm carved from a single jade stone. Only the king is allowed to touch the statue in order to change the cloak three times a year in the hope of good fortune to the country.  The roots of the statue is from India, according to legends, however its records states that it was found in Cambodia in 15th...

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Mont Saint-Michel

Found in France, one kilometer off the north-western coast near the mouth of the Couesnon River at Avranches, Mont Saint- Michel, earlier known as Monte Tombe”, can be described as a vital point of fortifications since 8th century AD. In earlier times, the bay was a land which was shaped into today’s landscape and several blocks of granite, granulite rose up which later became Lillemer, the Mont-Dol, Tombelaine and Mont Tombe, later called Mont-Saint-Michel.&nb...

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The Monasteries of Meteora

 Situated at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly, are these beautiful monasteries of Meteora extending up to a height of 313m. Meteora gives the meaning, suspended rocks or heaven above and it is supposed to be one of the most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece, second only to Mount Athos. Evidences suggest that these pinnacles were formed at least 60 million years ago. A special geographic feature seen here is that the sandstone rocks rise above from the...

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Hassan II Mosque

The Hassan II Mosque can be taken as the largest mosque in the country, Casablanca, Morocco and the 7th largest mosque in the world. Its minaret is however the world's tallest at 210 m. This Mosque, which is a religious building is a design the French architect Michel Pinseau and a creation by Bouygues. The Mosque stands in a way like looking out to the Atlantic. The Mosque is so huge so that it can accommodate almost 105,000 worshippers for prayers and around 25,000 inside the mosque and another...

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Acropolis of Athens

Also Known as the Citadel of Athens, this is so far world’s best acropolis and it is significant because it is an acropolis without a qualification. The Acropolis rises 150 m above sea level in the city of Athens as a flat-topped rock with a surface area of about 3 hectares. It was also known as Cecropia, after the legendary serpent man Cecrops, the first Athenian king. The Propylaea is known as the entrance to the Acropolis and to the south of the entrance is the tiny Temple of Athena Nike. A bronze...

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Palace of Versailles

20km southwest of Paris is the beautiful country side of France;Versailles which is enchantingly famous for the castle of King Louis XIV known as Palace of Versailles. The first ever seigneur of Versailles mentioned was Hugues de Versailles and then in 1575, Albert de Gondi bought the Versailles. Gondi had invited King Louis XIII for hunting trips near Versailles during early 17th century which resulted in construction of a hunting lodge in 1624 as the king was pleased. After few years later King...

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BIG BEN

One of the few amazing things you can see in England is the Big Ben clock. Although we call it Big Ben, this name is actually belongs to clock’s main bell. Its official name is the Great Bell of Westminster. This is a tower found in Houses of Parliament building at the north- eastern end in London. On October 16, 1834, the old palace of Westminster was burnt in fire and as a result of the new plan of the building suggested, Big Ben was constructed. Tower is 96.3m high which is made of part brickwork...

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Registan

Registan meaning “Sandy place” in Persian, was the heart of ancient city Samarkand, now in Uzbekistan. Registan can be taken as a public place of importance given for executions, gathering place for royal proclamations heralded by blasts on enormous copper pipes called dzharchis. The three madrasahs which means school, of the Registan are: the Ulugh Beg Madrasah (1417–1420), the Tilya-Kori Madrasah (1646–1660) and the Sher-Dor Madrasah (1619–1636).  The first one, Ulugh Beg Madrasah...

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Sistine Chapel

   Found in Apostolic Palace, Sistine Chapel is the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City. Veteran artists like Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Pinturicchio have drawn frescoes in this chapel where it is well known for architecture and decorations. Under the patronage of Pope Julius II, Michelangelo painted 1,100 m2 (12,000 sq ft) of the chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512. The painting drawn in the ceiling; The Last Judgment (1535-1541) is supposed to be...

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Rocky Mountains

   Spread over western North America, the Rocky Mountains stretch more than 4,830 km from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. This mountain range must have been formed from 80 million to 55 million years ago by the Laramide orogeny. Since then, erosion by water and glaciers has sculpted the mountain range into dramatic valleys and peaks. At the end of the last ice age, humans started to inhabit the mountain...

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English Channel

Separating the Northern France and Southern England lies the English Channel also joining the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about 560 km long and varies in width from 240 km at its widest, to only 34 km in the Strait of Dover. It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe, covering an area of some 75,000 km2. It is believed that the name “English Channel” was from the designation "Engelse Kanaal" in Dutch sea maps from the 16th century onwards. It was also...

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Andes

   Spreading across countries Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. In length wise, the Andes is split into several ranges, which are separated by intermediate depressions. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America. This range is about 7,000 km long, about 200 km to 700 km wide and of an average height of about 4,000 m. Its highest peak, Mt. Aconcagua, rises to...

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Colosseum

     This is an amphitheatre which is also known as Amphitheatrum Flavium, built in the center of the city Rome, Italy shaping in an ellipse. It is also the largest ever built in Roman Empire. Its construction began in 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign. Colosseum accommodates seating for 50,000 spectators which was basically used for  gladiatorial contests and public events...

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Mariana Trench

Just as we have craters on our land masses, oceans too have such trenches. Though there are bit difficult to be visited by most of us, Mariana Trench is a should know place because it is the deepest trench in oceans of the world. Mariana trench is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. Amazingly it is about 2,550 kilometres (1,580 mi) long but has a mean width of only 69 kilometres (43 mi). It reaches a maximum-known depth of about 10.91 kilometres (6.78 mi)...

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Giant's Causeway

      Located in County Antrim on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles, Giant’s Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.  Its tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven and eight sides. The tallest are about 12 metres (39 ft) high, and the solidified...

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Cathedral–Mosque of Córdoba

Located in the Andalusian city of Córdoba, Spain, is the former Great Mosque of Córdoba or the Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción which in English means the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. Before the Umayyad Moors converted the building into a mosque and then built a new mosque here, it was originally a pagan temple and then a Visigothic Christian church. After the Spanish Reconquista, it once again became a Roman Catholic Church, with a plateresque cathedral later inserted...

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Yellowstone National Park

    This is a national park located in the U.S. state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho. Yellowstone was the first national park in the world, and is very well famous for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of the most popular features in the park. It has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is dominant. It is believed Native Americans have lived in the Yellowstone region for at least 11,000 years....

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Potala Palace

    Located in Lhasa,Tibet Autonomous Region, China, Potala Palace was the chief residence of the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama fled to Dharamsala, India, after an invasion and failed uprising in 1959. It was named after Mount Potala, the abode of Chenresig or Avalokitesvara. Construction of the palace started in 1645 by Lozang Gyatso, the Great Fifth Dalai Lama after one of his spiritual advisers, Konchog Chophel, pointed out that the site was ideal as a seat of government,...

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Moai

Monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Polynesian island of Easter Island together are called Moai. They were carved between the years 1250 and 1500. There are still half of the originals at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter. Almost all moai have overly large heads three-fifths the size of their bodies. The moai are chiefly the living faces (aringa ora) of deified ancestors....

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Hagia Sophia

It is a former mosque and now a museum found in Istanbul, Turkey which served as the Greek Patriarchal cathedral of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople of the Western Crusader established Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931, when it was secularized. It was opened as a museum on 1 February 1935. The Church was dedicated to the Logos, the second person of the...

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Banaue Rice Terraces

Carved into the mountains of Ifugao in the Philippines by ancestors of the indigenous people, the Banaue Rice Terraces also known as Payew, are 2000-year old terraces known to be built with minimal equipment, largely by hand. The terraces are located approximately 1500 meters (5000 ft) above sea level and cover 10,360 square kilometers (about 4000 square miles) of mountainside. They are fed by an ancient irrigation system from the rainforests above the terraces. It is said that if the steps...

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Bali

Bali is one of the 33 provinces of Indonesia which is also an island located in the western most end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. The island is home to most of Indonesia's small Hindu minority. In the 2000 census about 92.29% of Bali's population adhered to Balinese Hinduism while most of the remainder follow Islam. It is also the largest tourist destination in the country and is renowned for its highly developed arts, including traditional...

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Perito Moreno Glacier

This can be called one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia located in the Los Glaciares National Park in the south west of Santa Cruz province, Argentina. The 250 km2 (97 sq mi) ice formation, and 30 km (19 mi) in length, is one of 48 glaciers fed by the Southern Patagonian Ice Field located in the Andes system shared with Chile. This ice field is supposed to be the world's third largest reserve of fresh water. This is one of the three Patagonian glaciers that...

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Yangshuo County

Yangshuo County is found in Guilin, Guangxi Province, China. It is located in Yangshuo Town. Surrounded by karst peaks and bordered on one side by the Li River, it has become a popular hot spot for foreign backpackers. Two main roads situated away from the water and form the central part of the town, Chinese Street Die Cui Lu and West Street Xi Jie.  There are plenty of activities to do around Yangshuo. Tourists and visitors can swim in the Li River or the cleaner Yu Long also known as...

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park

 It is a United States National Park in the Guadalupe Mountains in southeastern New Mexico. The park consist of the show cave, Carlsbad Caverns where people who come to visit the cave can hike in on their own via the natural entrance, or take the elevator (the exit for everyone) directly to the Underground Lunchroom some 750 feet (230 m) below. The park has two entries on the National Register of Historic Places: The Caverns Historic District and the Rattlesnake Springs Historic District....

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Galápagos Islands

    They are an archipelago of volcanic islands scattered around the equator in the Pacific Ocean. Part of continental Ecuador lying 972 km (525 nmi) west of it, Galapagos Islands are geologically young and home for various number of endemic species.  Observations on these species lead to the rise of theories like the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. The exact location is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean, 973 km (525 nmi; 605 mi) off the west...

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Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Ngorongoro is a conservation site found in Tanzania, with various attractions and natural creations such as Ngorongoro crater, Olduvai Gorge and many flora and fauna.  Based on fossil evidence, the area was home to many hominid species for 3 million years. Hunter-gatherers were replaced by pastorialists a few thousand years ago. The Mbulu came to the area about 2,000 years ago, and were joined by the Datooga around the year 1700. Both groups were driven from the area by the Maasai in the...

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White Immensity of Antarctica

  What is so beautiful about a land completely covered by ice??? Well, beauty lies in different forms in different places. Antarctica is the ice cover we find near South Pole. It is a permanently frozen ground surrounded by water, and is about 1 1/2 times larger than the United States. The world’s largest desert is on Antarctica. 98 percent of the land is covered with a continental ice sheet; the remaining 2 percent of land is barren rock. Antarctica has about 87% of the world’s ice.  The...

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Angkor City

Being the largest preindustrial city in the world, with an elaborate system of infrastructure connecting an urban sprawl of at least 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) to the well-known temples at its core, Angkor city in Cambodia served as the Khmer Empire from 9th to 15th centuries. The temples of the Angkor area number over one thousand, ranging in scale from nondescript piles of brick rubble scattered through rice fields to the magnificent Angkor Wat, said to be the world's largest single...

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City of Venice

It is suppose to be one of the world’s most romantic cities. With canals of water instead of roads and smiling people always ready to guide you through the city and the magnificent structures displaying eras’ worth of architecture and legends, Venice is a number one choice in Europe for anyone. The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century B.C. The city historically was the capital of the Venetian Republic. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante",...

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Trincomalee

Trincomalee is a district of the Eastern province of Sri Lanka best known for its maritime activities and natural harbor. Trincomalee originally scraped its name from Tamil giving the meaning “Lord of the sacred hill” and it lies on the east coast of the island, about 113 miles south of Jaffna. The Bay of Trincomalee harbour is renowned for its large size and security; unlike every other in the Indian Sea, it is accessible to all types of craft in all weathers. The beaches are used for surfing,...

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Hawaii Islands

Hawaii is the newest state of US and the only state completely made of islands. Hawaii’s natural and diverse scenery, warm tropical climate, abundance of public beaches and oceanic surrounding, and active volcanoes make it a popular destination for tourists, surfers, biologists, and volcanologists alike. Its capital is Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu. The state comprises hundreds of islands spread over 1,500 miles (2,400 km). At the southeastern end of the archipelago, the eight main islands...

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Eiffel Tower

Once the tallest structure in the world, Eiffel Tower has been the iconic symbol for Paris and to the France.  It was built in 1889 as a puddle iron lattice tower standing magnificently above all. The tower is the tallest building in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world; millions of people ascend it every year. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower was built as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair. The tower stands 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall,...

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Teotihuacan

 Teotihuacan stands for "The City of the Gods" in the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs. It is an archeological site found in the basin of Mexico containing large pyramidal structures, large residential complexes, Avenue of the Dead, and numerous colorful, well-preserved murals. Additionally, Teotihuacan produced a thin orange pottery style that spread through Mesoamerica.  At its zenith, perhaps in the first half of the 1st millennium CE, Teotihuacan was the largest city in the pre-Columbian...

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Preikestolen

Preikestolen cliff has become a very famous tourist destination today. Preikestolen also known as the Pulpit rock is a cliff of height about 604 metres above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjeragplateau, in Forsand, Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25 metres (82 by 82 feet) square, almost flat. The Pulpit Rock is located in Rogaland, a county in Western Norway. The city of Stavanger, the fourth largest in Norway, is located only 25 kilometers from the site, and the parking...

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