Series of 100 most beautiful places in the world. The most unusual places on earth

July 2, 2016

We bring to your attention ten fantastic places on planet Earth that will amaze you with their unique, perhaps even unearthly beauty. These mysterious and amazing corners of the planet must be visited by everyone at least once in a lifetime.

The most unusual places on earth

1. Easter Island, Chile

Easter Island, Chile. Easter Island or Rapa Nui is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is famous mainly for its main attraction - the Moai stone statues. Perhaps there is no more mysterious, even mystical island in the world. The impressive monuments of Moai sculptures inspire the viewer with incredible delight and unjustified fear, indescribable joy and an inexplicable feeling of anxiety. Everyone should certainly visit Easter Island and feel the fascinating history of the people of Rapa Nui.

2. Antelope Canyon, USA

Antelope Canyon, USA.Antelope Canyon is probably the most beloved and popular tourist attraction in the United States. The quaint name of the Antelope Canyon was due to the color of its rocks: reddish-red shades resemble the color of the skin of an antelope. For centuries, water and wind have created that fantastic relief, which today is impossible to stop admiring. The play of intricate shapes and graceful lines of the walls of the canyon rocks is an unusual and unforgettable sight.

3. Zhangye Danxia, China

Zhangye Danxia, China. Zhangye Danxia are rocks, but the rocks are not simple, but colored! Variegated mountain formations were formed due to various natural anomalies. The result is truly stunning - bright iridescent colorful stripes adorn the mountains. To believe in the existence of such fabulous landscapes you need to see them with your own eyes, the opening picture is really breathtaking.

4. Petra, Jordan

Petra, Jordan. The ancient city of Petra is considered one of the wonders of the world. The city is located in the narrow canyon of the Siq. At one time, the city of Petra was the richest and most prosperous shopping mall. Now Petra is not only architectural monument, but also a vast tourist area that attracts crowds of foreign guests. The main advantage of Petra is the facade of the building of the temple of El-Khazneh, carved from a single rock. Petra makes an indelible impression, be sure to stay in this amazing city.

5. Phi Phi Islands, Thailand

Phi Phi Islands, Thailand. The Phi Phi Islands are truly heaven on earth. More impressive landscape beauties cannot be found all over the world. beautiful beaches, clear turquoise waters and extraordinary beauty cliffs covered with dense tropical greenery make this place ideal for relaxation.

Caño Cristales means "Crystal River" in Spanish. Due to the various types of mosses and algae growing on the bottom, an illusion is created that the waters of the river are colored in different colors: red, blue, green, yellow and even black. Therefore, Caño Cristalis is sometimes called the river of five colors. A real miracle is to see such indescribable beauty with your own eyes.

The Socotra Islands are a World Heritage Site. They are quite difficult to access and are suitable only for ecotourism. Restaurants, hotels and a high level of service? Forget about it, because here the first roads were laid only a couple of years ago. However, a visit to Socotra will be the most an unforgettable trip in your life if you dare to endure discomfort. Being here is like being on another planet. The flora of this land is unique: you will not see a huge number of plants growing on the island anywhere else. This exceptional flora originated here due to the isolation of the island and the favorable climate.

8. Uyuni, Bolivia

Uyuni, Bolivia. Uyuni is the largest salt lake in the world. But an interesting feature of this lake lies not only in its scale. Uyuni is a hard salt marsh with a smooth, mirror-like surface that you can drive a car on. In fact, Uyuni is a huge block of salt. The lake has a high economic value to Bolivia, due to the extraction of its colossal salt reserves. Here, salt is used not only for food, it is even used as a building material. Therefore, travelers have the opportunity to stay in a real salt hotel.

Wonderful Lake Kliluk is located in British Columbia. The waters of the lake are rich in various minerals and during evaporation, many mineral spots form on the surface, which, depending on the time of the year, turn into different colors - an incredibly amazing sight. In addition to its magical appearance, Kliluk is also famous for its healing properties.

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Antarctic ice sheet
Antarctica
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Antarctica (translated from Greek - "the opposite of the Arctic") is a continent located in the very south of the Earth, the center of Antarctica approximately coincides with the geographic south pole. The area of the continent is about 15 million km? (of which 1.6 million km² are ice shelves).
Antarctica was discovered in 1820 by a Russian expedition led by Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev. The first to enter the continental part in 1895 were the captain of the Norwegian ship "Antarctic" Christensen and the teacher of natural sciences Karlsten Borchgrövink.
Antarctica is the highest continent of the Earth, the average height of the surface of the continent above sea level is more than 2000 m, and in the center of the continent it reaches 4000 meters. Most of this height is the permanent ice sheet of the continent, under which the continental relief is hidden and only ~ 5% of its area is ice-free - mainly in West Antarctica and the Transantarctic Mountains: islands, coastal areas, the so-called. "dry valleys" and individual ridges and mountain peaks (nunataks) rising above the ice surface.
The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest on our planet and exceeds the nearest Greenland ice sheet in area by approximately 10 times. It contains ~30 million km? ice, that is, 90% of all land ice. The average thickness of the ice layer is 2500-2800 m, reaching a maximum value in some areas of East Antarctica - up to 5 kilometers. A feature of Antarctica is a large area of ice shelves (low (blue) areas of West Antarctica), which is ~10% of the area that rises above sea level; these glaciers are the source of icebergs of record size. In winter (summer in the northern hemisphere), the area sea ice around Antarctica increases to 18 million km², and decreases to 3-4 million km² in summer.
According to the Antarctic Convention, Antarctica does not belong to any state. Only scientific activities are allowed. The deployment of military installations, as well as the entry of warships and armed vessels south of the 60th degree of latitude, are prohibited. Due to the harshness of the climate, there is no permanent population in Antarctica. The temporary population of Antarctica ranges from 4,000 in summer to 1,000 in winter.

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Uyuni Salt Flats (Salar De Uyuni)
Bolivia
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Uyuni Salt Flats is a dry salt lake in the south of the Altiplano desert plain in Bolivia at an altitude of about 3650 m above sea level. Has an area of more than 10.5 thousand km? and is the largest salt marsh in the world. It is located in the vicinity of the city of Uyuni in the departments of Oruro and Potosi in the southwest of the country. The inner part of the lake is covered with a layer of table salt 2-8 m thick. During the rainy season, the salt marsh is covered with a thin layer of water and turns into the world's largest mirror.
About 40 thousand years ago, this area was part of Lake Minchin. After it dried up, there were two lakes that currently exist: Poopo and Uru-Uru, as well as two large salt marshes: Salar de Coipasa and Uyuni. According to experts, the Uyuni salt marsh contains a reserve of 10 billion tons of salt, of which less than 25 thousand tons are mined annually. Thanks to the development of tourism in the Uyuni salt marsh, local residents began to build hotels from salt blocks where you can stay overnight. In addition, the Uyuni salt marsh is an ideal tool for testing and calibrating remote sensing instruments on orbiting satellites. The clear skies and dry air of Uyuni allow satellites to be calibrated five times better than if the ocean surface were used.

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Sand dunes of the Sahara
North Africa
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The Sahara is the largest desert on Earth, with an area of about 9 million km ?, this is a little less area United States of America. Sahara is located in North Africa, on the territory of more than ten states (Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan). The Sahara does not lend itself to categorization within a single desert type, although the sandy-stony type is predominant. Many regions are distinguished in the desert: Tenere, Great Eastern Erg, Great Western Erg, Tanezruft, Hamada el-Hamra, Erg Igidi, Erg Shesh, Arabian, Libyan, Nubian deserts. The name "Sahara" is an Arabic translation of the Tuareg word "tenere" meaning desert.
In 2008, an international team of scientists from Germany, Canada and the United States as a result of research found that the Sahara turned into a desert about 2700 years ago as a result of a very slow climate evolution. Scientists managed to draw such conclusions based on the study of geological deposits raised from the depths of Lake Yoa, located in northern Chad. According to the results of research, 6 thousand years ago, trees grew in the Sahara and there were many lakes. Thus, this work scientists refutes the existing theory that this part of Africa turned into a desert 5500 years ago and that the desertification process took only a few centuries.
About 160 thousand mirages are observed annually in the Sahara. They are stable and wandering, vertical and horizontal. Even special maps of caravan routes were compiled with an assessment of the places where mirages are usually observed. These maps indicate where wells, oases, palm groves, mountain ranges appear.

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Angkor
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Angkor is the capital region of the Khmer Empire of the 9th-15th centuries, which dominated all of Southeast Asia, where Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom, outstanding monuments of medieval Khmer art, have been preserved. Angkor stretches for 24 km from west to east and 8 km from north to south. It is located on the shores of Tonle Sap Lake, approximately 240 km northwest of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.
The construction of this grandiose temple complex continued for four centuries. It was started by the founder of the Angkor dynasty, Prince Jayavarman II in 802, and the last temple complexes were erected by King Jayavarman VII in the 12th century. After his death in 1218, construction ceased. The builders of Angkor have completed their centuries-old project. According to another version, the Khmer Empire simply ran out of sandstone deposits. Interestingly, all the successors of Jayavarman II followed his building principles. Each new ruler completed the city in such a way that its core was constantly moving: the center of the old city was on the outskirts of the new one. So this giant city gradually grew. In the center, each time a five-tower temple was erected, symbolizing Mount Meru, the center of the world. As a result, Angkor Wat turned into a whole complex of temples.
Until our time, Angkor has come down not quite as a city, but rather a city-temple. During the Khmer Empire, residential and public buildings were built of wood, which quickly collapses under the influence of a hot and humid tropical climate. In the construction of temples, sandstone was most often used. The fortress walls were made of tufa. This explains the relatively good preservation of cult and fortifications in the complete absence of residential buildings. However, during the heyday of the empire, more than a million people lived in Angkor Thom alone, which is more than any European city of that time.
Ta Prohm Temple was built by Jayavarman VII in memory of his mother. Now it is interesting because it was not cleared from the jungle. The temple appears bearing the stamp of extraordinary beauty, here the entire surface is covered with a cloak of tree roots and lush greenery. Since the end civil war in Cambodia and the inclusion of the Angkor complex in the UNESCO World Heritage Site, active restoration work is underway in other temples.
Preah Khan (Khmer for “sacred sword”) is a huge temple built in honor of the victory over the chams by King Jayavarman VII at the end of the 12th century. According to another version, the temple was dedicated to the memory of the father of the king. Back in the late nineties of the XX century, like Ta Promh, it was a jungle-covered ruins, with gigantic trees growing on them. Now restorers from the USA are working there. Vegetation has already been almost completely removed.
The most beautiful monument of the entire Angkor complex is the most famous and well-preserved temple of Angkor Wat, built over thirty years during the reign of Suryavarman II. After the death of the king, the temple accepted him into its walls and became a tomb-mausoleum.
In the fortress of Angkor Thom located at a distance of two kilometers, the central Bayon temple and its fifty-four huge towers, each of which is decorated with four faces of the Buddha, deserve special attention. According to one version, a portrait of the king himself was presented in the image of Buddha. This temple was the last major religious building built in Angkor.
This booming tourist destination has international Airport and many modern hotels. The distance from the center of Siam Riapa to the main temple of the complex - Angkor Wat is about 5 km.

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The Amazon Rainforest
South America
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Great Barrier Reef
Coral Sea, Australia
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The Great Barrier Reef is a ridge of coral reefs and islands in the Coral Sea, stretching along the northeast coast of Australia for 2300 km. In the northern part, its width reaches 2 km, in the southern part - 150 km. Most of the reefs are underwater (which are exposed at low tide). In 1979, the Marine national park with an area of over 5 million hectares.
The Great Barrier Reef has a history of about 18 million years. The modern history of its development lasts about 8000 years. New layers are still appearing on the old foundation. The main body of the reef comprises over 2,100 individual reefs, which are surrounded by almost 540 barriers that form offshore islands. A lagoon stretches between the Reef and the coast. This area of shoals rarely exceeds a depth of 100 m. From the sea side, the slopes of the reef steeply flow thousands of meters into the depths of the sea. The barrier in this place is subject to the influence of waves and winds. Coral growth here is the fastest, while in places where waves and temperatures reach extreme heights, reefs lose the most building material. Most of the free material is woven into the reefs and forms new rocks, thus on the reef there are constant, successive processes of destruction and subsequent restoration.
Due to the diversity and colorfulness of the underwater world on the territory of the Reef, as well as almost always a warm transparent sea water, this place is incredibly popular among tourists, especially those who are fond of diving. For this reason major islands, located next to the Great Barrier Reef, have become chic tourist resorts.

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Victoria Falls
Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River in South Africa. Located on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The waterfall is about 1800 meters wide and 128 meters high. Scottish explorer David Livingstone visited the falls in 1855 and named it after Queen Victoria. Previously, the waterfall was known among the local population as "Thundering Smoke" ("Mosi-oa-Tunya").
The waterfall is located approximately in the middle of the Zambezi River. Above the falls, the Zambezi flows over a flat slab of basalt in a valley bounded by low and sparse sandstone hills. In the course of the river there are islands, the number of which increases as you approach the waterfall. The waterfall itself was formed in a place where the Zambezi falls sharply into a narrow crevice. Numerous islets divide the waterfall on the crest, forming channels. Over time, the waterfall receded upstream, gnawing more and more crevices for itself. These crevices now form a zigzag river bed with sheer walls. Victoria Falls is about twice as high Niagara Falls, and more than twice as wide as its main part ("Horseshoe"). The falling water creates spray and fog that can rise to heights of 400 meters or more and are visible up to 50 kilometers away.
The waterfall was practically not visited by people until the railway was built here in 1905. After commissioning railway they quickly gained popularity and retained it until the end of British colonial rule. A tourist town has grown up on the Zimbabwean side. In the late 1960s, the number of tourists decreased due to guerrilla warfare in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and the detention of foreign tourists under the rule of Vennet Konda in independent Zambia. The independence of Zimbabwe in 1980 brought relative peace, in the 1980s the region went new wave tourism. By the end of the 1990s, nearly 300,000 people were visiting the falls every year. In the 2000s, the number of tourists visiting Zimbabwe began to decrease due to unrest associated with the rule of Robert Mugabe.

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Serengeti National Park
Tanzania, Kenya
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The Serengeti National Park is a national park in the Serengeti savanna located in Tanzania and Kenya. Savannah extends from the north of Tanzania, east of Lake Victoria, to the south of Kenya and covers an area of about 30,000 km². The name comes from the Masai word "siringet", meaning "elongated platform". The Serengeti lies between 920 and 1850 meters above sea level and its landscape varies from long or short grass in the south to forested hills in the north. The Serengeti is characterized by accumulations (more than 1.5 million heads) of wild ungulates (antelopes, zebras, buffaloes, rhinos, giraffes, hippos), elephant, lion, cheetah, leopard, hyenas, etc. looking for a watering hole, is considered one of the most striking seasonal events in the wild.
The world's largest flock of lions, or, as zoologists call it, the lion pride, was discovered in the Serengeti Park in 2005. The pride consists of 41 lions. They are led by three adult males, each of which is 10 years old. The pack also includes eight 4-year-old lionesses and 9 young "princesses" who are two years old. There are also 13 lion cubs in the pride, aged from 4 months to a year. Nowhere in Africa has there been such a large flock before.
For the first time, Europeans learned about these places only in 1913. Unfortunately, like all the territories of the British colonies in East Africa, the Serengeti plains quickly became a place of mass pilgrimage for hunters from Europe. The national park was founded in 1940 in connection with the danger of the extermination of large animals by numerous hunters, both local and those who came from other countries.

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Petra
Jordan
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Petra - the capital of Edom, or Idumea, later the capital of the Nabatean kingdom, the main city of the sons of Esau. The city is located on the territory of modern Jordan, at an altitude of more than 900 meters above sea level and 660 meters above the surrounding area, the Arava Valley, in the narrow Siq Canyon. The passage to the valley is carried out through the gorges located in the north and in the south, while from the east and west the cliffs break off vertically, forming natural walls up to 60 meters in height. Petra was located at the crossroads of two major trade routes: one connected the Red Sea with Damascus, the other the Persian Gulf with Gaza off the Mediterranean coast. Spice caravans leaving the Persian Gulf had to brave the harsh conditions of the Arabian desert for weeks until they reached the coolness of the narrow Siq canyon leading to the long-awaited Petra. There travelers found food, shelter and cool life-giving water.
Annual rainfall in Petra is only about 15 centimeters. To get water, the locals cut down canals and reservoirs right in the rocks. Over time, almost every drop of rain in and around Petra was collected and preserved. Thanks to the water, which the people of Petra skillfully conserved, they were able to grow crops and breed camels. In addition, they were able to build a city - a center of trade. Until now, all along the Siq canyon, water flows through winding stone channels.
For hundreds of years, trade brought great wealth to Petra. But when the Romans opened sea routes to the East, the overland trade in spices came to naught and Petra gradually became empty, lost in the sands. Many buildings of Petra were erected in different eras and under different owners of the city, including the Edomites (18-2 centuries BC), Nabataeans (2nd century BC - 106 BC) , Romans (106-395 BC), Byzantines and Arabs. In the 12th century A.D. e. it was owned by the crusaders. The first European of modern times to see and describe Petra was the Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, who traveled incognito. Near the ancient theater here you can see the building of the Idumean or Nabatean era. Monuments, built after the 6th century AD. e. practically none, because in that era the city had already lost its significance.
The inhabitants of Petra mastered the art of working with stone. The very name "Petra", which means "rock", is associated with a stone. The Nabataeans, who built the city, carved houses, crypts and temples from stone blocks. The famous rock temple-mausoleum of El-Khazneh, the “Treasury of the Pharaoh”, as the Arabs call it, was created in the 2nd century BC. - possibly in connection with a visit to Syria by the emperor Hadrian. The exact purpose of the structure has not yet been fully elucidated.
The territory of Petra occupies a large area. From the center, where the ruins of numerous buildings, no longer rocky, but built in the traditional way, from stone, are well preserved, it stretches for several kilometers. The main street, stretching from east to west across the city, was laid during the Roman rule. On both sides of it stretches a majestic colonnade. The western end of the street ran into a large temple, while the eastern end ended in a three-span triumphal arch. Ed-Deir, a monastery carved into the rock at the top of a cliff, is a huge building about 50 m wide and over 45 m high. Judging by the crosses carved on the walls, the temple served as a Christian church for some time. Today, about half a million tourists come to Jordan every year to see Petra, whose buildings testify to its glorious past. As tourists pass through the kilometer-long chilly Siq Canyon, around the corner they see the Treasury, a majestic building with a facade carved from a huge rock. This is one of the best preserved buildings of the first century. The building is crowned with a huge stone urn, which supposedly contained gold and precious stones. The canyon gradually expands, and tourists find themselves in a natural amphitheater, in the sandstone walls of which there are many caves. But the main thing that catches the eye is the crypts carved into the rocks. The colonnade and the amphitheater testify to the presence of the Romans in the city in the first and second centuries.

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Great Wall of China
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The Great Wall of China (translated from the Pinyin language - “Long wall of 10,000 li”) is the largest architectural monument. Passes by northern China over 6350 km. The construction of the first wall began in the 3rd century BC. e. during the reign of Emperor Qin Shi-huangdi (Qin dynasty), during the period of the "Warring States" (V - III centuries BC) to protect the state from the raids of the nomadic Xiongnu people. A fifth of the country's population took part in the construction at that time, i.e. about a million people. The wall was supposed to serve as the extreme northern line of the possible expansion of the Chinese themselves, it was also supposed to protect the subjects of the "Middle Empire" from switching to a semi-nomadic way of life, from merging with the barbarians. The wall clearly fixed the boundaries of Chinese civilization, contributed to the consolidation of a single empire, just made up of a number of conquered kingdoms.
During the Han Dynasty (3rd century AD), the wall was extended west to Dunhuang. A line of watchtowers was also built, going deep into the desert, to protect trade caravans from nomadic raids. Those sections of the Great Wall that have survived to our time were built mainly during the Ming Dynasty (14th - 17th centuries). In this era, the main building materials were brick and stone blocks, which made the construction more reliable. During the reign of Ming, the Wall stretched from east to west from the Shanhaiguan outpost on the shores of the Bohai Bay of the Yellow Sea to the Yumenguan outpost at the junction of the modern provinces of Gansu and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The Manchurian Qing Dynasty (mid-17th century - early 20th century), having overcome the Wall with the help of the betrayal of Wu Sangui, treated the Wall with disdain. During the three centuries of her reign, the Great Wall almost collapsed under the influence of time. Only a small part of it near Beijing - Badaling - was maintained in order - it served as a kind of "gateway to the capital".
In 1984, at the initiative of Deng Xiaoping, a program was launched to restore the Great Wall of China, funded by Chinese and foreign companies, as well as individuals. It is reported that a 60-kilometer section of the wall in the Minging region of Shanxi region in the northwest of the country is undergoing active erosion. The reason is the intensive farming practices in China since the 1950s, which have dried up groundwater, and as a result, this region has become the main source and center of powerful sandstorms. More than 40 km of the wall has already disappeared, and only 10 km are still in place, but the height of the wall in some places has decreased from five to two meters.

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Grand Canyon
Arizona, USA
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Grand Canyon or Grand Canyon grand canyon one of the deepest canyons in the world. Located on the Colorado Plateau, Arizona, USA, in the territory national park Grand Canyon. It is cut by the Colorado River in the thickness of limestones, shales and sandstones. The length of the canyon is 446 kilometers. The width (at the level of the plateau) ranges from 6 to 29 kilometers, at the bottom level - less than a kilometer. Depth - up to 1600 meters.
Initially, the Colorado River flowed through the plains, but as a result of the movement of the earth's crust about 65 million years ago, the Colorado Plateau rose. As a result of the uplift of the plateau, the angle of inclination of the Colorado River changed, as a result of which its speed and ability to destroy the rock lying in its path increased. First of all, the river eroded the upper limestones, and then set about deeper and older sandstones and shales. So about 5-6 million years ago, the Grand Canyon was formed. The canyon is still growing due to ongoing erosion.
Native Americans (Indians) knew about the Grand Canyon thousands of years ago. The first signs of people's life in the canyon include rock carvings that were created by the Indians about 3 thousand years ago. In 1540, the Grand Canyon was discovered by a group of Spanish soldiers, commanded by Garcia López de Cardenas, traveling in search of gold. Several Spanish soldiers, accompanied by Hopi Indians, tried to descend to the bottom of the canyon, but were forced to return due to lack of drinking water. Since then, the canyon has not been visited by Europeans for more than 2 centuries. The first scientific expedition to the Grand Canyon, led by John Weasley Powell, was made in 1869. Powell explored and described the canyon. In 1903, US President Theodore Roosevelt visited the canyon and declared it a national monument in 1909.

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Taj Mahal
Agra, India
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The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum-mosque located in Agra, India, on the banks of the Yamuna River. The time of construction refers to approximately 1630-1652. Built by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died in childbirth (later Shah Jahan himself was buried here). Inside the mausoleum there are two tombs - the shah and his wife. The place of their burial is in the same place as the tombs, but underground. The Taj Mahal is a five-domed structure 74 m high on a platform, with 4 minarets at the corners (they are slightly tilted away from the tomb so as not to damage it in case of destruction), which adjoins a garden with fountains and a pool. The walls are lined with polished translucent marble inlaid with gems. Turquoise, agate, malachite, carnelian, etc. were used. Marble has such a feature that in bright daylight it looks white, at dawn it looks pink, and on a moonlit night it looks silvery.
More than 20,000 craftsmen from all over the empire, as well as masters from Central Asia, Persia and the Middle East were invited to build the complex. A twin building made of black marble was supposed to be located on the other side of the river, but it was not completed. The gray marble bridge was supposed to connect these two buildings.
The mausoleum has numerous symbols hidden in its architecture and layout. So, for example, on the gate through which Taj Mahal visitors enter the park complex surrounding the mausoleum, a quotation from the Koran is carved, addressed to the righteous and ending with the words "enter my paradise." Considering that in the Mughal language of that time the words "paradise" and "garden" are spelled the same, one can understand the plan of Shah Jahan - building a paradise and placing his beloved within it. On the left side of the tomb is a red sandstone mosque. On the right is a replica of the mosque. The whole complex has axial symmetry. The tomb has a central symmetry with respect to the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal. The only violation of this symmetry is the tomb of Shah Jahan, which was built there after his death.

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Iguazu Falls
Brazil, Argentina
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Iguazu Falls is a complex of waterfalls on the Iguazu River, located on the border of Brazil (Parana state) and Argentina (Misiones region). The waterfalls are located on the border of the Argentinean and Brazilian Iguazu National Parks. The name Iguazu comes from the Guarani words i (water) and guazu (large). Legend has it that God wanted to marry a beautiful aboriginal woman named Naipu, but she escaped with her lover in a canoe. In anger, God cut the river, creating waterfalls, dooming the lovers to an eternal fall. The waterfalls were discovered in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador don Alvaro Nunez Caseso de Vaca, who went to the South American jungle in search of gold and adventure.
The complex is 2.7 km wide and includes approximately 270 individual waterfalls. The height of the water fall reaches 82 meters, but on most waterfalls - a little more than 60 meters. The largest waterfall is Garganta del Diablo ("Devil's Throat") - a U-shaped cliff 150 meters wide and 700 meters long. This waterfall marks the border between Brazil and Argentina. During the dry season, visitors can see two separate waterfalls shaped like two crescents. During the dry season, there is less rainfall and the water level in the Iguazu River decreases. As a result, less water enters the Iguazu Falls, so it splits into two separate falls. During wet season these two crescents join together to form one large waterfall approximately 4 kilometers wide.
Many islands (including quite large ones) separate the falls from each other. Most of the waterfalls are located within the territory of Argentina, however, from the Brazilian side, good view on Devil's Throat. In the vicinity of Iguazu there is a national park where visitors can view wildlife and vegetation. There are boat tours on the Parana and Iguazu rivers. You can also visit the Itaipu Dam, one of the largest hydroelectric power stations in the world.

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Pyramids in Giza (Giza pyramids)
Egypt
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The pyramid complex at Giza is located on the Giza plateau in the suburbs of Cairo, Egypt. This complex of ancient monuments is located about eight kilometers towards the center of the desert from the old city of Giza on the Nile. This ancient Egyptian necropolis consists of the Pyramid of Khufu (known as the Great Pyramid and the Pyramid of Cheops), the Pyramid of Khafre and the Pyramid of Menkaure, as well as a number of smaller accompanying buildings known as the Pyramids of the "Kings", the Pavements and the Pyramids of the Valley. The Great Sphinx is located on the east side of the complex, facing east.
Pyramid of Cheops (or Khufu) - the largest of Egyptian pyramids, the only one of the "Seven Wonders of the World" that has survived to this day. Initially, the height of the pyramid was 146.6 meters (approximately a fifty-story skyscraper), but due to the loss of the crowning granite block - the pyramidion - as a result of an earthquake, its height has now decreased by 9.4 meters and is 137.2 meters. The side of the pyramid is 230 meters long. It is made up of approximately 2.3 million stone cubes stacked in 203 tiers (originally 210). The average weight of a stone is 2.5 tons, but there are also larger ones, whose weight reached 15 tons. The time of construction is unknown. According to one legend, the pyramid was built in the 26th century BC. e. pharaoh Khufu (2590-2568 BC), in Greek his name sounded like "Cheops". The architect of the pyramid is Hemiun, a vizier and relative of Cheops. According to Herodotus, 100,000 workers, who replaced each other every three months, built the pyramid for about 20-25 years. But this figure raises doubts among modern scientists. According to their calculations, only 8,000 people could safely build a pyramid without interfering with each other.
Since antiquity, no one has entered the pyramid of Cheops, although the descending tunnel was visited in Roman times, as evidenced by the inscriptions in the underground chamber; the description of this chamber was made by Strabo. The first to enter the pyramid after the Romans was Caliph Abu Jafar al-Ma'mun in 832, cutting a passage more than 17 m long (it is through it that tourists get inside the pyramid in our time). He hoped to find the pharaoh's innumerable treasures there, but found only a layer of dust there. Inside the pyramid of Cheops are two burial chambers located one above the other.
The Pyramid of Khafre (or Khafre) is the second largest ancient Egyptian pyramid. Built in the middle of the XXVI century. BC. the structure with a height of 136.5 m (originally - 143.5 m) was called Urt-Khafra (“Khafra is great” or “Honored Khafra”). Although the pyramid of Khafre is inferior in size to that of his father Khufu, its position on a higher hill and its steeper slope make it a worthy rival. Great Pyramid. Two rather large chambers and two crossing passages that lead to a horizontal corridor represent a rather modest space in relation to Khufu's pyramid. The pyramid of Khafre was just an element of the mortuary complex.
The Pyramid of Menkaure (or Menkaur) is the southernmost, latest and lowest of the three Egyptian pyramids at Giza. Contrary to the nickname "Heru" (high), it barely reaches 66 m in height, and the length of the side of its base is 108.4 m. accession. The Pyramid of Menkaur is somewhat out of the picture of buildings in Giza.
Despite its small size, considered a sign of decline, the Pyramid of Menkaur was the most beautiful of all the pyramids. The potential of the builders of the pyramid of Menkaure was enormous, as evidenced by one of the monoliths used in the mortuary temple of Menkaure. Its weight is estimated at over 200 tons. Putting in place a block of this size, the heaviest on the Giza plateau, was a true technical feat. The colossal statue of the seated king from the central chapel of the temple - one of the largest in the era of the Old Kingdom - is an excellent proof of the skill of the pharaoh's sculptors.
The Great Sphinx is the oldest monumental sculpture on Earth. Carved from a monolithic limestone rock in the form of a colossal sphinx - a lion lying on the sand, whose face - as has long been considered - is given a portrait resemblance to Pharaoh Khafre (c. 2575-2465 BC). The statue is 73 meters long and 20 meters high; between the front paws there was once a small sanctuary.
The statue of the Sphinx is turned to face the Nile and the rising sun. Almost all ancient Eastern civilizations saw the lion as a symbol of the solar deity. Since ancient times, the pharaoh has been depicted as a lion, exterminating his enemies. The ancient Egyptian name for the Great Sphinx remains unknown. The word "sphinx" is Greek and means literally "strangler". The opinion that this word came to Greece from ancient Egyptian is unfounded. Medieval Arabs called the Great Sphinx "the father of horror."
The circumstances and exact time of the construction of the Sphinx are still mysterious. The judgment of ancient authors accepted in modern literature that its builder was Khafre (Khafru) is confirmed only by the fact that during the construction of the temple, stone blocks of the same size were used for the statue as in the construction of the neighboring pyramid.
Even more confusing is the fact that the statue's face has Negroid features, which is at odds with other surviving images of Khafru and his relatives. Scientists who compared the face of the Sphinx with the signed statues of Khafre using a computer came to the conclusion that they cannot depict the same person. Since the 1950s in popular literature, the dating of the Sphinx to the period of the Old Kingdom began to be questioned. It was claimed that Bottom part The Sphinx is a classic example of erosion caused by the prolonged exposure of a stone to water. The last time the corresponding level of precipitation was observed in Egypt at the turn of the 4th and 3rd millennia BC, which, according to supporters of this theory, indicates the creation of the statue in the Predynastic period or even earlier. The relatively small size of the head prompted the Boston historian Robert Schoch to suggest that the statue originally had the muzzle of a lion, from which one of the pharaohs ordered a mysteriously smiling human face to be carved in his own image and likeness. This hypothesis has not found recognition in the scientific community.
The statue is missing a one meter wide nose. Most often you can hear that this detail of the statue was knocked off by a cannonball during the Napoleonic battle with the Turks at the Pyramids (1798); in other versions of the legend, Napoleon's place is taken by the English or the Mamelukes. The falsity of this opinion is indicated by the drawings of the Danish traveler Norden, who saw a noseless sphinx already in 1737.
Although the absence of the nose can be explained by the “natural wear and tear” of the sculpture (centuries of wind and moisture), it seems more plausible that in 1378 a Sufi fanatic, having caught the fellahs bringing gifts to the Sphinx in the hope of replenishing their harvest, was filled with anger and beat off the “idol” » nose, for which he was torn to pieces by the crowd. Indeed, at that time, for the locals, the Sphinx was a kind of talisman, the ruler of the Nile, on which, as they believed, the level of the spill depended. great river and, accordingly, the fertility of their fields.
Over the years of its existence, the Sphinx was buried up to its shoulders in the sand. Attempts to dig it out were already made in antiquity by Thutmose IV and Ramses II. In 1817, the Italians managed to clear the entire chest of the Sphinx from sand, and it was completely freed from millennial sand drifts in 1925.

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Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Picchu, "Old Mountain"), a city and area located at an altitude of 2,400 meters (7,875 feet) above sea level, is an important site in the history of the Incas in the pre-Columbian era. The city is located on a mountain range above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, 80 km (50 mi) northwest of Cusco (the ancient capital of the Inca Empire). Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", Machu Picchu is probably the most recognizable symbol of the Inca Empire. The city was built around 1450, but was abandoned by the population a hundred years later, during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. After being forgotten for centuries, the city was rediscovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, an American historian. Since then, Machu Picchu has become an important attraction not only in Peru, but throughout Latin America. The city was declared Peruvian Historical Treasure in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. Machu Picchu is also one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry stone walls. His primary and most important buildings are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of Three Windows. They are located in what is known to archaeologists as the Sacred Area of Machu Picchu. In September 2007, Peru and Yale University reached an agreement regarding the return of Inca artifacts that Geeram Bingham removed from Machu Picchu in the early 20th century. Currently, there are problems with the tourist flow to the city, since in 2003 Machu Picchu was visited by 400,000 tourists - for this site this is quite a large number and the infrastructure is not adapted to such a tourist flow.
Machu Picchu was built around 1450, when the Inca Empire was at its peak of development and economic power. The city was abandoned less than 100 years later. It is likely that most of its inhabitants were exterminated by smallpox before the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the area. Giram Bingham, an explorer of the area, along with several other scholars, originally hypothesized that the citadel was the traditional birthplace of the Inca aristocracy or the spiritual center of the "Virgins of the Sun".
Another theory claims that Machu Picchu was an Inca "Yyakta (llacta)": a settlement built to control the economy of the conquered areas. The city may also have been built as a prison for the elite members of the Inca society, for those few who committed heinous crimes against the Inca society. Research by scholars such as John Rowe and Richard Burger has convinced most archaeologists that the city served a defensive function and did not belong to the Inca emperor, Pachacuti. In addition, Johan Reinhard provided evidence that the site was selected for the founding of the holy city because of the exceptional scenery surrounding the city. One such example is that the city is located on natural mountains, from which the starry sky was clearly visible, and therefore the mountains became key astronomical landmarks.
Although the citadel is located approximately 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire, the city was never found and therefore was not sacked and destroyed by the Spanish conquistadors, as was the case with the vast majority of Inca cities and settlements. Over the centuries, the surrounding jungle has grown throughout the site, and few people knew of the existence of this ancient city. On July 24, 1911, Machu Picchu appeared before the eyes of Geeram Bingham, an American historian, then a lecturer at Yale University. He was brought to the area of the ruins by locals who frequented the site. Bingham undertook archaeological research and completed a survey of the area in its entirety. Bingham came up with a name for the city, calling it "The Lost City of the Incas", which became the title of his first book. He never thanked or mentioned the people who helped him find Machu Picchu, mentioning only a "local rumor".
Bingham was looking for the city of Vitcos, the last refuge of the High Inca and the last stronghold of resistance during the Spanish conquest of Peru. In 1911, after several years of previous travel and exploration of the area, he was brought to the stronghold of the Quechua people. These people lived in Machu Picchu, in the "original" original infrastructure of the Incas. Even though most of the inhabitants (the Incas) died within a century of the city's construction, a small number of families that survived that period survived by the time the site was "discovered" in 1911; many mummies (mostly women) and several families were found in the city that still lived in the ancient city. Bingham made several trips and excavated the site until 1915. He wrote a large number of books and articles about the discovery of Machu Picchu throughout his life.
Simone Waisbard, famous explorer of Cusco, claims that Enrique Palma, Gabino Sanchez, and Agustin Lizarraga left their names "engraved" on one of the rocks in Machu Picchu July 14, 1901. This means that they "discovered" Machu Picchu before Bingham "discovered" the city in 1911. Likewise, in 1904, an engineer named Franklin may have identified the presence of ruins in the area and clearly separated them from the distant mountain. He told Thomas Pine, an English Christian missionary living in the area, about the site where the ruins are located. In 1906, Pyne and another fellow missionary named Stuart E. McNairn (1867-1956) may have been walking up to the ruins.
In 1913, the site gained significant notoriety after the National Geographic Society released information about the "lost city of the Incas" in April of that year. In 1981, the area of 325.92 square kilometers surrounding Machu Picchu was declared a "Historical Heritage" of Peru. In addition to the ruins, this area contains much of the regional landscape rich in flora and fauna.
Machu Picchu was designated a World Heritage Site in 1983, when the city was described as "an absolute masterpiece of architecture and a unique proof of the development of the Inca civilization". On July 7, 2007, Machu Picchu was approved as one of New Open World Corporation's New Seven Wonders of the World. As a result of environmental degradation resulting from the negative impact of tourism, which led to the active development of the neighboring city of Aguas Calientes (Aguas Calientes) (including poorly located tram lines designed to speed up the movement of tourists), and the construction of a bridge over the Vilcanota River (Vilcanota ) Against a court order and government protests (which most likely attracted even more tourists to the site), the World Monuments Fund placed Machu Picchu on its List of 100 Most Endangered World Heritage Sites in the World in 2008.

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Most of the people on our planet live according to a measured schedule, preferring the calm backwater of a family and boring work to new experiences and development. Well, to each his own. Nevertheless, we sincerely believe that there are a huge number of places on the planet so beautiful that everyone should see them, without exception. Seeing these photos, you might think that these places are on some other planets, in other galaxies, but not on Earth. Save this list for yourself - and who knows, maybe it will help you re-evaluate your priorities.

51. Great Blue Hole, Belize

Great Blue Hole, Belize

The Great Blue Hole in Belize is a circular karst funnel with a diameter of 305 meters, going to a depth of 120 meters. You can look at this miracle of nature either from a helicopter (the panorama is amazing), or from the inside (this is a popular place among divers). Jacques-Yves Cousteau included the Great Blue Hole in his list of the top 10 dive sites in the world.

52. Venice, Italy

Venice, Italy

The whole of Venice is one big attraction. As a rule, travelers are advised to visit the Rialto Bridge, see St. Mark's Cathedral, wander through the narrow streets, ride a gondola. And, of course, visit the famous carnival. Known fact that Venice is gradually sinking into the water, and, perhaps, soon only memories will remain of this splendor. So don't waste a minute.

53. Great Barrier Reef

Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef can be viewed from the air or diving in close proximity. Sea lovers will be delighted. If you don't like diving, it's okay - you can go to the sea on a boat with a transparent bottom, so you can see with your own eyes the diverse fauna under water. The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef. It includes 900 islands in the Coral Sea and about 3 thousand individual reefs.

54. Cathedral Cove, New Zealand

Cathedral Cove, New Zealand

Cathedral Bay is considered one of the most interesting sights of the Coromandel Peninsula, a famous tourist destination on the North Island of New Zealand. Pure water, White sand, beautiful rocks - perfect place for a romantic picnic.

55. Shifen Waterfall, Taiwan

Shifen Waterfall, Taiwan

The locals call Shifen Falls Little Niagara because of the similar cascading shape. Shifen is located between two cliffs, so the roar of falling water can be heard for many kilometers. All slopes are covered with dense vegetation. Magnificent landscapes, a rainbow over the stream, unusual animals - that's what attracts tourists to this place.

56. Tulip fields, Netherlands

Tulip fields, Netherlands

From the end of March to the beginning of May, the whole of Holland is transformed. You will not see such a sea of flowers anywhere else in the world. Huge areas are planted with tulips of all shades: pink, blue, red, yellow, green, purple… It is worth seeing them, as well as windmills, cities with unique architecture, canals and much more. The Netherlands will not leave anyone indifferent.

57. Antelope Canyon, USA

Antelope Canyon, USA

Thanks to the bizarre shape of the rocks and soft lighting, the Antelope Canyon - favorite place photographers. It got its name because of the unusual color of the striped rocks, they are somewhat reminiscent of the color of an antelope. You can visit the canyon only with a guide and only not during the rainy season: at this time there is a high risk of flooding.

58. Eiffel Tower, France

Eiffel Tower, France

As they say, see Paris and die. If you find yourself in this city, you will not be able to pass by the Eiffel Tower - a symbol not only of Paris, but of the whole of France. It can be seen from many points of the city, as the height of the structure is 325 meters. At night, the Eiffel Tower begins to shimmer with hundreds of colored lights. You can even climb it, however, you will have to pay a few euros for it. And, of course, be sure to take a picture against the backdrop of this most recognizable landmark in France.

59. Plitvice Lakes, Croatia

Plitvice Lakes, Croatia

In the central part of Croatia, in the Litsko-Senj County, the Plitvice Lakes National Park, the oldest in Eastern Europe, is located. It includes 16 large karst lakes, 140 waterfalls, 20 caves and a unique beech forest. Bears, wolves, rare birds and other animals live in the protected area. Active and inquisitive traveler will love this place.

60. Mount Tianzi, China

Mount Tianzi, China

Tianzi Mountain is one of the four most famous scenic areas in Wulingyuan Nature Reserve. The peak of Tianzi is located in the middle of the "golden triangle" at an altitude of 1,260 meters. This is a place of beautiful waterfalls, mysterious caves, picturesque forests and rich wildlife. For those who are afraid to overcome the path through the forests on their own, there are cable cars. They can quickly climb to the top of the mountain.

Beauty is considered a purely subjective concept, however, contemplating the most beautiful places in the world that nature has worked on, we can come to the realization of the fact that the real natural beauty that surrounds us should not go unnoticed. Traditional tourist routes usually do not cover even a small part of the world that is created thanks to the most talented "architects", which are nature and time. A detailed overview of the most amazing in terms of aesthetics and unique features of the landscape of places on the planet will provide an opportunity to understand what the true beauty of the universe is.

First place - Bolivia. The beauty of Lake Uyuni

Perhaps it is worth starting our top with this unique salt lake, which occupies the largest area in the world. Many call this Uyuni a place where time slows down. Surprising is the fact that the surface of the lake can be overcome on foot. During the rainy season, Uyuni undergoes some changes, eventually becoming a large-scale mirror square of a very beautiful view. At a distance of three kilometers from the city, which bears the same name, there is a cemetery, which was the last stop for a large number of steam locomotives that in the old days served as Vehicle intended for the transportation of various minerals (they were mined on the territory of local mines).

The saline surface is a completely optimal alternative to the expanses of the ocean in terms of such important aspects as checking and adjusting the operation of tools designed to carry out the sounding process using satellites that are in earth orbit. The territory of the lake is occupied by entire islands, the main flora of which are cacti. This spectacle is incredibly controversial, but at the same time so amazing that it will definitely need to be captured with a camera.

Second place - Cinque Terre

A place called the Cinque Terre is considered the most beautiful national park in Italy, which located in the eastern part of the Riviera. Such a picturesque place as the Cinque Terre is fanned by the spirit of the Middle Ages in Italy. The territory is occupied by about five small villages, architectural features which are presented in the form of defensive buildings erected back in those days when pirate raids on this area were often made. A reliable level of land protection was provided thanks to the rocky coastline, which combines unforgettable beauty and serious danger at the same time.

Such a beautiful corner filled with romance. Many stone beaches and narrow paths appear before the attention of tourists. One such path is called the "path of love", and a lot of legends are associated with it, in which the most noble and temperamental representatives of Europe are represented.

Third place - Pamukkale

Now, perhaps, it is worth turning to the southwestern part of Turkey, which is characterized by a unique and a magnificent geological phenomenon - calcareous tuff, or rather a rocky area created on the basis of this natural material. This place is the main source of streams that fall down massive stone steps. Many waterfalls and unique pools are formed here, characterized by an unusual origin. Cotton Castle - this is the poetic name given to the amazing landscape by the inhabitants themselves. Thanks to thermal springs and the natural terraces of Pamukkale, located at the foot of the mountains, creates an excellent view that attracts many tourists to this area every year. This picture appears to be a well of water saturated big amount calcium, against the general background of an excellent landscape, which is represented by white tones.

Fourth place - Yunnan Rice Terraces

Another simply stunningly beautiful place on the planet is the territory of rice fields, which is located in China. This area is located in the mountainous regions of the province called Yunnan. At the terraces, the degree of extension is characterized by several tens of kilometers, exactly repeating the bend of the general relief. The general uniqueness of this area lies in the basic nature of the ecological type system, which was formed in an independent way. Rice is planted when February comes, because during this period the soil is renewed thanks to the mountain mines. The beginning of the autumn period is considered the time when the inhabitants begin to harvest. The tourism season begins by the end of autumn, continuing until spring. It is during this time period that natural terraces become the main object of attention of tourists, striking, first of all, with a mirror type of surface that reflects the rays of the sun, while creating a beautiful color spectrum.

Fifth place - the beauty of the blue hole in Belize

The central part of the atoll (one of the many objects related to the coral barrier reef near the coast of Belize) is represented by the most beautiful landscape - a blue hole, which appears as a cave, disappearing somewhere in the depths. A natural phenomenon of a natural nature is very common, but it is this abyss that has especially incredible dimensions (the depth level is about one hundred and twenty meters, and the cave is about three hundred meters in diameter). Extreme divers are especially attracted to this place. A deep-sea cave can become a real paradise for people who have turned diving into a real meaning of life. Jacques Yves Cousteau conducted extensive research here, which brought great popularity to this area in the future.

Sixth place - beautiful views of the Arizona wave

In the border area separating the states of Arizona and Utah, there is a plateau on which there are sand rocks of incredibly beautiful shape, which are called waves, because of the funny uneven shapes and colors with a high degree of saturation. In order to make the way to this amazing place, professional photographers have to go through a difficult path: a flat road in such an area is not expected. The creation of a peculiar structure of a magnificent landscape took place over a long period of time through the transformation of dunes from sand into rocks of a solid type.

Seventh place - features of Jiuzhaigou National Park

In the southeast of China, there is the territory of Sichuan province, which attracts a huge number of tourists. And all thanks to the beautiful Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve, which occupies the server of the region. It is a unique natural object under the strictest protection. Waterfalls and lakes in large numbers are hidden from curious tourists by the mountain ranges of Tibet. These waters are called colored because they carry a special composition.

Not every person is able to get to this reserve, however, not so long ago mountainous area acquired an airport that provides an opportunity to get to this area straight from the territory of Shanghai. In order for tourists to feel maximum comfort in this area, the paths in the mountains were ennobled by local workers.

In the old days, the territory was occupied by nine separate settlements.

Eighth place - Features of Plitvice Lakes

The territory of Croatia, which is considered very mysterious and colorful edge. First of all, I would like to turn specifically to the Plitvice Lakes, which are located in a large-scale national state park. The nature of the surrounding nature sets a mystical atmosphere. The territory of the park is surrounded by very dense impenetrable forests, which the locals call the "Devil's Forest".

Almost every one of the sixteen lakes is located within mountain valley. There is a connection between them, which is why, thanks to the purest mountain streams, grandiose noisy fountains are formed. From year to year there are more and more waterfalls, because the water causes the effect of destruction to limestone rocks. The total area of water areas is about two square kilometers. The location of the waterfalls themselves is observed at various levels. Thanks to the reservoirs, the formation of two picturesque complexes is carried out - the Upper Lakes and the Lower Lakes.

Ninth place - Features of the valley of 10 Peaks. Canada

Canada is considered a harsh land, but incredibly attractive due to the beauty of the "cold" nature. One is located here beautiful place, which stands out for its incredible natural beauty, which is called the “10 peaks” valley, which is located right at the very foot of 10 mountains, bearing the single name Vekchkemna. This area is located not far from famous lake Moraine, which is of glacial origin. In this area, the workers have laid a very large number of hiking trails, which provide an opportunity to give a real assessment of the local attractions. There is one mountain that has a very bizarre name - "twenty dollars", because for some time an image of an identical character was imprinted on the surface of a bill that has the same denomination.

Tenth place - impressive views of Mount Roraima

The beautiful view of the mountain is a kind of symbol that characterizes the neighborhood of states South America - Venezuela and Brazil. Roraima represents mountain ranges, located in a very long chain, which rise directly above the wilds of the great Amazon. This area gained loud popularity at the time when Conan Doyle's novel appeared, which told about the time period when our planet was inhabited by dinosaurs who chose mountain ranges as a safe haven. Due to the unusual landscape and the unique atmosphere in this area, a character of complete detachment from the real surrounding world is created, representing an inexhaustible source of inspiration for many literary figures.

Eleventh place - the territory of the Maldives

A huge archipelago containing many (more than 1000) small islands, considered separately hereby tourist paradise, located in the area indian ocean. Turquoise-colored water, an area of white sandy beaches, fruits of an exotic nature - all this great variety is contained in Maldives. This area is considered ideal and simply heavenly excellent to spend winter or summer holidays, actively entertain or spend a honeymoon.

Here, anyone can go diving and bring this type of leisure to perfection, because the level of visibility under the water surface is almost perfect. You can also visit individual uninhabited islands, which can be perfect for solitude and romantic dates.