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  Lake Annecy is located in the province of Haute-Savoie, in France just 50 miles south of Geneva, Switzerland. The road to Annecy, passes through a beautiful landscape where the peaks and valleys in warm colors snowy mountains catch the eye of travelers. Special floral delight eyes everywhere they part of the landscape in all seasons,     Lake Annecy is a popular tourist attraction, known for swimming and water sports. For those who love nature, mountain landscapes, Lake Annecy is the...

  Located in the Italian Alps, Lago di Garda was formed in the ice age and is the largest lake in Italy, with a circumference of 144 kilometers. Bordered in the north by the Dolomites and the gentle slopes of hills south of the moraine, this corner of paradise is characterized by a Mediterranean climate, surrounded by flourishing vegetation, dominated by lemon and olive groves with.   East Coast of the lake, beach Punta San Vigilio, is bathed in sunshine hours in addition to the west. The water is clean and the ...

  The lake is known for its green fields that surround it, clear water and reflections of it. Fresh breeze and tranquil pastures make it a must-visit place. It is located in northern Pakistan Deosai National Park at an altitude of over 4000 meters. Lake Sheosar surprise with its clear water, green plateau surrounded by national park that consists Deosai....

  This summer, who travels to the Caribbean should really need to make a stop in Belize Valley to visit this extraordinary underwater valley. Cavity, almost perfectly circular, is 120 meters deep. It was chosen by the great French explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau as one of the ten most interesting places in the world where to dive. Great Blue Hole is located near Lighthouse Reef atoll, about 60 miles away from Belize City....

   Known as "Big Hole", the mine holds the record for highest man-made hole in the world. In the direct sense. From 1866 to 1914, 50,000 miners were digging the mine with shovels, spin over 2.700 kilograms of diamonds. "Kimberley" has an area of 17 hectares and 463 meters in diameter....

  Chuquicamata, or "Chuqui" is a career copper in Chile. It is the largest miner of copper production in the world and has over 850 meters deep. Copper is extracted here for centuries, as demonstrated by the discovery of a mummy dating from 550 AD died, called "Copper Man."...

  It is considered the most beautiful beach in Croatia, being formed from a long tongue of fine sand. Enter big party changes its shape every day, in effect curentilro Marines. Beach is located on the beautiful island of Brac....

  The Underwater Restaurant in Maldives is the perfect place to visit for those who love sea and nature. Rank atoll is located on this oddness, fruit of human imagination: restaurant Ithaa (Pearl) is about 5 meters above sea level. It is a unique experience. For obvious reasons, only 12 people can eat here at a time, and the bill is pretty stiff....

  It is the largest pool in the world. Made in San Alfonso del Mar, 90 km from Santiago, Chile, is equipped with a pool that measures 1013 meters long and covers an area of eight hectares, with an artificial lagoon. It cost $ 1.5 billion to be built and filled every six months and two million dollars is spent for its maintenance....

  Grand Canyon is one of the most spectacular natural monuments on Earth, being crossed by the Colorado River, for millions of years. The Grand Canyon National Park is located in northwestern Arizona. The Grand Canyon was carved by the Colorado River in the plateau of the same name. The huge canyon is 445 kilometers long and about 25 km width, while the height is more than 1500 meters.   Founded in 1919, the park is visited annually by more than four million visitors. The diversity of nature and landscap...

  The Taj Mahal, which means Crown Palace is located in Agra, near the Yamuna River in the State of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is a white marble mausoleum built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Arjumand Banu Begam, also known as Mumtaz Mahal, which in Persian means "the light of the palace." She died June 17, 1631, giving birth to their fourteenth child while she went to the country. It is a first burial place in the garden to Zainabad Burhampur. Following his death on January 31, 1666, her husband was b...

   Santorini Island is located in the Aegean Sea, and is the southernmost of the Cyclades islands. The capital of the island is Fira port town, which impresses through narrow streets, traditional tavernas, shops perched on rocky slopes, but also wonderful beaches and crystal-clear sea water.      Santorini was quoted for years as one among the best tourist destinations in Europe, and even the world. This is one of the reasons that Santorini is always crowded. As one of the most popular islands ...

  Matterhorn is the iconic emblem of the Swiss Alps although it is not the tallest peak in the region. Matterhorn Mount is 4478 meters high and it the major tourist destination in the Apennine Alps. The mountain was conquered by climbers for the first time in July 14th 1865. This mountain is one of the largest and highest places for skiing and hiking in Europe. Annually, millions of skiers and tourists come here to conquer the place.    It is not the highest peak in the Alps, nor the the most difficult one, b...

  Shivling mountain is located in the Northern part of India and it is part of the Himalaya Mountains Range. It is 6549 m high or 21.329 feet. The name of the mountain comes from the God Shiva in Hindu religion, literally meaning ‘the phallus of Shiva’.      This mountain has steep sides and it is considered one of the most stunning peaks of the Garhwal region. On 1974 this mountain was conquered by Laxman Singh and his team.  ...

 Rocky Mountains abound in bumps and majestic mountains that cut your breath. Rocky Mountains have to offer, in fact, the very amazing beauty of creation.   Rockies stretch over a length of 4,500 - 5000 km with a maximum width of 500-600 km in Colorado and the mountains north of Yellowstone National Park to break up into several smaller mountain ranges having widths of about 50 to 120 km. Mountains stretch from Mexico (with Transverse Volcanic Sierra, Sierra Madre del Sur Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Ma...

  "How can you lead a country that has two hundred and forty six different kinds of cheese?" (Charles de Gaulle, French president, 1oct 1962). If he were alive today, the General de Gaulle would have had to revise his statement - France now boasts over 400 varieties of cheese, this suggesting to a large extent the country's cultural diversity. Much of its originallity comes from the fact that its territories are found in all major regions of the continent, each with its own personality. Both the diversity of landscape and...

   Mexico is a country in North America, south of the United States. With nearly 107 million people, including twenty million in the urban area of its capital, Mexico City, Mexico is the most populous Spanish-speaking country. It is also the third in size and the second in population in Latin America. It is the thirteenth largest economy in the world.    Mexico is a beautiful and diverse country with many things to offer visitors, whether they go to visit the local beaches famous all over the world...

   Thailand is an Asian country whose territory covers 514 000 square kilometers and has approximately 65 million inhabitants (2008).    Thailand has a rich and colorful culture along with many exotic monuments and stunning beaches, which attract millions of visitors each year, from those with a minimum budget to those who can afford to spoil themselves in luxury. The country is often called the "land of smiles", as you will never meet so many smiling people as here.  &n...

  Grand Canyon is one of the most spectacular natural monuments on Earth, being crossed by the Colorado River, for millions of years. The Grand Canyon National Park is located in northwestern Arizona. The Grand Canyon was carved by the Colorado River in the plateau of the same name. The huge canyon is 445 kilometers long and about 25 km width, while the height is more than 1500 meters.   Founded in 1919, the park is visited annually by more than four million visitors. The diversity of nature and landscap...

   Sumidero Canyon is also called the Pearl of Mexic and it is located in the National Park of the Chiapas state, carved by the river Grijalva, up to 500 meters tall and is one of the oldest geological formations in Mexico....

    Bryce Canyon National Park is situated in the south-western part of Utah. The canyon is the park, which really is not a true canyon, but rather a natural amphitheater. Canyon arose through processes of erosion on the eastern most prominent plate "Paunsaugunt-plate" special petrographic structure allowed a higher erosion caused by wind, water and ice is forming formations called hoodoos geolgice. Depending on the composition of sedimentary rocks have colors ranging from red, orange and white. Bryce Canyon-National...

   It all started about six million years ago, when an area of 3625 sq. km separated from Africa (in fact, separated from the supercontinent Gondwana), during the continental drift. It was the time when there were created a unique microclimate and ecosystem, favoring the endemic species. The heaven of botanists and zoologists began to be populated by Arab tribes about three millennia ago, but the island was already known to the Greeks, who called it Dioscorides, and to the Romans, who related to it as Dyo-Socor-Yahlas or Dyo-Soto...

   In the hot summer sun, spotted lake (located in British Columbia and Washington), evaporates and crystallizes forming minerals are white circles that contain shallow pools that reflect the mineral content of water in blue and green.      This lake is very rich in mineral concentrations: magnesium sulphate (Epsom salt), calcium and sodium sulphate, including titanium and silver. Native name is Klikuk Lake and its water is used by locals to cure joint pain....

   "The door to hell", as locals called this place is a crater 70 meters in diameter, near the town Darvaza (from Turkmenistan), burning continuously for 38 years.    In 1971, geologists digging to discover gas deposits have stumbled upon a huge underground cave, which made the earth to collapse, taking with him all geological equipment. Since the cave was filled with toxic gas, geologists have never dared to go into the cave to recover the equipment, hoping that the gas will burn and be consumed within ...