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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Sunday, February 23, 2014

A spanish colonial fort an the entrance to Lake Izabal, Guatemala.

Castillo de San Felipe de Lara

The Castillo de San Felipe de Lara(often referred to simply as the Castillo de San Felipe) is a Spanish colonial fort at the entrance to Lake Izabal in eastern Guatemala. Lake Izabal is connected with the Caribbean Sea via the Dulce River  and El Golfete lake.
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Castle of San Felipe

The Castillo de San Felipe was used by the Spanish for several centuries, during which time it was destroyed and looted several times by pirates. 

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Established in 1916, is a United States National Park located in the U.S. States of Hawaii on the island of Hawaii. The park encompasses 333,000 acres from the summit of Maunaloa(Is one of five volcanoes that form the island of Hawaii in the U.S. State of Hawaii in the pacific Ocean) to the sea. It encompasses two active volcanoes: Kilauea(One of the world´s most active volcanoes) and Mauna Loa(The world´s most massive subaerial volcano).
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Here you´ll find 150 miles of hiking trails through volcanic craters, scalded deserts and rainforests as well as a museum, petroglyphs, a walk-in lava tube and two active vocanoes. 
The park gives scientists insight into the birth of the Hawaiian Islands and ongoing studies into the processes of vulcanism. For visitors, the park offers dramatic volcanic landscapes as well as glimpses of rare flora and fauna.

Saturday, February 15, 2014

A monkey´s paradise in Japan´s Jigokudani Monkey Park

Japan´s Jigokudani Monkey Park

Is in Yamanouchi, Shimotakai District, Nagano Prefecture. It is part of the Joshin-etsu Kogen National Park, and is located in the valley of the Yokoyu-River, in the Northern part of the prefecture. The name Jigokudani, meaning "Hell´s valley" is due to the steam and boiling water that bubbles out of small crevices in the frozen ground, surrounded by steep cliffs and formidably cold and hostile forests.
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Jigokudani(hell valley) hot spring
In this place snow covers the ground for 4 months a year, the heavy snowfalls, an elevation of 850 metres and being only accesible via a narrow 2 km(1.24 mi) footpath through the forest, keep it uncrowded despite being relatively well-known.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

The mysterious place called Stonehenge

STONEHENGE

Is a prehistoric monument in wiltshire, England, about 3.2 km (2 miles) west of Amesbury and 13 km (8 miles) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is the remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks. It is in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and bronze age monuments in england, including several hundred burial mounds.
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Stonehenge is surely Britain´s greatest national icon, symbolizing mystery, power and endurance. Its original purpose is unclear to us, but some have speculated that it was a temple made for the worship of ancient earth deities.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

"The Impossible National Park"

The Impossible National Park

The Impossible National Park is a national park in El Salvador. It was created on January 1, 1989 and covers an area of 5,000 hectares. It has an altitude of between 250 and 1,425 metres.
One of the entrances to the Park.

The Impossible is the largest national park of El Salvador, is located in the Pacific coastal elevations of Ahuachapán, between the municipalities of San Francisco Menéndez and Tacuba, south-west of the "Ruta de las Flores"(the flowers route).This protected area is considered the most important natural relic of the country, as a globally threatened (tropical dry forest and dry tropical montane) ecosystem, but also for being one of the last refuges for an incredibly diverse wildlife community, source of water for the area and owner of scenic beauty for sustainable tourism development.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

One of the Seven Wonders of The World, "Taj Mahal"

The Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The Tah Mahal is widely recognized as "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the World´s Heritage"
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Taj Mahal, white domed marble mausoleum.
Taj Mahal is regarded by many as the finest example of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements from Islamic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and Indian architectural styles.
In 1983, the Taj Mahal became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. While the White domed marble mausoleum is the most familiar component of the Taj Mahal, it is actually an integrated complex of structures.