Mount Hua, a dangerous hiking trail in China

Mount Hua

Is a mountain located near the city of Huayin in Shaanxi providence. It is one of China´s Five Great Mountains, and has a long history of religious significance. The mount Hua receives annually thousands of tourists, and it is one of the holiest, spectacular and dangerous scenarios in china, in such sacred places like this you feel, upon arrival, that was worth through their risky path.

Mount Hua

Huashan Village at the base of the peak is a small city more than it is a village. The park lies immediately south of town. Peaks and important points of access are mostly named with cardinal directions:

East Gate: the new visitor´s center and ticket office are located here. The East Gate provides access to the North Cable Car. The North Cable Car goes to North Peak. A trail called the "Soldier´s Path" also ascends North Peak beneath the North Cable Car.

Yuquan Yuan(Jade Spring Temple): this is the start of the hiking trail to the top of North Peak. Yuquan Yuan is located at the south edge of Huashan Village. There is a ticket office here but no visitor´s center.

The West Cable Car ascends West Peak from the west side of the park.

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Acropolis of Athens

The Acropolis

Is the most symbolic area in greece. Although in ancient Greece most major cities used to have their own acropolis, this spot is known as the centre of Athens and contains the most iconic and famous ancient constructions in the entire country. This way, the Acropolis is the most visited destination in not only Athens, but in the entire Greece as well, being a major attraction for tourists from around the world who approach this region in order to meet these constructions.

The Acropolis general view

The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great achitectural and historic significance, the mos famous being the Parthenon. The acropolis was formally proclaimed as the preeminent monument on the European Cultural Heritage list of monuments on 26 March 2007.

Bora Bora

Bora Bora 

Is an island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean. is Tahiti´s crown jewel a true Polynesian island paradise that tourist the world over consider the ultimate tropical vacation destination. The island, located about 143 miles(230 km) northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef.

Bora Bora general view

In the centre of the island are the remnants of an extinct volcano rising to two peaks, Mount Pahia and Mount Otemanu, the highest point at 2385 ft. Hollywood and film industries from most other parts of the globe, have never tired of capturing its spectacular topography.

Huntington Beach California

Huntington Beach

Is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California. Huntington Beach is known for its long 9.5 mile stretch of sandy beach, mild climate, excellent surfing, and beach culture. The ocean waves are enhanced by a natural effect caused by the edge diffraction of open ocean swells around the island of Catalina.

Courtney Conlogue, Hurley US Open of Surfing, Huntington Beach Pier

Swells generated predominantly from the North Pacific in winter and from a combination of Southern Hemisphere storms and hurricanes in the summer focus on Huntington Beach creating consistent surf all year long. Huntington beach is often referred to as "Surf City", because of this high profile event, its history and culture of surfing.

Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach

Is an independent  city located in the U.S state of Virginia. Although mostly suburban in character, it is the most populous city in Virginia, having grown larger than the more urban neighboring city of Norfolk, and is the 39th most populous city in the U.S.

Michael Dunphy, the scorpion from Virginia Beach, stings a lip. Photo: Jimmicane

Located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach is a resort city with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront. Every year the city hosts the East Coast Surfing Championships as well as the North American Sand Soccer  Championships, a bieach soccer tournament.

Rocky Mountains

Rocky Mountains

The majestic Rocky Mountains are a major tourist location in the western United States. The Rocky Mountain are a major mountain range in western North America. The mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. within the North American Cordillera, the Rockies are somewhat distinct from the Pacific Coast Ranges and The Cascada Range and Sierra Nevada which all lie further to the west.

Hiking vacation in Rocky Mountain National Park By Dennis Flood

Plitvice Lakes National Park

Plitvice Lakes National Park

Is one of the oldest national park in Croatia. In 1979, Plitvice Lakes National Park was added to the UNESCO World Heritage register. Contains a series of beautiful lakes, caves and waterfalls. These have been formed by processes typical of karst landscapes such as the deposition of travertine barriers, creating natural dams. These geological processes continue today.

Plitvice lakes

The waters flowing over the limestone and chalk have, over thousands of years, deposited travertine barriers, creating natural dams which in turn have created a series of beautiful lakes, caves and waterfalls. These geological processes continue today. The forests in the park are home to bears, wolves and many rare bird species.

Berchtesgaden National Park

Berchtesgaden National Park 

Is in the south of Germany, on its border with Austria, the national park was established in 1978 to protect the landscapes of the Berchtesgaden Alps. Headquartered in the town of Berchtesgaden, the park was designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1990.

It is the only alpine biosphere reserve in Germany with an elevation of up to 2,700 meters above sea level. However, the transition zone is situated in low elevated areas in the north of the mountain ranges.

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A spectacular beach in Malaysia, Sipadan.

Sipadan

Overview

Sipadan is the only oceanic island in Malaysia, rising 2,000 ft from de seabed. It is located in the Celebes Sea off the east coast of Sabah, East Malaysia (which is on the island of Borneo. It was formed by living corals growing on top of an extinct volcanic cone that took thousands of years to develop.

Aerial picture of the island.

Sipadan is located at the heart of the IndoPacific basin, the centre of one of the richest marine habitats in the world. More than 3000 species of fish and  hundreds of coral species have been classified in this ecosystem. 

Pals a medieval village in Spain

The medieval town of Pals

Pals is a medieval town in Catalonia, northern Spain a few kilometres from the sea in the heart of the Bay of Emporda. Is located on the Costa Brava, to the east of the city of Girona. Situated on top of a hill, overlooking Platja de Pals, this charming town with its cobbled streets, craft shops, traditional restaurants and bars is a great place to visit in Catalonia.

Street in Pals

Site of Day: Fort of São João Baptista

Hello everyone, today its time for Portugal!!!!!!!
"This is a gorgeous place in the world"

Fort of São João Baptista

The fort of São João Baptista it's a hidden gem in Berlengas Islands of Portugal, the Berlengas is an archipelago, one that sits slightly Northwest of the coastal town of Peniche. The Berlengas Islands are a chain of islands off the coast of Portugal: are a rugged beauty, manmade architecture and raw nature; the Berlengas are one large island surrounded by several smaller ones and ragged rochks jutting out of the Atlantic. They are fairly unheard of beyond Portugal. The fortification belonged to a group of defensive military structures meant to protect the municipality located on the coast.

General view of fort

Site of day: Whitehaven Beach, Astralia

Whitehaven Beach

Located

Whitehaven Beach its located in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef, Whitehaven Beach is one of the World's most unspoiled and beautiful beaches. In 2013, it was named the number one beach in Australia by the TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Beaches Awards. Whit its warm, turquoise-hued water and soft, impeccably white sand, Whitehaven Beach is simply heaven on earth.

Whitehaven Beach

Whitehaven Beach is a 7 km stretch along Whitesunday Island, Australia. The island is accessible by boat from the mainland tourist ports of Airlie Beach and Shute Harbour, as well as Hamilton Island. The Whitehaven Beach Ocean Swim is a 2 km open swimming competition held on the Beach in November each year as part of the Hamilton Island Triathlon Event,

Site of Day: A tourquoise waters in Protected Water Reserve "Cerro San Gil"

Cerro San Gil

Las Escobas

Location:

The footpath "Las Escobas" is located in Puerto Barrios, department of Izabal; notable for the diversity of flora and fauna inhabiting the place, which is frequently visited by tourists coming to Puerto Barrios by different cruise ships that dock in the Port of Santo Tomás de Castilla.

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The idyllic park, centered around the Cerro San Gil mountain, comprises more than 7,700 hectares (19,000 acres) of lush rainforest. Bathed in rainfall throughout most of the year (averaging 255 in.) as warn, humid air rises over the mountains from the sea to elevations in excess of 3,900 ft(1,100 m), the preserve harbors an asounding level of biodibersity.

Tikal National Park, Guatemala.

Tikal National Park

The Tikal National Park, in the Peten region in Northern Guatemala, comprises an area of 222 mi² or 576 km². The park contains some of the most fascinating archaeological remains of the ancient Maya Civilization. Tikal is the ruins of an ancient city found in a rainforest. Ambrosio Tut, a gum-sapper, first saw Tikal in the mid nineteenth century, from the top of a sapodilla tree, obrserving various temple's roof combs in the distance and reported the ruins to a La Gaceta, a Guatemalan newspaper, which named the site Tikal. The Berlin Academy of Science's Magazine then republished the report in 1853. Archaeologist and treasure hunters then began visiting the forest. Today tourism to the site may help protect the rainforest.

Temple I or Great Jaguar around 1900's

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

St. Peter's Basilica

St. Peter's is a church in the Renaissance style located in the Vatican City west of the River Tiber and near the Janiculum Hill and Hadrian's Mausoleum. Its central dome dominates the skyline of Rome. The basilica is approached via St. Peter's Square, a forecourt in two sections, both surrounded by tall colonnades. The first space is oval and the second trapezoid. The façade of the basilica, with a giant order of columns, stretches across the end of the square and is approached by steps on which stand statues of the first century apostles to Rome, Saints Peter and Paul.

St. Peter's Basilica

Arc de Triomphe (Paris, France)

Arc de Triomphe de I'Étoile

Is one of the most famous monuments in Paris. It stands in the centre of the place Charles de Gaulle, at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. It should not be cunfused with a smalleer arch, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrrousel, which stands west of the Louvre. The Arc de Triomphe("Triumphal Arch") honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.

Arc de Triomphe at night

The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806 and its iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail. It set the tone for public monuments, with triumphant patriotic messages.

Site of day, Castle Howard, England.

Castle Howard

History

Castle Howard was built between 1699 and 1712 to a design by Sir John Vanbrugh for the 3rd earl of Carlisle. The Site was that of the ruined Henderskelfe Castle, which had come into the Howard family in 1566 through the marriage to Lord Dacre's widow of Thomas, 4th Duke of Norfolk.

The house is surrounded by a large estate which, at the time of the 7th Earl of Carlisle, covered over 13,000 acres and included the villages of Welburn, Bulmer, Slingsby, Terrington and Coneysthorpe. The estate was served by its own railway station, Castle Howard, from 1845 to the 1950s.

In 1952 the house was opened to the public by then owner, George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe. It is currently owned by his son, the Honourable Simon Howard, who grew up at the castle. In 2003, the grounds were excavated over three days by Channel 4's Time Team, searching for evidence of a local village lost to allow for the landscaping of the estate.

Site of day,Waitomo Glowworm caves

Waitomo Caves

The waitomo caves is a village and solutional cave system forming a major tourist attraction in the northern King Country region of the North Island of New Zealand, 12 km northwest of Te Kuiti. The community of Waitomo Caves itself is very small, though the village has many temporary service workers living there as well.

Waitomo Caves - Visitor Center Entry

The word Waitomo comes from the Maori language wai meaning and tomo meaning a doline or sinkhole; it can thus be translated to be water passing through a hole. The caves are formed in Oligocene limestone.

The Nassau paradise

Nassau

Nassau is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Common wealth of the Bahamas. Lynden Pindling International Airport, the major airport for the Bahamas, is located about 16 km (9.9 mi) west of Nassau city centre, and has daily flights to major cities in the US, the Caribbean, Canada and the UK. The city is located on the island of New Providence, which functions much like a business district. Nassau's modern growth began in the late eighteenth century, with the influx of thousands of American Revolutionary War. Many of them settled in Nassau and eventually came to outnumber the original inhabitants.

Market scene in old Nassau 1900s*

*The bahamian market has always been a very colourful scene.

Site of day, Great Wall of China

Great Wall of China

Is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its prototypical states against intrusions by various nomadic groups or military incursions by various warlike peoples or forces.

Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century BC; these later joined together and made bigger and stronger, are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall. Especially famous is the wall built between 220-206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. Little of that wall remains. Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced; the majority of the existing wall is from the Ming Dynasty.

Site of day, Mada'in Saleh, Saudi Arabia

Madain Salih, Saudi Arabia

Mada'in Saleh, also called Al-Hijr or Hegra, is a pre-Islamic archaeological site located  in the  Al-Ula sector, within the Al Madinah Region of Saudi Arabia. A majority of the vestiges date from the Nabatean kingdom.

The site constitutes the Kingdom's southernmost and largest settlement after Petra, its capital. traces of Lihyanite and  Roman occupation before and after the Nabatean rule, respectively, can also be found. The Qur'an places settlement of the area by the Thamud people ofter Noah but before Moses, which can be  interpreted as the 3rd millennium BC.

Site of day, Eiffel tower, France.

Eiffel Tower

La tour Eiffel(French) is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. It was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower, Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World´s fair, it was initially criticised by some France´s leading artist and intellectuals for its design, but has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.

Site of day, Puerta del Sol, Madrid, Spain.

"Puerta del sol"

The Puerta del Sol(spanish for "Gate of the Sun") is one of the best known and busiest places in Madrid. This is the centre(Km 0)of the radial network of Spanish roads. The square also contains the famous clock whose bells mark the traditional eating of the Twelve Grapes and the beginning of a new year. The New Year´s celebration has been broadcast live on national television since December 31, 1962.

Puerta del Sol at Night

Caño Cristales, A five color river in Colombia

Caño Cristales

Is a river of Colombia is located in the Sierra de la Macarena, in the municipality of the same name, in the department of Meta.

"Los ochos" in Caño Cristales

It has been called "the river of five colors", "the rainbow melted" or even "the most beautiful river in the world", since in his background freshwater algae of different colors, producing the sensation reproduce being in front of a river of five colors: red, yellow, green, blue and black, mainly.

Site of day, Big Ben

The Big Ben

The Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, and often extended to refer to the clock and the clock tower.

The Big Ben 

Site of day, Tazumal.

The Tazumal Ruins

Tazumal was a one of the first major Salvadorean sites to be scientifically excavated, by Stanley H. Boggs, who started the first of several field  seasons in 1943. The site is surrounded by the modern city of Chalchuapa and, unfortunately, not much of the site was purchased for the archaeological park.

What you see today is the large pyramid, with its many remodelings and additions, and the ball court, badly damaged by its many years as part of the city cementery. The Tazumal park also contains the large Olmec rock carving from finca Las Victorias.

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