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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