The Verzasca River, in Switzerland, is known all over the world for its clear, turquoise waters. The 30-km-long Verzasca mountain river originates at Pizzo Barone and flows into Lake Maggiore, in Italy. The river valley is located in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland and is a popular tourist destination.
Eisriesenwelt is a natural limestone ice cave located in Werfen, Austria. The cave is inside the Hochkogel mountain in the Tennengebirge section of the Alps. It is the largest ice cave in the world, extending more than 42km and visited by about 200,000 tourists every year.
Ice Aquarium is a tourist attraction in the north-eastern port of Kesennuma, Japan. It features approximately 450 marine creatures that were flash-frozen into blocks of ice after being caught by local fishermen. It showcases more than 70 different species of sea creatures, including crab, squid, and octopus.
The Ponte Vecchio is the oldest bridge in Florence. It is believed that a bridge already existed here during the Roman times. Its current appearance dates back to 1345 when it was built to replace a bridge which was destroyed by a flood. Houses were built on the bridge, a common practice in large European cities during the Middle Ages.
This beach is completely inland and is in the existence because of the little cove. It is known as Gulpiyuri beach, located in Spain.
This New South Wales has a Guinness world of being the world’s whitest sand beach in the world. Hyams Beach is a small seaside village in the Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia, on the shores of Jervis Bay.
The island of Lanzarote (Lanzarote) refers to the Canary Islands (Spain). It is also called an “island volcanoes” – on a small island is about 60 wide and 15 km are about three hundred volcanoes. In autumn 1730 together with thirty craters began to erupt lava and ash. The main part of the vineyards of Lanzarote is situated in the valley of La Geria, which is significant for its covered by a thick layer of ash. Grape seedlings are planted in specially dug pits or trenches up to several meters wide. This is done first to make it easier to get to the roots to the topsoil, and secondly, to ensure the grapes with moisture.
Wat Rong Khun is also known as the White Temple. It is contemporary unconventional Buddhist and Hindu temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand.
Jardins de Marqueyssac garden is located in Dordogne, Aquitane, France. The chateau was built at the end of the 17th century by Bertrand Vernet de Marqueyssac, Counselor to Louis XIV, on cliffs overlooking the Dordogne Valley. The gardens of Marqueyssac castle consist of over six kilometres of shaded alleys, edged by 150,000 hand-pruned, one hundred year-old box-trees, and adorned with belvederes, rockeries, waterways, grassy clearings, dry-stone huts, rotunda, a Gothic chapel, and playgrounds for the children.
The rock-hewn city of Petra is one of the ancient world’s top attractions. Built by the Nabataean civilization starting in the 6th century BC, the rose-red city of stone is carved straight into rock cliffs in the middle of the Jordanian desert.
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