Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1) Preachers Rock, Preikestolen, Norway Blue Caves - Zakynthos Island, Greece Skaftafeli - Iceland Plitvice Lakes – Croatia Crystalline Turquoise Lake, Jiuzhaigou National Park, China.
Lonly castle, a photo from Como, Lombardia. 50 of the Most Important Landmarks of the World (Part 1) 7 WONDERS: SIMON JENKINS. Once editor of the Times, now a columnist on the Guardian, Sir Simon Jenkins is also an expert on architecture and heritage.
As he takes over as chairman of the National Trust, he tells Rebecca Willis about the wonders of his world From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Winter 2008 I first saw it at dawn, which is when you’re meant to see it, and I remember thinking “this is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.” It was partly the perfection of the proportion; the materials and the light, even the slight smog, make it beautiful.
It seems to float and shimmer. JOURNEY THE WYE VALLEY This is the defining place of the Romantic Movement. BEACH MUIZENBERG, SOUTH AFRICA This (top) is one of the world’s great beaches. Tre’r Ceiri is the most remarkable Iron Age fort in Britain, and I always argue that the view from the top is as good as the view from Machu Picchu. I first saw Hardwick Hall at dusk with the setting sun reflected in the windows—it looks as if it is on fire. The Top 9 Most Inhospitable Places in the World.
We tend to take our surroundings for granted.
You're probably reading this in relative comfort - you don't need to wear breathing apparatus, you're within a few steps of a cold drink and you aren't at the beck and call of a totalitarian regime bent on oppressing its population. The Tripbase team have drawn up a list of the most horrendous places to live, in order from dreadful to impossible. We have nothing but respect for the hardy human beings who make their homes in the most brutal places on Earth. 9. Yakutsk, Russia Where is it?
What can I see there? What's so bad about it? History. Population. How do I get there? 8. Where is it? What can I see there? What's so bad about it? History. Population. 271,000, some of them in squalor and some of them in rejuvenated parts of the city. How do I get there? 7. What can I see there? What's so bad about it? History. Population. How do I get there? 6. What can I see there? What's so bad about it? History. Population. How do I get there? 5. 4. 3. IKONOS-Venice-crop_H1.jpg (JPEG Image, 1920×1145 pixels) Tristan Da Cunha – The Most Remote Inhabited Location on Earth.
Tristan da Cunha is a group of extremely remote islands in the south Atlantic Ocean.
It is “the most remote inhabited location in the world” and is home to 271 residents, who are in fact proud citizens of Great Britain. Tristan Da Cunha was created as a result of a break in the tectonic plates at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean where magma can flow up from the Earths core, known as the Tristan Hotspot, and is actually the tip of a giant undersea mountain formed by the cooling magma. Positioned 2,816 kilometres (1,750 mi) from the nearest land, namely South Africa, and 3,360 kilometres (2,090 mi) from South America, the islands are only accessible by ship and have limited contact with the outside world.
It is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which also includes St Helena which is 2,430 kilometres (1,510 mi) to the north and Tristan Da Cunhas closest neighbour, and Ascension Island. 12 of the World’s Most Fascinating Cemeteries. Human beings have honored their dead since the dawn of time – even Neanderthals buried the fallen.
In fact, burial is the oldest of human rituals. From simple stone dolmens to the glory of the pyramids, humans have spent a lot of time and energy providing the deceased with a decent send-off. Modern cemeteries run the gamut from park-like settings with simple gravestones to elaborate cities of the dead with architecture rivaling buildings designed for the living. Basic or bombastic, cemeteries tell us how people died, but also how they lived. Here are some of the most fascinating cemeteries on earth: Père Lachaise — Paris With over 70,000 burial places, Père Lachaise is Paris’s largest cemetery and one of the world’s most famous graveyards. Victor, whose real name is Yvan Salman, was a French journalist who adopted the debonair “Victor Noir” as his pen name. Bolivia salt desert after the rain by Guy Nesher.