Cambodia’s Archaeological Park Angkor

Angkor, in Cambodia’s northern province of Siem Reap, is one of the most important archaeological sites of Southeast Asia. Stretching over some 400 square kilometres, including forested area, Angkor Archaeological Park contains the magnificent remains of several capitals of the Khmer Empire of the 9th to the 15th centuries, including the largest pre-industrial city in the world.

The word Angkor is derived from the Sanskrit nagara, meaning "city". The Angkorian period began in AD 802, when the Khmer Hindu monarch Jayavarman II declared himself a "universal monarch" and "god-king", until 1351, when Angkor first fell under Ayutthayan suzerainty, to 1431, when Ayutthaya put down a rebellion and sacked the Khmer capital, causing its population to migrate south to Longvek.

Angkor Archaeological Park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992. At the same time, it was also placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger due to looting, a declining water table, and unsustainable tourism. UNESCO has now set up a wide-ranging programs to safeguard this symbolic site and its surroundings. The most famous things in Angkor are the Temple of Angkor Wat and, at Angkor Thom, the Bayon Temple with its countless sculptural decorations.

Cappadocia | Unique Landscape of Byzantine Era

Rock Sites of Cappadocia, Turkey

The Cappadocian Region located in the center of the Anatolian Region of Turkey, with its valley, canyon, hills and unusual rock. Cappadocia is best known for its unique moon-like landscape, underground cities, cave churches and houses carved in the rocks. This rocky landscape is honeycombed with networks of ancient underground settlements and outstanding examples of Byzantine art.

Rock Sites of Cappadocia, Turkey

Cappadocia, Turkey

This area with unusual topographic characteristics was regarded as sacred and called, in the Scythian/Khatti language, as Khepatukha, meaning "the country of the people of the chief god Hepat", although there are more poetic claims on the origin of the region's name, such as the Old Persian Katpatuka, which allegedly means "the land of beautiful horses".

Rock Sites of Cappadocia, Turkey

Cappadocia is an underground city in Turkey which is dominated by Templars. The region was used for the 1989 science fiction film Slipstream to depict a cult of wind worshippers. In 2010 and early 2011, the film Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance also filmed in the Cappadocia region. This exceptional natural wonders become World Heritage site in 1985.

Darjeeling | Spectacular Place for Travel

Beautiful view of Darjeeling

Darjeeling mostly known as queen of hill, is a town of India in West Bangle state. This town is a great place for tourists because of its incredible natural beauties. The panoramic view of mountain peak, Tea Gardens, the world heritage Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (Toy Train), Tiger Hill, Batasia Loop, the War Memorial,  the Himalayan Zoological Park, Snow Leopard Breeding Center and the breathtaking nature scenes attract the outdoor enthusiasts. People who has visited once feel to visit many more.

Toy Train of Darjeeling

Tea Garden of Darjeeling

Mountain peak and Locality of Darjeeling

This town looks spectacular at night. All the houses turn on the lights and then the mountain seems to be covered by various colored lights. This scene will remain you a sky with a lots of colored stars.

Mountain peak and Locality of Darjeeling

Mountain peak and Locality of Darjeeling

Crooked Forest | Strange Forest in Poland

The Crooked Forest is is a grove, located in Nowe Czarnowo, West Pomeranian, and Poland. Surrounded by a larger forest of straight growing pine trees near Gryfino, north-west Poland, this grove of curved trees - dubbed the 'Crooked Forest' - is a mystery.

There are about 400 trees in the forest of pines has been formed with a 90 ° horizontal bend in his trunk before going up vertically again and all face bends to the North. It is generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used to make the trees grow this way, but the method and motive are not currently known.

Speculation about these trees bent is to use for making bent-wood furniture, the ribs for boat hulls or yokes for ox-drawn plows. However, before they could be harvested, the outbreak of the Second World War, interrupted the plans of whoever was growing and tending the grove, leaving their plans a mystery.

Ball's Pyramid | Tallest Volcanic Stack of the World

Ball's Pyramid

Ball's Pyramid

The picture of Ball's Pyramid may raise doubt people's mind that is this place really exist on the earth! Believe it or not Ball's Pyramid formed about 7 million years ago. This amazing spectacular looking mountain is a volcanic landforms created when magma hardens of a shield volcano and caldera.
Ball's Pyramid is the tallest volcanic stack in the world. It was discovered in 1788, by Lieutenant Henry Ball. This mountain is located 20 kilometers (12 mi) southeast of Lord Howe Island of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. The 562 metres (1,844 ft) high Ball's Pyramid is part of the Lord Howe Island Marine Park in Australia.

No one was able to climb to its summit until 1965.  In 1982 climbing was  banned and soon after all access to the island was restricted. Nowadays, the policy has changed and climbing is allowed, but only under  strict conditions.

Chand Baori Step-well | The Dazzling Geometric Architecture

Chand Baori Step-well  is famous for it's a dazzling geometric work of architecture. It is the deepest and largest step-well in the world. Chand Baori Step-well has served as a location for films such as The Fall and The Dark Knight Rises.

Chand Baori Step-well

Chand Baori Step-well

The awesome Chand Baori step-well is located in Abhaneri village, 95km from Jaipur city of Rajasthan state, India. With 13 levels, a total of 3500 steps and about 30m deep made this structure absolutely marvellous.

Chand Baori Step-well

Chand Baori Step-well

Chand Baori was built by King Chanda of the Nikumbha Dynasty between 800 and 900 CE and was dedicated to Hashat Mata, Goddess of Joy and Happiness upon completion. Because the state of Rajasthan is extremely arid, and the intent and final structure of Chand Baori was intended to conserve as much water as possible. At the bottom of the well, the air remains 5-6 degrees cooler than at the surface, and Chand Baori was used as a community gathering place for locals during periods of intense heat.

Petra | The Rose City in Jordan

The strikingly beautiful desert city of Petra is chosen by the Smithsonian Magazine as one of the "28 Places to See Before You Die." This place is established possibly as early as 312 BC as the capital city of the Nabataeans. Petra's location between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea made it an important center for commerce, where Arabian incense, Chinese silks, and Indian spices were traded.

Due to its breathtaking grandeur and fabulous ruins, Petra was recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985.Petra is famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system. Another name for Petra is the Rose City due to the color of the stone out of which it is carved. This capital city  had a sophisticated system of dams and channels for collecting, diverting, and providing water to the arid region.

Petra was the impressive capital of the Nabataean kingdom from around the 6th century BC. The kingdom was absorbed into the Roman Empire in AD 106 and the Romans continued to expand the city. An important center for trade and commerce, Petra continued to flourish until a catastrophic earthquake destroyed buildings and crippled vital water management systems around AD 663. After Saladin's conquest of the Middle East in 1189, Petra was abandoned and the memory of it was lost to the West. Petra is a symbol of Jordan, as well as its most-visited tourist attraction.

Hang Son Doong | Biggest Cave in the World

Hang Son Doong Cave Vietnam

Hang Son Doong Cave Vietnam

The name "Son Doong" cave means "mountain river cave". Hang Son Doong Cave is the world largest cave was created 2-5 million years ago by river water eroding away the limestone underneath the mountain Where the limestone was weak, the ceiling collapsed creating huge skylights. This gigantic cave is situated in Quang Binh province, Vietnam.

Hang Son Doong Cave Vietnam

Hang Son Doong Cave was found by a local man named Hồ-Khanh in 1991. The local jungle men were afraid of the cave for the whistling sound it makes from the underground river. It was not until 2009 that it became public after a group of British scientists from the British Cave Research Association, led by Howard and Deb Limbert, conducted a survey from April 10 through April 14, 2009. Their progress was stopped by a large calcite wall.

Hang Son Doong Cave

According to the Limberts, this cave is five times larger than the Phong Nha cave, previously considered the biggest cave in Vietnam. The biggest chamber of Hang Son Doong is more than five kilometers long, 200 meters high, and 150 meters wide. The cave passage is so large that it could hold a block of 40-storey skyscrapers.

Hang Son Doong Cave

Wisteria Tunnel | The Romantic Colorful Place

Wisteria Tunnel

The delightful colored Wisteria Tunnel is portion of a breathtaking display of botanical pleasures,  located in Kawachi Fuji Gardens, Kitakyushu, Japan. This picture may make everybody's mind that it is a painting of a painter but the amazing remarkable wisteria tunnel will surely thrills everybody.

Flowering trees hang overhead and the different colored rows spatter the garden. A participant of the pea family, wisteria is a decorative vine with around 10 different classes, wildly famous in both Eastern and Western gardens for its elegant hanging flowers and its decorative, winding branches.  Different types and colors of wisteria have been interlaced through a cylindrical lattice that during the blooming months of April through May, become a fantastical flower wrapped tunnel during the yearly “Wisteria Festival”.

Cinque Terre | Greatest Tourist Spot in Italy

Evening at Cinque Terre

Cinque Terre means five lands in Italian and Cinque Terre consists of five villages : Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore. This five villages are cling to the Ligurian cliffs along Italy’s western coast.  The coastline, the five villages, and the surrounding hillsides are all part of the Cinque Terre National Park and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Manarola village of Cinque Terre

Vernazza village of Cinque Terre

The villages of Cinque Terre are usually thought of and visited collectively, mostly because they’re so close to one another that one can walk from the first to the fifth in a matter of hours, but there are five different towns and each does have its own personality.

Corniglia village of Cinque Terre

Riomaggiore village of Cinque Terre

Over the centuries, people have carefully built terraces on the rugged, steep landscape right up to the cliffs that overlook the sea. Part of its charm is the lack of visible corporate development. Paths, trains and boats connect the villages, and cars cannot reach them from the outside.

Monterosso al Mare village of Cinque Terre

Cinque Terre area is a very popular tourist destination. Cinque Terre relies almost entirely on tourism. The tiny towns are incredibly popular with American backpackers/budget travelers and German holiday makers, and are getting increasingly popular with people outside those groups as well and the primary attraction of the area is the hike along the cliffs from village to village.

Cinque Terre

Grand Prismatic Spring | Striking Coloration Hot Spring

 

Aerial view of Grand Prismatic Spring

Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest hot spring in United States and third in the world. This spring is located in the Geothermal areas of Yollowstone National Park. In Yollowstone, the Geothermal area include several geyser basins, other geothermal features such as hot springs, mud pots and fumaroles. Grand Prismatic Spring is located in the Midway Geyser Basin. The 160 feet deep Prismatic Spring is 250 by 300 feet in size approximately. The spring discharges 2100 liters of 70°C water per minute.

  

Land view of Grand Prismatic Spring

Grand Prismatic Spring is spectacular for its striking colors.  Its colors include blue, green, yellow, orange, gold, red and brown. The vivid colors in the spring are the result of pigmented bacteria in the microbial mats that grow around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The bacteria produce colors ranging from green to red. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green. The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from the intrinsic blue color of water and the center of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat.

Vivid color of  Grand Prismatic Spring