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White Desert, Beautiful and Still Undiscovered Nature Reserve in Egypt

Posted on 06 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

Egypt is really wonderful touristic destination with many attraction for tourists. We all know about Egypt’s main features like pyramids and other historical monuments. But Egypt is not only rich with historical monuments it also has many valuable natural features which deserve to be placed in touristic guides. One of such places is the White [...]

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The King’s Walkway – World’s Most Dangerous Walkway

Posted on 03 March 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

The King’s Walkway can be touted as one of the deadliest and the most dangerous walkways in the world, situated at El Chorro, near Alora in Malaga, Spain. It is simply not for those who have alto-phobia. The construction of the walkway was incepted in the year 1901 and it took four years for the [...]

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Inside Robert Scott’s Abandoned Hut On Antarctica

Posted on 25 January 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

Born on June 6th 1868 in England, Robert Falcon Scott, a British Royal Naval Officer and an Antarctic explorer was famous for his two expeditions to the South Pole. He was the third child of his parents in Devon. His family was traditionally in the armed services, and he carried the legacy further. He had [...]

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Abandoned Salt Mine in Romania

Posted on 11 January 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

The Salina Praid is situated 5 km from Sovata, in the Harghita County which is more famously known as the Salt Zone in Romania. Geographically, the basin of Praid can be found on the east coast of the Transylvanian basin (“a huge salt cellar”), at the base of the Gheorgheni Mountains. The history is traced [...]

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The Island Of The Dolls – A Dark Tourist Attraction In Mexico

Posted on 16 December 2009 in: Featured Articles, Places

A world renowned tourist destination is “La Isla de la Munecas”- a Spanish name which means the Island of the dolls. This Island of dolls is situated in Mexico and as the name suggests, one expects to see a beautiful world which will leave an everlasting impression. But the reality is exactly opposite and very [...]

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The Mysterious Sailing Stones of Death Valley

Posted on 17 November 2009 in: Featured Articles, Places

It is one big mystery that a stone that weighs more or less like a man can move on its own. This has become quite a puzzle for the past decade. The mysterious sailing stones of Death Valley have been discovered to slide over valleys that people do not live in. These valleys are filled [...]

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10 Highest Mountains Of The World

Posted on 09 November 2009 in: Featured Articles, Places

A mountain is a kind of landforms that are located at the peak point or highest point and stretches above the surrounding land, it is said that a mountain is found to be steeper than a hill. There are many mountains that are located in different region or country, but now we are going to [...]

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Ban Gioc Waterfall

Posted on 27 September 2009 in: Featured Articles, Places

Detian – Banyue Falls or Ban Gioc Falls are 2 waterfalls on the Quy Xuan River straddling the Sino-Vietnamese border, located in in the Karst hills of Daxing County in the Chongzuo prefecture of Guangxi Province, on the Chinese side, and in the district of Trung Khanh, Cao B?ng province on the Vietnamese side, 272 [...]

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North Yungas Road – The Most Dangerous Road In The World

Posted on 26 September 2009 in: Featured Articles, Places

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The North Yungas Road (also Grove’s Road, Coroico Road, Camino de las Yungas, El Camino de la Muerte, Road of Death, and Death Road) is a 61 to 69 km road (depending on source) leading from La Paz to Coroico, 56 km (35 miles) northeast of La Paz in the Yungas region of Bolivia. It [...]

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