Sunday, March 10, 2013

Disney World Magic Kingdom




Location: Walt Disney World Resort, Bay Lake, Florida, United States.

Disney World Magic Kingdom Park, also known as Magic Kingdom, is the first of four theme parks built at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. It opened on October 1, 1971. Designed and built by WED Enterprise and is dedicated to fairy tales and Disney characters.


Disney World Magic Kingdom at night

Tomorrowland

Adventureland

The Magic Kingdom is divided into five distinct areas (lands), arranged in a spoke-like formation, all meeting at the top of Main Street U.S.A right in front of Cinderella Castle. The five lands consist of Tomorrowland, Fantasyland, Frontierland, LibertySquare and Adventureland. Each land is themed to its appropriate title and maintaining that them is paramount to the parks operation. 

Great Barrier Reef



Location: Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.


The Great Barrier Reef is one of Australia’s most remarkable natural gifts blessed with the breathtaking beauty of the world’s largest coral reef. The reef contains an abundance of marine life and comprises of over 3000 individual reef systems and coral cays and literally hundreds of picturesque tropical islands with some of the world most beautiful sun-soaked, golden beaches.



A lot of amazing creatures can be found here

There are three kinds of reef on the Great Barrier Reef, fringing, ribbon, and platform. Fringing reef is the stuff you see just off the shore or islands and along the mainland. Ribbon reef create “streamers” of long, thin reef along the outer edge of the continental shelf and are only found north of Cairns. Platform or patch reef is the most common kind what most people think of when they refer to the Great Barrier Reef. It can be up to 16 sq km of coral emerging off the continental shelf all the way along the reef’s length.  

Machu Picchu



Location: Cusco Region of Peru, South America.

Machu Picchu, the “Lost City of the Incas” is the best-known and most spectacular site in South America. Machu Picchu are quechua words that mean “old” and “mountain”. The well preserved ruins of Machu Picchu seem to almost cling to the steep hillside, surrounded by towering green mountains overlooking the Vilcanota River Valley. Even after having seen the classic photo of Machu Picchu in guide books, web sites and postcards you still cannot fail but to be impressed by the awe-inspiring location of the ruins.

Well preserved ruins in Machu Picchu

The scene of Machu Picchu

Tourism activity in Machu Picchu has become more and more developed over the last several years as the tourism infrastructure keeps pace with the worldwide attention this remarkable site has received. Built almost 600 years ago by the powerful Inca civilization, Machu Picchu offers tourists an incredible insight into the lives of Inca people.

Dead Sea




Location:  Between Jordan and Israel.

The Dead Sea, also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West bank to the west. It is called the Dead Sea because its salinity prevents the existence of any life forms in the lake.  Its surface and shores are 423 metres (1,388 ft) below sea level, Earth’s lowest elevation on land. The main attraction of the Dead Sea is of course the soothing, abnormally salty water itself. The salt content of the water is 31.5% making the water so buoyant that it is impossible for the visitor to sink. The water also contains 21 minerals including high levels of magnesium, sodium, potassium, and bromine and 12 of these minerals are found in no other body of water in the world.




 It is fun when you are not able to sink!

The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. It was one of the world’s first health resorts and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from balms for Egyptian mummification topotash for fertilizers. People use the salt and minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets.

Yang Tze river (Chang Jiang)




Location: Qinghai, Tibet, Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai, China.


Winding about 3,964 miles, Yang Tze River or Chang Jiang is the largest in China and the third largest in the world after the Nile in Africa and the Amazon in South America. Originating from the Tanggula Range in Qinghai Province in the western China, it traverse eleven provinces and cities from west to east, including Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai. Finally it pours into the East China Sea at Shanghai. Acting as the largest water system in China, Yangtze river is historically, economically and culturally important to the country.



YangTze River turns red!

In fact, The Yangtze River, the longest river in China, boasts widespread natural scenery and rich cultural relics. It has plentiful traveling resources mostly clustering around the mainstream area from Chongqing to Shanghai. Along the route, visitors can find many well-known scenic sights such as Chongqing Jinyun Mountain, Fengdu Ghost city, Red Cliff and so on. The big cities like Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing and Shanghai are all hot tourist cities as well.

Musee Carnavalet




Location 23, rue de Sevigine, 75003 Paris, France.

Behind this somewhat mysterious name is hidden one of the capital’s most genuinely Parisian Museums. The oldest of the municipal museums tells the story of Paris from a bygone era to the present day, in all its immense variety. Although it is essentially a history museum, the muse Carnavalet is nevertheless an art gallery exhibiting mostly original works in keeping with the spirit of the genius of Paris.


Hotel  Carnavalet




The Carnavalet Museum in Paris is dedicated to the history of the city. The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hotel Carnavalet and the former Hotel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau. Experience a tour de force through Paris’ history, from its ancient origins to the fashion-forward capital of sophistication it is today. The MuséeCarnavalet’s permanent collection has no charge, allowing you to saunter through fin-de-siècle drawing rooms and delicately reconstructed baroque interiors without spending a euro. The closest métro stops are CheminVert and Saint Paul.

Pyramid of Giza



Location: Giza Necropolis, Egypt.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is another one of the most famous structures on the list of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It is the most recognizable structure on the list because it is both the oldest structure on the list and also only one still remains. The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest man made structure in the world for 3800 years which is not only a testament to its durability but to its mark as one of the most remarkable structures built. There have been varying scientific and alternative theories about the Great Pyramid’s construction techniques.






There are three known chambers inside the Great Pyramid. The lowest chamber is cut into the bedrock upon which the pyramid was built and was unfinished. The so-called Queen’s chamber and King’s chamber are higher up within the pyramid structure. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only pyramid in Egypt known to contain both ascending and descending passages. The main part of the Giza complex is a setting of buildings that included two mortuary temples in honor of Khufu, three smaller pyramids for Khufu’s wives, an even smaller “satellite” pyramid, a raised causeway connecting the two temples, and small mastabatombs surrounding the pyramid for nobles.