Here we present the most exciting destinations on earth. The world is bigger than you think! Humans` explorations of earth leads to the most amazing adventures. Neither words, photograps nor films do the world`s places justice - they must been seen, heard and touched.
Wonder of the world - Angkor Wat
- "Discovered" from sky, but have to be experienced from the earth
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Two French archaeologists have found secret entrances (passages) to several unknown rooms and chambers in the Cheops Pyramid in Egypt, also known as the great Pyramid in Giza.
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If you like to experience the life as it really is: beautiful, strange, friendly and incredible gruesome, you have to go to Phnom Penh, the capital in Cambodia. Do you turn your view towards north, you meet smiling people in floating villages, and in the jungle you can admire historical wonders in an beautiful scenery.
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Higher water temperature threatens the natural wonder. The corral reefs, which cover Australia's famous Great Barrier Reef, is turning to die out. Within 50 years this will happen if the ocean water temperature continues to rise, maintain a professor.
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The traffic is busy, and the buildings are tall. The life is pulsating, but the town is definitely not like others. In Venice the "streets" have no cars.
Actual there are no streets at all, but the so called "streets" are designed as channels. The waterways make this town something for itself.
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This Creek island is more than a paradise for sun and beach loving tourists. It has probably a history that is related to a great story in the bible or maybe more. Remains of the lost Atlantis? Origin for god and the bible? This article continues from part 1.
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Creek beautiful island - a paradise for sunbathers, but the island has more to offer. Remains of the lost Atlantis? Origin for God and the bible?
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The organisation New 7 Wonders Foundation in cooperation with the Afghanistan Museum in Bubendorf, Switzerland, plans to reconstruct Buddha statues in Afghanistan. The statues were destroyed by the Taliban in March this year despite they were placed on the UNESCO`s list. The conservationists will use the latest technology. As soon as the country became more stable, the project for reconstructing the Buddha statues will begin.
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After the soaring in the air, I was keen for more excitement. It only took my one-hour from Sousse out to the largest Roman monument in Africa - Thysdrus (El Jem). Through a flat desert landscape I was approaching the El Jem.
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It was my dramatic day in Tunisia in northern Africa: from the air down to the pit!
Parachuting over the Mediterranean Ocean
El Jem (Thysdrus) - where the gladiators fought
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Later in the evening I went to the Viking Village at Fjorukrain (Fjorugardurinn). Tall and masculine Vikings fully equipped met us. It was like travelling back in the past. The Vikings enjoyed obviously taking prisoners immediately after the bus stopped.
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It was a strange sight in the middle of the wild nature. The smoke rose up, the water floated up from the inside earth, it was hot and milk blue, and there were lava blocks big as houses. I was standing in the middle of the Blue Lagoon in the Saga island Iceland.
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So I visited the so called geothermal area Geysir. It is another natural wonder in Iceland. Just west of Gullfoss waterfall is Geysir located. Now it was time for more action. I was really excited to see the many spouting hot springs that I have heard so much about. Due to earthquakes in June 2000 the geysirs erupt to no specific timetable. I heard some people mentioned that the "Great Geisyr" has been dormant when they were there, but I was lucky with the timing.
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With the famous French author Jules Verne's book "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth" in my mind, I took my way over the ocean to the mythical Iceland.
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Has Stonehenge, near London, connections to other stone monuments around the world? For example in Bretagne in France, Traelleborg in Denmark, and Uppsala in Sweden, there are mysterious stone circles and monoliths. Also at the ancient city Tiahuanaco in Bolivia, there are monoliths. In Peru there are many different kind of huge stone monuments shaped so well that some people believe that no humans have been able to construct it - see the Nazca lines, the Cuzco area and other places in the country. Not forget the Great Pyramid in Egypt - Giza.
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