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South Africa 🇿🇦
Boulders Beach is the famous penguin beach in South Africa, at a distance of about 40 km from Cape Town by road.
African penguins have been living on the warm coast since 1982. It all started with two breeding pairs, and over the years this colony has managed to increase to almost 3,000 individuals.
Favorable conditions for exotic birds were created when commercial trawling of fish in False Bay stopped: the number of sardines and anchovies, which form part of the penguins' diet, gradually increased in the waters.
UAE 🇦🇪, Dubai
Dubai Miracle Garden opened its doors to visitors on February 14, 2013.
The garden is unique primarily in that all this floral riot grows in a completely dead desert. To grow flowers in such difficult conditions, the park needs 757,000 liters of water daily!
Technologies allow to use for this purpose the water from city drains which has passed cleaning.
China 🇨🇳, Huangtengxia Tianmen Sky Walk Glass Bridge
This bridge is a real engineering miracle. It rises above the gorge at an altitude of 500 meters, which is easy to compare with a building of 166 floors. The edge of the bridge and the rock into which it is built are separated by 358 meters. The structure resembles a tennis racket, which is spread over a cliff.
When tourists walk across the glass bridge, they hear the sudden sound of broken glass. A split second, which may seem like a real nightmare, and cracks appear on the glass! However, this is just a sound and visual effect that will cause an adrenaline rush, and the colors of the world around will definitely become brighter.
Spain 🇪🇸
Such a diverse and beautiful Spain 🤩
Did you know that the language, which is known all over the world as Spanish, is considered Castilian in Spain itself. In addition, Galician, Aran, Basque and Catalan languages have semi-official status here.
There are also unofficial and regional languages. In general, there is a huge linguistic diversity on the territory of Spain itself!
Italy 🇮🇹
Feel the spirit of Italy right through the screen 😁
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Kitesurfing along the endless tulip fields in the Netherlands.
In Holland, tulips bloom from the end of March to the middle of May. During this period, the country is visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists who, as if by agreement, go to the same place (for example, Keukenhof). By doing this, they miss the opportunity to see hundreds of other fields where there is not a soul.
You can buy a train ticket 100 kilometers from Amsterdam and rent a bike to visit private farm fields. There are several regions in the Netherlands where tulips are grown: in the north, northeast and south.
Spain 🇪🇸, Malaga city
Malaga is a city in the south of Spain in the autonomy of Andalusia. It was founded in the 8th century BC and is one of the oldest Mediterranean seaports. Malaga is the heart of the Costa del Sol tourist region.
The city enchants with the atmosphere of the old town, beautiful landscapes, beaches and the sea. Malaga is also known as the birthplace of Picasso.
Thailand 🇹🇭, Kamala Phuket Hotel
In this luxurious secluded place in the rainforest, authenticity and avant-garde are combined.
You can live in a clay cottage inspired by the "Palapa" clan, or in one of the chic tree houses.
This magnificent resort with streams and waterfalls flowing through it organically fits into the surrounding nature.
Seychelles 🇸🇨
How to recognize Seychelles at a glance?
Of course, white sand, blue sky, bright blue sea water, and the most distinctive - beautiful light brown stones and rocks, generously scattered by nature along the coast
China 🇨🇳
While everyone admires New York and Dubai, the Chinese are building cities like Guangzhou very quickly and without too much pathos
French Polynesia 🇵🇫
Bora Bora is one of the most expensive and interesting places to stay.
The uniqueness of the island lies in the fact that its lagoon, even with a gray cloudy sky and rain, remains invariably bright, with an emerald tint. And the variety of flavors, the richness of colors, the quirkiness of the shapes of the colors of the island are simply amazing.
Here you are greeted everywhere with a garland of live tiare flowers — the symbol of Polynesia.
Denmark 🇩🇰
In Copenhagen, they approached the issue of resource use very rationally and made a two-in-one plant.
The Copenhell plant is the world's largest power plant capable of processing 440,000 tons of waste annually to generate electricity.
In addition, it has been made a popular tourist attraction - in summer its winding roof turns into a green hiking trail where you can walk and run. And in winter, an artificial snow slope for skiers.
On its facade is the highest artificial climbing wall in the world.
Denmark 🇩🇰
Night view from a height on a bicycle (!) bridge in Copenhagen.
The Danish capital is known for its developed cycling movement, all conditions are created here to comfortably move around the city on eco-friendly transport.
And this is bearing fruit - there are more bicycles on the city street than cars.
China 🇨🇳
The "Heavenly Mirror" glass observation deck in Yangxin District of Huangshi City, Hubei Province in central China, was awarded by the Guinness Book of Records for its largest glass observation deck.
The "Heavenly Mirror" was built of 500 tons of steel and 1,500 square meters of glass. The largest single piece of glass is 18 square meters. People can walk on glass with an area of 700 square meters.
Mexico 🇲🇽
The Vasconcelos Garden Library, also called the Megabiblioteca, is located in the center of Mexico City (Buenavista district, Cuauhtemoc). It is named after Jose Vasconcelos, philosopher, politician, former president of the National Library of Mexico.
Vasconcelos is a cyclopean structure made of steel, concrete and glass, surrounded by greenery and water, in the center of which is suspended the skeleton of a gray whale. Glass walls, asymmetrical floors, an intricate network of balconies and paths between endless bookshelves allow visitors to literally get lost in book worlds.
Slovakia 🇸🇰
Dawn at the top of Velki Mountain.
One of the most beautiful panoramas in the country opens from the top of Velka Khoch. From here you can see the mountains of all northern Slovakia. For the sake of these stunning views, numerous tourists go to the Forks of the River, sparing no effort and health.
Maldives 🇲🇻
Why is the Maldives such a clear and blue sea?
Firstly, it is the purity of the water, because here it really is. The advantage of the Maldives is that they are located far enough away from trade routes, and therefore the water here remains clean and not poisoned. No oil fields, no heavy trucks.
Secondly, it is white sand because of the large amount of coral crumbs in it. Coral, as you understand, is also white. The rays of the sun, falling on the white bottom, are beaten off and create additional illumination of the water from below.
China 🇨🇳
The park is called Lizhong Water Forest Park or Lizhong Water Forest Park.
The park, like many attractions in China, is man-made. We all know how the Chinese love to embellish nature. They do it so skillfully that this decoration harmoniously fits into the environment.
The park is large, 70 hectares of water forest from metasequoia - a genus of coniferous trees of the Cypress family. The metasequoys are planted in rows, it looks artificial, but interesting.
Mongolia 🇲🇳,
Namegetu is a hollow surrounded by three mountains: in the north — Namegt uul and Altan uul, in the south — Toast uul. But more this area is known as the "valley of dinosaurs".
It is assumed that a global catastrophe occurred at the boundary of the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods in the evolution of the Earth, which caused the death of everything on Earth. Just here, in the "dead layer" of the Gobi Desert, the burials of Mesoic dinosaurs were discovered.
In 1946, a paleontological expedition from the USSR discovered here the richest location of these ancient giant animals, not inferior in scale to the famous African location of Tendaguru.
In addition, there is a stunning sight of a lifeless "lunar" landscape with steep cliffs and baked earth.
Mexico 🇲🇽
Cuddling with a huge whale in the Gulf of Mexico Baja California.
Gray whales spend summer and autumn in the northern latitudes near the peninsulas of Alaska and Chukotka, where they fatten and gain fat in the company of killer whales and humpbacks.
From January to April, they chose shallow lagoons, bays and bays on the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula – sharks and killer whales that pose a danger to cubs do not swim here.
In the 70s of the last century, local fishermen noticed that gray whales willingly swim up to the boats. One of them stroked the whale on the head — in response, the marine animal began to flirt peacefully with the boat. Since then, the hobby of watching gray whales has gained popularity among conscious travelers and has become on a par with photo safari and birdwatching.
Vietnam 🇻🇳
Sapa is a city of Vietnam in the edge of mountains, waterfalls and rice terraces
Sapa is a place where travelers from all over the world strive to get to, and for whom rest is not just swimming in the sea and lying on the beach. A small town appeared in 1910, it was built by colonists from France to rest from the sweltering heat.
The names of the city are pronounced in two ways – Sapa and Shapa. It is located in Lao Cai Province, among rice fields, valleys and mountains at an altitude of more than 1.5 km in the northwestern part of the country.
India 🇮🇳
The Umngot River (or Dauki) is an amazing miracle of nature, because the water in it is completely transparent in the period from November to February.
In April 2021, the provincial government decided to build a dam on the river due to a shortage of electricity. The project was a 210 MW hydroelectric power plant.
It caused a negative reaction from local residents who feared that its construction would undermine tourism. In the end, the project was curtailed and the locals defended such beauty.
Clean rivers are very rare in India, very often people use rivers for their needs without caring about nature.
Laos 🇱🇦
The zipline at the Thad Fein Waterfall in Laos is the highest (300 meters above the ground) and the longest (470 meters long) in the country.
And, it must be the most spectacular - flying over the abyss, you can admire two beautiful streams of the waterfall. Of course, if you don't try to pose and skip everything - like the heroine of this video 😁
USA 🇺🇸
Morning Glory Lake – geothermal spring in Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
The reservoir got its name in honor of the flower "Morning Glow" because of the identical sapphire color.
The popular ritual of tourists – to throw a coin as a keepsake – eventually turned into a real disaster for the lake. The water temperature dropped from 100 ° C to 75-50 ° C, which caused the reproduction of all kinds of bacteria.
Organisms painted the lake in various colors: cyanobacteria living at a water temperature of 73 ° C – yellow, protozoa unicellular (66 ° C) – orange, fungi and algae (60 ° C) – yellow / green, mosses (50 ° C) – brown.
Indonesia 🇮🇩
Tumpak Sevu is perhaps the most spectacular waterfall on the island of Java. Its height is 120 meters.
The name translates as “thousands of waterfalls”, because in fact, this is not one waterfall, but several streams of water that break off the cliff and dozens more streams that break right out of the rocks.
To feel all its power - it is worth going down to the very bottom to its foot. At the bottom you will find yourself as if in a bowl surrounded by mighty rocks and the roar of water flows.
Iceland 🇮🇸
Cool video shot at the lighthouse and the Svörtuloft rock
The height of these steep cliffs is about 20-60 meters, and the lighthouse is 20 meters high. This is to represent the scale of the huge ocean waves that have been crashing against these black lava rocks for millennia.
Brazil 🇧🇷
The giant Buddha statue installed in the Zen Buddhist monastery of Ibirasu in the north of the Brazilian state of Espiritu Santo has become the second largest in the world, second only to the Buddha from Leshan in China.
The metal and concrete structure weighs 350 tons and reaches a height of 35 meters.
The statue is even bigger than the famous sculpture of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, whose height is 30 meters without a pedestal.
Indonesia 🇮🇩
A flock of friendly dolphins flirt with people off the coast of Indonesia.
There are many cases when dolphins have saved people. For example, surfer Todd Endris was bitten three times by a great white shark, but the dolphins drove it away by taking the swimmer in a ring.
Biologists have documented 23 cases of dolphins presenting gifts to "bipedal creatures". They offered caught tuna, eels and octopuses to vacationers in the shallow waters of the Australian resort of Tangaluma.
USA 🇺🇸
Solo conquest of the steep peaks of the Cascade Mountains of Washington State 🙈