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Kyrgyzstan🇰🇬, Grigorievskoe gorge
Grigoriev Gorge (Kyrgyz name Chon Ak-Suu) is located on the northern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, 60 kilometers from the city of Cholpon-Ata and 110 km from the city of Balykchy. The valley descends from the Kungei Ala-Too ridge near the village of Grigoryevka.
Grigoriev Gorge is considered one of the most famous sights of Issyk-Kul. The sweet smell of pine trees, green mountain slopes, the noise of a mountain river, high-altitude lakes lure tourists vacationing on Issyk-Kul. The most beautiful Tien Shan fir trees grow in this gorge.
The mountain slopes of the Grigoriev Gorge are covered with red mountain poppy, which spreads like a carpet across the valley. The length of the valley is 35 kilometers. Stormy glacial water of crystal purity rushes along the bottom of the gorge.
Tourists can take a walk or ride a horse here, enjoying the surrounding nature; see semi-wild yaks, demonstrations of handicraft and horse riding art.
Switzerland 🇨🇭, France 🇫🇷, Lake Geneva (Leman)
Lake Geneva, called Leman by the French, is the largest lake in Central Europe. It belongs simultaneously to Switzerland and France, has a length of 72 km, a width of up to 13 km, a depth of 310 m, lies in the floodplain of the Rhone River and resembles a crescent in shape, which bends near the village of Ivor. The bend divides the lake into Large and Small.
The Swiss side of the lake is surrounded by vineyards, and the French side is surrounded by Alpine Mountains.
On the northern shore there is one of the most popular resort places — the "Swiss Riviera". The Alps protect the riviera from the cold northern winds, so the microclimate at the edge of the lake is almost subtropical: palm trees are planted on the embankments, and the surrounding hills are sown with vineyards.
Thailand 🇹🇭, Koh Tao Island
Koh Tao is an island in the Gulf of Thailand in the south of Thailand, in the province of Surat Thani, whose name translates literally as Turtle Island. The island is not large at all — about 21 square kilometers, where less than one and a half thousand people live.
In 1933-1947, this island was famous for the fact that there was a prison for political prisoners here, and today it is known to most people as an excellent sea and dive resort, where there is no hustle and bustle of Koh Samui, and even more so Phuket. The entire economy of the island is based on tourism. Koh Tao is considered one of the best places in Thailand to explore and practice diving because of its colorful underwater world. There is practically no current and a large number of dive sites, schools and shops where you can buy all the necessary equipment.
UAE🇦🇪, Dubai, Lake of Love
Lake of Love is an artificial lake in the shape of hearts, located in the Rub al-Khali desert, 40 km from Dubai. Perhaps the best attraction for couples in love who decide to visit the Middle East.
From a technical point of view, these are two lakes in the form of intertwined hearts. You will find it near the oasis of Al-Qudra. This amazing landmark with an area of 55,000 m2 is visible even from space.
The Lake of Love is located at a great distance from the city blocks of Dubai and looks like a real oasis surrounded by desert. In addition to the heart-shaped lakes themselves, thousands of shrubs, about 16,000 trees and countless bright flowers have been planted here.
In this amazing place there are not only plants, but also fish. The lakes here are shallow, and goldfish and koi carp live in them. Birds can often be seen on the trees of the oasis.
Turkey 🇹🇷, Antalya, Aspendos Amphitheater
Aspendos Theater is considered the most preserved Turkish theater. Built in the second century by Master Zeno, it could accommodate up to seventeen thousand people on its stands.
The theater consists of a front facade with five tiers, decorated with relief cutouts. You can enter the theater through huge doors with inscriptions or through a door on the central facade. The theater once even had a royal entrance with five doors.
In the niches in front of the theater stage, you can see the image of bulls' heads, wreaths and various fruits, and most importantly, the god of wine — Dionysus.
The Greek architect Zeno, who is credited with the construction of the theater, took into account all acoustic requirements. This is evidenced by the location of the stage and stairs. The arched gallery gives the amphitheater a special charm.
Mexico🇲🇽, Cancun
Cancun, which until recently was a sleepy fishing village on the Yucatan Peninsula, pulled out its "lucky ticket" in the 70s of the last century. Today it is one of the most developed resort towns of the Caribbean coast, with first-class five-star hotels, most of which are located along the narrow island "appendix", separated from the mainland by 9 kilometers of clear waters.
The elite outgrowth is called — Zona Hoteles — and is a long and narrow 25-kilometer sand spit.
Cancun is a resort known primarily for beach holidays. It is famous for a multi-kilometer strip of fine snow-white sand, similar to powder, and turquoise-colored water. The beaches of Cancun are federal property, any tourist has the right to visit them.
The resort is located almost parallel to the coral reef Palankar. The local waters are amazingly clean — sometimes visibility reaches 100 meters, which makes Cancun a recognized mecca for divers from all over the world.
Italy 🇮🇹, Alberobello
Alberobello is one of the most unusual places in Italy. This city is famous primarily for its unique houses, which are called "trullo", they are not seen anywhere else in the world. Trullo is a house built of limestone that has a roof in the shape of a cone. Such a house is a traditional dwelling.
Alberobello is located in the southern part of the country. It should be noted that this Italian town is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List for its beautiful architecture.
The main attraction of the city is, of course, the quarter with Trullo houses. The city has many souvenir shops, small museums, cafes and restaurants where you can taste delicious local cuisine. The main part of the city is typical of small Italian cities. The most interesting part of Alberobello is the area called Rione Monti, in which there are about 1000 trulli. Tourists can enter many of these houses and get acquainted with their interior decoration.
Russia🇷🇺, Novosibirsk region, Berd rocks
Berd Rocks is an ecological park in the Novosibirsk region with an area of 27 hectares.
The natural monument is located 4 kilometers from the village of Novososedovo, Iskitimsky district. This is a rocky section with a length of 1.3 km, located near the Berd River, bordering on one side with the mouth of the Bolshoy Klyuch Stream.
Locals call the Berd rocks St. John's Wort, namely, the rock on which the main observation deck is located. This is one of the most beautiful places in the Novosibirsk region: being on top of a cliff, you can see the winding Berd River, mixed forests with a predominance of pine and birch, green banks, the Lower Meadows tract on the left bank of the Berd River from the south side. The height of the rocks is about 300 meters.
The territory became nature conservation in 2000. Here, due to the combination of forest and steppe zones, rare plants and animals are found. The area looks very picturesque both in warm seasons and in winter.
Portugal 🇵🇹, Madeira Archipelago
The Madeira archipelago consists of the islands of Madeira with an area of 740 square kilometers and Porto Santo with an area of 42 square kilometers, as well as many small islands that are uninhabited. Madeira is an autonomous region of Portugal, located on these islands, which is significantly distant from the mainland of Europe (1000 km) and from the African coast (500 km). The local islands were discovered by Portuguese sailors at the beginning of the XV century.
The topography of the island of Madeira is distinguished by two features: high mountains and deep gorges. This island, lost in the ocean, cannot boast of numerous beaches, as the coastline is difficult to reach cliffs. But in Madeira, special ladders leading to the ocean have been thought out.
Madeira can offer tourists fishing and hunting, windsurfing and diving, there are many golf courses, tennis and hiking trails for trekking.
Spain 🇪🇸, Ibiza Island, Dalt Vila
Dalt Vila was founded 2.5 thousand years ago by the Phoenicians. It was once one of the most strategically important cities in the Mediterranean region. During the Renaissance, the city was further fortified. Kings Charles I and Philip II built powerful walls around the city to protect it from attacks by the Turks and the French.
The old Town is located on a small mountain in the center of Ibiza, Dalt Vila translates as "Upper Town". Elegant and majestic, it has been perfectly preserved to this day. In 1999, it was recognized as an architectural monument and included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Dalt Vila is practically the only fortification in Europe that has been completely preserved to this day. Today, the image of the upper part of the city is a symbol of the island of Ibiza.
Today, the fortress is part of the capital Ibiza, people come to the old town to see the sights, visit museums, sit in cozy restaurants and cafes, walk through souvenir shops.
Netherlands, Amsterdam, Sluishuis residential complex
The Danish architectural studio BIG and the Dutch firm Barcode Architects presented a corner apartment building Sluishuis, which towers over Lake Hey in the unique district of Amsterdam Aiburg, which is located on artificial islands.
There are 442 apartments in the new residential complex. Due to the unusual shape of the building, some of the apartments offer unusual views of the lake waters.
The house is located on an artificial island and fully reflects the idea of life on the water. One of its blocks is raised, forming a large opening through which water from Lake Hey enters the courtyard. In the direction of the neighboring urban area, the complex descends in a cascade of landscaped terraces, creating a natural transition from the urban landscape to the natural environment.
The courtyard of the house can be reached by boat.
Brazil 🇧🇷, Maragogi Beach
Maragogi Beach is a popular beach located in the resort town of the same name on the northern edge of the Coral Coast of Alagoas, which is the busiest resort in the northeast of Brazil. It got its name from the name of the river flowing in this region.
The beach is located in a wide tropical lagoon with coral reefs, which attracts many connoisseurs of underwater diving here.
Surrounded by coconut palms, the long sandy coast of Maragozhi Beach allows you to find a place to relax for every taste - from more lively corners to oases of silence and solitude near the rocks
Branching corals and numerous colorful fish combined with other ideal conditions for swimming make snorkeling here especially popular entertainment, suitable even for beginners.
Netherlands , Veluwemeer aqueduct
Although water bridges are not considered an engineering novelty, however, they are still admired by the modern man in the street. After all, it is amazing to observe when cars are moving along the highway, and a bridge rises above them, along which a river flows.
Aqueduct Veluwemeer is located in the Netherlands. It is a bridge connecting mainland Holland and the island of Flevoland. The whole uniqueness of the crossing is that it is not cars that move along it, but boats and small vessels.
Such a non-standard solution as a water bridge was decided to be built for environmental and economical reasons. The engineers decided that a small tunnel under the lake would cost them much cheaper than building a bridge over the water.
Aqueduct Veluwemeer is a perfect example of modern engineering.
The length of the water bridge is 25 meters, the width is 19 meters, and the depth is 3 meters. Boats and small boats can pass over the bridge. Viewing platforms are provided for people.
Denmark 🇩🇰, Frederiksborg Castle
Frederiksborg is a castle recognized as a masterpiece of the Scandinavian Renaissance. The castle was built on 3 islands: on the big island there is a castle structure, on the other two there are residential buildings. To get to Frederiksborg, you need to walk over an S-shaped bridge to a small island, which is the entrance to the Castle.
The castle has 3 wings. The wings were named after the people who inhabited them. The middle wing is called the Royal Wing because, originally, it housed the chambers of the king and queen. One of the wings is called the "princess wing", the other is the "church wing", where the chapel and the grand ballroom are located.
The Baroque garden of Frederiksborg Castle was laid out in 1725. They tried to restore it more than once, but it turned out only by 1996. By the opening of the garden, more than 65 thousand box trees, 166 yew trees, 375 lime trees and 7 thousand hornbeams were planted.
Iceland 🇮🇸, Landmannalaugar
Landmannalaugar - the name translates from Icelandic as the land of baths / springs. And now, near these thermal springs, rhyolite, colored mountains are located. It is considered one of the most famous and unusual sights of Iceland.
This is a remote place among the mountains, accessible only from the end of June to the end of September. During the rest of the year, the roads become impassable for ordinary transport.
The famous multicolored mountains are formed from volcanic rock – rhyolite, similar in composition to granite. They contain inclusions of various minerals, which, interacting with water and oxygen from the air, are oxidized, and therefore these mountains have a great variety of colors and their shades. And in combination with the colors of the sky, water, snow and ice – you will see the whole spectrum of colors of the rainbow.
Greece 🇬🇷, Astypalea
Astypalea is a small island in the southeast of the Aegean Sea, it is quite small — 18 km long and 13 km wide. There are only three settlements on the island, which are located on the western side, the eastern part is deserted. The island consists of two parts connected by an isthmus.
When looking at the Greek island of Astypalea from a bird's-eye view, it seems as if it looks like a butterfly with asymmetrical wings. Most of its eastern wing is deserted and uninhabited, and the western wing is almost completely covered with endless forests. The local flora is quite modest, it is represented by shrubs, juniper and low grass. Citrus trees can also be found. Flocks of sheep and goats move through numerous meadows and fields. Thanks to the latter, very tasty cheese is produced here — a favorite product of the guests of Astypalea.
Spain 🇪🇸, Seville
Seville is a city in the south of Spain, the capital of Andalusia. It is located on a plain on the Guadalquivir River, which divides the city into two parts - the historical center (on the left bank) and Triana. Seville is one of the most charming cities in Spain, which boasts amazing sights and relics of the past, elegant architecture and a magical atmosphere. Here, in the capital of Andalusia, Eastern and Western culture, Moorish and Spanish historical heritage collide and bizarrely mix. The city fascinates at first sight, it is a real cultural and historical heart of Spain.
Seville features elegant buildings and cobblestone pavements, ancient street lights and horse-drawn carriages, incendiary flamenco rhythms and as many as three UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Here you can see the sights that will definitely make an impression! For example, the Cathedral of Seville is one of the largest Gothic churches in the world with a majestic tower that was once the minaret of an ancient mosque.
Netherlands 🇳🇱, Githorn Village
The Dutch village of Giethoorn is one of the most cozy settlements in the world. Instead of roads, there are river channels, and boats and silent boats powered by electricity are a popular means of transportation. As for land transport, the locals made an exception only for bicycles, laying narrow bike paths along the shores, along which pedestrians also move. And on the sides of the trails – grass, flowers and trees.
Githorn is called "Little Venice" because of the huge number of canals crossing the village. The number of bridges is also striking: there are more than 170 of them here, and they are almost opposite every house that is near the water. Some bridges are part of the street, others lead directly to the house. The bridge can be approached by one of the many paths.
Another feature of the settlement is a huge number of goat horns, which are a reminder of what the village was named after. They can be seen on the walls of houses, on the fence, on the roof.
Italy 🇮🇹, Polignano a Mare
Polignano a Mare is a town in the Apulia region in the province of Bari. This is one of the most beautiful and photogenic places in Southern Italy, a resort with pretty rocky beaches and a relaxed provincial atmosphere. Polignano a Mare is a charming seaside town located on the picturesque rocky coast of the Adriatic.
The city has a typically Mediterranean climate with mild, rainy winters and hot, sunny summers.
Almost in the center of Polignano a Mare there is a bay with a magnificent white pebble beach, surrounded by high cliffs and crystal clear water. The beach is called Lama Monachile or Cala Porto and is the main public beach of the city.
Polignano a Mare has an ancient, more than two thousand-year history. It is believed that in the 4th century BC the ancient Greeks founded the colony of Neapolis here. During the Roman period, Polignano a Mare was an important trading center on the way from Rome to Brindisi.
USA 🇺🇸, Vanonta Gorge
The appearance of the Vanonta Gorge seems to have descended from the pages of fantasy books.
High basalt walls, completely covered with a thick layer of moss, thickets of ferns and multiple lichens – probably, fairy-tale dwarfs and elves live in such places.
Vanonta is part of the Columbia River and there are even four waterfalls in the gorge, so the local flora is rich in unique aquatic plants. The territory of the gorge is protected by the US Forest Service.
An arm of the Vanonta River (Oneonta Creek) passes through the gorge. There are four large waterfalls on the river. The middle Waterfall of Vanonta (Middle Oneonta Falls) is clearly visible from the path and is often confused with the upper and lower waterfalls. The lower part of the gorge is protected, so there are no passages on the bridge and paths.
Germany 🇩🇪, Rock Massif and Bastai Bridge
Right above the Elbe, where the river makes a sharp turn, steep, narrow and high stone pillars rise to a height of almost 200 meters. The Bastai rocks look like the fingers of a huge hand coming out of the very depths of the earth's surface.
Bastai is a magnificent and incredibly beautiful creation of nature, consisting of sandstone rocks with numerous terraces, caves, arches and narrow valleys. Islands of pine forest and single trees growing in the most inaccessible and unexpected places make this stone masterpiece of nature surprisingly alive.
Saxon Switzerland has long attracted travelers with its magnificent landscapes, and Bastay has become an object of mass tourism. At the very beginning of the 19th century, shops were built here, in 1824 a bridge was built between the rocks, and in 1826 a restaurant was opened. Also, these fantastic rocks have always been popular with climbers.
Thailand 🇹🇭, Phi Phi Archipelago
Phi Phi is an archipelago between mainland Thailand and Phuket. It belongs to the province of Krabi. In total, 6 islands belong to the archipelago, the most touristic of which is Phi Phi Don.
There is no airport on Phi Phi Don, so everyone gets to the island by ferry. The island is completely pedestrian, there are no vehicles on it. Everyone walks either on foot or uses the services of a water taxi (taxi-boat). The water taxi has a fixed price tag. Price signs are posted all over the island.
From Tonsai Bay, as well as from many hotels, motor boat tours of Phi Phi Don Island are offered. At the same time, stops are made during which you can go scuba diving or just swim.
The island of Phi Phi Le is only a few kilometers away, uninhabited, but vacationers, thirsty for silence, as well as scuba diving enthusiasts, constantly come here.
Turkey 🇹🇷, Istanbul, Blue Mosque
The Blue Mosque in Istanbul, or Sultan Ahmet Mosque, is the most significant religious building in the city. The massive temple with 5 main and 8 auxiliary round domes and 6 sharp needles of minarets got its name because of the internal lining with ceramic tiles with rich blue patterns. The Blue Mosque, built at the beginning of the XVII century, is still in operation. The silver-gray complex on the shore of the Bosphorus, surrounded by gardens, simultaneously accommodates up to 10,000 believers. Tourists, subject to certain rules, are also allowed there at a strictly allotted time.
The massiveness of the squat domes advancing on each other is softened by the points of the minarets pointing upwards. The project was clearly influenced by Hagia Sophia and Islamic architecture, in particular the Suleymaniye Mosque, built half a century earlier in the time of Suleiman the Magnificent.
Russia 🇷🇺, Kabardino-Balkaria, Bashkara
Bashkara is the name of a mountain peak, glacier and glacial lake in the Central Caucasus. The height of the mountain is 4162 m., the depth of the lake is about 30 meters.
Beyond the village of Elbrus, the side gorge of Adyl-Su goes to the left - one of the most beautiful places in the Elbrus region.
The beauty of the Adyl-Su gorge, its accessibility, the abundance of various mountain routes created the glory of the "Mecca" of mountaineering by the gorge.
The hiking route to the lake starts from the Dzhantugan alpine camp (a fork to the Kashkatash glacier).In 1.5-2 hours you can get to the glacial Bashkarinsky lake.
The peaks of Dzhantugan and Bashkara are clearly visible beyond the lake. The Junquat Glacier looms on the right. Nearby is a smaller lake formed by the Jan-Kuat glacier. In the distance you can see the white peaks of Elbrus.
Along the entire length of the Adyl-Su gorge, up to a dozen small narzan springs are beating in the riverbed.
Switzerland
🇨🇭, Glacier Express
The Glacier Express is a unique train running on the railways of Switzerland. And not just by roads, but by the Rhaetian Railway, parts of which (the Albula and Bernina lines) are a UNESCO Cultural Heritage site!
It is difficult to call it an express train — the train is quite slow, the journey time from St. Moritz to Zermatt (where the famous Matterhorn peak is located) is seven and a half hours. But the slowness of this composition is very becoming — just look at the places through which it passes, and even 7.5 hours will seem like a moment. What is the cost of the Landwasser viaduct alone, which the train enters immediately after exiting the tunnel!
The first train set off along the route back in 1930, the entire line is a narrow-gauge track, mostly using a gear system due to significant slopes. During the journey on the Glacier Express, passengers pass over 291 bridges and pass 91 tunnels. The highest point of the way is 2,033 meters above sea level.
USA🇺🇸, California, Fort Ross
Fort Ross is a corner of tsarist Russia 80 km north of San Francisco. The former Russian colony, founded during the fur rush, occupies 1300 hectares and is a national historical monument of the USA. The fort still attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists.
Guests come to the picturesque national park to see the sights that have been preserved since the beginning of the XIX century, in particular, the house of the commandant of the fortress, the chapel of the Holy Trinity, the residence of the heads of the colony, a wooden mill, as well as administrative buildings and fortress walls made of solid redwood trunks. The Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity regularly holds services, which many Americans of Russian origin gather for.
Tourists come to Fort Ross also to walk through the orchard, which is more than a century and a half old. Or to see the San Andreas fault between the North American and Pacific plates with a memorial sign about the earthquake that occurred here in 1906.
Croatia 🇭🇷, Hvar Island
Hvar is a long narrow island, in 1997 the Traveller magazine named it one of the ten most beautiful islands in the world. Lavender fields, vineyards and hills offering fabulous views of the mountains of mainland Europe are a wonderful place to relax. There are many charming villages on the island, if you want to relax, head to the southeast, to an almost untouched part of the island.
In the XV and XVI centuries Hvar belonged to Venice and was a prosperous island. Here, in the city of Hvar, the Venetian fleet was located in the Adriatic Sea. In 1571, Turkish troops plundered the city. Many of the buildings that can be admired today were erected at the end of the XVI century or later.
St. Stephen's Square is the largest in Dalmatia. Shops and cafes are located on its sides, one end of the square faces a small harbor, on the other - there is a majestic cathedral of the XVI century.
Saint Lucia 🇱🇨, Shuga Beach
Sugar Beach is a secluded beach on the Caribbean coast of Saint Lucia. The view of the surrounding mountains is amazing, despite the fact that the beach itself is not very bad.
The sand is white, there are a lot of palm trees and luxury hotel infrastructure everywhere. By the way, all beaches in Saint Lucia are public, so boats of different sizes regularly sail to the pier.
Viceroy Resort is a five-star hotel with a room rate from $ 500 per day. The service is great. Just be prepared for the fact that the food and all additional services are very expensive even by the standards of Saint Lucia.
The hotel, located on the site of a former sugar plantation of the XVIII century, surprisingly combines ultra-modern comfort with historical traditions. Elegant cottages and villas with private pools recreate the French colonial style, and the pavilions of the SPA center are built on the same principle as the huts of the Arawak Indians 900 years ago.
UAE 🇦🇪, Dubai, Miracle Garden
It opened its doors to visitors on February 14, 2013. The opening date was guessed for a reason, the park became a gift for the already popular holiday — Valentine's Day.
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!
High technologies make it possible to use for this purpose water from urban wastewater that has been treated. A drip irrigation network is spread throughout the Garden — hoses with holes that periodically give out microdoses of water sufficient to maintain plant life.
The Garden of Wonders really works wonders: here unusual landscape figures are created from the simplest flowers. On an area of 7 hectares, you can see dozens of different compositions, which involve an average of about 100 million flowers.
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