The Beautiful National Parks

the Beautiful National Parks

Snow donia National park

, Wales, Great Britain

Snowdonia is a lovely mountain park, with Mount Snowdon, which is comprised of slate, rising to 3560 feet. It is spectacular in its own right, due in part to its peaceful nature. National Park, Arizona

Grand Canyon

You sure have heard of this one – the Grand Canyon is one of the major wonders of the world, and no matter how ‘touristy’ it may seem to want to go there, one glimpse of the sheer size of this gorge will blow you away.

Kruger National Park, SouthAFRICA

This is perhaps the most impressive wildlife viewing area in the world. Millions of acres of habitat and little development give visitors an opportunity to see many large African mammals and magnificent birds.

Deosai National Park

The Deosai National Park is located in the Skardu, Pakistan. The Park is located on the Deosai Plains that are among the highest plateaus in the world. Deosai is well known for its spring season when it is covered by a carpet of millions of flowers and a wide variety of butterflies.

Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

This World Heritage Site is jointly managed by the Aborigines and the Australian government. It has magnificent vistas, great waterfalls, stunning displays of Aboriginal rock art, and is habitat to an awesome predator, the saltwater crocodile.

Iguazu National Park Argentina

This park protects one of the most spectacular natural landscapes in Argentina and Brazil, Iguazu Falls and the surrounding subtropical forest. A thrilling experience is the short boat ride and walk along the catwalks to the most striking of the hundreds of falls.

Sagarmantha National Park, Nepal

The park includes Mount Everest, among other prominent mountains. It has distinctive wildlife and small picturesque Sherpa villages with their monasteries.

Madain Saley National Historic Park, Saudi Arabia

This region, the Biblical Midian, is mostly undulating desert, interspersed with huge rocky outcrops and lush oases. Here, between 500 B.C. And 100 A.D., the Nabatean people created 125 monumental cut-rock tombs and facades that are standing today in a remarkable state of preservation.

Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia

Plitvice Lakes National Park is located in inland Croatia. In moderately mountainous terrain, the park features small lakes and streams and beautiful waterfalls everywhere. Because of the geology of the area, travertine is evident in most of the water features, giving them distinctive blue-green colors and exceptionally clear water.

Hortobagy National Park, Hungary

It was the Hungary’s first national park. It has several endangered bird species and is a refuge for the Przewalski horse and migratory waterfowl.

Forgotten Pyramids Of Tucume In Peru

We all know how pyramids are mysterious and wonderful buildings. We yet don’t know how exactly they were built and what was their main purpose and they still remain one of the most interesting things from humans’ past.

There is already a large number of well known pyramids, but there are some of them which still remain unseen and less popular. Here you’ll see some interesting photos of forgotten Tucume pyramids which are located in Lambayeque Valley at the North Coast of Peru.

There are about 26 major pyramids and platforms at the Lambayeque Valley and the largest of them is Huaca Larga which measures 700 meters in length, 280 meters in width and 30 meters in height. It is believed that those pyramids were built around 1000-1500 AD.

deserted Russian fortress, Fort Zverev,

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This deserted Russian fortress, Fort Zverev, is most likely one of the creepiest places. The cause for it to have such a weird look is because it was used later by Russian army to test the power of Russian option to napalm into the brick houses. Thick brick’s vault has been burned all the way through and scene is a quite unreal. The steady stream of melted bricks runs to the basement.

BOROBUDUR TEMPLE

*BOROBUDUR TEMPLE*

Borobudur is a ninth-century Mahayana Buddhist monument in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.

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Thai New Year Similar To Holi

Thai New Year Similar To Holi

The Songkran festival (Thai: สงกรานต์, from Sanskrit saṅkrānti, "astrological passage") is celebrated in Thailand as the traditional New Year's Day from 13 to 15 April. It coincides with the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia.

The most obvious celebration of Songkran is the throwing of water. Thais roam the streets with containers of water or water guns (sometimes mixed with mentholated talc), or post themselves at the side of roads with a garden hose and drench each other and passersby. This, however, was not always the main activity of this festival. Songkran was traditionally a time to visit and pay respects to elders, including family members, friends and neighbors.

Besides the throwing of water, people celebrating Songkran may also go to a wat (Buddhist monastery) to pray and give food to monks. They may also cleanse Buddha images from household shrines as well as Buddha images at monasteries by gently pouring water mixed with a Thai fragrance (Thai: น้ำอบไทย) over them. It is believed that doing this will bring good luck and prosperity for the New Year.

Anti-government protesters celebrate Songkran, the traditional Thai new year, by spraying water or white paste on each other, in downtown Bangkok

A Thai boy splashes water onto the crowd during the Songkran festival to mark Thailand's new year in Bangkok

People dip bowls into a pool of water to pour on each other for Songkran, in downtown Bangkok

A drive-by splashing in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat

A tourist gets soaked on the Khao San Road

A young girl celebrates Songkran during an anti-government rally in downtown Bangkok

An anti-government protester pours water on Buddha statues at the Democracy Monument

Tourists join in the Songkran festivities

A man wearing a devil mask sprays the crowd with water

A red shirt gets covered with a white paste

An elephant sprays a foreign tourist with water

A child and a foreign tourist spray each other with water along the tourist area of Khao San Road