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Posted in Travel, USA

As I have discuss in earlier articles, green canyon is one of seven wonders in the world, included as the most exotic places on Earth. Today I’d like to be more specific onto it. A gap that is quite very high and steep cliffs, carved by the Colorado River, in northern Arizona. Grand Canyon is 3.5 hours (193 kilometers) from the famous gambling city of Las Vegas to Canyon County.

The process of forming a steep cliff in Grand Canyon through various periods of climate change, arising sinking continents, forming mountains, etc. Indirectly this allows us to examine what is happening on earth for 1.7 billion years ago, judging from the layers of the cliffs. So Green canyon does give us big contribution for history as well.
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Posted in Africa, Travel

Take the Zambezi, one of Southern Africa’s largest rivers. Let it loose across the floodplains of Angola and Zambia, tributaries swelling it until the river is as large as a racing track. Once the waterway is flowing with full force over the basalt plateau of southern Zambia, cut a 1700-meter wide gash in the valley and watch the entire width of the river come pouring down an 180-meter face of rock into a narrow gorge. That is Victoria Falls, one of the most monumental waterfalls in the world.

The falls’ indigenous name, Mosi-oa-Tunya, means “the smoke that thunders”. And indeed, it roars, it throws up spray, it crashes and it swirls – Victoria Falls is an overwhelming sight, twice the height of Niagara Falls. So spectacular, in fact, that it already was a popular tourist attraction in 1905, when the railway from then-Rhodesia to Cape Town was completed under British colonial rule. Now a World Heritage Site, Victoria Falls attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year, some content to simply take in the natural wonder, others, like me, daring (or brainless) enough to bungee jump over the gorges, too. (more…)

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Posted in Europe, Travel

Switzerland is a country of picturesque mountain ranges and quaint little alpine villages. I had always wanted to visit this beautiful country and now I was finally getting my chance. However, having spent the whole day on a train, I was starting to wear down and my excitement was dwindling to say the least.

A bus ride was in order before we would arrive at our final destination, but as the bus approached, I fel sense of dread boiling up within. It was getting late in the evening and I hadn’t booked accommodations, so we would have to search in the rain for a bed. (more…)

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