World's impressive beauties
Grand Canyon, Colorado USA:
The Grand Canyon is spectacular! It is not just a simple canyon but rather a whole maze of canyons, fissures and gorges worn into the rock with unusual buttes, mesas and rock spires standing between them. The exposed multicolored sedimentary layers take on varying hues as the angle of the sun and shadow change throughout the day.
The Grand Canyon is immense. It is almost 200 miles long and about 10 to 15 miles wide. Its deepest parts along the Colorado River channel lie over one vertical mile (1.6 km) below the plateau at its rims.
Andes Mountains, Argentina
The Andes Mountains is a natural playground for anyone with an interest in the outdoors and the equipment for fun, satisfying and successful journeys. Breathe in the fresh air and marvel at what you have climbed or hiked. At the summit your muscles may be aching, but you mind will be as free as a bird.
Uluru, Australia
Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) is a large rock formation in central Australia, in the Northern Territory. Uluru, which means 'great pebble' in the Aboriginal language. Uluru is a 3.6km-long rising 348 metres above the surrounding countryside. It has an area of 3.33 sq. km and a circumference of 9.4 km.
Uluru is notable for its quality of changing colour as the different light strikes it at different times of the day and year, with sunset a particularly remarkable sight.
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Victoria Falls is one of the most impressive waterfalls in the world, located on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border in south central Africa. The falls are about 1 mile wide and plunge as much as 428 feet. Niagara Falls, by comparison, drop about 175 feet. The loud roar produced by the falls is perceptible from a distance of about 25 miles.
Victoria Falls is said to be the world's largest sheet of falling water. The spray falls back as a permanent mist, which nourishes the luxuriant vegetation at the base of the falls.
Niagara Falls, Canada
Niagara Falls, city in the Regional Municipality of Niagara, southeastern Ontario, Canada, a port on the Niagara River opposite Niagara Falls, New York. The city overlooks the Horseshoe, or Canadian, Falls cataract of Niagara Falls; the crescent-shaped cataract is 54 M (177 ft) high and carries nine times more water than its United States counterpart.
Niagara Falls is an enormously popular tourist destination, and it also serves as a major source of electricity for Ontario.
Black Forest, Germany
The name of what is arguably the greatest forests of Germany--the Black Forest--often conjures up images of a dark, sinister place. Don't let the name fool you.
The Black Forest in Germany is one of the best places you can go to explore some of the natural beauty the country has to offer. Sitting in the south west corner of the state of Baden-Württemberg, the Black Forest borders France, Switzerland, and the Neckar River. The forest itself straddles the continental divide, with the Atlantic watershed which is drained by the Rhine to one side and the Black Sea watershed which is drained by the Danube to the other.
The Great Barrier Reef, Australia
The Great Barrier Reef is the only biological living community visible from space. Stretching for over 2000km along the Queensland Coast, it is the most extensive and complex coral reef system in the world.
Belize
Situated in the heart of Central America, and bordering Guatemala and Mexico, Belize offers some of the best diving in the Caribbean, and is home to the world’s second largest barrier reef after Australia. Belize itself is a relatively small country, covering approximately 9,000 square miles, and has a population of only 280,000 people.
Rainforests and swamps tend to cover regions of Belize although there are some smaller, mountainous regions towards the south.
Kruger National Park, South Africa
It is South Africa's premier game viewing destination: the oldest, largest and most famous national park covering over 19,000 sq km (7,335 sq miles) - making it almost as big as Wales - with in excess of 2,500 km (1,560 miles) of well-maintained roads. It is around 350 km (217 miles) long and up to 60 km (37 miles) wide. It is home to a total of 147 mammal species plus over 500 bird species and more than 100 types of reptile.
The Igua Falls, Brazil-Argentina
The Igua Falls are located in the Igua National Park, at the border of Brazil and Argentina. In a horseshoe form, 2,700 meters wide between the two countries, the Igua Falls fill the visitors's view with the spray of 72 meter-high falls - the number of them varies between 150 and 300, depending on the flow of the Igua River.
The panorama overwhelms the onlooker with a sensation of fright, fascination and respect for the perfection of nature.
The Canadian Rockies, Canada
The Canadian Rockies comprise the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains range. The southern end in Alberta and British Columbia borders Idaho and Montana of the USA. The northern end is at the Liard Plain in British Columbia.
Contrary to popular misconception, the Rockies do not extend into the Yukon or Alaska, or into central British Columbia. North of the Liard River, the Mackenzie Mountains, which are not part of the Rockies, form a portion of the border between the Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
The mountain ranges to the west of the Rocky Mountain Trench in southern British Columbia are called the Columbia Mountains and are not considered to be part of the Rockies
Lugano, Monte San Salvatore, Switzerland
Lugano is situated in the south east area of Switzerland called Ticino, The view at the summit of Mount San Salvatore is reached by a cable-car. Lugano with it's more than 70 hotels is the perfect place for a vacation where you can combine excursions to other parts of Switzerland with day tours to Venice or Milan which is reached within a couple of hours by car.
