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Is Cozumel Heaven on Earth...
Many people make the trek each year to one of the most beautiful islands in the world, Cozumel. Cozumel has grown from a small fishing community to a full tourist destination. Beautiful beaches, Mayan ruins, and scuba diving give something for everyone in Cozumel.
Discove the beauty of Cozumel.
Can you hear the ocean?
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Cruise ships bring visitors to Cozumel by the boatload,...
Amazing Star Formations...
Star formations are unbelievable, comparatively unappreciated structures that are a fascination of mine – banging constructions that only actually become visually arresting when you look down on them from above. This case of munition design was acquired in the early 16th century as citizenry realized that barer, often circular fortifies were useful once it came to the job in hand: defense.
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Hollywood in Black And Whi...
In 1853, one adobe hut stood on the site that became Hollywood. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished in the area with thriving crops. A locally popular etymology is that the name “Hollywood” traces to the ample stands of native Toyon or “California Holly”, that cover the hillsides with clusters of bright red berries each winter. But this and accounts of the name coming...
Traveling to the 7 Wonders...
The very first travel guide, according to the Ancient Greeks.
Some 2,450 years before the Lonely Planet became the definitive travel guide for the world trekker, Ancient Greece, the foremost civilisation of the time had Herodotus. The Greek historian was the first man to put together a travel list of top places you need to see before you die – they became enshrined in legend as the 7 Wonders of...
A Forgotten Disney Amuseme...
This is Walt Disney world’s first water park. It was closed in 2001 and has been untouched ever since. From the then-popular Whoop N’ Holler slide to now unmoving water wheel, in the pictures, everything seems so old and forsaken. The swimming area must have been popular in its time with the tyre swing, the boom swing and the cable ride.
For some reason these pictures make you wonder how it would...
Gold Mining in Indonesia...
Indonesia was the world’s seventh largest gold producer in 2003, producing 163 t compared to 158 t in 2002. Over 70% of Indonesia’s production is generated as a by-product of copper mining at Grasberg and Batu Hijau, both of which reported higher production year on year.Grasberg, the world’s largest gold-producing mine, yielded 98 t in 2003, an 8% increase from 2002
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A crash of a different kin...
In the pictures you will see a crater 20 meters wide and 10 meters deep made by a meteorite impact. The pictures show how it travelled through the atmosphere before impact. This phenomenon was seen in Mazsalaca Valmiera District of Latvia and it must have been an unforgettable day for all who witnessed this. No injury was reported from the impact of the crater and a lot of different stories have been...
Basilica Cistern...
The Basilica Cistern is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), Turkey. The cistern, located 500 feet (150 m) west of the Hagia Sophia on the historical peninsula of Sarayburnu, was built in the 6th century during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.
The name of this subterranean structure derives from a large public...
Madagascar Rocks...
The Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park is a national park located in the African nation of Madagascar. The national park centers on two geological formations, the Great Tsingy and the Little Tsingy. Together with the adjacent Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve, the National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Tsingys are karstic plateaus in which groundwater has undercut the elevated uplands,...
Petra Jordan...
The site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was introduced by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. It was described as “a rose-red city half as old as time” in a Newdigate Prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon. UNESCO has described it as “one of the most precious cultural properties of man’s cultural heritage.
Evidence suggests that settlements...