Facts about the Great Wall of China is a part of the Seven Wonders of the World. It was honored of being a World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987. Like any other gigantic dragon, the Great Wall has its walls winding up and down across deserts, mountains, grasslands and plateaus which cover an approximate distance of 851.8 kilometers that is nearly 5,500 miles from east of China to the west of China. The Great Wall of China has a history of nearly 2000 years; some of the parts of the wall are now ruined or have disappeared. Even today it is one of the most exciting attractions all around the world. The main attractions of the Great Wall of China are its architectural grandeur and historical importance. There are more facts about the Great Wall of China com=ming up. The Chinese name for Great Wall of China is Cháng Chéng/Wàn Li Cháng Chéng.  [...] 

Located at Saint Petersburg in Russia the State Hermitage museum is one of the oldest and largest museum in the world. Founded by Catherine the Great in the year 1764 is dedicated for the art and culture. The museum is kept open for the public to visit since 1852. The museum has a huge collection of items out of which a small part that includes 3 million items is kept for the permanent display. The display includes the largest painting collection in the world. The collection is made up of the six complex historic buildings coming together. The collection includes a Palace Embankment, the Menshikov Palace, winter palace which is a former place of Russian residents. Museum of Porcelain, the General Staff Building Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya is few important parts of the museum. The museum has many exhibitions center. The State Hermitage  [...] 

Musée du Louvre is officially known as Grand Louvre in English, also it is popularly known as Louvre Museum, Louvre and Great Louvre has the honor of being the most popular museum. The most visited museum in the world Musée du Louvre is the largest museum in the country of France. Musée du Louvre is one of the most important landmarks of Paris. The total area of the Museum is about 60,600 square meters where nearly 35,000 items are kept on display from the pre-historical period till the late 19th century. The museum was actually a fortress which was started to be built in the later 12th century under the rule of Philip II. You can still see few of the remnants of the fortress. To form the present Louvre Palace the building was extended many times. To keep the royal collection for display in 1672 Louis XIV shifted to Palace of Versailles  [...] 

Machu Picchu which is commonly known as the old peak is located at 2,430 meters above the sea level in the Urubamba Valley of Peru. It is a pre-colonial site what you can see today is the ruins of the site, which was rediscovered in 1911 by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham and is declared as the UNESCO World Heritage Site in the year 1983 and also a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in the year 1981, making the site an important tourists destination. Macchu Picchu is one of the most common symbol of the Inca Empire and is commonly stated as the “The Lost City of the Incas” The construction of the Incas was started in AD 1430 but was not in use for nearly hundred years before it did served as the as the city’s capital during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Built in traditional Inca style, Machu Picchu was built with highly  [...] 

Overview The term ‘Iguazu’ evolved from a very interesting background. Actually, its name is formulated out of the Guarani language and Iguazu’s literal meaning is ‘great water.’ Seemingly, its name is as striking as its awe-inspiring appearance. Truly, the mesmerizing appearance of Iguazu is completely bewitching. The charm it spells is enough to hypnotize any orderly individual. Really, the first Spanish individual Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca who discovered this majestic waterfall in 1851 has done a great enlightenment job, which is why one of the waterfalls of Argentine has been named after his name. Boselli was another person to re-invent this waterfall in the late nineteenth century, even after his name one of the Argentina’s falls name has been kept. Compared to Niagara Falls, Iguazu Falls are much taller and about four times  [...] 

Lounging on the gigantic expanse off the coast of Queensland in Northeast Australia, The Great Barrier Reef is gifted with awe-inspiring world’s largest natural beauty. Mother Nature has bestowed the Great Barrier Reef with profuse treasure of marine life, comprising of nearly 2,900 individual reefs, coral cays, 900 tropical islands spanning over 2600 kilometers, altogether reclining over an area of about 344,400 square kilometers. This ‘natural wonder is the largest across the globe, even larger than The Great Wall of China, and the only single structure on Planet Earth visible from the space. The Great Barrier Reef is the sole natural wonder formulated out of living organisms, comprising of billions of tiny organisms called as coral polyps. The year 1981 proved to be a golden moment as it was designated in the prestigious “World Heritage  [...] 

Primary Info Zion (in Hebrew means place of sanctuary or refuge) Canyon, also known as Straight Canyon or Little Zion is a deep, narrow gauge (deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides) in southwestern Utah in the United States. A part of the Colorado Plateau, the Canyon is located in the eastern side of the Zion National Park. The Virgin River marks the end of the canyon. The canyon is 1,47,000 acres in area. The Zion Canyon was discovered in 1848 and has a rich river deposit. Country Info The United States of America is the fourth largest (9.83 million square kilometres) and one of the richest country in the world. The country is located in  North America with the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans flanking it on the west and east respectively. To its north lies Canada and south Mexico. Its state of Alaska is in the north-west of the continent.  [...] 

Country Info A part of the United Kingdom, Scotland (area: 78,772 square kilometers) is located in the north of the Great Britain. It has England in the south and North Sea in the east and the Atlantic Ocean in the north and west. Scotland has over 790 islands besides the mainland. Edinburg is the national capital. Primary Info The Golden Eagle (Aquila Chrysaetos) is a big bird of prey found mainly in Scotland, a country in the Great Britain featuring open treeless areas down to the sea level (it is also found in areas of Eurasia, North America and Africa). It belongs to the Accipitirdae family. Golden Eagle is the national bird of Mexico. The Scots too recognise the Golden eagles as the symbol of the inspiring beauty of their country. Efforts are on to declare the bird as the national bird of the country. Habitat and breeding As said earlier,  [...] 

Country Info Liwonde National Park is located in Malawi. (area: 1,18,000 square kilometers) located in south-east-central part of Africa. It is flanked by Zambia in the north-west, Tanzania in the north-east and Mozambique in the east, south and west. The country was formerly known as Nyasaland. The national capital is Lilongwe. Malawi is one of the world’s least developed and most densely populated countries. Primary Info Liwonde National Park is located on the eastern side of River Shire in the Malawi in Africa. The national park is located 140 kilometres from the town of Limbe and 205 kilometres from Lilongwe. The park with an area of 580 square kilometres and altitude ranging between 472-961 kilometres has a rich variety of flora and fauna. The area also features open savannah, lagoons, marshes, floodplain, mopane woodland and hills.  [...] 

Primary Info Heron Island is a small pristine coal cay located in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland in Australia. The island is 539 kilometres north to the capital of Queensland, Brisbane. The island was discovered in 1843 by a ship called HMS Fly while it was exploring the eastern place of the Great Barrier Reef. The place came to be inhabited only in the early 20th century when a turtle cannery was set up there. The initial efforts to build up turtle cannery or fisheries in the Heron Island did not pay off until in the 1930s when Captain Christian Poulsen, realising the tourism potential of the island, took it on lease. In 1943 the Heron Island was declared a National Park. Today Heron Island is one of the top tourist attractions for it is an area that features wildlifes of all kinds and in every season. A small wooden  [...]