Grand Prismatic Spring

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Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, U.S. The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in theUnited States, and the third largest in the world, after Frying Pan Lake in New Zealand andBoiling Lake in Dominica. It is located in the Midway Geyser Basin.

Travertines, Pamukkale, Turkey Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli Province insouthwestern Turkey. The city contains hot springs and travertines, terraces of carbonateminerals left by the flowing water. It is located in Turkey's Inner Aegean region, in theRiver Menderes valley, which has a temperate climate for most of the year.


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The Wave, Arizona, U.S.

The Wave is a sandstone rock formation located in the United States of America near theArizona-Utah border, on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes, in the Paria Canyon-VermilionCliffs Wilderness, on the Colorado Plateau. It is famous among hikers and photographersfor its colorful, undulating forms, and the rugged, trackless hike required to reach it.


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Red beach, Panjin, China

Panjin is a prefecture-level city and a major oil production centre of Liaoning province,People's Republic of China, and is situated on the northern coast of Liaodong Bay of theBohai Gulf. It borders Anshan to the northeast and east, Yingkou across the Liao River, aswell as Jinzhou to the west and northwest. The city has an administrative area of 4,071square kilometres (1,572 sq mi), in which 1.28 million people reside.


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Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi). It islocated in the Potos and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of theAndes and is at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995 ft) above mean sea level. The Salarwas formed as a result of transformations between several prehistoric lakes. It is covered bya few meters of salt crust, which has an extraordinary flatness with the average altitudevariations within one meter over the entire area of the Salar.


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Dragon's blood trees, Socotra, Yemen

The Dragon's Blood tree is one of Socotra's iconic natural features. These trees grows indroves high up on Diskum plateau in the center of the island, each one a mathematicalobject, with bifurcating branches obeying obscure yet graceful laws of mathematics.


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Sossusvlei, Namibia

Sossusvlei is a salt and clay pan surrounded by high red dunes, located in the southern partof the Namib Desert, in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia. The name"Sossusvlei" is often used in an extended meaning to refer to the surrounding area, which isone of the major visitor attractions of Namibia.


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Rice terraces, Bali, Indonesia

Cappadocia, Anatolia, Turkey Cappadocia is a historical region in Centra l Anatolia, largely in Nevehir Province, inTurkey. In the time of Herodotus, the Cappadocians were reported as occupying the wholeregion from Mount Taurus to the vicinity of the Euxine (Black Sea). Cappadocia, in thissense, was bounded in the south by the chain of the Taurus Mountains that separate it fromCilicia, to the east by the upper Euphrates and the Armenian Highland, to the north byPontus, and to the west by Lycaonia and eastern Galatia.


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"Door to Hell," Derweze, Turkmenistan

The Door to Hell is a natural gas field in Derweze, Ahal Province, Turkmenistan. The Doorto Hell is noted for its natural gas fire which has been burning continuously since it was lit

by Soviet petrochemical scientists in 1971, fed by the rich natural gas deposits in the area.The pungent smell of burning sulfur pervades the area for some distance.


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Giant's Causeway, Antrim, Northern Ireland, U.K.

The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result ofan ancient volcanic eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the northeast coast of

Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills. It wasdeclared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986, and a National Nature Reserve in1987 by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland.


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Hitachi Seaside Park, Hitachinaka, Japan

Covering an area of 190 hectares, the park features blooming flowers around the year. The park has become known for its baby blue-eyes flowers, with the blooming of 4.5 million ofthe translucent-petaled blue flowers in the spring drawing tourists. In addition to the annual"Nemophila Harmony", the park features a million daffodils, 170 varieties of tulips, andmany other flowers. The park includes cycling trails and a small amusement park with aFerris wheel.


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Giant Buddha, Leshan, China The Leshan Giant Buddha was built during the Tang Dynasty (618 907AD). It is carvedout of a cliff face that lies at the confluence of the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers in thesouthern part of Sichuan province in China, near the city of Leshan. The stone sculpturefaces Mount Emei, with the rivers flowing below his feet. It is the largest stone Buddha inthe world and it is by far the tallest pre-modern statue in the world.


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Tunnel of Love, Klevan, Ukraine

Klevan is an urban-type settlement in the Rivne Raion (district) of Rivne Oblast (province)in western Ukraine. Its population is 7,470 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census. Klevan isaccessed via the T1817 and H22 roads, and is located 28.3 km northwest of Rivne and 50.4kilometres southeast of Lutsk along the H22. Klevan lies on the Stubla River.


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Antelope Canyon, Arizona, U.S.

Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the AmericanSouthwest. It is located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona. Includes two separate,

photogenic slot canyon sections, referred to individually as Upper Antelope Canyon or TheCrack; and Lower Antelope Canyon or The Corkscrew.


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Odle Mountains, Italy

Nestling in the north-west of the Dolomites, the nature park covers an area of 10,196hectares. The protect area includes the 7 municipalities of Badia, Corvara, Funes, S.Martino in Badia, Ortisei, S. Cristina and Selva di Gardena and has a lot to offer.


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