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Senin, 03 Oktober 2011

Chebika

Chebika is a very beautiful mountain oasis and the most viewed people without people knowing it. Oasis is located in the foothills of Djebel el Negueb, in Kairouan Governorate, southern Tunisia. Oasis is also known as Qasr el-Shams ("Palace of the Sun" in Arabic), because exposure to the sun. First there was once a place in the village, but because of catastrophic flooding, and the village was abandoned, precisely in 1969.


Because of its beauty, Oasis was once used as a location filming Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. And even this oasis name was eventually taken from one of the characters in the film that is Chewbacca.
So I guess you will not regret to come to this place. Because it's become one of the resorts in the country.

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Minggu, 02 Oktober 2011

Yueyaquan Dunhuang

Yueyaquan Dunhuang is a crescent-shaped lake is very famous. The lake is located in an oasis, exactly 6 miles south of the city of Dunhuang in Gansu Province, China. And now the lake has become one of the popular tourist destinations in China.

But in recent years this lake had become a problem, which is already starting to dry up and down more than 25 feet. One of the factors that cause this to happen because the population is increasing, so the lake has become frequently used. Following the research in the last 40 years.
In 1960, the average lake depth of 4 to 5 meters, with a maximum depth of 7.5 meters (25 feet).
In the early 1990s, the area has shrunk by only 1.37 acres (5500 m2) with an average depth of 0.9 meters (maximum 1.3 meters).
But in 2006, local government sibantu with the federal government began to charge towards the lake and restore its depth. So for later this lake was the depth and size has grown back.


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National Monument

National Monument or called Monas is a very famous monument in Indonesia. Everyone in that State will be very aware about the monument on this one. It lies right in the middle of Merdeka Square, Jakarta. Monas becomes very important because it is a most important monument. Monument as high as 132 meters (433 feet) was built to commemorate the resistance and the Indonesian people's struggle to win independence from the colonial Dutch East Indies.

Construction of this monument began on August 17, 1961 under the orders of President Sukarno, and was opened to the public on July 12, 1975. Additionally Monas became famous for his top tip of the monument is crowned with flames form a coated sheet of gold which symbolizes the spirit of struggle burning. And now the monument became one tourist destination in Indonesia, both local and foreign tourists.


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Sabtu, 01 Oktober 2011

Turpan or Turfan or Tulufan

Turpan or Turfan or Tulufan, is an oasis city of county-level city located in the Prefecture Turpan, in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region People's Republic of China. Located approximately 8 miles west of the ruins of Jiaohe city. Its population was 254,900 at the end of 2003. Turpan has long been a center of fertile oasis and an important trading center to the southeast.



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Huacachina

Huacachina is a village in the Ica region, in southwestern Peru, and built around a small natural lake in the desert. This place is known by the name Oasis of the Americas, and is a popular resort among local and foreign tourists.

The origin of this place according to local story that circulated was that the lake was formed when the young hunter disturbing a beautiful princess who was in the shower. The daughter immediately went away leaving a pool of water that later became lakes.

Now, owners of private land near the oasis has been made well, to access ground water. This has the effect of drastically reducing the level of water in the oasis. Besides this place became popular and good for buggying bumps and Sandboarding.

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Aral Sea

Aral Sea is a lake that is very famous in his country. This lake lies between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan in the south. Formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world with an area of ​​68,000 square kilometers (26,300 sq mi), the Aral Sea has shrunk steadily since the 1960s after the river feeding it diverted by Soviet irrigation projects.

In 2007 declining to 10% of its original size, splitting into four lakes - the North Aral Sea and the eastern and western basins of South Sea once much larger and one smaller lake Aral between North and South Aral Sea.
In 2008, the water level in the lake has increased by 24 m (79 feet) from the lowest level in 2007.
In 2009, southeast of the lake had disappeared and west of the lake retreated to a thin strip at the northwest tip of the southern former.

At present according to some scientists, the shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called "one of the worst disasters on the planet environment"
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Jumat, 30 September 2011

Lake Toba

Lake Toba is a volcanic lake that became one of the most calm and quiet that can be visited by people. Lake with a length of 100 kilometers and 30 kilometers wide is located in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. And is the largest lake in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. In the middle of this lake there is a volcanic island called Samosir Island.

Lake Toba explosion occurred because about 73000-75000 years ago and an eruption (super volcano) the most recent.
Volcanic dust in the wind has spread to half the earth, from China to South Africa. The explosion occurred during a week and throw the dust up to 10 km above sea level.

But now Lake Toba was not terrible anymore, because now the lake has become one of the most interesting sights, especially in North Sumatra Indonesia, thus attracting local and foreign tourists.

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Loch Ness

Loch Ness is a large freshwater lake and deep, and is estimated to hold more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined. Loch Ness is located in the Scottish Highlands, and the surface is 15.8 m (52 feet) above sea level. Loch Ness is Scotland's second largest lake with a surface area on 56.4 km2 (21.8 sq mi) after Loch Lomond.


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Kamis, 29 September 2011

Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is the deepest and oldest lake in the world and he offered the most water on Earth, which is about kirberisi more than 20% of the world's fresh water and more than 90% of freshwater Russia. And the lake is located in southern Siberia in Russia. Lake Baikal is expressed as one of the world heritage site.

In the lake there are approximately 2,500 unique species, such as Nerpa, or Baikal Seal. The lake is very easy to dikenalai, because there is a rocky outcrop stands out from the island on Lake Baikal Olkhon that symbolizes the rugged beauty and isolation resonates from this stunning lake. And for now I think this lake into the category of some of Lake's most unique and extreme in the world.



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Lake Nyos

Lake Nyos is a natural dam of volcanic rock that contains a yellow-green lake water. The lake is located on the side of an active volcano in the Oku volcanic plain along the Cameroon, West Africa. In 1986 the lake was releasing a giant cloud of carbon dioxide, which resulted in sufokasi (lack of oxygen) up to 1800 people in surrounding villages, killing people and creatures living in the village.

And now believed that the first deadly incident will never happen again, because thanks to the international project carried out on this place, that is some autosiphon, "pipe" sunk vertically into the ocean like a soda straw. This has successfully reduced the CO2 levels of Lake Nyos.
And this place is now one of the few lakes in the world's most extreme.


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Diego de la Haya crater

Diego de la Haya crater is a lake that fills one of the 5 main crater 11,260 feet high on Mount Irazú. This lake has been known for changing the color of the usual green to gray, pink, or red depending on the type of gases released by volcanic activity inside the mountain.



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Rabu, 28 September 2011

Jellyfish Lake

Jellyfish Lake is a lake the sea is very famous, because in this lake there are millions of jellyfish, living through a symbiotic relationship with algae. Events jellyfish tend to raise the temperature of the lake and this can lead to death from the jellyfish population. Jellyfish Lake is located on the island of Eil Malk, Palau. Eil Malk is part of the Rock Islands, a group of small, rocky, and mostly uninhabited islands of Palau in the South Lagoon, between Koror and Peleliu.
Jellyfish Lake and is now one of the most extreme attractions and odd lakes that exist in the world.




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Lechuguilla Cave

Lechuguilla Cave is a cave that is very famous. This cave is located in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, USA. And according to the news that there, in June 2011, this cave is the sixth longest cave in the world (130.24 miles (210 km)), and is the deepest in the continental United States (1604 feet (489 m)). And until now this cave into a tourist attraction that is often visited by local and foreign tourists.


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Cheddar Gorge

Cheddar Gorge is a canyon located in the limestone Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar in Somerset, England. This canyon is a cave that is very popular in England, here became famous for in 1903 has found Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man is an estimated 9,000 years. Then Cheddar Gorge has become a good tourist destination, because once in the Cheddar Gorge isukan as the natural wonders of the UK's second largest, surpassed only by Dan Ogof caves year.

In addition, the Cheddar Gorge also became famous because there is a very beautiful lake and wonderful. This lake is an underground lake in a cave who are in the teradapat in one of the biggest gaps in the Cheddar Gorge. And in this lake where skeletons found this earlier. Inside the cave there are lots of horseshoe bat colonies both large and small.



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