The Dubai Aquarium and Discovery Centre is located in the world’s largest shopping mall, the Mall of Dubai and was developed and operated by Oceanis Australia Group. The Dubai Aquarium officially earned the Guinness World Record for the world's "Largest Acrylic Panel", as it has the following dimensions: 32.88 m in width, 8.3 m in height, 750 mm thickness and 245,614 kg in weight. The acrylic panel is larger than Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan. Its 750 mm thic...
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The Sealife and AquaDom aquarium is located in the heart of the former East Berlin, divided into two parts with a single ticket available. Located inside the Radisson hotel in Berlin, in the lobby, the AquaDom is the largest cylindrical aquarium in the world. At a height of 25 meters and a diameter of 11 meters, this aquarium almost one million liters houses nearly 2,600 fish from 56 different species. The Sealife recreates in aquariums and ponds adorned with déc...
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The Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium is the 2nd largest aquarium in the world. In 1975, the International Specialized Exhibition of 1975, devoted to the sea and its future, took place in Okinawa at the Ocean Expo Park, built for the occasion. Subsequently, the park use declined and the authorities decided that a new tank would not only boost the region but also to highlight the maritime traditions of Okinawa. The aquarium was designed by Yukifusa Kokuba and was opened on 1 November...
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The Oceanogràfic is a complex of approximately 100 000 square meters located in Valencia in Spain, where are represented the various marine habitats.
It was opened December 12, 2002. Designed by architect Felix Candela, lily-shaped, is the largest aquarium in Europe with 110 000 m² and 42 million liters of water....
The castle of Poppi is the main monument of Casentino. Unlike all other castles and medieval architecture of the area has not been ruined by time and by men having always been used as the residence of local administrative or political power, in fact even today it houses the Commune of Poppi. Since its inception, the castle's history is closely tied to that of the largest feudal family of Poppi Casentino that began in the middle of his great estates and manor abitň this for ...
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The aquarium can meet all the varieties of marine life inhabiting Western Australia. In a transparent tunnel, you can visit the deep ocean and its many inhabitants, so close that they seem to be close at hand. Sharks, giant stingrays, turtles and countless fish surround you on all sides. The must is to dive together, snorkeling or bottles, in the midst of these sharks as terrifying for those who watch! Whale Watching from September to December....
Aquarium, tourism, travelling, trips, marine, fish, beautiful, AQWA, Western Australia
Lisbon Oceanarium is a museum of marine biology located at Nations Park in Lisbon, Portugal, built as part of Expo 98.
This flag, designed by the American architect Peter Chermayeff, resembling a carrier and is installed on a pier surrounded by water. It is the second largest oceanarium in the world and contains an impressive collection of species - birds, mammals, fish and other marine life. The habitats chosen for its natural wealth in terms of...
Six Flags Magic Mountain is an amusement park company Six Flags, located in Valencia near Santa Clarita, California, a suburb north of Los Angeles.
The park opened May 29, 1971, Memorial Day weekend as the Magic Mountain. The park was owned by the Newhall Land and Farming Company, a development company behind the city of Valencia. The park was purchased in 1979 by Six Flags which Accola his name before that of the park.
Th...
Amusement, entertainment, park, Six Flags Magic Mountain, California
Hopi Hari is a Brazilian theme park located at Km 72 of Bandeirantes Highway, city of Vineyard, the state of Sao Paulo. With 760 thousand square meters, is the largest amusement park in Latin America, besides being part of the tourist complex SerrAzul Full Life. Hopi Hari is a fictitious country - its employees are the people (and hópius hópias) - with "President", capital, language itself, among other features.
Opened on Novembe...
Amusement, entertainment, park, Hopi Hari, São Paulo, Brazil
Pleasure Beach, Blackpool is an amusement park as its name indicates, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. The park was founded in 1896 by Alderman William George Bean, said he wanted to create "... an amusement park in the style of American parks that adults would feel like children again and they inspire a sense of innocence and cheerfulness. "
This park is primarily a family affair because since its inception, generations after generations, the p...
Amusement, entertainment, park, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Lancashire, UK
The park Port Aventura is located on the Costa Dorada, only 1hr from Barcelona, 20 minutes from Tarragona and Salou few minutes.
If you are looking for an amusement park can offer you a thrill but also a place to enjoy the beach, a water park and golf for all, without hesitating visit Port Aventura, the first theme park opened in 1995 in Spain. You mix in the atmosphere of different worlds, you discover through attractions, entertainment and beaut...
Amusement, entertainment, park, Port Aventura, Tarragona, Spain
Europa Park is the largest theme park in Germany in terms of attendance with more than 4 million visitors a year (including 3.6 million in season). It belongs to the Mack family, itself owner of the company Mack Rides....
Amusement, entertainment, park, Europa Park, Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany
Located in Jumeirah, Wild Wadi Water Park is the pride of Dubai. The perfect antidote to the gloomy and monotonous desert, this magnificent water park attracts tourists in large numbers near the regions. One of the best amusement parks in Dubai, Wild Wadi Water Park is a fascination for children and hobbies perfect for families. Dubai on family visits, a trip to Wild Wadi Water Park is the best thing that parents can donate their children.
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Amusement, entertainment, park, Wild Wadi Water Park, Dubai
Disneyland Paris, formerly Euro Disney Resort and Disneyland Resort Paris is an entertainment complex of Walt Disney Company developed through a European company called Euro Disney SCA (which holds more than a third of the capital), then through Euro Disney Associes (a CNS).
The area covers 19.43 km ² (1 943 ha), thirty two kilometers east of Paris, in the new town of Marne-la-Vallee, mainly on the territory of the village of Che...
Knoebel Amusement Resort is a leisure complex including a family amusement park and a picnic area and a campground in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. The complex belongs to the family Knoebel. Knoebel is located in a small wooded valley in central Pennsylvania who was known under the name "Peggy Farm". The place became a popular destination since the early 1920s.
Henry Knoebel, who cultivated the land began to sell drinks, snacks and ice cream to visitors...
Amusement, entertainment, park, Knoebels, Pennsylvania
Cedar Point is a theme park located in Sandusky, Ohio, United States, on a peninsula on Lake Erie. The park holds several records -it is the park with the most attractions, 69 different rides. Among them, there are 17 roller coasters including the Top Thrill Dragster, which has set many records (height, speed). The park also has a long white sand beach and two water parks (Soak City and Castaway Bay) two marinas, several hotels and Challenge Park (including attractions such...
Hohe Tauern National Park is one of the largest nature reserves, the existing five in Austria. It includes the mountain areas of Central Eastern Alps in Austria with mountains of the Hohe Tauern region which lies between the rivers Isel sources, Moll, Mur and the Salzach, the east-west side have a length of 100 km and 40 km north-south . The region is declared a national park in 1981 and has its territory Laender Salzburg (805 km ²), Tyrol (611 km ²) and Carinthia (420 km ²). F...
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Berchtesgaden National Park is located in Land Berchtesgadener Land is the only national park in Germany located in the Alps. The park covers an area of 210 square kilometers in 1990 as part of "Biorezervatul Berchtesgaden" which was declared a UNESCO heritage. Mountain National Park is being Berchtesgadener Alpen most part situated in localities Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden, Berchtesgaden Bischofswiesen, Marktschellenberg and Schönau am Königssee. To the east is bordered by A...
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The National Park and Preserve Denali is a natural park located in the center of American and Alaska, which includes Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America (6194 meters). The park covers 24 585 km ², the size of four French departments. The word "Denali" means "up" in Athapaskan.
The mountain was renamed after the American presidential candidate, William McKinley, but the native name of this mountain is Mount Denali....
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Jasper National Park is the largest Canadian national parks in the Rocky Mountains. It is located in the province of Alberta and covers 10 878 km ². He holds the great glaciers of the Columbia Icefield, hot springs (including: Miette Hot Springs), lakes, waterfalls. The main subjects are wildlife elk, moose, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, black bears, grizzly bears and caribou. This park is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain parks, World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
The landsc...
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The National Park Torres del Paine is a national park of Chile located between the Andes and the Patagonian steppe. Administratively, it belongs to the XII Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region and the province of Ultima Esperanza
Covering an area of 181 414 hectares (242 ha or 242 depending on sources), the park was created May 13, 1959. It was declared a biosphere reserve, 28 April 1978 by UNESCO.
This park is managed by a state agency in Chile,...
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Banff National Park (in English: Banff National Park) is located in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, 120 km west of Calgary in Alberta. Its date of creation, 1885, making it the oldest national park in Canada. He is also registered since 1985 (the centenary of its creation) World Heritage by UNESCO with other parks of the Canadian Rockies.
Its 6 641 km2 of mountainous terrain includes many glaciers and ice fields (Icefields), areas of dense coniferous forests, and alpine landscap...
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Glacier National Park is a U.S. national park located in the U.S. state of Montana. Founded in 1910 and an area of 4 101 km ², it is bordered to the north by the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.
The park consists of mountain sheltering dozens of glaciers, lakes and hundreds of thousands of plant and animal species, is one of the best preserved ecosystems in the country. It is part of a larger protected ecosystem (44 00...
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The pyramids of Egypt, all the monumental remains that we have inherited from the ancient Egyptians, including three Great Pyramids of Giza, are both more impressive and more emblematic of this civilization.
If it was in its origin, for the king, the idea of a burial pyramid was quickly taken up by relatives of the sovereign. Khufu may have been the first to allow its women to be raising such a tomb.
Tombs of kings, queens and great officers of state, whose construct...
Machu Picchu is an old Llaqta Inca in the fifteenth century, perched on a rocky hill that unites Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu on the eastern slope of central Andes . His name was Picho Picchu.
According to documents of the sixteenth century, Machu Picchu was one of the residences of the emperor Pachacutec. However, some of the largest buildings and the ceremonial character of the main access road to Llaqta show that the place was used as a relig...
The Taj Mahal, which means Crown Palace is located in Agra, near the Yamuna River in the State of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is a white marble mausoleum built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Arjumand Banu Begam, also known as Mumtaz Mahal, which in Persian means "the light of the palace." She died June 17, 1631, giving birth to their fourteenth child while she went to the country. It is a first burial place in the garden to Zainabad Burhampur. Followin...
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The Maldives is an island in the Indian Ocean located in the southern Indian subcontinent, south India and south-west of Sri Lanka. The country consists of 22 atolls and three islands isolated or 1 199 islands in total, stretching from north to south between the Lakshadweep and the British territory of the Indian Ocean. Many of these islands are islands away. The capital and largest city of the country is Male....
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Jeju Island is located 85 km from the Korean peninsula, and is the only subtropical region of the country. The volcano Hallasan, the highest of South Korea, rises to 1 950 meters. The eruption of the volcano Hallasan, now extinct, is the origin of the formation of the island....
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There are few caves in the world that can rival the opulence or extended with Jeita caves. In these caves frequented by humans since the Paleolithic period through which flows the underground river that feeds the main source of Nahr el - Kalb, the combined action of water and time has wrought in the bowels of the wooded foothills of Mount Lebanon sculptures and draperies worthy of the most beautiful cathedrals. Jeita caves are located 20 kilometers north of Beirut, in the verdant valley...
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef world. It is situated off Queensland, Australia. It covers 2 600 km from Bundaberg to the tip of Cape York. Covering an area of 350 000 km ², it can be seen from space. By comparison, Germany has an area of 357 000 km ². The Great Barrier Reef has more than 2 000 islands and reefs around 3 000 of all kinds. It can be seen near the coast, but the most spectacular are some 50 km offshore. It is listed as...
Grand Canyon is one of the most spectacular natural monuments on Earth, being crossed by the Colorado River, for millions of years. The Grand Canyon National Park is located in northwestern Arizona. The Grand Canyon was carved by the Colorado River in the plateau of the same name. The huge canyon is 445 kilometers long and about 25 km width, while the height is more than 1500 meters.
Founded in 1919, the park is visited annually by more than four mill...
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Cliffs of Moher (Cliffs of Moher in English, Irish Aillte Mhothair year, "Cliffs of Ruins") are sets of cliffs located on the town of Liscannor at the south-west of Burren in County Clare, Ireland. The cliffs are up to 214 m above the Atlantic Ocean on a length of 8 km.
The tower O'Brien (O'Brien tower) was built in 1835, amid the cliffs by Sir Cornelius O'Brien to provide a vantage point for the many tourists who were already on the site. On a clear day you can see also t...
Salto Angel or Salto del Angel (Angel Falls) is located in southeastern Venezuela, by those of his 978 meters, the tallest waterfall in the world (with a step of 805 m). The locals called it Kerekupai-Meru Bounce deepest meaning. Region located in Gran Sabana, Angel Falls is the most isolated in Venezuela and maybe the world. Completely inaccessible by road, Angel will give a choice: either risk a few days climbing, rafting, climbing and based on either hire a pilot to take you to the right p...
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The Amazon is a river in South America. Its average flow is of 209 000 m³ / s , being higher than all other rivers on the planet: the volume of water transported is equal to that of the six rivers that follow it in the hierarchy. With a length of approximately 6 500 km, it is among the longest rivers on Earth. The Amazon drains an area of 6 950 000 km ² or 40% of South America and the equivalent of one and half times the area of the European Union (the Congo river to the second area...
Moscow is the historic center of Russia, a city of art of an impressive architecture. Colored towers and glamorous shops - Moscow warehouse long period of the Iron Curtain. However, Western tourists still perceive as a capital city and Red sterile and cold, because, while luxury goods are found on every street corner to find something simple, such as batteries, can be a challenge.
Contrast is the same street - perfectly dressed influential businessmen a...
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