Friday, September 30, 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.

The Dead Sea

The Dead Sea is a lake with some characteristics of a very strange and different from the others. The Dead Sea has only one main entrance to the River Jordan, the Dead Sea and the rainfall is very minimal and has no outlet to evaporation. The Dead Sea is located in the region between Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan Region. The Dead Sea is 417.5 m below sea level, and is the lowest point on Earth's surface, ie at 1,300 ft (400m) below sea level.

The lake is called the dead sea because there is no life form can survive in salt water. Dead Sea has the highest salt content of the ocean in the world. The salt content of about 32% compared to an average salinity of 3% on the Mediterranean Sea.

In the myths that developed, since the first material contained in the Dead Sea are known to have effects to beautify the skin. By rubbing mud into our bodies, minerals contained in them shown to improve the skin, blood circulation and can membantuk health. It has long been known by King Solomon, Cleopatra and Herod the Great, so they went to the Dead Sea to obtain these effects.
So if you want to get a skin and health as a Cleopatra, it never hurts to try to come to this place.



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.


Thursday, September 29, 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.



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.


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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Wednesday, September 28, 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.




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.


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.



Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Melissani Cave

Melissani Cave is a cave that has very beautiful scenery. The cave is located on the island of Kefalonia, northwest of Sami, about 5 km SE Agia Efthymia, NW NE of Argostoli and Poros, Greece.

The cave was rediscovered in 1951 by Giannis Petrocheilos. And inside there are beautiful views, so be a place of tourism by local and foreign tourists. The lake is surrounded by trees and forests. Cave has a blue sky and the lake is covered with stones on the bottom. Plants are in the cave. The color of the cement stone in the honey-like chocolate is at the door of the cave. So you do not miss to visit this cave.


Timbulun Falls

Timbulun Falls is a tourist place not many tourists inside and outside the country know about it. But the actual ar falls very much at all to have a hidden beauty. Location of the waterfall is located in the village of East Painan, District IV Jurai, South Coastal District, Indonesia. The beauty of this waterfall is that it consists of several levels which have the form of waterfalls and different depths. This Timbulun upstream waterfall in the area of ​​Kerinci Seblat National Park and empties into the ocean or the bay Painan Indonesia.


At the first level waterfall, the waterfall is the first time we met so we arrive at the location Timbulun, here there is a rather large depths is and is good for bathing and swimming. At the second level waterfall, waterfall is somewhat sloped, the water fall where there is the beautiful depths of the cliff and base themselves is composed of rocks formed by nature. And the second level is the most commonly used for bathing and swimming, because the most beautiful scenery.
And on the third level, is an upright vertical waterfall about 15 meters, also has deep deep, and here slightly greenish water.


Beipanjiang River Bridge

Beipanjiang River Bridge is a famous suspension bridge, has a height of 366 meters premises and has a width of 388 meters. This bridge is located in the area Xingbei City (Xinbeizhen), Zhenfeng County, Guizhou Province, China. This bridge became famous because between 2003 and 2005, became a bridge in the world.

Beipanjiang be the first to break the bridge 1,000 feet (300 m) and 300 meter high threshold and the first suspension bridge in the world to surpass the height of Colorado Royal Gorge Bridge. In addition there are many more interesting things about this bridge you should know.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Royal Gorge Bridge

Royal Gorge Bridge is one of the world-famous bridge. This bridge into a tourist attraction in the vicinity of Canon City, Colorado, USA. This bridge once held the record as the highest bridge in the world from 1929 to 2003, but was defeated by 2003 Beipanjiang River Bridge in China. This bridge has a height of about 1260 feet (384 m) wide and 18 feet (5.5 m). Furthermore, Royal Gorge Bridge is also notable for being one of the best places in the world Bungee Jumping.