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Ha Long Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in the northeastern part of Vietnam in Quảng Ninh province. It is the country’s pride, and Vietnamese consider it the Eight Wonders of the world. Ha Long literally means descending dragons. The bay features thousands of karsts and isles.

Ha Long Bay features some 1,600 limestone islands and islets in various shapes and sizes, forming a spectacular seascape of limestone pillars. Because of their precipitous nature, most of the islands are uninhabited and unaffected by a human presence. The site’s outstanding scenic beauty is complemented by its great biological interest.

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Misty morning at Ha Long Bay

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Another main attractions of Ha long is the bay’s calm water and the thousands of limestone mountains dotting the seascape. The Bay’s water is clear during the spring and early summer. Some of the islands are quite large and there are small alcoves with sandy beaches where swimming is possible.

A quiet and relaxing beach at Ha Long

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Tourist boats at Ha Long

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Cappadocia is the common name of the plains and mountainous region of eastern central Anatolia around the upper and middle reaches of the river Kizilirmak. It’s name is said to be derived from Hittite language, Katpatuka, which means land of the beautiful horses.

This region’s amazing landscape is largely underlain by sedimentary rocks formed in lakes and streams, and ignimbrite deposits erupted from ancient volcanoes approximately 9 to 3 million years ago (late Miocene to Pliocene epochs). The volcanic deposits are soft rocks that, for hundreds of years, the people of the villages at the heart of the Cappadocia Region carved out to form houses, churches, monasteries and underground cities. Forces of erosion have shaped the incredible and unique Cappadocian tuff-coned landscape. This nature and man made structures now make a popular tourist destination.

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Cappadocia is also famous for it’s fairy chimney – a conical rock formation which consist of a cap of hard rock resting on a cone-shaped pinnacle of softer rock

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I decided to share the world’s natural wonders I posted last month via YouTube. I plan to make it monthly. So it check here monthly for new videos.

The Mekong river is the 11th longest river in the world. It run in six countries – China’s Yunnan province, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. With it’s length of 4,350 kilometers, it is the 7th longest river in Asia. It discharges an estimated of 475 km3/114 cu mi of freshwater to the sea annually and it drains an area of 795,000 km2.

Because of it’s massive size, no wonder Mekong is home to the world’s giant freshwater fishes. This giants are now becoming small in number due to human activities.

The name “MEKONG” originate from the Thai language, Mae Nam Khong, which means “Mother-River Khong”.

Mekong river serves as a major transportation and economic route to all villages around it.

The Amazon river is the largest and the second longest river in the world. It is so huge that it covers six countries, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. It has the largest drainage basin in the world and accounts for approximately one fifth of the world’s total river flow.

During the dry season, the river covers and area of 110,000 square kilometers, while in the wet season the area rises to 350,000 square kilometers. At its widest point the Amazon River can be 11 kilometers wide during the dry season and 45 kilometers wide during the wet season.

Amazon river is also home to one of the world’s largest fishwater fish, the Pirarucu. Sadly, this fish is dwindling in numbers due to over fishing. Here’s a video of a study funded by the National Geographic.

The Chinese city of Guilin is home of the Guilin Mountains – the spectacular misty mountains in all shapes and sizes that rises out of the water to form dramatic settings. These mist-shrouded limestone mountains was carved by the Li River. Today, the city of Guilin attracts innumerable tourists because of its unique landscape. Until the end of the 1970s, it was a quiet, sleepy area. Since then, Guilin and the settlements along the Li River have undergone an incredible development through tourism.