Snæfellsjökull: Iceland

Snæfellsjökull is a 700,000-year-old stratovolcano with an ice sheet covering its summit in western Iceland. The name of the mountain is really Snæfell, however it is ordinarily called "Snæfellsjökull" to recognize it from two different mountains with this name. It is arranged on the most western part of the Snæfellsnes landmass in Iceland. Infrequently it might be seen from the city of Reykjavík over Faxa Bay, at a separation of 120 km.

Canola Flower Fields, China

In the event that by any shot, the convoluted touches of making a trip will take you to the region of Luoping in eastern Yunnan, China in Spring, plan for a significant visual scene.

It is here that you will experience fields of the yellow rapeseed blossoms (otherwise called canola) in full sprout, splendidly mixing in with the sprawling farmlands and pretty slopes (indeed, the view helps us a bit to remember Guilin).

Bamboo Forest, Japan

Sagano Bamboo Forest is situated in Arashiyama, a locale on the west edges of Kyoto, Japan.

Sagano Bamboo Forest is a standout amongst the most stunning normal locales in Japan.

A standout amongst the most fascinating certainties about Sagano Bamboo Forest is the sound which the wind makes while it blows among the bamboo. Amazingly enough, this sound has been voted on as one of the "one hundred must-be-saved hints of Japan" by the Japanese government.

Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Hạ Long Bay 

Hạ Long Bay is an UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a prevalent travel goal, in Quảng Ninh Province, Vietnam. Officially, the narrows has a place with Hạ Long City, Cẩm Phả town, and the some portion of Vân Đồn District. The narrows highlights a large number of limestone karsts and isles in different sizes and shapes. Hạ Long Bay is a focal point of a bigger zone which incorporates Bái Tử Long straight toward the upper east, and Cát Bà islands toward the southwest. These bigger zones have comparable land, geological, geomorphological, atmosphere, and social characters.

Great Blue Hole

Great Blue Hole

The Great Blue Hole is a substantial submarine sinkhole off the bank of Belize. It lies close to the focal point of Lighthouse Reef, a little atoll 70 km from the territory and Belize City. The gap is round fit as a fiddle, more than 300 m (984 ft) crosswise over and 124 m profound. It was shaped amid a few scenes of quaternary glaciation when ocean levels were much lower. Investigation of stalactites found in Great Blue Hole demonstrates that arrangement occurred 153,000; 66,000; 60,000; and 15,000 years back. As the sea climbed once more, the give in was overwhelmed. The Great Blue Hole is a part of the bigger Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, a World Heritage Site of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Oia Village in Santorini, Greece

Oia Village in Santorini

Oia is a residential area and previous group in the South Aegean on the islands of Thira and Therasia, in the Cyclades, Greece. Since the 2011 nearby government change it has been a piece of the district of Santorini, of which it is a city unit. It covers the entire island of Therasia and the northwestern most piece of Santorini, which it offers with the city unit of Santorini. The principle road is named Nikolaou Nomikou. The populace was 3376 occupants at the 2001 statistics, and the land region is 19.449 km2.

Palau

Palau

Palau is an island nation situated in the western Pacific Ocean. The nation's populace of around 21,000 is spread crosswise over 250 islands, which shape the western chain of the Caroline Islands in Micronesia. The most crowded of these is Koror. The capital Ngerulmud is situated on the close-by island of Babeldaob, in Melekeok State. Palau offers sea limits with Indonesia, the Philippines, and the Federated States of Micronesia. 
The nation was initially settled around 3,000 years back by transients from the Philippines and managed a Negrito populace until around 900 years prior. The islands were initially gone to by Europeans in the eighteenth century, and were made part of the Spanish East Indies in 1885. Taking after Spain's thrashing in the Spanish–American War in 1898.

Tollymore Forest Park

Tollymore Forest Park

Tollymore Forest Park was the main state backwoods stop in Northern Ireland, built up on 2 June 1955. It is situated at Bryansford, close to the town of Newcastle in the Mourne and Slieve Croob Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It covers a territory of 630 hectares (1,600 sections of land) at the foot of the Mourne Mountains and has perspectives of the encompassing mountains and the ocean at close-by Newcastle. The Shimna River moves through the recreation center where it is crossed by 16 connects, the soonest dating to 1726. The stream is a bringing forth ground for salmon and trout and is an Area of Special Scientific Interest because of its topography, widely varied vegetation. The timberland has four strolling trails signposted by various shaded bolts, the longest being the "whole deal trail" at 8 miles (13 km) long. It was recorded inThe Sunday Times beat twenty British cookout destinations for 2000. The Forest Park has been overseen by the Forest Service since they obtained it from the Roden Estate in 1941.

Strangford Lough

Strangford Lough

Strangford Lough or Strangford Loch is an expansive ocean loch or channel in County Down, in the east of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest delta in the British Isles, covering 150 km2. The loch is completely encased by the Ards Peninsula and is connected to the Irish Sea by a long tight channel or strait. The primary body of the loch has no less than seventy islands alongside numerous islets (pladdies), straights, bays, headlands and mudflats. It is a preservation range and its inexhaustible untamed life is perceived globally for its significance. Strangford Lough was assigned as Northern Ireland's first Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) under the presentation of the Marine Act (Northern Ireland) 2013.

Rathlin Island

Rathlin Island

Rathlin Island is an island off the coast of County Antrim and the northernmost point of Northern Ireland.
Rathlin is the only inhabited offshore island of Northern Ireland, with a growing population of around 135 people, and is the most northerly inhabited island off the coast of Ireland. The reverse L-shaped Rathlin island is 4 miles (6 km) from east to west, and 2.5 miles (4 km) from north to south. The highest point on the island is Slieveard, 134 metres (440 feet) above sea level. Rathlin is 15.5 miles (25 km) from the Mull of Kintyre, the southern tip of Scotland's Kintyre peninsula. It is part of the Causeway Coast and Glens council area, and is represented by the Rathlin Development & Community Association.

Dunluce Castle

Dunluce Castle

Dunluce Castle is a now-ruined medieval castle in Northern Ireland. It is located on the edge of abasalt outcropping in County Antrim (between Portballintrae and Portrush), and is accessible via a bridge connecting it to the mainland. The castle is surrounded by extremely steep drops on either side, which may have been an important factor to the early Christians and Vikings who were drawn to this place where an early Irish fort once stood.

Mussenden Temple

Mussenden Temple

Mussenden Temple is a small circular building located on cliffs near Castlerock in County Londonderry, high above the Atlantic Ocean on the north-western coast of Northern Ireland.

It was built in 1785 and forms part of the estate of Frederick Augustus Hervey, the 4th Earl of Bristol, Bishop of Derry. Built as a library and modelled from the Temple of Vesta in Italy, it is dedicated to the memory of Hervey's cousin Frideswide Mussenden.

Over the years the erosion of the cliff face at Downhill has brought Mussenden Temple ever closer to the edge, and in 1997 the National Trust carried out cliff stabilisation work to prevent the loss of the building.

Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge

Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge

Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge is a famous rope bridge near Ballintoy in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The bridge links the mainland to the tiny island of Carrickarede (from Irish: Carraig a' Ráid, meaning "rock of the casting").It spans 20 metres (66 ft) and is 30 metres (98 ft) above the rocks below. The bridge is mainly a tourist attraction and is owned and maintained by the National Trust. In 2009 it had 247,000 visitors. The bridge is open all year round (subject to weather) and people may cross it for a fee.

Bokeo Nature Reserve, Laos

Bokeo Nature Reserve, Laos

Bokeo Nature Reserve is located in Bokeo Province, Laos. The protected area was created to protect its population of the black-cheeked gibbon, discovered in 1997 which was previously thought to be extinct. The protected area, 475 square miles (1,230 km²) in size, is characterized by a mix-deciduous forest and mountainous terrain (elevation ranging from 500-1500m).

Elephants and wild water buffalo migrate through the reserve; bears and tigers are also present.

Siem Reap, Cambodia

Siem Reap, Cambodia

Siem Reap is the capital city of Siem Reap Province in northwestern Cambodia, and a popular resort town as the gateway to Angkor region.

Siem Reap has colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old French Quarter, and around the Old Market. In the city, there are museums, traditional Apsara dance performances, a Cambodian cultural village, souvenir and handycraft shops, silk farms, rice-paddies in the countryside, fishing villages and a bird sanctuary near the Tonle Sap Lake.

Siem Reap today—being a popular tourist destination—has a large number of hotels, resorts, restaurants and businesses closely related to tourism. This is much owed to its proximity to the Angkor temples, the most popular tourist attraction in Cambodia.

Tiger’s Nest Temple, Bhutan

Tiger’s Nest Temple, Bhutan

Paro Taktsang is the popular name of Taktsang Palphug Monastery a prominent Himalayan Buddhist sacred site and temple complex, located in the cliffside of the upper Paro valley, in Bhutan. A temple complex was first built in 1692, around the Taktsang Senge Samdup cave where Guru Padmasambhava is said to have meditated for three years, three months, three weeks, three days and three hours in the 8th century. Padmasambhava is credited with introducing Buddhism to Bhutan and is the tutelary deity of the country. Today, Paro Taktsang is the best known of the thirteen taktsang or "tiger lair" caves in which he meditated.

The Guru mTshan-brgyad Lhakhang, the temple devoted to Padmasambhava (also known as Gu-ru mTshan-brgyad Lhakhang, "the Temple of the Guru with Eight Names") is an elegant structure built around the cave in 1692 by Gyalse Tenzin Rabgye; and has become the cultural icon of Bhutan. A popular festival, known as the Tsechu, held in honor of Padmasambhava, is celebrated in the Paro valley sometime during March or April.

Pyramids of Giza, Egypt

Pyramids of Giza, Egypt

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact.

Based on a mark in an interior chamber naming the work gang and a reference to fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu,Egyptologists believe that the pyramid was built as a tomb over a 10 to 20-year period concluding around 2560 BC. Initially at 146.5 metres (481 feet), the Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years. Originally, the Great Pyramid was covered by casing stones that formed a smooth outer surface; what is seen today is the underlying core structure. Some of the casing stones that once covered the structure can still be seen around the base. There have been varying scientific and alternative theories about the Great Pyramid's construction techniques. Most accepted construction hypotheses are based on the idea that it was built by moving huge stones from a quarry and dragging and lifting them into place.

Dead Sea, Israel & Jordan

The Dead Sea also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and Palestine to the west. Its surface and shores are 429 metres (1,407 ft) below sea level, Earth's lowest elevation on land. The Dead Sea is 304 m (997 ft) deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. With 34.2% salinity (in 2011), it is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, though Lake Vanda in Antarctica (35%), Lake Assal in Djibouti (34.8%), Lagoon Garabogazköl in the Caspian Sea (up to 35%) and some hypersaline ponds and lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica (such as Don Juan Pond(44%)) have reported higher salinities. It is 9.6 times as salty as the ocean. This salinity makes for a harsh environment in which animals cannot flourish, hence its name. The Dead Sea is 50 kilometres (31 mi) long and 15 kilometres (9 mi) wide at its widest point. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley and its main tributary is the Jordan River.

Longji Rice Terrace, China

Longji Rice Terrace, China

The Longsheng Rice Terraces also called the Longji Rice Terraces are located in Longsheng County, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) from Guilin, Guangxi, China.

The terraced fields are built along the slope winding from the riverside up to the mountain top, between 600 m to 800 m above sea level. A coiling terrace line that starts from the mountain foot up to the mountain top divides the mountain into layers of water in spring, layers of green rice shoots in summer, layers of rice in fall, and layers of frost in winter. The terraced fields were mostly built about 650 years ago.

Longji (Dragon's Backbone) Terraced Rice Fields received their name because the rice terraces resemble a dragon's scales, while the summit of the mountain range looks like the backbone of the dragon.

In early June, water is pumped over the rice paddies and young plants are transferred to the main terraces.

Aogashima Volcano

Aogashima Volcano, Japan

Aogashima is a volcanic Japanese island in the Philippine Sea. The island is administered by Tokyo and located approximately 358 kilometres (222 mi) south of Tokyo and 64 kilometres (40 mi) south of Hachijō-jima. It is the southernmost and most isolated inhabited island of the Izu archipelago.

The village of Aogashima administers the island under Hachijō Subprefecture of Tokyo Metropolis. The island's area is 8.75 km²(3.38 sq mi) and, as of 2014, its population 170. Aogashima is also within the boundaries of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.