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Top 5 Spectacular Water Wonders

Top 5 Spectacular Water Wonders
Top 1: Charming Victoria Falls
The mighty Victoria Falls is the largest curtain in Africa, and it is also one of the largest, the most beautiful and spectacular falls around the world, Spanning 1,700 meters in width and the highest point is up to 108 meters. The spray can be as high as 300 meters, what is incredible is that you can see the falls as far away as 65kilometers. The Local Kalolo-Lozi people call the fall as Mosi-oa-tunya, which means “thundering water haze”. More surprising, with the crescent rising, the water haze reflects colorful and mysterious moon rainbow, which is a magical enchanting wonder.

Top 2: Venice Italy, a fantasyland
Densely covered by watercourses, the beautiful Venice seems like a city emerging form water, with about 150 canal rivers running through here. Here you will enjoy the most romantic experience by riding a boat on narrow water under the hazy moon light. Every tourist is as the same as the local people travel in the city can only by food or by boat. Of course, the best way travel in a water city is by boat. The main watercourse is the Grand Canal which is in the length of 3 kilometers, with time-honored luxurious palace and unique buildings line in both banks. The buildings are decorated beautifully by ornaments with the style of renaissance. If you journey is a little longer, the vaporetto is your ideal choice.

Top 3: One of the seven wonders of the natural world, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Comprised of 2,900 individual coral reef system and coral cays, the Great Barrie Reef is one of the seven wonders of the natural world and is blessed with the breathtaking glamour of the world’s largest coral reef, enjoying the reputation of “natural Marine Park” or “coral aquarium”. The Great Barrie Reef stretches more than 2,000 kilometers from north to south, almost parallel to the Queensland coast, with interspersing of charming tropical islands. Beautiful corals and coral reefs, white beaches, a variety of marine creatures and interesting activities attract numerous tourists to enjoy its breathtaking beauty.

Top 4: Enchanting Li River, impressive landscape
Li River runs from Guilin to Yangshuo, about 83 kilometers in length. In history, it is invariably the inspiration of authors and artists. And now the cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo is very popular with tourists from home and abroad. The river winds through numerous beautiful mountains like a green ribbon. Breathtaking landscape along the river, reflections of strange mountains, fountain and flying falls consist of a colorful Chinese painting.

Top 5: Lake Como Italy: the mirror of Venus
Thousands years ago, glaciers cut Alps into peaks and valley, and then the glaciers forms beautiful mountain lakes, among which Lake Como is the most beautiful one. Located between Careno and Argegno, the charming Lake Como covers an area of 146 square kilometers and with the depth of 414 meters. Luxurious and resplendent villas are dotted in the charming surroundings around the lake. From here you can see verdant mountains and tranquil villages. The beautiful blue lake is acclaimed as the “mirror of Venue”.

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Top Five Charming Castles

Prague Castle: the largest Castle on the world
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Prague Castle is the largest castle on the world, with 570 meters in length and 130 meters in width. This castle was built from 7th century, and it was originally used as the palace of Bohemia royal family. Looked far away, light yellow buildings, iron-gray churches, absinthe-green towers and white peaks, bring out the best in each other. Until now, Prague Castle is still the office of the present. The buildings are in different styles, including Romanesque, baroque, Gothic ect, therefore it is also an brilliant gem of architecture.

Mont Saint Michel Castle: Castle on Island
Centered between Normandy and Brittany, Mont Saint Michel Castle is acclaimed as the” key point of interest of the western”. High located on rocky island, it is a prefect combine of history and romance legend. In 708, the bishop of this town was enlightened by Archangel Michel, so he built a chapel so that people can pilgrimage Michel here. The towering peak of the chapel is in gothic style, the golden St Michel sculpture atop holds sword in hand and point to the sky, watching the castle, you will feel you are entering a fairyland.

New Swan Castle: classic fairy tale castle
Located on the Alps, the New Swan Castle is a fairy tale castle in white wall and blue roof. It was built from 1869 and its design is very dramatically for it is from the dream of King of Bavaria. It is said that, the king loved princess Sissi very much. Before he moved into the uncompleted new castle, prince Sissi sent him a porcelain swan to congratulate, therefore he named the castle as New Swan Castle. The king didn’t saw the castle finished in his life. Perhaps, the king never dreamed that the castle was visited by millions of travelers every year.

Brown Castle: bloodsucker castle
Brown Castle is also known as bloodsucker castle, located in Rumania and it was said to be the dwelling of bloodsucker. The castle was originally built by the king of Hungary in 1377, in order to withstand the Turkish as fortification. However, it gradually evolves to be political center integrating military affairs, custom, administration and justice. The Brown Castle was famous for the legend of bloodsucker which attracts approximately 450,000 tourists every year. With audience are increasingly fancy with the horror movie, many film maker are focusing their eye’s on the castle with nickname of Bloodsucker Castle.

Potala Palace: the building gem of Tibet
Located on the peak of the Red Hill, Potala Palace is magnificent building complex which is regarded as brilliant gem of buildings. The king of Tibet, Sontzan Gampo married with princess Wencheng, beauty from Tang Dynasty. He loved the princess very much and built such a magnificent palace for her. The original Potala Palace has 9 storeys with 999 rooms, luxurious and magnificent. Today’s Potala Palace was rebuilt since 17th century. White Palace was built from 1645, while Red Palace was built from 1690. The whole palace was completed in 1693, spending approximately sliver of 2.13 million Liang. Now, the Potala Palace was listed as cultural heritage by the UNSECO, and attracting more and more tourists from home and abroad.

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