Interesting Tourist places and things

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Cathedral of Lima – Lima, Peru


Considered one of the most beautiful cathedrals in the world, the Roman-Catholic Cathedral of Lima lies in downtown Lima, Peru. Its construction began in 1535 and it suffered many transformations throughout the centuries, but managed to preserve its original colonial style.



The Cathedral of Lima features three large front doorways and no less than 14 side doors. Francisco Pizarro, the famous Spanish conquistador laid the first stone and carried the first log used to build the cathedral. His tomb can be found inside

St. George Cathedral – Georgetown, Guyana


Construction of St. George’s Cathedral began in 1888 and was completed in 1894. Compared to other religious edifices that took centuries to complete, the cathedral of Georgetown, Guyana was finished pretty fast. The reason behind this record time is the entire cathedral is made of wood.



Original plans featured a stone building, but they were rejected due to the weight and expenses of the project. Now St. George’s Cathedral is the tallest freestanding wooden building in the world, visible from all directions of Georgetown.

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Huge Stone Mushrooms of Bulgaria


The village of Beli Plast in Bulgaria has a very specific natural phenomena. There you can find a huge stone mushrooms. There is a dozen of those strange looking ‘mushrooms’ in Beli Plast and they are limestone boulders. The largest of them is three meters height.



Those mushrooms were created as an consequence of erosion caused by water during thousands of years in the past. Now when water has disappeared from this area, those eroded lime stones became pretty interesting natural phenomena for visitors and tourists.

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I have no words. very lovely!!!

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amazing animals pics. u take them?

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Turnip Rock

Turnip rock is located at Huron County, near Michigan. This place is really a paradise. Huron County enjoys seasonal tourism from large cities such as Detroit, Flint, and Saginaw.

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Derawar Fort - The Property of Royal Family


Derawar Fort an historic place of Pakistan. Located about 80 km from the city of Bahawalpur in Punjab province in Pakistan. Derawar Fort is a large square fortress.The forty bastions of Delawar are visible for many miles in Cholistan Desert. The walls have a circumference of 1500 meters and stand up to thirty meters high.







Derawar Fort the Jaisalmir property of the royal family until 1733, when Pakistan became the property of princely state Bahavalpur. In the same year it was reconstructed. Derawar Fort is part Ganweriwala, the archaeological area of ancient Indus Valley culture, the so-called Indus culture.

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Derawar Fort - The Property of Royal Family

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Dangereous tourist rout in Tibbet

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The Chocolate Hills of the Philippines




No, they are not really made of chocolate, but they do look good enough to eat. Some people can’t believe they are just the work of Mother Nature and that man played no part in their creation, but that is probably why they are so unique.

The Chocolate Hills get their name from the brown-colored grass that covers them during the dry season, which makes them look good enough to eat. The rest of the time they are just as green as the forest that surrounds them. There are 1,268 cone-shaped hills spreading across 50 square kilometers, in the middle of Bohol Island.



Geologists from all over the world came up with different theories about how these perfect limestone cones were formed, but so far no one can really say for sure. The most widely accepted theory is that the Chocolate Hills were once coral deposits that rose up from the sea during a huge geologic shift. The shapes we see today were molded by winds and erosion over hundreds of years.



Just like most of nature’s masterpieces, the Chocolate Hills have legends passed on by the locals, from generation to generation. The most popular one tells of two rival giants who threw rocks and boulders at each other for days. Exhausted, the giants forgot about their meaningless conflict, became friends and left the island without cleaning up the mess they made. The hills are testimony of their great battle. Another myth tells the story of Arogo, a young, powerful giant who fell in love with Aloya, a mortal girl. When she died, Arogo shed thousands of tears and when they dried up, they formed the Chocolate Hills.



They may look like just a bunch of hills to some people, but they managed to put Bohol Island on the international tourist map long before its hot, sandy beaches became so popular. People travel from all over the world just to gaze at the spectacular scenery offered by the seemingly infinite number of hills. The fact that they are all about the same size (between 30 and 50 meters) and shape makes the view even more surreal

Getting to the Chocolate Hills is easy once you get to Bohol. Once in Tagbilaran, catch the bus to Carmen. The locals are always happy to help strangers who want to take a look at their national treasure, so they’ll direct you to the right bus station. The Chocolate Hills Complex lies 4 km before Carmen and you’ll have to walk 10 minutes from where the bus drops you off, but it will be worth it once you arrive to your destination. There are plenty of tourist hostels and restaurants in the area so the only thing you have to worry about is running out of funds.

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The White Desert of Egypt




The White Desert is a popular tourist spot for its dramatic and unusual rock formations. The snow-white
desert is actually made of chalk that has been exposed for years to what geologists call differential
weathering, the erosion of soft particles that results in eerie protrusions of hard rock.



About 45 km north of Farafra, the White Desert begins. It's truly a white desert in clear contrast with
the yellow desert elsewhere, something which you will not believe before seeing with your own eyes.
At night, and many of the organized trips out here include overnight stay out in the desert. The white
desert is best viewed at sunrise or sunset, in the light of a full moon, which gives the landscape
an eerie Arctic appearance.



These mushrooms shaped rock formations are ten to fifteen feet tall. The limestone bases had been
worn away by the mixture of wind and sand that had blown by them at high speeds for thousands
of years. The differential weathering explains the very beautiful forms that now fill the White Desert
including shapes like domes, minarets, castles, towers and so forth.