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Friday, February 17, 2012

Machu Picchu, Peru

Machu Picchu


Machu Picchu is the most famous symbol of the Inca Empire. Built around the year 1450, but abandoned a hundred years later, when the Spanish conquered the Inca Empire. The site is overlooked by the international community, but not by the local community. The ruins of Machu Picchu, rediscovered in 1911 by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham. Machu Picchu is one of the most beautiful ancient sites and mysterious in the world. While the Inca people certainly used the Andean mountain top (9060 feet elevation), set up hundreds of stone structures from the 1400's, legends and myths indicate that Machu Picchu ("Old Peak 'which means in the Quechua language) was revered as a holy place from the time much earlier. Whatever its origins, the Inca turned the site into a small town (5 square miles) but extraordinary.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Central Otago – Wonderful place in New Zealand


Central Otago – New Zealand, Nestled near the bottom of the South Island, Otago has a traditional farming heritage plus many little-known natural and historic treasures. thyme covered hills, orchards, bare tussock rock landscapes, tors, gorges, lakes, encounter solitude, mountains, rivers, rocks and tussock, see with the clear light far and close, experience middle earth.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Mount Kilimanjaro - Amazing Adventures and Climbing in Tanzania, Africa

Mount Kilimanjaro - Amazing Adventures and Climbing in Tanzania, Africa

Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the highest mountain in the world and also become a place of tourism in Tanzania, Africa. This mountain has a height of 4600 when measured from the foot of the mountain. Kilimanjaro peak and the highest peak in Africa, with a height of 5895 meters above sea level. Kalimanjaro formerly called the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze is a mountain in northeastern Tanzania.