Kilimanjaro Tourism Places

About Mt Everest Tourist Place

At 29,028 feet Mt. Everest is the world's highest peak. It stands between Nepal and India.  In Nepalese it called 'Sagarmatha' and 'Chomo lungma' in Tibetan which means 'The Goddess of the wind'. It is named after Sir George Everest. Surveyor General of India
from 1830-43. 

According to the geologists about fifty million years ago, the collision of the vast tectonic plates beneath the earths crust, pushed up the Himalayas. The Himalayas are covered with snow and ice, forming glaciers. These are the sources of the mighty rivers like River Indus, River Brahmaputra and River Sutlej. 

On 29 May 1953, sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to stand on top of the worlds highest mountain also called as, "The roof of the world". Mt. Everest remains a challenge to mountaineers all over the world. 

Mountain Fuji Tourist Place 

Japan's Mt. Fuji is a volcanic mountain of breath taking beauty. Though it is a very high mountain (12388ft). It is impressive because of its proportions. the base is three times as wide as it is high, so the mountain appears to rise gradually. Three fourths of the mountain remains capped in snow for 8-9 months. At the foot of Mt. Fuji is the Lake Hakone or the lake of the reeds. The peak is reflected upside of the reeds. The peak is reflected upside down, forming the famous, "double Fuji". 

Fuji is a dormant volcano. It is sacred to the Japanese and worshipped. A primeval forest called, 'the sea of trees' has grown on the lava flow of its last eruptions in 1707 and 1717. 

Mt Kilimanjaro Tourist Place 

Mt. Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest mountain, in northern Tanzania touching the border of Kenya. It stands majestically tall at 19340 feet. It is a volcanic massif and stretches east to west - for 50 miles. It includes three main volcanoes, now extinct. The youngest and tallest Kibo is joined by a seven mile joint (or saddle) to Mawenzi. The third volcano Shira is a ridge shaped remnant of an earlier crater. 

Kibo is a snow capped mountain and has a vast (1 mile across) crater which is 984 feet deep. On the rim of the crater is the 'Uhuru point' or 'Summit of all Africa'. The crater has an ash cone showing signs of residual volcanic activity. Mawenzi is jagged and eroded.  

The slopes of Kilimanjaro are fertile and farmed by the chagga people.

Rocky Mountain Tourism Place

About Rocky Mountain Tourist Place

The Rocky mountains North Americas highest range, popularly called the 'Rockies' stretch for 3200 miles down the Western side of the continent from Alaska to New Mexico.  They are also a part of the Mountian ranges and high plateaux, that form the great highland barrier shown as the 'North American Cordillera'. 

Thousands of visitors visit the rockies to see the breathtaking beauty they offer.  

For convenience the rockes are divided into four main sections from North to South. In the far north are the Arctic Rockes in the Northern Alaska and north Western Canada. Here the highest peak is the Mount Sir James MacBrien (9040 feet). 

The Northern, Rockies continue into Idaho and Montana. This region has great natural beauty and is filled with dazzling icefields, pluning valleys and sparkling lakes. 

To the south are the Grand Tetons, a majestic block of mountains. The highest is Gannet Peak a 13785 foot mountain. 

The southern rockes, which extend from Southern Wyoming into Utah and through Colarado into New Mexico contain the Highest peaks in the rocky mountains system highest is Mount Elbert 14331 feet high. 

The Rockes have rich wealth of forest and wildlife. Mining is a major industry beacuse of the large quantities of copper, iron, gold, silver lead zinc, coal, oil, petroleum and uranium deposits in various places. Tourism is also eer increasing here. 

Famous Barrier Reef Tourism Places

Ayers Rock Tourist Place

Ayer's Rock is the largest monolith in the world and is an over whelming sight from near. It changes
colour with the sun's movement and appears red at times, brown or even black. From far it looks purple. 

This extraordinary natural wonder lies in the south West of Australia's Northern Territory. It is roughly oval in shape and is about two miles long and one mile wide and 2851 feet high above sea level. 

Ayers rock is made of hard Felspar sandstone called 'arhore'. At the bottom of the rock are caves decorated with aboriginal paintings and carvings made by an aboriginal people called "Uluhru" Ayer's Rock is now a national park of Australia. 

Barrier Reef Tourist Place

The Great barrier reef is an organic, living self renewing entity - the work of countless millions of coral polyps. The reefs are formed from the skeletal remains of generation after generation of polyps as they continually build towards the surface of the water. 

The Great barrier reef has been famous as a natural wonder since a long time. It stretches for more than 1243 miles along the eastern coast of Australia, from the Torres strait at the continent's northern tip to just South of the Tropic of Capricorn. It reaches into the sea for upto 200 miles like a shelf and then plummets into the depts of the Pacific Ocean.  It is separated from the mainland by a long lagoon channel. 

The constantly growing coral reefs, provide an environment for rich and diverse marine life : Anemones, sponges, starfish, crabs, worms, sea urchins, shrimps, mussles, oysters, clams and multitude of fishes of all shapes and colours. The ecological network is so complex that marine biologists continue to wonder and admire it. 

Easter Island Statues Tourist Place

The mysterious stone statues of the Easter Island are a puzzle to today's archaeology. 

Easter island is a small volcanic island in the East Pacific Ocean, West of Chile and East of equally less known Pit cairn Island. It is Just a 45 square mile area, named after the day it was discovered by a Dutch Admiral in 1722. There are only about 1000 Eastern Islanders whose descent is not known and is a mystery. 

There are more than six hundred stone statues ranging from life size to giant size scattered around on the island. A few are erect and stand on a stone platform called 'Ahu'. These great Ahu figures have no parallel anywhere else in the world. 

Tradition holds, that once there were two different groups living on the Island, Polynesian or short ears and non polynesian or long ears. Most statues have long ears and hence it is said that the long ears built the statues and were later over thrown by the short earns or polynesians. 

Waitomo Cave Tourism Places

Stonehenge Tourist Place 

Stonehenge is Britain's most famous and impressive prehistoric site. It is a massive circle of stones, on
the Salisbury plains in Wiltshire. 

There are several myths attached to it. One story says that the wizard Merlin transported it from Ireland to England. Another says that is a druid temple where human sacrifice was offered. 

Archeologically, stonehenge was built in the late Neolithic and early Bronze age periods. The earliest
construction was an outer circle 322 feet in diameter, surrounded by a ditch. Just inside the bank 56 pits were dug up, but holes. In the northeast a gap forms the entrance. A large flat stone is known as the slaughter stone or sacrificial altar. Along the pathway called the 'Avenue' is another large stone called heel stone. In about 2400 BC, the Beaker folk or the early Bronze age people added two circles of blue stones in the centre of the site. 

Later in about 2100 BC the bluestones were replaced by the massive sarcen sand stone blocks. Some of these stones were more than 30 feet long and weighed 49 tons. These were placed in a perfect circle, of 30 uprights capped with horizontal or lintel pieces. The lintels are dove tailed into each other and held in position by mortice and tenon joints. The blue stones were again added just around the altar stone. 

It is likely that it was a place of Sun worship but it might have also functioned as an observatory, proving that the bronze age people had advanced knowledge of geometry and astronomy. 

Waitomo Caves Tourism Place 

Waitomo caves, is a national reserve in New Zealand lying 120 miles south of Auckland in the North Island. 

The remarkable feature of these limestone cave systems that makes them a natural wonder is the famous "Glow Worm Grotto". 

In the Maori language 'Waitomo' means 'Water in going' because of the underground river. 

Today, visitors enter through a small door in the hillside, about 59 feet above the water. There are many
caves, galleries with shining stalactite and stalagmite formations. The path slopes down to a sub terranean lake. Visitors go in, by boat silently and in darkness. Countless points of green blue light appear on the cave roof. The cave is transformed into a planetarium with countless start twinkling. Hanging down from the roof, on Cobweb like filaments are the Waitomo's glow worms that shine like stars.