Category: World Heritage

Petra – Jordan

Petra is a historical and archaeological city in the southern Jordanian governorate of Ma’an that is famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system. Another name for Petra is the Rose City due...

The Nazca Lines

The Nazca lines are enormous drawings on the ground that streth across the Nazca desert in southern Peru. They were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The high, arid plateau stretches...

Easter Island

Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian Triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous...

The Dream Land Bora Bora

The Ultimate Dream Island Nothing says South Seas escape more than Bora-Bora. This is the very island that had travelers hocking their worldly possessions for a romantic sojourn: nights in the island’s over-water bungalows...

Moeraki Boulders-NEW ZEALAND

Image Credit:Karsten Sperling, http://spiff.de/photo These large, spherical, alien and strangely beautiful boulders are mainly located on Koekohe Beach, part of the Otago coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Known as “Moeraki Boulders” they were...

Iceberg B-15

  Iceberg B-15 is the world’s largest recorded iceberg. It measured around 295 km long and 37 km wide (183-23 mi), with a surface area of 11,000 km² (6,835 mi²)—larger than the island of...

Stonehenge Mystery

Stonehenge is a circle of 17 upright stones called sarsens which stands on salisbury Plain in Southwest England. It is a prehistoric monument in the English county of Wiltshire, about 2 miles (3.2 km) west...

Ice Canyon

The ice canyons in Greenland were carved by meltwater and are as deep as 150 feet. In late July 2006, a 2.2-square-mile lake atop the Greenland Ice Sheet sprung a leak. Like a draining...