9 most amazing places on earth

1. Amazon

Amazon forest, also known as Amazonia, the Amazon rainforest or the Amazon Basin, encompasses seven million square kilometers, while the forest itself occupies some 5.5 million square kilometers, located in nine countries. Amazon represents over half of the remaining rainforests on the planet and is composed of the ways the largest and most species-rich tropical rainforest in the world. Amazon is the largest river in the world by volume, with a total river discharge is greater in the top ten in the world combined. It contributes about one fifth of the total flow of the river and has the world's largest reservoir of the planet. No bridge over the Amazon.

2. Angel Falls (Venezuela)



Angel Falls is the highest waterfall in the world, with an altitude of 1002 meters, and located in the Canaima National Park, Bolivar, Venezuela along the border with Brazil. This waterfall has more than 19 times higher than Niagara Falls.

3. Bay of Fundy (Canada)



Bay of Fundy is famous for the highest tide of the world (16.2 meters or 53 feet). A hundred billion tonnes of seawater flowing in and out of the Bay of Fundy twice a day - more water than the total flow of all the fresh water rivers of the world. Fundy tide makes extreme marine ecosystems are dynamic and diverse. Bay is famous for its coastal rock formations, extreme tidal effects (vertical, horizontal, rafting and boring) and sustainable development of coastal areas. This is also an internationally important feeding ground for migratory birds, habitat for rare and endangered whales live rights, one of the world's largest open area of ​​plant and animal fossils. Bay of Fundy is located between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia on the east coast of North America.

4. Dead Sea (Israel, Jordan, Palestine)



The Dead Sea is a salt lake between the West Bank / Palestine / Israel and Jordan west to east. At 420 meters below sea level, the beach is the lowest point on earth that is on dry land. With 30 percent salinity is 8.6 times saltier than the ocean.

5. Greeting Barrier Reef (Australia, Papuanugini)



Great Barrier Reef is the largest barrier reef in the world, with about 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for more than one area of ​​about 2.600 km 344,400 km square. This is the largest single structure of living beings and can be seen from space.

6. Iguazu Falls (Argentina, Brazil)



Iguazu Falls, Iguazu River, is one of the largest waterfalls in the world. They stretch over 2,700 meters (almost 2 miles) in a semicircle. Decreased from 275 that together form the Iguassu Falls Devil's Throat "was the highest at 80 m in height. Iguazu Falls on the border between the Brazilian state of Paraná and the Argentine province of Misiones, and is surrounded by two national parks (BR / ARG). Both the subtropical forests that are home to hundreds of rare and endangered species of flora and fauna.

7. Puerto Princesa Underground River (Philippines)



Puerto Princesa Underground River National Park is located about 50 km north of Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines. It features a limestone karst mountain with KM 8.2. navigable underground river. A distinctive feature is the river that winds through a cave before flowing directly into the South China Sea. It includes major formations of stalactites and stalagmites, and several large rooms. The bottom of the river under the influence of the tide. Underground River is known as the longest in the world. At the mouth of the cave, a clear lagoon surrounded by ancient trees growing to the water's edge. Monkeys, large monitor lizards, and squirrels find their niche on the beach near the cave.

8. Sundarbans (Bangladesh, India)



Sundarbans delta at the mouth of the river Ganges, is the largest mangrove forest in the world, spread across parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India. Sundarbans features a complex network of tidal waterways, the spread of mud and small islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests. This area is known for its wide range of fauna, the Royal Bengal tiger is the most famous, but also many other birds, seeing deer, crocodiles and snakes.

9. Uluru (Australia)



Uluru (Ayers Rock) is one of the most recognizable natural icons of Australia. sandstone formation known throughout the world, standing 348 m above sea level with most of the majority in the ground, and measures 9.4 km in circumference. Uluru, the color of light of different attacks to change at different times of day and year.