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UNIQUE AND WEIRD PLACES
AROUND THE WORLD
Vale Da Lua –
Brazil
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INTRODUCTION
Our earth is one of the most beautiful creation of
ALLAH . Our earth has a lot of beautiful places
which can not be described in words . As you all
know the famous saying that “pictures speaks
thousand words”.
so i am taking the honour to present you some of
the pictures.
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PAMUKKALE
Turkey
Pamukkale means cottoncastle, and has also been
called the white castle
because of the vast
whiteness caused by the
high concentration of calcite in the water. The 17
hot springs are heated by
an underground volcano.
The beautiful area of
Pamukkale, Turkey, has
been used as a healing spa
for thousands of years.
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Nine Hells of
BEPPU
Japan
Beppu is home to over 2,800hot springs and is found onthe island of Kyushu. Hell 1is Umi Jigoku meaning “seahell”. The pool is a turquoiseblue and is hot enough toboil eggs. Hell 2 is
Oniishibou, meaning“shaven head hell” and getsits name from the boilinggray mud. The mud bubblesto the surface andresembles the shaved headof Buddhist monks. Hell 3 is
Shiraike Jigoku meaning“white pond hell” and isfilled with boiling whitewater caused by the highcalcium concentrations.
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SPOTTED LAKE OF OSOYOOS BRITISH COLUMBIA,
CANADA
Spotted Lake of Osoyoos wassacred to the First Nations of
Okanagan Valley Indians.
Osoyoos means narrowing
waters in the Okanagan
language, and is used to
describe what happens to thelake. The lake is a saline
electrolite lake, which means
it is a closed body of water
with no outflow or inflow
from other bodies of water.
The lake has high
concentrates of many
different minerals, and
contains some of the highest
quantities of magnesium
sulfate, calcium and sodium
sulfates in the world.
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Cano Cristales–
Colombia
Cano Cristales is a riverlocated in the Serrania de
la Macarena Mountains.
The area where the river is
found is so remote that
you can only get there byhorse, donkey, or on foot.
Cano Cristales is filled with
waterfalls, rapids, wells
and hollows.
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Fly Geyser Reno –
Nevada USA
The spot picked had anunknown geothermal area.
The heated water
eventually found a weak
spot in the well and
pushed itself to thesurface. The minerals
started building up to
create a mini volcano of
about 5 ft. tall, with layers
of terraces.
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The Plain of Jars
Lao
The Plain of Jars is one of theoldest archeological mysteries
in Southeast Asia. Located on
the plateau of Xieng Khouang,
in the mountains of
Indochina, there are about 90
different jars sites. Each sitecontains from 1 to 400 jars. It
has been estimated that they
were created 3,000 years ago,
and are made of sandstone,
limestone, granite, breccias
and conglomerate, with the
majority being made of
sandstone. The tallest jar is
about 9 ft. tall and all are
made from their own
individual slab of stone.
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