🇺🇸 Tropical Storm. Florida, USA.

According to centuries of observation, the region's tropical activity peaks in late summer, when the difference between upper atmospheric and sea temperatures near the well-warmed water surface is at its maximum.

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🇷🇺 Lake Baikal. Russia

Baikal has the most transparent ice in the world! You can see all the way down to the bottom. Much of Baikal's water purity is maintained by the activity of the microscopic crustacean epishura, which consumes organics by passing water through its body. Because the water freezes in layers, we can observe different patterns in different parts of the lake.

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🇮🇹 Dolomite Alps. Italy

These are mountains of fossilized algae and coral reefs. For 250 million years they grew in the warm ancient ocean Tethys, and when its level lowered, these bizarre and majestic "pale peaks" appeared. About 30 million years ago, when the European and African tectonic plates collided and the Alps were formed, the Dolomites rose from the sea as an entire platform.

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🇦🇽 Basel Canyon. Iceland

It hid under water for a long time until a hydroelectric plant was built. A few years ago, the flow of water in the glacial river was extremely limited, allowing the Basalt Column Canyon to be seen. These are some of the largest and most beautiful basalt pillars in Iceland.

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🇺🇸 Angels Haven National Park. Utah, USA

Angels Landing trail is considered one of the most beautiful trails in Zion Park, it even sometimes appears in various rankings of the most dangerous and beautiful trails in the world. In Zion Park, the Angels Landing trail is not so much described as challenging, but rather as extreme.

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🇨🇦 Lake Kliluk. Province of British Columbia, Canada

The lake contains a large concentration of various minerals. In summer, most of the water in the lake evaporates, exposing bizarre coloured mineral deposits. Large patches of water of various colors are left on the lake.

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🇲🇬 The Great Red Island. Madagascar

All nine species of baobabs found on Earth have been planted in different parts of Madagascar, with seven of them growing only on the Great Red Island. Along the dirt road are dozens of 30-foot-tall Adansonia grandidieri trees several girths thick. The trees in the baobab alley are 800 years old. Madagascar has no animals typical of Africa - lions, giraffes, zebras and hippos. The island is home to about 12 thousand species of animals and plants, of which more than 10 are unique.

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🇦🇴 Epupa Falls. Angola

Epupa is a waterfall on the Cunene River in southwestern Africa. Thanks to the abundant tributaries flowing into the Cunene from the Angolan border highlands, the river remains always full. At the location of the Epupa Falls, the Kunene River is the border river between Angola and Namibia. Namibia is a place where two elements meet: the desert and the ocean. It is a true wild Africa.

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🇦🇱 Fairytale Forest. Korca, Albania

Albania's nature is one of the most colorful and diverse in Europe. It is characterized by mountainous terrain, overgrown with dense forests, high rocky peaks, picturesque coasts, washed by the Adriatic and Ionian Sea.

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🇲🇽 Cenote Ik Kiel. Mexico

A cenote is a natural well, lake or cave formation with bodies of water. The Yucatan Peninsula consists mostly of limestone, over the years, during torrential tropical downpours, the limestone eroded and formed these wells or underground lakes, which became known as cenotes.

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🇺🇸 Grand Canyon. Arizona, USA

The Grand Canyon is one of the most beautiful and majestic canyons located around the states of Arizona and Utah. The Colorado River has been creating this miracle for 5-6 million years. When you simply drive on the road in this area and look away, you would never believe that there are huge chasms in the distance, reaching almost 2 km deep, and that the famous Colorado River is flowing deep there - so flat is the landscape. Some canyons are not visible until you drive up to them or get close to them.

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🇻🇳 Cai Beo Village. Lan Ha, Vietnam

Lan Ha Bay is the floating fishing village of Cai Beo, which has about 300 houses. The population of the village continues to lead a traditional lifestyle of fishing and seafood. Artifacts found during the study of the area indicate that people have lived here for 4,500 years. Now Cai Beo is the oldest fishing village in Vietnam.

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🇨🇭Helmer Funicular. Oberland, Switzerland

The Helmer Funicular was built with a gradient of 106 degrees. It was created in the 1920s to transport construction materials and workers needed to build the dam on Lake Helmer. In 2001, the elevator was converted into a passenger road.

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🇨🇳The Great Wall of China. China

The hike on the Jiankou section is very difficult and dangerous. On some sections there is no passage at all, you have to climb steep stairs with an angle of almost 90 degrees.

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🇫🇷 Marais Lighthouse. France

The Marais lighthouse is located in the open sea. The place for the erection of the lighthouse was not chosen by chance, this is where the worst shipwrecks have happened over the decades. Over the years, several caretakers have changed at the Mare, two of whom have died. The others went crazy, saying that during storms they heard terrible inhuman screams coming from under the water. Nowadays, the lighthouse operates autonomously.

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🇩🇪 Storm in Bavaria. Germany

Cold air from the highlands descends rapidly down the relatively narrow intermountain valleys, causing it to heat up. The air warms by about 1 °C for every 100 m downward. Descending from an altitude of 2,500 meters, it heats up by 25 degrees and becomes warm, even hot. This phenomenon is due to the cold air's tendency to occupy the lowest parts of the earth's surface. Foehns are especially frequent in spring, when the intensity of the general circulation of air masses increases sharply.

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🇺🇸 Slot Canyon. Utah

Slot Canyon is a narrow canyon with high walls. It is usually very beautiful, but difficult to traverse.

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🇰🇪 Giraffe Mano Boutique Hotel. Nairobi, Kenya

Giraffes peeking through the window is a traditional morning scene at Kenya's Giraffe Manor Boutique Hotel. The center rescues sick, injured and orphaned animals, mostly rhinos and elephants, feeds them and, after a special adaptation course, releases them into the wild in the nearest reserve.

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🇵🇪 Red River. Peru

In Peru, in the valley of Cusco, there is the world-famous Red River. "Red" is not just a beautiful name, the water in the river really has a rich brick color. The fact is that under the soil in the valleys of Cuzco there are various minerals, including iron oxide.

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🇮🇸 Dettifoss Falls. Iceland

Dettifoss is the most powerful waterfall in Iceland and Europe, it is called the "European Niagara". Every second, 200 cubic meters of water rush off the 44-meter high ledge to hide the bottom of the waterfall in bubbling foam.

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🇱🇦 Tat Quang Si Laos Waterfall

This waterfall consists of the largest cascade, reaching up to 54 meters in height. The main feature is the amazing color of the water of these pools - their rich turquoise hue is hard to miss.

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