🇦🇱 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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🇺🇸 Rainforest Hoh. Washington, USA

There are no southern plants or jungles here that we are so familiar with from the movies. However, the rain forest lives by the laws of the tropics, fueled in every way possible: by spring snowmelt, summer rains, and fall fog. Humidity is maintained at the proper level, and the rain forest is as breathable as Thailand. Those who have been there will immediately understand it.

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🇲🇨 Semeru Volcano. Java, Indonesia

This, the highest and most active volcano in Indonesia. The activity manifests itself in constant, regular and even predictable eruptions. It looks like this: every 20 minutes or so the volcano blows out a big cloud of steam and smoke, sometimes with ash and pebbles.

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🇾🇪 Dragon Trees. Socotra Island, Yemen

Located in the northwest Indian Ocean, Socotra Island is a treasure trove of unique and rare flora and fauna. One of the island's features are the bizarrely shaped Dragon Trees, named for their red resin resembling dragon's blood.

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🇫🇷 Lake Lalolalo. Pacific Ocean, island of Ouvéa, France

Lalolalo is a crater lake almost circular in shape with red steep rocky cliffs, 30 meters high. The color of the water is inky. The lake is 80 meters deep.
The lake is home to many tropical birds. The lake is inhabited by eel.

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🇲🇦 Goat climbers. Morocco

Every day, a shepherd drives out dozens of horned animals, who comfortably settle in the trees, where they engage in measured eating of green leaves and fruits. The main task of shepherds in the area is to drive their charges from one tree to another, making sure that the herd does not stay in one place for too long.

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🇮🇸 Güdlfoss Falls, Iceland.

Güdlfoss is a waterfall in Iceland, in the region of Südürland. Güdlfoss Waterfall is located on the Hvitau River, in the Höjkadalur Valley, in the south of Iceland.

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🇷🇺 Inzerskie Zubchatki Ridge, Ural.

The Inzerskie Zubchatki Ridge is a mountain range in the Southern Urals. It is located on the territory of Beloretsk district of Bashkortostan. Inzerskie Zubchatki belongs to the ranges of the Bashkir Urals. It is one of the most beautiful places in the Southern Urals.

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🇨🇴 Abandoned Hotel Salto over Tekendama Falls.

In the 1970s the flow of guests suddenly dried up. Rumors of ghosts, as well as a string of suicides, caused tourists to be wary of staying there. The Hotel Salto became a place of pilgrimage for suicides.

When the empty mansion above the waterfall began to gradually deteriorate, it was enveloped by that mystical haze that shrouds all abandoned places.

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