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Hang Nga Guesthouse aka Crazy House in Da Lat, Vietnam

Written on 1 Feb, 2012 at 0:32 in Travelling | viewed 27 times and users have made 0 comments so far

Hang Nga Guesthouse , popularly known as the “Crazy House”, is an unconventional building designed and constructed by Vietnamese architect Dang Viet Nga in Vietnam. Described as a “fairy tale house”, the building’s overall design resembles a giant tree, incorporating... (Continue reading)

Perfectly Round Stones of Moeraki Boulders

Written on 31 Jan, 2012 at 23:08 in Travelling | viewed 22 times and users have made 0 comments so far

The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden, and are located at 45°20?42.99?S 170°49?33.82?E. They occur scattered either as... (Continue reading)

Queen Victoria’s Waterwalls

Written on 31 Jan, 2012 at 20:41 in Travelling | viewed 29 times and users have made 0 comments so far

The Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya (the Smoke that Thunders, and note that the ‘i’ is silent) is a waterfall located in southern Africa on the Zambezi River between the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe. David Livingstone, the Scottish missionary and... (Continue reading)

Army Of Ants

Written on 31 Jan, 2012 at 18:35 in Animals | viewed 30 times and users have made 0 comments so far

The name army ant (or legionary ant or “Marabunta”) is applied to over 200 ant species, in different lineages, due to their aggressive predatory foraging groups, known as “raids”, in which huge numbers of ants forage simultaneously over a certain... (Continue reading)

Cinque Terre National Park Italy

Written on 31 Jan, 2012 at 17:52 in Travelling | viewed 31 times and users have made 0 comments so far

The Cinque Terre is a rugged portion of coast on the Italian Riviera. It is in the Liguria region of Italy, to the west of the city of La Spezia. “The Five Lands” is composed of five villages: Monterosso al... (Continue reading)

Aogashima Volcano,Hidden Tropical Island

Written on 28 Jan, 2012 at 15:13 in Travelling | viewed 54 times and users have made 0 comments so far

Aogashima is a complex Quaternary volcanic island 3.5 km in length with a maximum width of 2.5 km, formed by the overlapping remnants of at least four submarine calderas. The island is surrounded by very steep rugged cliffs of layered... (Continue reading)

Caterpillar Looks Like a Snake

Written on 28 Jan, 2012 at 14:25 in Bizzare And Oddities | viewed 44 times and users have made 0 comments so far

Elephant Hawk Moth (deilephila elpenor) caterpillar mimicking a snake. When startled, the caterpillar draws its trunk into its foremost body segment. This posture resembles a snake with a large head and four large eye-like patches.... (Continue reading)

Trees Cocooned In Spider Webs

Written on 28 Jan, 2012 at 14:16 in Bizzare And Oddities | viewed 27 times and users have made 0 comments so far

Millions of spiders into the trees to spin their webs, after 2010?s massive floods surge on Pakistan. Trees shrouded in ghostly cocoons the phenomenon spider webs are not unprecedented before the floods hit Pakistan. The giant spider webs in Sindh,... (Continue reading)

Hell’s Door Turkmenistan

Written on 27 Jan, 2012 at 17:41 in Travelling | viewed 68 times and users have made 0 comments so far

The Derweze area is rich in natural gas. While drilling in 1971, Soviet geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas.The ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a large hole with a diameter of 70 metres (230 ft)... (Continue reading)

Nine Hells Of Beppu

Written on 27 Jan, 2012 at 17:01 in Travelling | viewed 48 times and users have made 0 comments so far

Beppu is part of the course of the annual Beppu-?ita Marathon, which traces a path between Beppu and its neighbouring city of ?ita. The competition has been held every year since 1952 and is classed as an IAAF Silver Label... (Continue reading)

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