Ha Long Bay among world’s top 50 natural wonders
VOV.VN - Ha Long Bay has been listed among top 50 natural wonders in the world by CNN Travel.
Thousands of small islands and standing stacks, or karsts, overgrown with green shrubbery, protrude from Ha Long Bay, a peaceful bay. |
Pulpit Rock, Preikestolen, Norway: With a 604-meter drop from a flat plateau down to Lysefjord with no safety railings, this is not a place for vertigo sufferers. |
The Gran Salar de Uyuni in southern Bolivia takes in more than 10 square kilometers of salt. It feels more like a desert than a lake. |
The Ngorogoro Crater, Tanzania is Africa's Eden. Created when a huge volcano exploded 2-3 million years ago, the 300 square kilometre caldera now offers the best chances of seeing Africa's wild animals. |
The Paria River in northern Arizona carved its own smaller version of the Grand Canyon. Some of the rock formations, including The Wave, are just as spectacular. |
Part of the Aeolian Islands off the coast of Sicily, Stromboli is a small volcanic island with several hundred brave inhabitants. |
Mud lovers trek to Gobustan's strangely Martian landscape, 65 kilometres south of Azerbaijan's capital Baku, where thick gray mud regularly spews from small volcanoes. |
Eighteen kilometres northeast of Beirut, Jeita Grotto is comprised of underground limestone caves were inhabited in prehistoric times and continue to attract human visitors with their vivid colours and stalactite formations. The biggest stalactite in the world is here. |
Pembrokeshire Coast Path National Trail twists 300 kilometres from St. Dogmaels to Amroth in southwest Wales. |
Pangong Tso Lake in the Himalayas at an altitude of 4,350 meters lies astride a disputed border area between India and China-governed Tibet. |