{"id":715,"date":"2017-09-15T17:15:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tripminutes.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2021-11-29T20:45:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T19:45:39","slug":"the-worlds-top-15-natural-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripminutes.com\/the-worlds-top-15-natural-wonders\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Top 15 Natural Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With countless beautiful locations in the world, the list of Top 15 natural wonders is almost impossible to compile without compromise. This is our list of the world’s natural wonders, we think its about the nicest things that nature can offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#15 Great Barrier Reef<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef in the world with an area of more than 3,000 km. On Earth this is the only coral reef that can be seen from space and is the world’s largest coherent system of living organisms. The reef consists of several billion small organisms. The Great Coral reef has rich wildlife, green sea turtles, dolphins, whales, marine snakes and clowns live here as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#14 The Ha Long Bay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Ha Long bay can be found in North Vietnam beyond a 120km long beach and its name means exactly: The descending dragon\u2019s bay. There are thousands of islands in the bay, all covered with dense vegetation, with a magnificent panorama of limestone cliffs. Several islands are hollow, caves can be found, while other islands have ponds and there are some “floating” fishing villages also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

#13 Antarctica<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Antarctica is the coldest, driest, windiest continent on the planet and its average height is the largest. Although 98% of Antarctica is covered with ice, practically the whole area is a desert (the largest on Earth) with very little rainfall. Antarctica is cooler than the Arctic since most of the continent is more than 3 km above sea level and since the Arctic Ocean covers the northern polar zone, giving the relative warmth of the ocean to the icebergs. Antarctica has penguins, blue whales, dolphins and seals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

#12 Grand Canyon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Grand Canyon is located in the north of Arizona and is one of the most important US attractions. Millions of years ago, the Colorado River carved the rocks, which sometimes exceeded the 1.6 km depth and 446 m in length. The Grand Canyon is not the deepest or longest canyon in the world, but its enormous size, complexity, and color vision offers a panorama to the visitors with no match in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

#11 Amazonas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Amazon is the largest water-flowing river in the world, with a total discharge of about one fifth of the world’s total water flow. More than 3,000 species of fish live in the river, but new species are constantly being discovered. The area of the Amazon rainforest accounts for more than half of the world’s rainforests. As the largest tropical rainforest, it has unrivaled biodiversity. One-tenth of known species live in Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

#10  Underwater Waterfall, Mauritius<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Mauritius is an island in the Indian Ocean, about 2,000 km from the south-east coast of the African continent. The Arabs has discovered in 975 and then the Portuguese in the 16th century. Later, they were taken over by French, Dutch and British conquerors, and eventually became a republic in 1968. At the southwestern peak of the island, you can see a fascinating illusion. From the top, sand and slime deposits give the impression that there is an “underwater waterfall” here. Satellite images also show dramatic spectacles, an underwater vortex appearing on the shores of the tropical paradise, while only the color of the sea is altered by the deposits in this place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

#9 Maldivian islands<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The coastline of one of the coral islands looks like its lightened with billions of small lanterns. However, the sights of Waadhoo are not something of a celestial wonder but a very physical phenomenon: bioluminescence. Blue glow is caused by the phytoplankton in the water, which is lightened by the slightest touch. And while drifting, they steadily stick to something, so even the traces of the steps are shining in the water and on the shore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

#8 Aogashima island, Japan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The southernmost member of the Izu Archipelago is about 350 kilometers from Tokyo. The whole island is a perfect form, still active volcano (its highest point is 423 meters), and in the center of its crater there is another cone. The only village in the island was built on the bottom of the crater. Only two hundred people live here, farming and fishing. Although in the last few hundred years, due to earthquakes and lava flows, many people were dead, the people here do not want to leave this special small island with only a single harbor with a steep footpath to the edge of the crater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

#7 Galapagos-islands<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Galapagos Islands are small volcanic islands in the eastern Pacific, belonging to Ecuador. The archipelago is relatively remote and isolated, approx. 1000 km west of South America. The archipelago became famous for its unique ecosystem, Charles Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection was also inspired by this place. It is best to take a boat trip, as we can see the most from the wildlife and beautiful parts of the islands. To book a trip in a travel agency to the Galapagos Islands is probably\u00a0the most comfortable but at the same time expensive too. There are also other offices where you can take trips, for example. Puerto Ayora or Guayaquil or Quito.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

#6 Kjeragbolten, Norway<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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An approximately a five-cubic meter, several tons of stone wedged into a cliff gap with absolute certainty thousands of years ago, so tourists can walk safely on it, and its even allowed to the base jumpers to jump from here. This special stone can be found on the Kjerag Hill, which rises vertically above Lysefjord up to an altitude of 1110 meters, giving you truly breathtaking spectacle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

#5 Salar de Uyuni, so desert in Bolivia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The salt cavern called the largest mirror of the earth is one of the most distinctive natural phenomena of the world. ASalar de Uyuni is the world’s largest, and at the same time its highest littering field. An unparalleled, jubilant sight is provided by this infinite salt pans, as the light of the sun’s rays breaks over the salt-covered landscape, mirroring the sky and twisting it. In the rainy season the precipitation forms a subtle water layer on the surface, giving it a striking effect. This strange desert lies in the basin of the Andes on a surface of 10,582 square kilometers at an altitude of 3656 m. Just as the image of the clouds is reflected in the desert, it feels like it we are not walking on the ground but in the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

#4 Hitachi Park, Japan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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HitachiSeaside Park, 3.5 hectares, is located northeast of Tokyo in Hitachinaka, the flower park lies on the Pacific coast. A favorite tourist attraction, especially for nature lovers. Every season, the visitor receives a huge blossom. One of the most typical plants in the garden is the Nemophila, which opens in the spring, and the countryside falls into beautiful pale blue color. The flowering period attracts many visitors to the park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tulips and daffodils are also open in the spring, in the summer the roses, zinnias, in the fall the butterfly flower and a special dwarf swine, Kochia, which makes the countryside astonishingly colorful. In the spring more than 4.5 million blue nemophila bloom in the whole park. In addition to the Nemophilian, visitors come to visit of 1 million narcissus, 170 tulips and other flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

#3 Mendenhall icecave, Alaska<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Mendenhall Glacier is one of the 38 glaciers of the Juneau Icefield in Southeast Alaska. This huge ice covers 3885 square kilometers of land. One of the most beautiful glaciers in the Alaska. Like all glaciers, Mendenhall is constantly on the move: the ice stream slides 1646 m in the Parti Mountains. This impressive glacier jumble takes 250 years to reach the top of the glacier at the end of Mendenhall, 21 km far away. There are blocks of huge blue ice blocks here suddenly and unexpectedly leaking from the edge of the glacier and falling into the water. It is famous for the huge, floating icebergs of the lake. The oceanic climate of the countryside provides a lavish snowfall that exceeds the 30 km of glaciers every year. The sunken snow will eventually turn into ice and renew the glacier. The glacier features wonderful ice caves that blend in beautiful blue color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

#2 Hillier lake, Australia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From above, the glittering, pale pink surface of the distant Hillier Lake looks like an icing on an oblong cake. The approximately 600m wide salt lake is located on one of the corners of the Middle Island. The lake surrounded by white salt and dark green eucalyptus trees is separated by narrow white dunes and sand layers from the ocean. The strange color of the lake was studied by a group of scientists in 1950, who expected to find algae in salty water. In high salinity water, certain algae produce colorants that explain the color of other pink ponds in Australia. However, water samples from Hillier Lake did not contain any sign of the occurrence of any algae, so the cause of the water of the lake still remains a secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

#1 ZhangyeDanxia land,China<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Several scenarios in Southeast China have a beautiful, colorful countryside. Due to the erosion, today’s shape of reddish sandstone rocks has emerged. The sandstone layers on the cliffs and shapes of Danxia land form are well separated from each other. China, and perhaps one of the world’s most colorful and unique natural formations, is Danxia, which was declared as a World Heritage in 2010. The term “danxia” refers to a unique, reddish surface different from each other; Meaning “pink cloud” or “red sunbeam”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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