Showing posts with label Travel Images. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travel Images. Show all posts
The Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe
>> 21 November 2012
Victoria Falls is one of the seven wonders of the world, stretching 1.7 kilometres wide and shared by the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The falls are formed as the full width of the Zambezi river plummets into a 108 metre high cleft. During the wet season, the spray from the falls can be seen nearly 50 kilometres away, hence the name Mosi-oa-Tunya (the ‘Smoke that Thunders’). The falls drop into a deep, narrow chasm, which is connected to a long series of gorges. This unique form allows the falls to be viewed face-on 60 metres away from the opposite side of the gorges.
Such a beautiful scenery, don't you want to visit there? Read more...
Berne, Switzerland
>> 02 November 2012
Bern (Berne in French), the capital of Switzerland, is tiny city with a population of about 130,000 in the city proper and roughly 350,000 in the agglomeration area.
Of all Swiss ties, Bern is perhaps the most charming. Crammed onto a steep-sided peninsula in a crook of the fast-flowing River Aare, its quiet, cobbled lanes, lined with sandstone arcaded buildings straddling the pavement, have changed barely at all in over five hundred years but for the adornment of modern shop signs and the odd car or tram rattling past. The hills all around, and the steep banks of the river, are still liberally wooded. Views, both of the Old Town’s clustered roofs and of the majestic Alps on the horizon, are breathtaking. The remarkable design coherence of the Berne's old town has earned it a place on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Such a charming city, it is no doubt that Bern was once voted Europe’s most floral city – is the nation’s capital, home of the Swiss parliament and wielder of final federal authority.
Would you love to visit this city? Read more...
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