The Pinta Island tortoise is the rarest animal in the world. There is ONLY ONE LEFT on Earth. His name is “Lonesome George”. Lonesome George is the last member of the Pinta Island subspecies of Galapagos tortoises. He was discovered in 1972, and brought to the Charles Darwin research station on the island of Santa Cruz. He is roughly 90 to 100 years old !!
Taklamakan is one of the largest sandy deserts in the world, ranking 15th in size in a ranking of the world’s largest non-polar deserts. In 2008, China’s biggest desert experienced its biggest snowfall and lowest temperature after 11 consecutive days of snow. Snow is rare in the desert that covered 337,600 sq km (130 sq mi), never before had the whole desert been covered.
The Pink Sands Beach in Harbour Island, Bahama, is often rated as one of the sexiest (and most romantic) beaches in the world. The colour of the 3-miles beach, as it name implies, is pink in colour. The sand of the beach isn’t really pink though; it appears pink because of the red corals in the area, mixing with the white sand and giving the pinkish look.
The 120.11 mile-long (193.30 kilometer-long) Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea. Thousands of men labored ten years (1859-69) to build this shortcut from the Mediterranean to the vast waters of Asia, and vice verse. Without it, a cargo ship sailing from Italy to Singapore had to go around the southern tip of Africa, doubling the time and distance.
A 1,428-mile high-speed rail line opened in China, making it the world’s longest high-speed rail line. The rail line cuts the train trip by more than half from Beijing to Guangzhou.
The train travels at 186 miles per hour. The line will make 35 stops in major cities and will serve 155 daily trains. Among the stops are the provincial capitals Shijiazhuang, Wuhan and Changsha. The trip from Beijing to Guangzhou usually takes 20 hours but this new trip will cut it down to eight hours, according to The Telegraph.
Tiger Temple, or Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, is a Theravada Buddhist temple in western Thailand that was founded in 1994 as a forest temple and sanctuary for wild animals, among them several tigers. Guests can engage in other activities with the tigers. These include bottle feeding tiger cubs, exercising adolescent tigers, bathing tigers, hand-feeding tigers and posing with sleeping adult tigers. The tigers are washed and handled by Thai monks.
This amazing Moses bridge located in the Netherlands gives tourists a unique way to access a beautiful 17th Century Dutch fort. Dutch architecture firm RO&AD Architecten has designed a bridge that turns everyone into Moses.
The birdge is construsted of wood and waterproofoil, the bridge is entirely submerged save for the upper edge which is almost flush with the waterline.
