Nature

Waterfalls are one of the most amazing and beautiful natural phenomena. Not many things are as exciting as watching an enormous amount of water going down at a rapid pace from a huge height. Many of these waterfalls are world-famous but some have recently been discovered and have made a huge impact on the world. Each of these beautiful waterfalls …

The longest river in the world is the River Nile whose waters raised one of the world’s earliest great civilizations. It stretches up to 6,650 kilometers or 4,160 miles, from its source in Burundi. It drains an area of around 3,349,000 square kilometers. Research studies reveal that the Nile has gradually changed its location over a period of several million …

China has been blessed with many natural beauties. Crescent Lake is also one of them. The lake is also called Yueyaquan in Chinese. This amazing lake is located 6 km south of the city of Dunhuang in Gansu Province, China. The lake is in the shape of a crescent, hence named Yueyaquan in the Qing Dynasty (Crescent Moon Lake). The …

The Zhangye Danxia Landform in China, aka rainbow mountains, commonly refers to several landscapes which are found in the southeast and west of China which consist of a red bed which is characterized by steep cliffs. This type of landform is quite a unique type and is referred to as petrographic geomorphology in geological terms. Zhangye Danxia landform is actually …

A lake is a large body of water surrounding land and is usually made up of fresh water. Some of the deepest lakes in the world are so captivating that they arouse the curiosity to visit them. Listed down are the five deepest lakes on Earth. 1. Lake Baikal – Asia – 1,637 m (5,369 ft) Also known as the …

In central Greece, on the north-western edge of the Plain of Thessaly, gigantic rocks rise to form a spectacular stone forest. They are called Meteora where ‘meteor’ means hanging in the sky and ‘ora’ means mountain. The formation of the cones and rocks has always fascinated geologists and historians all over the world. Geologists believe that the spires of stones …

Lush green Swat Valley lies between 34°-40′ to 35° N latitude and 72′ to 74°-6′ E longitude. It is a part of the Provincially Administered Tribal Area (PATA) of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Three parts of Asian continents meet that includes Central Asia, South Asia and China. A brief study of Swat Valley’s history reveals that it was known …

Marble Caves, a geological formation of unusual beauty, are located in the center of the lake General Carrera on the border of Chile and Argentina. These happen to be on the second largest freshwater lakes in South America. Many people class this network of marble caves as the most beautiful cave network in the whole world. The Marble Cathedral is …

Ice Canyon in Greenland is one of the coolest and vast spread freezing places. There you actually can enjoy the immensely amazing scenes of water flowing deep through giant icebergs which are not only eye-catching but marvelous as well. Ice Canyon or Greenland’s Grand Canyon is probably the most photographed place in Greenland. The canyon can sometimes be 30 meters visible …

A small area of a crooked forest (known locally as Krzywy Las) near Gryfino in West Pomerania, Poland is a host to 400 pine trees having the trunks bent at 90 degrees in the base. All of them are bent towards the North. These actually are surrounded by a large forest having pine trees that are growing straight. This crooked …