7 Wonders of ...

1. Nile river



The Nile (Arabic: النيل‎, Eg. en-Nīl, Std. an-Nīl; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲁⲣⲱ, P(h)iaro; Ancient Egyptian: Ḥ'pī and Iteru) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world.^[2] It is 6,853 km (4,258 miles) long. The Nile is an "international" river as its water resources are shared by eleven countries, namely, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt.^[3] In particular, the Nile is the primary water source of Egypt and Sudan.^[4]

 
 
The Nile has two major tributaries, the White Nile and Blue Nile. The White Nile is considered to be the headwaters and primary stream of the Nile itself. The Blue Nile, however, is the source of most of the water and fertile soil. The White Nile is longer and rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant source still undetermined but located in either Rwanda or Burundi. It flows north through Tanzania, Lake Victoria, Uganda and South Sudan. The Blue Nile (Amharic: ዓባይ^?, ʿĀbay^[5][6]) begins at Lake Tana in Ethiopia^[7] and flows into Sudan from the southeast. The two rivers meet near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.
The northern section of the river flows northwards almost entirely through the Sudanese desert to Egypt then ends in a large delta that empties into the Mediterranean Sea. Egyptian civilization and Sudanese kingdoms have depended on the river since ancient times. Most of the population and cities of Egypt lie along those parts of the Nile valley north of Aswan, and nearly all the cultural and historical sites of Ancient Egypt are found along riverbanks.



2. Okavango Delta 

 

The Okavango Delta (or Okavango Grassland) in Botswana is a very large inland delta formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari. All the water reaching the Delta is ultimately evaporated and transpired, and does not flow into any sea or ocean. Each year approximately 11 cubic kilometres of water spreads over the 6,000-15,000 km² area. Some flood-waters drain into Lake Ngami.^[1] The Moremi Game Reserve, a National Park, is on the eastern side of the Delta. This statistical significance helped the Okavango Delta secure a position as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa, which were officially declared on February 11, 2013 in Arusha, Tanzania.^[2] On the 22nd June, 2014, the Okavango Delta became the 1000th site to be officially inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.^[3][4]

 
 
The area was once part of Lake Makgadikgadi, an ancient lake that mostly dried up by the early Holocene. Although the Okavango Delta is widely believed to be the world's largest inland delta, it is not. In Africa alone there are two larger similar geological features: the Sudd on the Nile in South Sudan, and the Inner Niger Delta in Mali.




3. Ngorongoro Crater 



The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is a conservation area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located 180 km (110 mi) west of Arusha in the Crater Highlands area of Tanzania. Ngorongoro Crater, a large volcanic caldera within the area, is recognized by one private organization as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa.^[3] The conservation area is administered by the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, an arm of the Tanzanian government, and its boundaries follow the boundary of the Ngorongoro Division of the Arusha Region. It has been reported in 2009 that the government authority has proposed a reduction of the population of the conservation area from 65,000 to 25,000.



There are plans being considered for 14 more luxury tourist hotels, so people can access "the unparalleled beauty of one of the world's most unchanged wildlife sanctuaries", however, the people who own the land have had few benefits from tourism. None of the senior level positions in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area are yet held by a member of the local Maasai pastoralists, who, in 2013, were aided by an international Avaaz campaign from being evicted from pastures bordering Serengeti National Park in order to facilitate the interests of a private luxury safari company.



4. Serengeti

 

The Serengeti (/ˌsɛrənˈɡɛti/) ecosystem is a geographical region in Africa. It is located in north Tanzania and extends to south-western Kenya between latitudes 1 and 3 degrees south latitude and 34 and 36 degrees east longitude. It spans approximately 30,000 km² (12,000 sq mi). The Kenyan part of the Serengeti is known as Maasai Mara.
The Serengeti hosts the largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world, which helps secure it as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa^[1] and one of the ten natural travel wonders of the world.^[2] The Serengeti is also renowned for its large lion population and is one of the best places to observe prides in their natural environment.^[3] The region contains the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and several game reserves.
Approximately 70 larger mammal and 500 avifauna species are found there. This high diversity is a function of diverse habitats, including riverine forests, swamps, kopjes, grasslands, and woodlands.^[4] Blue wildebeests, gazelles, zebras, and buffalos are some of the commonly found large mammals in the region.
There has been controversy about a proposed road to be built through the Serengeti.^[5]
Serengeti is derived from the Maasai language, Maa; specifically, "Serengit" meaning "Endless Plains".

History

Much of the Serengeti was known to outsiders as Maasailand. The Maasai are known as fierce warriors and live alongside most wild animals with an aversion to eating game and birds, subsisting exclusively on their cattle. Historically, their strength and reputation kept the newly arrived Europeans from exploiting the animals and resources of most of their land. A rinderpest epidemic and drought during the 1890s greatly reduced the numbers of both Maasai and animal populations. The Tanzanian government later in the 20th century re-settled the Maasai around the Ngorongoro Crater. Poaching and the absence of fires, which had been the result of human activity, set the stage for the development of dense woodlands and thickets over the next 30–50 years. Tsetse fly populations now prevented any significant human settlement in the area.
By the mid-1970s, wildebeest and the Cape buffalo populations had recovered and were increasingly cropping the grass, reducing the amount of fuel available for fires.^[8] The reduced intensity of fires has allowed Acacia to once again become established.





5. Sahara Desert







The Sahara (Arabic: الصحراء الكبرى‎, aṣ-Ṣaḥrāʾ al-Kubrā , 'the Great Desert') is the largest subtropical hot desert and third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic.^[1] At over 9,400,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it covers most of North Africa, making it almost as large as China or the United States. The Sahara stretches from the Red Sea to the east, including parts of the Mediterranean coasts to the Atlantic Ocean to the west. To the south, it is delimited by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna that composes the northern region of central and western Sub-Saharan Africa.
Some of the sand dunes can reach 180 metres (590 ft) in height.^[2] The name comes from the plural Arabic language word for desert (صحارى ṣaḥārā ^[3][4] [ˈsˤɑħɑːrɑː])^.

Climate

The Sahara is a harsh environment with extreme conditions. It is the world's largest subtropical hot desert, and the world's hottest desert. The Sahara has mainly a subtropical, hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) with long, prolonged, extremely hot to scorching summers while the winters stay short, brief, extremely warm to truly very hot. The climate of this desert is also characterized by a perpetual clear sky, fair weather and by very low, and even almost non-existent rainfall but the precipitation is also very irregular and sporadic. Although the Sahara is located under the Tropic of Cancer in the most part, this climate is said to be subtropical due to the subtropical high pressure belt, which is mainly responsible of the hot desert climate. The northern fringe of the Great Desert receives very low winter rainfall, where low pressure systems associated with the polar front arrive as being very weak and very attenuated. The southern fringe of the Great Desert receives summer irregular rainfall but relatively low which can only occur when the Intertropical Convergence Zone moves up far enough northerly or when the tropical low pressure systems are strong enough to cause precipitation. In both cases, the climate is very arid and the rainfall only occur on a few days per year. Between the two parts, the central Sahara has an extremely arid climate, with the influence of the continental trade wind. The western coastal desert zone bask under the cool ocean current, the Canary Current which is responsible of a higher clouds and fog formation. According to the dryness of the air, the climate of the Sahara can not not be extreme, since any place where visible and invisible cloud cover as well as the water vapor contained within the atmosphere don't act as temperature regulator, the day between sunlight and ground in order to reduce the roasting, and the night between the Earth surface and space in order to reduce cooling process by sending the absorbed infrared radiation of contracted heat during the day towards the sky, any place having that feature will be characterized by large temperature variations and therefore by an extreme climate. The climates of the Sahara possess relatively high diurnal temperature ranges (between days and nights), and in some rare cases, brutal temperatures variations due to the extremely dry and pure air as well as the clarity of the desert skies. The presence of slow but constant winds make the dryness and the aridity of the Sahara even worse, by enabling a greater evaporation. The climate oscillates between the extreme heat during a typical summer day and the coolness of the winter nights. This desert is noted for his weather and climate extremes : indeed the Sahara contains the places, making part of the hottest, driest and sunniest places found in the entire world. The climate has mainly oppressively hot, sunny, windy and dry conditions all year long. The Sahara is the perfect model of the hot deserts as well as their climate. Carl Ritter liked to say that the Sahara was "the South of the World". This apparently paradoxical reflection means that the Sahara was the hottest and the driest region on Earth. The annual mean temperature of the Great Desert, reduced to the sea level is higher than the one of all other deserts found on the planet<sup>.




6. Mount Kilimanjaro 

 

Mount Kilimanjaro /ˌkɪlɪmənˈdʒɑːroʊ/,[5] with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira, is a dormant volcanic mountain in Tanzania. It is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the world at 5,895 metres (19,341 ft) above sea level.</sup> 

Geology
Kilimanjaro is a large stratovolcano and is composed of three distinct volcanic cones: Kibo, the highest; Mawenzi at 5,149 metres (16,893 ft);^[6] and Shira, the shortest at 4,005 metres (13,140 ft).^[7] Uhuru Peak is the highest summit on Kibo's crater rim. Tanzania National Parks, a governmental agency,^[1] and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization^[2] list the height of Uhuru Peak as 5,895 m (19,341 ft). That height is based on a British Ordnance Survey in 1952.^[8] Since then, the height has been measured as 5,892 metres (19,331 ft) in 1999, 5,891 metres (19,327 ft) in 2008, and 5,888 metres (19,318 ft) in 2014.^[8]
Mawenzi and Shira are extinct, while Kibo is dormant and could erupt again. The last major eruption has been dated to between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago.^[9] Kibo has gas-emitting fumaroles in its crater.
Several collapses and landslides have occurred on Kibo before, one creating the area known as the Western Breach.




7. Red Sea Reef




The Red Sea, or what is sometimes called the Erythraean Sea, is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez Canal). The Red Sea is a Global 200 ecoregion. The sea is underlain by the Red Sea Rift which is part of the Great Rift Valley.
The Red Sea has a surface area of roughly 438,000 km² (169,100 mi²).^[1][2] It is about 2250 km (1398 mi) long and, at its widest point, 355 km (220.6 mi) wide. It has a maximum depth of 2211 m (7254 ft) in the central median trench, and an average depth of 490 m (1,608 ft). However, there are also extensive shallow shelves, noted for their marine life and corals. The sea is the habitat of over 1,000 invertebrate species, and 200 soft and hard corals. It is the world's northernmost tropical sea.

1. Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba

 

The Mosque-cathedral of Córdoba (Spanish: Mezquita–catedral de Córdoba), known as the Mosque of Córdoba (Spanish: Mezquita de Córdoba), whose ecclesiastical name is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption (Spanish: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción), is the Catholic Christian cathedral of the Diocese of Córdoba dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and located in the Spanish region of Andalusia. It originally was a Catholic Christian church built by the Visigoths,although it was later converted to an Islamic mosque in the Middle Ages; after the Reconquista, it was made a Catholic Christian church once again. The cathedral is regarded as one of the most accomplished monuments of Moorish architecture. Since the early 2000s, Spanish Muslims have lobbied the Roman Catholic Church to allow them to pray in the cathedral.This Muslim campaign has been rejected on multiple occasions, both by the church authorities in Spain and by the Vatican.

 

2. Seville Cathedral

The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See (Spanish: Catedral de Santa María de la Sede), better known as Seville Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Seville (Andalusia, Spain). It is the largest Gothic cathedral and the third-largest church in the world. It is also the largest cathedral in the world, as the two larger churches, the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida and St Peter's Basilica, are not the seats of bishops. It was registered in 1987 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, along with the Alcázar palace complex and the General Archive of the Indies.

After its completion in the early 16th century, the Seville Cathedral supplanted Hagia Sophia as the largest cathedral in the world, a title the Byzantine church had held for nearly a thousand years. The cathedral is also the burial site of Christopher Columbus. The Archbishop's Palace is located on the northeastern side of the cathedral.

3.Alhambra

 

Alhambra (/ælˈhæmbrə/; Spanish: [aˈlambɾa]; Arabic: الْحَمْرَاء‎, [ʔælħæmˈɾˠɑːʔ], Al-Ḥamrā', lit. "the red one"),^[a] the complete form of which was Calat Alhambra, is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It was originally constructed as a small fortress in 889 and then largely ignored until its ruins were renovated and rebuilt in the mid-11th century by the Moorish emir Mohammed ben Al-Ahmar of the Emirate of Granada, who built its current palace and walls. It was converted into a royal palace in 1333 by Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada.

Alhambra's Islamic palaces, as we know them today, were built for the last Muslim emirs in Spain and the court of the Nasrid dynasty. After the conquest of Granada by the Reyes Católicos ("Catholic Monarchs") in 1492, some portions were used by Christian rulers. The Palace of Charles V, built by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in 1527, was inserted in the Alhambra within the Nasrid fortifications. After being allowed to fall into disrepair for centuries, the buildings being occupied by squatters, Alhambra was rediscovered in the 19th century by European scholars and travelers, with restorations commencing. It is now one of Spain's major tourist attractions, exhibiting the country's most significant and well known Islamic architecture, together with 16th-century and later Christian building and garden interventions. Alhambra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the inspiration for many songs and stories.

Moorish poets described it as "a pearl set in emeralds," an allusion to the colour of its buildings and the woods around them. The palace complex was designed with the mountainous site in mind and many forms of technology were considered. The park (Alameda de la Alhambra), which is overgrown with wildflowers and grass in the spring, was planted by the Moors with roses, oranges, and myrtles; its most characteristic feature, however, is the dense wood of English elms brought by the Duke of Wellington in 1812. The park has a multitude of nightingales and is usually filled with the sound of running water from several fountains and cascades. These are supplied through a conduit 8 km (5.0 mi) long, which is connected with the Darro at the monastery of Jesus del Valle above Granada. 

Despite long neglect, willful vandalism, and some ill-judged restoration, Alhambra endures as an atypical example of Muslim art in its final European stages, relatively uninfluenced by the direct Byzantine influences found in the Mezquita of Córdoba. The majority of the palace buildings are quadrangular in plan, with all the rooms opening on to a central court, and the whole reached its present size simply by the gradual addition of new quadrangles, designed on the same principle, though varying in dimensions, and connected with each other by smaller rooms and passages. Alhambra was extended by the different Muslim rulers who lived in the complex. However, each new section that was added followed the consistent theme of "paradise on earth". Column arcades, fountains with running water, and reflecting pools were used to add to the aesthetic and functional complexity. In every case, the exterior was left plain and austere. Sun and wind were freely admitted. Blue, red, and a golden yellow, all somewhat faded through lapse of time and exposure, are the colors chiefly employed.

 
"Detail of the script of the wall of the Mexuar Hall: "God is the only Victor.".

The decoration consists, as a rule, of Arabic inscriptions that are manipulated into geometrical patterns wrought into arabesques. Painted tiles are largely used as panelling for the walls. The palace complex is designed in the Mudéjar style, which is characteristic of western elements reinterpreted into Islamic forms and widely popular during the so-called Reconquista, the "reconquest" of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims by the Christian kingdoms.

4.Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar

 

The Basilica–Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar (Spanish: Catedral-Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar) is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. The Basilica venerates Blessed Virgin Mary, under her title Our Lady of the Pillar praised as Mother of the Hispanic Peoples by Pope John Paul II.^[2] It is reputed to be the first church dedicated to Mary in history.

Local traditions take the history of this basilica to the dawn of Christianity in Spain attributing to an apparition to Saint James the Great, the apostle who is believed by tradition to have brought Christianity to the country.^[4] This is the only reported apparition of Mary to have occurred before her believed Assumption.

Many of the kings of Spain, many other foreign rulers and saints have paid their devotion before this statue of Mary. Saint John of the Cross, Saint Teresa of Ávila, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and Blessed William Joseph Chaminade are among the foremost ones. The Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar is one of two minor basilicas in the city of Zaragoza, and is co-cathedral of the city alongside the nearby La Seo Cathedral. The architecture is of Baroque style, and the present building was predominantly built between 1681 and 1872.

5. Roman Theatre (Mérida)

The Roman Theatre of Mérida is a construction promoted by the consul Vipsanius Agrippa in the Roman city of Emerita Augusta, capital of Lusitania (current Mérida, Spain). It was constructed in the years 16 to 15 BCE.

The theater has undergone several renovations, notably at the end of the 1st century or early 2nd century CE (possibly during the reign of Emperor Trajan), when the current facade of the scaenae frons was erected, and another in the time of Constantine I (between 330 and 340) which introduced new decorative-architectural elements and a walkway around the monument. Following the theatre's abandonment in Late Antiquity, it was slowly covered with earth, with only the upper tiers of seats (summa cavea) remaining visible. In local folklore the site was referred to as "The Seven Chairs", where, according to tradition, several Moorish kings sat to decide the fate of the city.

6. Santiago de Compostela Cathedral

 

The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (Galician: Catedral de Santiago de Compostela), a cathedral of the archdiocese is in the World Heritage Site of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in Spain. The cathedral is the reputed burial-place of Saint James the Great, one of the apostles of Jesus Christ. The cathedral has historically been a place of pilgrimage on the Way of St. James, since the Early Middle Ages. The building is a Romanesque structure with later Gothic and Baroque additions.

7. Sagrada Família

 

As of this blog theme Picture information gives some information on the Pictures is a mainstay. this time it went on from the 7 wonders of Indonesia this time I display the 7 wonders of China, quoted from various sources and history, just:

A. Great Wall of China (Great Wall)

Great Wall of China or the Great Wall of China, also known in China as long as 10 000 Li Wall ¹ is building the longest man-made, located in the People's Republic of China. Great Wall of China is not a continuous length, but a collection of short walls that follow the shape of the mountains of northern China. [6] On April 18, 2009 [7], after an investigation by the government accurately the People's Republic of China, announced that a giant wall constructed the period of the Ming dynasty is 8851 km in length. According to historical records, after a long wall built by the Ming, then the term is "Changcheng" (长城, "great wall" or "long wall"). [3] Previously the term was not found. [3] The term Great Wall of China in Mandarin is the "Wanli Changcheng", meaning "wall that extends 10 thousand li". [3] At the present time the term is officially used.




2. Forbidden City (city limits)

After China's famous Great Wall there is one more amazing is the Forbidden City (The Forbidden City) or in a language called Zijin Cheng China, which have been loaded in the colossal movie "The Last Emperor" was released in 1987. Splendor and magical impression that emerges from the film leaves the impression of a dream kingdom and return to the past. UNESCO sites recorded in 1987 as one of the world heritage stands majestically in an area of ​​720 000 m2, consists of 980 buildings, with 8707 rooms - which supposedly was once the residence of the emperor's concubines. The palace complex was built in 1406 and was completed in 1420. but thrown into the past, your eyes will be satisfied by the beauty of traditional Chinese buildings - a very powerful form of architecture affects not only the cultures of East Asia community. The only wealth that may never be able to trace the heritage of art and historical artifacts stored in the Forbidden City is now also known as the Palace Museum. According to the manager, the collection has reached 1.17 million items. Although most of these collections are also stored in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.


3. Terracotta Army


Terracotta Army are the statues of soldiers and horses found in the Tomb of the First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. Terracotta Army was discovered in 1974 by several local farmers near Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. The number of the statues were estimated at more than 8,000 soldiers, 130 trains with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses, most of which are still buried in a lot of holes. The archaeologists believe that there are many holes that are still waiting to be discovered.

Buried in the soil since 210 BC, served as the Terracotta Army "occult forces" guard the tomb of the emperor. Emperor Qin Shi Huang, brilliant at once cruel ruler of unifying China and the builder of the Great Wall of China first, allegedly seized with paranoia and ambition to stay in power even in the afterlife, as he came to power in the world. Inevitably, around the giant tomb mounds, which until now has remained closed, the holes tunnel hides the unseen world other state officials, soldiers, chariots, horses, entertainers, and musicians.

This discovery reveals a big secret in the history of China, and also pave the way for the greatest archeological discoveries of all time. And, by assembling the history and experience first-hand from his travels in China, John Man tells the history of the history of how and why that marvelous artifacts are created in the 3rd century BC.

All this leads to a single figure, the First Emperor, which converts China from states that fought each other to be a great nation as it is now. That's the amazing achievements of one of the great individual in history, which combines the vision, leadership, and cruelty to unite the enemies. Manufacturing of the Terracotta Army completely finished with less than ten years (230-221 BC), believed by many decades as the most important era through 5,000 years of Chinese history.



4. Hanging Temple (Hanging Monastery)

Along with the Yungang Grottoes, the Hanging Monastery is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Hanging Monastery is a great place to start the day traveling around the Heng Shan, a mountain which is endowed with a wealth of temples, historic sites and natural beauty.




In the Tuoba 386 Turkish people take advantage of hard times in China to establish their own dynasty, Wei north, and then take the Datong as their capital. Although this is a very turbulent time in Chinese history, Wei became a devout Buddhist, and some important cultural site was built during the reign of their relatively short. Hanging Monastery was built in 491 and has survived over 1400 years.

Hanging Temple, Datong

A second period of greatness came with the arrival of Mongol Liao dynasty, also Buddhists, who made Datong their capital in 907. Incorporated into the Jin in 1125, Liao leaving a small legacy of sculptures and some fine temple architecture, especially the central temple Huayan (Huayan Si) and a wooden pagoda (Yingxian Mu Ta), the oldest in China, in the nearby town Yingxian. Datong remained important for the later Chinese dynasties for its strategic position right on the Great Wall, south of Inner Mongolia, and the high walls of the city dates from the early Ming Dynasty.

The monastery still largely rebuilt and restored under successive dynasties to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The temples are still a feat of engineering. Buddhist marvel of engineering that not only defy the laws of gravity are also religious. Instead of a special devotion to a single religion, the Hanging Monastery distinguishes itself from other temples to include respect for Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. A unique mechanical theory applied to build the framework. Latitude of the half put into the stone as a base, while the stone behind a support. Hanging Monastery appears to be falling, like a floating monastery. Construction experts from countries including Britain, Germany, and Italy, came to see the monastery. With their words, Hanging Monastery, which mixes mechanics, aesthetics, and Buddhism, is rare. Monastery and everything that symbolizes embodies a great cultural achievements of the Chinese people. Today, the Hanging Monastery attract more visitors and more around the world will marvel at this temple.



5. Seven Star Park

Seven Star Park got its name from seven peaks which should resemble the pattern of stars near the Big Dipper constellation, four peaks in the north called Putuo Hill and three in the south called the Lunar Hill. Seven Stars famous cave is located in Mount Putuo.

Seven Star Park, Guilin

It has been popular since the Sui (581-618) and (618-907) Tang Dynasty. The main sights contain Flower Bridge, Putuo Mountain, Seven Stars Cave, Camel Hill, Crescent Mountain, Guihai Stele Forest and Light of China Square.


Flower Bridge, built in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), is the oldest bridge in Guilin. Every spring and summer, he set out with flowers blooming and the river, then the name of the Flower Bridge.

An important feature of the Mount Crescent is 200 calligraphy carvings in the caves in it. This is said to be an important and talented work of calligraphy from the Tang (618-907 AD), Ming (1368-1644 AD) and Qing (1644-1911 AD) Dynasties. In the park, there is a view Karst, including caves and rocks. Dates back 1000 years ago, where it has become an attractive place for local people.



6. Tiger Hill Pagoda




Tiger Hill Pagoda or Pagoda Yunyan standing on top of the hill is part of the Temple Yunyan. As the oldest pagoda in Suzhou, it serves as a landmark city, was built during the late period of the Five Dynasties (907-959) and was completed in the second year of the Song Dynasty (959-961).

Tiger Hill Pagoda, Suzhou

It was built earlier and higher than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Was originally built of wood, the structure of the complex, colorful and majestic with a unique style. The tower height is 48m, built with bricks laying eight cornered on the seventh floor. In more than a thousand years the tower has gradually slanted due to the forces of nature. It rests about 3.5 degrees north.

In 1957, efforts were made to stabilize and prevent further leaning tower. Concrete is also pumped into the ground to form a stronger foundation. During the process of strengthening, a stone coffin containing Buddhist scriptures were found.

Also the tower partially repaired in 1981 by local governments. Concrete piles have been driven into the ground around the pagoda to strengthen the foundation. As many Tang pagoda and the early Song period, it is a contemporary wood imitation stone pagoda. The "brackets" and "threshold" carved on the surface is not structural, but decorative.

Today pagoda 1000 year has been a symbol of Suzhou. And it is listed as one of the special historical sites under State protection. Temple was the highest point on the hill and has a magnificent view.



7. Yuyuan Garden

The park is believed to originate from the 16th century when Zhang Nanyang, architect, was commissioned by the family of a special Pan by Pan Ming court Yunduan build garden in honor of his father Pan En. The garden was reportedly first established in 1559 as a private garden, construction took nearly 20 years.

Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai

Yu Yuan Garden is an enclave of traditional Chinese architecture and classical gardens. One of the most popular tourist attractions in Shanghai, Yu Yuan Garden is worth a visit to the garden and tea house, especially if you do not get a chance to go to a park near the cities of Suzhou and Hangzhou. But lovely as it is, the right attraction for many who visit the Yu Yuan Garden is a huge bazaar that stretches from the central area and the entrance to the park, to the outskirts of the local environment. Here, great bargains on all sorts of things that can be found, from embroidered slippers, a "new" antique, lucky charms, fake paper money to burn for the ghost of your ancestors', umbrellas, and other knickknacks.