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Holiday Destinations: Elephant Rock in Heimaey Iceland

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The Elephant Rock is a natural rock formation found on the island of Heimaey (meaning Home Island) in Iceland’s Vestmannaeyjar archipelago. With around 4,500 residents Heimaey is the most populated island of Iceland and is the only populated island of the Vestmannaeyjar chain. The 660 feet high volcano could potentially be the reason of the Elephant Rock and many other formations like it around the island. The volcano is known to explode without warning, forcing the inhabitants of the island to act fast with strategy that use sea water to rapidly cool the moving lava before it can change their home too significantly, destroy the town, or potentially hurt anyone. A scenario such as this could have been the cause of the massive rock that happened to be shaped just like an elephant. You can visit Heimaey and the other Vestmannaeyjar islands by ferry, and all have hiking trails available including some leading to Eldfell. If this destinatio...

Holiday Destinations: Hunza Valley The Real Paradise on Earth

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Hunza is probably Pakistan's most visited valley, by the tourists. It is a fairy tale land surrounded by beautiful rugged & snow capped mountains. Only at a distance of 100 Kms and from Gilgit Hunza is a small town on Karakorum Highway. At the altitude of 7000 - 800 feet it is the first main town or stop if you are entering Pakistan from China. This valley full of green fields and apricot trees looks like paradise and friendly people greeting you everywhere. When you stand on the terrace of the Baltit Fort in Karimabad, it is almost impossible to stop looking around to those magnificent high mountains. But stop looking up; you must also look down, because from the terrace of the Baltit Fort you also have a splendid bird's eye view on the houses of the village Karimabad.   Everyone must visit Hunza Valley once in a life if you want to see the real beauty of the world.

Holiday Destinations: Sydney, Australia

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Sydney is one of the most prominent destinations in the world where tourist throng from all over the globe. It is pretty thrilling place to be in winter, with totally fun-filled events, celebrations and festivals to ignite the season. There are lots of things to see and do like world-class events, big shopping centers and some of Australia’s best dining experience over there. There are numbers of best places are located in Sydney which you can’t see on a short tour, so that’s why I am going to share the best places which are must see whenever you travel to Sydney.  The Sydney Opera House Your tour is not complete to Sydney until and unless you can’t see this famous place of it. The Opera House can be found on Sydney Harbour's Bennelong Point at the northeastern tip of the Sydney CBD and is surrounded on three sides by the harbour, and is frequently seen in pictures and postcards along with the nearby Sydney Harbour Bridge, both of which usually combine to ...

Holiday Destinations: Phi Phi Island (Thailand)

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As we all know that Thailand is one of the most promising places for tourists who are willing to go there especially for honeymoon holidays. Phi Phi Island is one of the best holiday destinations in Thailand where people throng from all over the world especially in summer season. Phi Phi's beauty is a large piece of the attraction. The islands, when approached by boat, rise from the sea like a fortress. Sheer cliffs tower overhead, and then give way to beach-fronted jungle. It's love at first sight. The second part of the why-we-love-this-place story is attitude: few places on the planet are this laid-back. Of the two islands, one is completely free of human inhabitants (Phi Phi Leh), and the other is without roads (Phi Phi Don). There's no schedule, no hustle-and-bustle, no reason to be in a hurry.

Holiday Destinations: The Titanic Historical Pictures

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Tuesday marks the 102 nd anniversary of the world’s most famous maritime disaster– the sinking of the RMS Titanic 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, in the North Atlantic Ocean after a collision with an iceberg. Among the 2,224 people aboard the British luxury liner on its maiden journey, 1,514 were killed. Titanic   received six warnings of sea ice on 14 April but she was traveling near her maximum speed when her squad sighted the iceberg. Unable to turn quickly enough, the ship suffered a glancing blow that buckled her   starboard   (right) side and opened five of her sixteen compartments   to the sea.   Titanic   had been designed to stay afloat with four of her forward compartments flooded but not more, and the crew soon realized that the ship would sink. This is a huge disaster in the history which always remains on our mind and we always remember this date in a calendar year. Furthermore, if you want ...