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Serengeti Migration
November 6th, 2009 by Travel
The Serengeti is a 60,0000 km square area which lies in Kenya and Tanzania, which has two million herbivores and many thousands of predatory animals who feat on these herbivores. Some of the species in the Serengeti are the wildebeest, the gazelle, the zebra, and the buffalo, along with many predators.
Twice during each year there is a massive migration that happens where all the animals, two million of them, cross the Serengeti in search of food during the different periods of the year. It is a five hundred mile journey, and added up is over a thousand miles, considering they do it twice a year. A quarter of a million wildebeest will die on the trek from the Tanzanian Serengeti to the Maasai Mara reserves in Kenya. In recent years this has become a tourist attraction where many, who travel with guides in rugged vehicles, can watch the migration occur.
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Iguazu Falls
November 6th, 2009 by Travel
On the border of Brazil and Argentina there is a series of waterfalls that goes on and on and on, with two hundred and seventy falls that are along the Iguazu River for a mile and a half, with falls that are as high as eighty two meters, and many more around sixty four meters. The tallest of the falls is the Garganta del Diablo, which is in a horseshoe shape that is one hundred fifty meters wide and seven hundred meters long.
The falls are one of the most complex systems of waterfalls in the world and attract many tourists each year. The falls here are much larger than Niagara Falls and only one other comes close to this, and that is in Africa (Victoria Falls). Many tourist come out every year at all times of the year to see the falls, although recently a drought has restricted the waterfall, so it is recommended to visit during the rainy seasons.
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Ngorongoro Crater
November 6th, 2009 by Travel
The Ngorongoro Crater is a large area that is now a conservation area, and is 8,288km square in size and layout, and is situated in Tanzania. In 1959 the area was declared a conservation area and was separated from the Serengeti to create its own unique zone. The land is allowed for human use, but only for habitation and subsistence level farming to keep the wildlife safe, it also hosts the migration where millions of animals cross each year twice.
The crater itself is actually a massive volcanic crater that remains unbroken from the caldera of a long extinct super volcano. Within the crater about twenty five thousand creatures make their living with zebra, gazelle, wildebeest, rhinoceros, lion, leopard, elephant, and buffalo to name a few, along with many common predatory mammals such as lions. There have also been findings of ancient human and human-like remains which are vital to our current understanding of our own origins upon this planet and arguably one of the most important sites ever found in regards to human evolution theory and discovery.
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Amazon Rainforest
November 6th, 2009 by Travel
The Amazon Rainforest is located on the cotenant of South America and is within nine of the countries in South America, and is seven million KM squared in size (1.2 billion acres). The nations that exist around and in this massive rainforest are Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, French Guyana, and Suriname. Deforestation threatens the massive Amazon Rainforest with destruction of the ecology and ecosystems.
The rate of deforestation continues to increase at an ever faster pace with Brazil and other countries clearing the land for cattle raising and soybeans – which is devastating to the rare and many endangered species of the rainforest. In 1970 there was 4.1 million square kilometers in forest, and by 1990 there were only 3.6, and in 2000 it dropped to 3.5. Today it is down to 3.4, only 82% of what it used to be in 1970. At the current rate twenty years from now only 40% of the forest will be left, and a further twenty years at the current rate dooms it.
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Polar Aurora
November 6th, 2009 by Travel
The Polar Aurora is caused by an electro-static condition where charged particles emit light in the magnetosphere of our atmosphere, and occur in the north and south, with the north being called Aurora Borealis, and the south being the Aurora Australis. To make it simple, Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australia, and all auroras are caused by the collision of charged particles which emit light and give it a greenish red glow.
They commonly occur at the poles and are seen in higher northern and southern latitudes. There have been some recorded cases of the Aurora being so bright and exceptionally large that you could read a book with it, and see comfortably in the middle of the night, and during the largest event in 1859 it was discovered that it was an electric event (thanks to the disruption of telegraph lines) and allowed operators to work without power for a sustained two hours.
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Mount Everest
November 6th, 2009 by Travel
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on the planet Earth and reaches an elevation of 8,848 meters in height, located in Nepal and Tibet within Communist China. Many people have attempted to climb the mountain, and there have been 3,050 successful climbs, however there have also been many tragedies that go along with such a dangerous endeavor, two hundred and three people have perished on the mountain, many of the bodies left out in the open, frozen. The mountain is named after a Colonel George Everest and was done so in 1865 by Andrew Waugh.
Today the mountain has had many controversies relating to how climbers treat each other (with some being uncaring toward others who are in distress, subsequently letting them die) and pollution from oxygen canisters polluting the mountain as litter, along with the leaving of corpses without removal. There is a twenty five thousand dollar fee for climbing the mountain, and some have done it without the aid of oxygen canisters; however the majority do need them.
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Harbor of Rio de Janeiro
November 6th, 2009 by Travel
In Brazil on the Atlantic coast is the city of Rio de Janeiro, a Mecca for shipping travel and tourism. The harbor in Rio de Janeiro was constructed over the course of the past few hundred years and has built up into a very crowded area; however the mountains that break up through the water remain mostly untouched by man, as they give the area its natural beauty and wonder.
There are commonly thousands of small vessels in the Harbor at any given time and it is a very popular tourist attraction to see the mountains and sometimes climb them. In addition to this it also hosts Christ the Redeemer, a statue on the Corcovado and considered as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. One of the most common features in and around the Harbor are the granite domes, which give the formations the unique shapes seen today – granite is pushed up this way through natural mountain building from previous volcanic activity.
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