 | Angel Falls
Location: Venezuela
Angel Falls is located in the Guayana highlands. It plunges off the edge of a "tepui", or table-top mountain, and free falls 2,421 feet to the river below, making it the tallest waterfalls on earth. In total it is 15 times higher than Niagara Falls with a total of 2,937 feet.
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| The Bay of Fundy
Location: New Brunswick, Canada
Fundy is a place of absolute wonder where the world's highest
tides rise as much as 48 feet in six hours - more than 22
times greater than the average in open seas. So dramatic
is the difference between low and high tide that visitors
to Alma Beach can walk almost 3/4 of a mile across the tidal
flats to the water's edge, then kayak that whole distance
a few hours later when 100 billions tons of water have rushed
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| The Grand Canyon
Location: Arizona, USA
It took nature more than 2 billion years to create the vast
chasm - in some places 17 miles wide - through a combination
of shifting uplift, erosion, and the relentless force of
the Colorado River, which runs 277 miles along its length,
a mile beneath its towering rims. Check out our tours
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| The Great Barrier Reef
Location: Australia
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef of all, stretching an amazing 1,250 miles, or 2,000 kilometers, across the blue of the ocean. It forms a natural break water between the strong waves of the Pacific and the coast of Australia.
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| Iguazu Falls
Location: Puerto Iguazu, Misiones, Argentina
More than 1700 cubic meters of water per second plunge over
200-foot cliffs here, creating 275 separate falls (up to
350 in the rainy season) in a wide horseshoe that forms
northern Argentina's natural border with Brazil. More than
80% of the falls lie within the Argentine border, including
the overwhelming Garganta del Diablo (Devil's Throat) -
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| Krakatoa Island
Location: Indonesia
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| Mount Everest
Location: Nepal
A visual feast for mountain lovers, Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain with a 29,028-foot peak. Many encounter
Everest through a journey to the beautiful Khumbu Valley to view the magnificent scenery, fascinating high-altitude Sherpa
villages, spectacularly sited Buddhist monasteries and unique wildlife.
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| Mount Fuji
Location: Shizuoka, Japan
Hailed as a goddess, revered a sacred mountain and the country's national symbol, 12,390-foot Mount Fuji is
Japan's highest peak, a perfectly symmetrical volcanic cone that's spellbinding when not shrouded in clouds and reflected
off the surface of Lake Ashi-no. The Japanese say that while everyone should climb Fuji-san once, only a fool
would climb it twice.
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| Mount Kilimanjaro
Location: Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania
Few mountains offer the beauty and mystique of Kilimanjaro, at 19,340 feet the highest mountain in Africa,
dwarfing the region's other peaks. One third of Marangu trekkers never make it past Gillman's Point, 600 feet below
the summit as they start to suffer from altitude sickness, the treks biggest obstacle.
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| Niagara Falls
Location: Ontario, Canada
Straddling the US-Canada border, Niagara Falls draws its
waters from four of the five Great Lakes and flings them
down twenty stories at the rate of 42 million gallons a
minute. Almost a mile wide in total, the falls are divided
by islands into three sections: the 1,060-foot American
Falls, including a smaller section called Bridal Veil Falls,
and the larger 2,600-foot Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian
side, which gets the most visitor attention. Niagara Falls
was the undisputed honeymoon capital of the continent for
most of the 20th century. Check out our tours to Niagara
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| Northern Lights
Northern lights, or Aurora borealis brings together two mythological deities - Aurora, the Roman goddess
of the dawn, and Boreas, Greek god of the north wind - to describe an event witnessed mostly at night in
the high northerly latitudes. Though only parts of it can be seen at any time, and almost never during
the day, the aurora borealis forms a 2,000-mile-wide auroral oval above the magnetic north pole day in
and day out, year after year.
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| Paricutin Volcano
Location: Mexico
Rarely do volcanologist get to watch the birth, growth, and death of a volcano. Paricutin provided such an opportunity. The eruption that created Paricutin began in 1943 and continued to 1952
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| Victoria Falls
Location: Zambia / Zimbabwe
Visitors can gaze at the mighty Zambezi river, creating the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, as it flows, broad and placid, to the brink of a basalt lip before taking a headlong plunge into the frothy chasm of the gorge below. This is the world's largest sheet of falling water - at the broadest point, the falls are 5,545 feet across, the height of the falls varies from 256 feet to about 354 feet in the center.
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