Gran Canaria

Where is Gran Canaria?
Gran Canaria is an island of Canary Island (one of island in Spanish archipelago). This island located in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 kilometers off northwestern coast of Africa. Besides that, this island also located about 1350 from the Europe. Gran Canaria is the second popular island in Canary Island beside Tenerife. The largest island in this Canary Island is Tenerife, then Fuerteventura and then Gran Canaria.

Tenerife is famous with the beach, which was the best in the Europe. The beach's name is Las Teresitas which has white sand and blue water. Besides that, you can also find palm tree in the beach, a curving bay of golden sand sheltered by mountains. Its sounds perfect, and indeed it is – even though the sand was transported from the Sahara.





Back to Gran Canaria, this island called Miniature Continent because its different climate and we can find many of landscapes, with any view of golden beaches endless dune of white sand. Besides that, Gran Canaria’s beaches also have green ravines and also picturesque village. UNESCO protect third of this island under the A third of the island as Biosphere Reserve.

With 2.2 million of annual visitor, this place has famous home stay area, which is located in south of island. With the best of Gran Canaria weather, this part has less rain and sunnier than the north. There are many public facilities in this part, such as airport, shopping centre, Bird Park, and also resort communities. One of the famous communities is Maspalomas Gran Canaria which include some areas.

Flights Gran Canaria also easy to find, because the airport is in the south part of island.

Some of famous tourist objects that can you find as traveling destination are:

• The "Dunas de Maspalomas", in southern Gran Canaria
• Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pino, in Teror
• Las Canteras beach, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Puerto de Mogán
• Casa de Colón y Pilar Nuevo
• Chira Reservoir
• Palmitos Park,
• Cocodrilos Park, Roque Nublo
• El Dedo de Dios

You can also find the picturesque village referred to Little Venice.

Abu Simbel

One of Egypt’s miracle beside pyramid and spinx, there is Abu Simble. Abu Simbel is archaeological site comprising two massive rock temples. Located in Nubia, southern Egypt on the western bank of Lake Nasser about 290 km southwest of Aswan.

This site formed as twin temples that contain of many statues that patched on the side of temples and also on the pillar. These temple were carved out of the mountainside during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II in the 13th century BC, as a lasting monument to himself and his queen Nefertari, to commemorate his alleged victory at the Battle of Kadesh, and to intimidate his Nubian neighbors. However, the complex was relocated in its entirety in the 1960s, on an artificial hill made from a domed structure, high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir.



The relocation of the temples was necessary to avoid their being submerged during the creation of Lake Nasser, the massive artificial water reservoir formed after the building of the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River. Abu Simbel remains one of Egypt's top tourist attractions.
There are two kind of temples. The Great temple and other small temple. The great temple was built and dedicated to the gods Amun, Ra-Horakhty, and Ptah. There are colossal statues with Ramesses II face . these statues were sculpture directly from the rock . All statues represent Ramesses II, seated on a throne and wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.


The small temples was also called as The temple of Hathor and Nefertari, was built about one hundred meters northeast of the temple of Ramesses II and was dedicated to the goddess Hathor and Ramesses II's chief consort, Nefertari. the statues, slightly more than ten meters high, are of the king and his queen. On the other side of the portal are two statues of the king, wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt and the double crown . these are flanked by statues of the queen and the king. What is truly surprising is that for the only time in Egyptian art, the statues of the king and his consort are equal in size.

Salar De Uyuni

Salar De Uyuni or Salar de Tunupa is the world's largest salt flat. Its like a desert of salt. Located in Potosí and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia, South Amercia, near the crest of the Andes, and is elevated 3,656 meters above the mean sea level.

Around 40,000 years ago, this lake is part of the Lake Michin, a large lake in prehistoric times. When dry, there are 2 remaining lakes, namely Lake Poopó and uru uru, and the 2nd largest salt desert, Salar De Coipasa and Salar De Uyuni.

from this picture, it's looks like a beach, beach of salt

Estimated, Salar De Uyuni contains 10 billion tons of salt, and less than about 25,000 tons of salt each year obtained. Every November, Salar de Uyuni into residential areas for the 3 species of flamingos in South America: flamingo’s chile, andes, and James. Salar de Uyuni is a popular tourist destination.

Sand Dunes Of The Sahara

I call this a beautiful world hell. Beautiful shape, but located in the very hot and dangerous place. Dune is a hill of sand built by Aeolian processes, usually with variety of beautiful shape. Dunes also form under the action of water flow (alluvial processes), on sand or gravel beds of rivers, estuaries and the sea-bed.

Some shape of dunes, including:

1. Crescentic, generally wider than they are long. The slipfaces are on the concave sides of the dunes.

2. Linear, Straight or slightly sinuous sand ridges typically much longer than they are wide are known as linear dunes.

3. Star. Radially Symmetrical, star dunes are pyramidal sand Mounds with slipfaces on three or more arms that radiate from the high center of Mound.

4. Dome, oval or circular Mounds that generally lack a slipface, dome dunes are rare, and these occur at the far upwind margins of sand seas.

5.Parabolic, U-shaped Mounds of sand with convex noses trailed by elongated arms are parabolic dunes.


Dunes are one of Sahara’s beauties. Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world and covers most of Northern Africa. The Sahara covers huge parts of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. Be able to reach you through any country.