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Showing posts with label Lake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lake. Show all posts

The Baikal Lake

Mar 6, 2010

With blue sea and the sky, the mountains, this beautiful place is very suitable for your honeymoon and traveling destination. The Baikal Lake is located in south of the Russian region of Siberia, near the border with Mongolia. This is the world's second most voluminous lake, after the Caspian Sea.

Baikal Lake consist of a habitat with more than 1,700 species of plants and animals, two thirds of which can be found nowhere else in the world. The Lake also called "The Pearl of Siberia", now famous as tourist object and drew investors from tourist industry as energy revenues sparked an economic boom.


For the increase of tourist, The Lake was also declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996

Bora-bora Island

Jan 22, 2010

This beautiful place’s Origin name was Pora pora, Tahitian language that mean First born, but early 19th century change to Bolabolla or Bollabolla. This island is one of Leeward group in the Society Islands of French Polynesia in Pacific Ocean. The island, located about 230 kilometers (140 mi) northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef.

In the center of the island are the remnants of an extinct volcano rising to two peaks, Mount Pahia and Mount Otemanu, the highest point at 727 metres. Bora-bora is one of travel destination in France, and the development is mainly dependent on tourist. Many resort and bungalows was built around the lagoon. But although the characteristic of the tourist destination are aqua centric, especially on the beach and lagoon, but it is possible to visit any attractions on land such as WWII cannons.

With the narrow island, the transportation on this island is limited. There just a single bus that goes halfway around the island, and back approximately every hour, so for those of you who want to visit this island, bicycle is the recommended method of transport.


Bora-bora is predestined for snorkeling and scuba diving in and around its lagoon. Many species of sharks and rays inhabit the surrounding body of water. There are a few dive operators on the island offering manta ray dives and also shark-feeding dives.

In addition to the existing islands of Bora Bora (called Motu in Taihitian), the new man-made motu of Motu Marfo has been added in the north-eastern corner of the lagoon on the property of the St. Regis Resort.

Plitvice Lakes National Park

Dec 25, 2009

This beautiful place located in the Plitvice Lakes municipality, in the mountainous region of Lika, Croatia, east Europe. This park are contain of mountains, forest, waterfall and lakes. Surrounded by three mountains part of the Dinaric Alps, Plješevica mountain and the Mala Kapela mountain, this park lies in the Plitvice plateau.

The beautiful view of lake, which are separated by natural dams of travertine, which is deposited by the action of moss, algae and bacteria so make the water colourfull, ranging from azure to green, grey or blue. The colours change constantly depending on the quantity of minerals or organisms in the water and the angle of sunlight.



The Plitvice Lakes had become a major tourist attraction in the late 19th century. In 1949 the communist government of Yugoslavia nationalized the lakes and made them a national park. The park was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 in recognition of its "outstanding natural beauty, and the undisturbed production of travertine (tuff) through chemical and biological action".





The Plitvice Lakes are today one of Croatia's biggest tourist attractions. In 2000, the national park was expanded by a further 102 km².

(source wikipedia)