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Scariest mountain ride ever!
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Can you imagine what would happen if these people bit the dust on their way down?
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Located in Patagonia, Chile and right smack in the middle of the Huilo-Huilo biological reserve, this Magic Mountain hotel has stunning architecture that will blow any other hotel out of the water. Boasting a waterfall cascading down the side of this uniquely shaped hotel and a narrow swinging wooden bridge high in the air, this Middle Earth like lodge will have most visitors feeling like they have been transported into another time.
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Crazy Horse Memorial is the world’s largest sculpture of an Indian man carved in the granite mountain. The works began in 1948 and still continue.
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The Solvay Hut is one of the most indredible mountain huts in the world. It is located at a height of 4,003 meters on the Matterhorn’s ridge. There is room for 10 mountain climbers inside. The hut is managed by the Swiss Alpine Club.
High mountain camping is the most extreme camping in the world. What is it like to sleep in the air staying miles up above the ground?
The photos in this post are of some very unusual roads. Many of them make you wonder how they were ever built and where they are going. They certainly seem to disprove that the shortest route between two points is a straight line.
Here is another post about roads you might want to see:
World’s Scariest Roads (35 pics)
Do you remember the post about the deepest part of the Earth? Now, this infographic picture will show the data from the tallest mountain to the deepest ocean trench. If all schoolbooks were written in infographic pictures, it would be much interesting and easier to study :)
Vatnajökull is the largest glacier in Iceland. It is located in the south-east of the island, covering more than 8% of the country. With a size of 8,100 km², it is the largest glacier in Europe in volume (3,100 km³) and the second largest in area. The average thickness of the ice is 400 m, with a maximum thickness of 1,000 m. Under the glacier, as under many of the glaciers of Iceland, there are several volcanoes.
So here are some b/w pics of the largest glacier in Europe, don’t miss them, they are beautiful.
It’s the biggest Swiss flag in the world and certainly one of the biggest flags in the world (the second behind is the Israeli one, I think,).
Saturday, August 1st, was the Swiss National Day and for the occasion, they mounted on mountain Saentis the largest Swiss flag ever. It measures 120 meters by 120 meters (14.400 m²) – that’s huge!
Here is an impressive way of celebrating the National Day, so don’t miss it, take a look on the pics inside the post.
Mt. Huashan is famous for its egregious cliffs. One cliff seems to be steeper than the previous one. The temple for God of Mt. Huashan is situated on the South Peak, one of the most difficult cliffs to climb.
If you like adventure vacations it is absolutely the place to go. It’s dangerous, tough and exciting. I would definitely do this ))