Tag: wonder
Iguazu Falls – The Great Water
Cutting a swathe through dense, emerald rain forest, the Iguazu River eventually cascades into a yawning chasm in Brazil’s Parana plateau. Few sights in...
Amazon River – Roadway in the Rain Forest
This great wilderness is a humid, tangled jungle that rings with the cries of cicadas, parrots and monkeys. The peoples who inhabit the river...
Sargasso – Sea of Weeds
A sea within a sea, the Sargasso is like no other tract of water on Earth. It has long given rise to legends and...
The Casiquiare Waterway
After more than 150 years of heated debate, an exhausting, insect-plagued expedition in the first years of the 19th century finally proved conclusively the...
Milford Sound – A Watery Wonderland
Carved by a glacier 20,000 years ago, New Zealand’s Milford Sound teems with unique varieties of wildlife. Here, fresh water and sea water meet...
Ross Ice Shelf – World’s Biggest Iceberg
A towering ice cliff stretching as far as the eye could see confronted the early Antarctic explorers. They had come face to face with...
The Great Barrier Reef – A Fascinating Underwater Kingdom
The largest living structure on Earth, the Great Barrier Reef is a fascinating underwater kingdom, home to thousands of species of coral, fish and...
Galapagos Rift – The Bottom Dwellers Paradise
In some of the ocean bed’s deepest, most inhospitable trenches, communities of creatures have evolved to live independently of energy from the sun, overturning...
The Sacred River Ganges
Although the mighty River Ganges is heavy with pollution, to Hindus it is the most holy water on the Earth, with the power to...
Red Sea – Embryonic Ocean
Red Sea is a potential source of untold mineral wealth and on of the richest marine environments in the world. The Red Sea also...
