Ouro Preto (English: Black Gold) is a city in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a former colonial mining town located in the Serra do Espinhaço mountains and designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because of its outstanding Baroque architecture. Source: Deposit Photos The 12th and 11t...
Big Bear Mountain Resort is in Southern California's San Bernardino Mountains, one of the few ski areas in California not found in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. The San Bernardino Mountains reach higher than 8,000 feet in elevation, high enough to get outstanding snowfall so close to the...
and the free Wolli Card, valid for one year, gives them access to the Gornergrat Bahn and free lodging in some Zermatt hotels. The Stoked Kids Club in the Schweigmatten is a snow sports school that has the latest
Known for its striking peaks, verdant valleys, and scenic villages, Snowdonia National Park in northwest Wales is home to some the most breathtaking mountain landscapes in Britain. The centerpiece isMount Snowdon, the highest peak in Wales at 3,560 ft (1,085 m). Other dramatic mountains include...
Translated to English as “shrunken-scenery garden,”Shukkeienis considered a masterful rendition of Japan’s natural scenery … in miniature form. The garden, which dates to 1620, depicts the nation’s lushest valleys, mountains and forest regions through careful landscaping and cultivati...
Canada isn’t just mountains, lakes and prairies that dance between sun-soaked summers and whitewashed winters. Out on the western Vancouver Island, in Tofino, the northern Pacific waves touch down. Between Cox Bay, Long Beach, and Chesterman Beach, you’ll have a trio of great surfing spots...
23. Marble Mountains South of Da Nang, are the Marble Mountains. These five peaks are named after the five elements of earth, water, wind, fire and wood. The mountains are picturesque on their own, but they are also home to countless caves, some of which house incredible Buddhist sanctuari...
The fastest route will be about 6 km on trails, the 10 km “Ten Road” is also an option, and certainly the easiest on the joints. From the base of the resort, use the ScalliMag Trail to get back to the Cedar Lake network, and then switch to Odonata to get you as close as ...
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Mount Qomolangma is the highest mountain in the world. It is in the Himalayan (喜玛拉雅) Mountains between Nepal(尼泊尔) and China and it is 8900 meters high. Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal were the first people ever to climb Mount Everest in 1953. Men...