7 Wonders of the World

Background: The Grand Canyon, in Arizona, US, is one of the largest and most impressive example of erosion by water, along with Victoria and Niagara falls. It has been named as a UNESCO world heritage site, and one of USA Today’s seven wonders of the world, and both these titles mean that it is very [...]

Background: There are many significant natural and man made shifts that happen on earth once a year: the change from winter into spring, the day the clocks go forward, the end of one year and the simultaneously beginning of the next. Yet perhaps one of the most impressive shifts that only one part of the [...]

Background: Dotted around Guatemala, Northern Belize, Mexico and Honduras are remains of structures, buildings and monuments built by the Mayan people; an ancient civilization with a very rich history. There are 8 main sites of the Mayan ruins that are still standing today, namely: Tikal – a c.700 AD city in Guatemala Caracol – another [...]

Background: Nobody can argue that the creation of the Internet is not a huge achievement of our time. This worldwide computer network keeps people on the other side of the world at our fingertips, providing communication and information on just about anything almost immediately. Telephones have been allowing us to communicate with others farther than [...]

Background: While you might imagine a marine national monument to be a statue or large structure built in the sea to signify a country or continent’s culture, this one couldn’t be further than the truth. The Papāhanaumokuākea Marine National Monument is, in fact, an entirely natural structure existing in the ocean at the site of [...]

Background: As planet earth lies on an axis, it has two poles that are at the northernmost and southernmost points all through the year. Due to their distance away from the sun, these two poles are also the coldest parts of the earth, and spend the majority of the year completely frozen into what’s better [...]

Background: Towards the north-east of Israel lies the Old City of Jerusalem, a religious site housing over 200 monuments pertaining to Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The entire site stretches 0.35 square miles within the modern city of Jerusalem, and is contained within walls reaching between 16 and 46 feet in height. Four quarters make up [...]

Background: Standing at 170 meters tall, and 400 meters wide from east to west, the Potala Palace is home to thirteen stories of rooms, each of which were mostly used for and by the various Dalai Lamas who inhabited it. Each of the palace’s surrounding walls – built atop the 100ft tall ‘Marpo Ri’ hill [...]