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| kiliguides |
 Aug 5 2007, 01:01 AM
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The Serengeti is a 60,000 square kilometer savanna which lies over Tanzania and Kenya.[1] The biannual migration that occurs there is considered one of the tourist travel wonders of the world. The region contains several national parks and game reserves. Its name is derived from the Maasai language and means "Endless Plains".
The Serengeti has more than 2 million herbivores and thousands of predators. Blue Wildebeests, gazelles, zebras and buffalos are the animals most commonly found in the region.
The Serengeti hosts the largest and longest overland migration in the world,[2] a biannual occurrence. Around October, nearly 2 million herbivores travel from the northern hills toward the southern plains, crossing the Mara River, in pursuit of the rains. In April, they then return to the north through the west, once again crossing the Mara river. This phenomenon is sometimes called the Circular Migration. Over 250,000 wildebeest alone will die along the journey from Tanzania to Maasai Mara reserves in upper Kenya, a total of 500 miles. Death is often caused by injury, exhaustion, or predation.[2]
The area is also home to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, which contains the Olduvai Gorge, where some of the oldest hominid fossils are found, as well as the Ngorongoro Crater, the world's largest unbroken volcanic caldera
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| Jambo |
Dec 2 2007, 01:58 PM
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I am glad that the Pyramids did not make the top 7 on the man-made list. Not because they are not spectacular, they are amazing, but because it would have been an indirect compliment to the complex itself, which deserves the exact opposite.
The infrastructure surrounding the Pyramids, from the ticket office to the facilities to tourist information to the manners of the staff to overall user-friendliness, was an absolute disgrace. The Egyptian government should be completely ashamed of how terribly they promote and maintain these incredible structures.
Unless you pay for an expensive taxi ride from Cairo to Giza or are part of one of those coach tours, it can be very difficult to even get to the Pyramids. There is supposedly a bus from the Egyptian Museum but it is unmarked and we waited hours for it, to no avail. Then we took a local bus, followed by a mini-bus that dropped us at the bottom of the hill on which the Pyramids sit. There is no signage to the entrance, the ticket office staff could not have been less excited to see us and the office itself was little more than a wooden shack.
Once inside, we climbed half way up the Great Pyramid to the entrance in the 40+ degree heat only to be told that we needed to buy tickets from another anonymous ticket office to get into this pyramid. So we trudged back down there only to find that this office was closed for the next four hours. This sort of thing, coupled with the incessant camel-riding touts, continued for our entire time at the Pyramids.
I will reiterate that the Pyramids themselves (and the Sphinx) are incredible but it is almost like the Egyptians have made no effort at all to enhance the site. For shame.
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| melissa07 |
Feb 20 2009, 02:15 PM
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Chichen Itza is One of them. Around there are more archaeological sites where you have access to inside of the pyramids. I suggest you the visit before it flooded the Caribbean Area. In the Riviera Maya, you can stay in Grupo Mayan Resorts. Is the best option for a relaxing and gorgeous vacation. More vacation guides?....Visit http://www.grupomayanvacations.com |
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| mecun8 |
Jun 23 2009, 10:16 PM
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Why are you not to select Halong bay in your list new wonders ò the world. I think you have a mistake here becase in the fact that halong bay've chosen in the wonder of the world. You should select halong bay because of its proximity to Hanoi and its World Heritage designation. Still, the 105-mile van trip takes almost half a day — Vietnam’s highway system is still a work in progress and buses and trucks share the road with darting motor scooters, bicycles and plodding water buffalo. Ha Long City’s harbor, a gateway shipping port supplying this fast-developing region, is on the dreary side. In fact, I was having second thoughts about this trip as we dragged our suitcases along a rutted path past rusting, crumbling buildings to the ship, a deluxe junk. But once we were headed into the bay, the breeze and the view from the motorized Dragon Pearl’s top deck, along with our “welcome” glasses of iced tea, lifted my spirits. So did our cabin. Our room — like the 17 others on the junk — was small but contained plenty of amenities, including a king-sized bed, a minute bathroom complete with terry bathrobes and rubber flip-flops, and air conditioning, necessary to cut through the withering heat and humidity. |
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Maybe we can think of some way to organize it so we can vote and break it down to own choices.....what do you guys think?
