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Quedlinburg is dubbed as the first capital of Germany. A very beautiful and charming town with half timbered houses.
Enjoy cruising Halong Bay on Emeraude Classic Cruise, a classy replica of a paddle steamer. Halong Bay has been hailed as a must visit corner of Vietnam, also been recognized from UNESCO as world heritage site. www.emeraude-cruises.com
Ten families still live within the ksar (fortified village). In 1987 the ksar became a UNESCO world heritage site. Several films have been shot there ...
The largest Wieliczka.
underground church is the Chapel of St. Kinga of Poland situated 101 meters below ground level. Its dimensions are: length around 54 m, width around 18 m and height around 12 m. The relics of Queen Kinga are found here.
The Wieliczka Salt Mine, located in the town of Wieliczka, is within Poland's Kraków metropolitan area. It had been until 2007 in continuous operation, producing table salt, since the 13th century. It was one of the world's oldest operating salt mines (the oldest being in Bochnia, Poland, some 20 kilometers distant from Wieliczka).
Active mining was discontinued in 1996 due to low salt prices and mine flooding. The mine remains a major tourist attraction.
The mine reaches down to a depth of 327 meters and is over 300 km long.
The Wieliczka salt mine features a 3.5-km. tour for visitors (less than 1% of the length of the mine's passages) that includes statues of historic and mythic figures. The older works were sculpted by miners out of rock salt; more recent figures have been fashioned by contemporary artists. Even the crystals of the chandeliers are made from rock salt that has been dissolved and reconstituted to achieve a clear, glass-like appearance. The rock salt is naturally grey, in various shades like granite, so that the carvings resemble carved unpolished granite rather than having the white or crystalline appearance that many visitors expect. (The carvings appear white in the photos below; the actual carved figures are not white.)
Also featured is a large chamber with walls carved to resemble wooden chapels built by miners in earlier centuries; an underground lake; and exhibits on the history of salt mining. The mine is often referred to as "the Underground Salt Cathedral of Poland."
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There's a Full Moon festival every month when all the lights in the Old Town are turned off, just leaving lanterns lit.
December 28, 2018 - The adorable kitten getting some food and loving from this traveler outside The Basin Restaurant in Petra.
Looking back from the hypostyle court to the second pylon, the peristyle court and, furthest away, the first pylon.
Left to right, pyramids 3, 4 and 6. While these royal tombs were all plundered in ancient times, frescos preserved in the tombs show that the rulers were either burned, mummified (or not), and then covered with jewellery and laid in wooden cases. The finds indicated that the deceased would need and enjoy the same things in the afterlife as they had while living.
December 28, 2018 - The adorable kitten getting some food and loving from this traveler outside The Basin Restaurant in Petra.