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World 10 Best Places to Visit in | Taiwan

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                                                                01.Sun Moon Lake Taiwan   is a small island to the east of   China   that has become a huge travel destination. With the scenic mountains, beautiful old temples, fantastic museums and lively night markets which offer up a stunning array of delicious cuisines. Read on to find out where you should   travel in Taiwan .                                                                    02.Lukang                                                   ...

Ancient Cave Monastery Kostomarovo | Russia

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The Svyato-Spassky Convent in Kostomarovo is an ancient cave monastery located about 150 kilometers south of the town of Voronezh, just 3-hours drive away. There are two churches in these caves: a big Spassky temple with columns and a small St. Seraphim Sarovsky church. The Spassky temple burrows deep into the chalky cliff to form a spacious interior that can house up to 2,000 people. According to legend, the first cave temples were built on the banks of the Don river, before the adoption of Christianity in Russia. Hermits and monks would use these ascetic cave cells to hide from persecution and it wasn’t until the 12th century that the first monastery was built. The monastery was built with the intention of providing parishioners a place to take refuge in case of enemy attacks and even sustain a long-term siege. Within the walls of the shrine were cut small cells for monks and hermits to live. Their only contact with the outside world was through a little window cut into t...

Beautiful Ubari Lakes oasis in the Sahara desert

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Ubari Lakes in the Libyan part of the Sahara desert on the right are among the most beautiful oasis in the world. The largest of these is Lake Umm Al-Maa, which means "Mother of Waters." The water in it is very salty - concentration can be compared with the water of the Dead Sea. Uniqueness lake also consists in the fact that the lower layers is always very hot water, the temperature sometimes reaches to 100 degrees, and wherein the upper layers are cold. Ubari Lakes - a group of about 20 lakes of the landscape of high dunes and palm trees. To achieve these lakes, tourists usually go to Tkerkiba where excellent camping functions to explore the lake. Depth of the lakes, according to the Libyan Central diving varies from seven meters deep (as in Gabrun) up to 32 meters deep (Ain al-Dibbanah about Ghadames). Some of these lakes are drying up due to drought slowly and artificial drainage. Among the most picturesque lakes Gaberun and Umm al-Maa. Also there are two more beautif...

Agrasen ki Baoli, Connaught Place New Delhi

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Agrasen ki Baoli on Hailey Road, near Connaught Place, Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, India. One of the protected monument by the Archeological Survey of India. The word Baoli is use for step well including more words like - baoli, bavadi, vav, vavdi and vavadi. The legend says it was built by Maharaja Agrasen during the Mahabharat in epic era, almost more than 5000 year, but there is no any historical records to prove it. It was rebuilt by Agrawal community in the 14th century. This huge size step well is  a 60 meter long and 15 meter wide with ancient step, made up of a series of superimposed arches supported on piers or columns. The step well includes about 103 steps leading towards the base that once stored water and consists of five different levels, The red stone walls of the Baoli arranged with inventive designs with a series of arched structure are grim and desolate, but still beautif The Baoli had water till recent times, but now it has dried up and one can see the bott...