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RIO DE JANEIRO

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On the North Eastern coast of Brazil lies the state of Rio de Janeiro, which has a capital city of the very same name. This city is well known for a number of things, including the stunning mountains that surround it, great carnivals and of course the statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks the city below. Rio de Janeiro’s most famous feature, however, has to be its harbor, which formed entirely naturally and was colonized in the 16th century by Portuguese explorers. Rio bay holds many illusions. Rio is a natural wonder because there are so many ways to look at the harbor and see different things. Some of the first explorers thought it looked like the mouth of some giant river! The giant mountains by it help deceive your eyes to make it seem like a lake. When you first come into view of the harbor you see such strange shapes, and forms that everything looks like something else. There are many magnificent mountains around the bay. Some of the mountains are low and run str

MOUNT EVEREST

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Mount Everest is the highest mountain on the earth. Its peak is at 8848 meters above the sea level. It is the 5th tallest mountain measured from the centre of the Earth.  It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. Approximately 4,000 people attempted to climb Mount Everest, out of which only 660 succeeded. 142 climbers have been died attempting to climb Mount Everest. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first to climb Mount Everest on May 29, 1953.