MYSTERIES WONDERS AND AMAZING THINGS OF THE WORLD

Elevation - 9219 feet (2810 metres) Mount Roraima is also known as Cerro Roraima and Tepuy Roraima. It is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepui plateau in South America. This mountain was first described by the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh in 1596. According to him its summit area is 31 square kilometres which is defended on all sides by tall cliffs rising 1300 feet (400 metres). This mountain is the triple border point of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana. The tabletop mountains of the Canaima National park are considered some of the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back to some 2 billion years ago in the Precambrian.

Uluru is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is also known as Ayers Rock and officially gazetted as Uluru / Ayers Rock. Uluru is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory in central Australia. It lies 208 miles (335 kilometres) south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs, 280 miles (450 kilometres) by road. Uluru and Kata Tjuta are the two major features of the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park. Uluru is sacred to the Anangu (the Aboriginal people of the area). The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs, ancient paintings, waterholes and rock caves.

Tianmen Mountain is a mountain located within Tianmen Mountain National Park, Zhangjiajie, in northwestern Hunan Province of China. Tourists can walk on paths built onto the cliff face at the top of the mountain, including sections with glass floors. A 6.8 miles (11 kilometres) road with ninety nine bends also reaches the top of the mountain and takes visitors to Tianmen cave. Tianmen is a natural hole in the mountain of a height of 431 feet (131.5 metres). Tianmen Mountain Cableway is considered to be the longest passenger cableway of high mountains in the world. This cable has 98 cars and a total length of 24,459 feet (7,455 metres) and ascent of 4,196 feet (1,279 metres). 

The Yangtze River (Chang Jiang in China), is the longest river in Asia and the 3rd longest on the earth. It is 3,988 miles (6,418 kilometers) long and flows from the glaciers on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau in Qinghai. Before emptying into the East China Sea at Shanghai the river flows eastward across southwest, central and eastern China. It is also considered as one of the biggest rivers by discharge volume in the world. The Yangtze drains one-fifth of the land area of China, and its river basin is home to one-third of the China's population. The prosperous Yangtze River Delta generates as much as twenty percent of the People's Republic of China's Gross Domestic Product. The Yangtze River flows through a wide array of ecosystems and is the itself habitat to several endemic and endangered species including the Chinese alligator and the Yangtze sturgeon. For many years, people of China have used the river for transportation, water, irrigation, industry sanitation, bo...

Beach head is located in the country of East Sussex near the town of Eastbourne. It is the highest chalk sea cliff in Britain. Beachy head rises 531 feet (162 metres) above the sea level. Beachy head is famous for beautiful view which can be seen from the cliff top. But this beautiful site is also notorious as a suicide spot because of its height. It has been estimated that on average 20 people commit suicide on this spot in an year. The Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team conducts regular patrols of the area in attempts to find and stop potential jumpers.

The Rock of Guatapé" is a massive formation located at the town and municipality of Guatapé, one kilometre inside the city limits in Antioquia, Colombia.