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CALA SALADA, IBIZA, SPAIN

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Cala Salada is a small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain  on the Spanish island of Ibiza. It is in the municipality of Sant Antoni de Portmany. It is 4.7 kilometres (2.9 miles) north of the town of Sant Antoni de Portmany. The village of Santa Agnès de Corona is 8.7 kilometres (5.4 miles) north east of the beach.

DAIGO-JI TEMPLE, KOYOTO, JAPAN

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AMAZON RAINFOREST

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The Amazon rain-forest also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses 2,700,000 sq mi (7,000,000 square kilometres), of which 2,100,000 sq mi (5,500,000 square kilometres) are covered by the rain-forest. This region includes territory belonging to 9 nations. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with sixty percent of the rain-forest, followed by Peru with thirteen percent, Colombia with ten percent, and with minor amounts in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations contain "Amazonas" in their names. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rain-forests, and comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rain-forest in the world, with an estimated three hundred and ninety billion individual trees divided into sixteen thousands species. ...

SELJALANDSFOSS WATERFALL, ICELAND

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Seljalandsfoss is a famous waterfall of Iceland. Its photo can be found in many calendars and books. It is situated in between Selfoss and Skógafoss at the road crossing of Route 1 (the Ring Road) with the track going into Þórsmörk.This waterfall of the river Seljalandsá drops 200 feet (60 metres) over the cliffs of the former coastline. You can go behind the waterfall as well.

FLYING DUCK ORCHIDS

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The Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana major), is a small orchid found in eastern and southern Australia. The flower of this plant resembling a duck in flight. The flower is an attractant to insects, such as male sawflies which pollinate the flower and this process is known as pseudocopulation.

CHATEAU DE PIERREFONDS, FRANCE

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The Château de Pierrefonds is a castle situated in the commune of Pierrefonds in the Oise département of France. It is on the southeast edge of the Forest of Compiègne, north east of Paris, between Villers-Cotterêts and Compiègne. The Château de Pierrefonds includes most of the characteristics of defensive military architecture from the Middle Ages, though it underwent a major restoration in the nineteenth century.