MYSTERIES WONDERS AND AMAZING THINGS OF THE WORLD

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 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.

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres (1,600 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. CNN labeled it one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland.

The  Victoria Falls  or  Mosi-oa-Tunya  ( Tokaleya   Tonga :  the Smoke that Thunders ) is a  waterfall  located in southern  Africa  on the  Zambezi River  between the countries of  Zambia  and  Zimbabwe . Thousands of tourists visit this place each year.  Other attractions are to  bungee jump  off the Victoria Falls Bridge (111m high) and dive into the Zambezi River gorge, or  white water rafting  below the fall in the rapids of the Zambezi River. While it is neither the highest nor the widest waterfall in the world, it is claimed to be the largest. This claim is based on a width of 1,708 metres (5,604 ft)  and height of 108 metres (354 ft), forming the largest sheet of falling water in the world.

Parícutin  is a  cinder cone   volcano  in the  Mexican  state of  Michoacán , close to a  lava -covered village of the same name. This volcano is unique from others because its formation was witnessed from its very inception. It is one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Three weeks before the actual eruption, rumbling noises that resembled thunder were heard by people near Parícutin village. These were actually deep earthquakes. Much of the volcano's growth occurred during its first year, while it was still in the explosive pyroclastic phase. The nearby villages Parícutin (after which the volcano was named) and San Juan Parangaricutiro were both buried in lava and ash; the residents relocated to vacant land nearby. At the end of this phase, after roughly one year, the volcano reached the height of 336 metres (1,102 feet). For the next eight years the volcano continued erupting by relatively quiet eruptions of lava th...

The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is one of the seven wonders of the World. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,000 feet or 1,800 metres).  For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by  Native Americans  who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The  Pueblo people  considered the Grand Canyon  a holy site and made pilgrimages to it.  The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was  García López de Cárdenas  from Spain, who arrived in 1540.

An aurora is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere (thermosphere). The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and solar wind and, on Earth, are directed by the Earth's magnetic field into the atmosphere. The auroras are also known as the Northern Lights. They are naturally occurring lights that create intriguing and spectacular displays in the sky. The aurora lights frequently appear as diffused glow lighting up the horizon. The most amazing sight is when the northern lights appears as waves across the sky; it is almost as if the lights are dancing.