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Utrecht is a city with a long history.  It has been the religious centre of the Netherlands since the eighth century. The history of the city goes back to 47 AD and a wonderful, vibrant, old-world city centre features old churches and many architecture monuments from the early Middle Ages. But symbols of the city are Utrecht’ famous channels and unique, remarkable 13th-century canal wharves.

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The ‘eighth wonder of the world’, Palm Jumeirah is an audacious feat of human engineering. Fashioned on the date palm, with its roots on the Dubai coastline and its 17 fronds fanning out into blue waters, this is the first of the planned ‘Palm’ islands and, though it’s the smallest of the three, it is already the world’s largest man-made island. Photo by: twocentsworth

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This is the church of St. George located in Lalibela, Ethiopia. I would say that this the most incredible rock church on Earth. The whole structure was carved and chiselled from a single piece rock, a structure which itself had to be isolated from the mass of rock that now surrounds it.

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The people of Cordillera, 3’000 years ago took on one of mankind’s most impressive landscape modification projects in order to farm effectively transform a mountainside region into what some now call the eighth wonder of the world. These are The Rice Terraces of the Philippines Cordillera. The project is astonishing due to the fact that it was completed thousands of years ago without the use of modern apparatus and machinery takes the terraces and integrated irrigation systems to a whole new level.

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Penang International Floral Festival is very famous festival held in an island in Malaysia. This International Floral Festival in Penang is situated in the Penang Botanic Gardens, in one of the most beautiful gardens in the world. This festival is formed each year to display the floral collections through competitions and exhibitions. If you visit special exhibitions and workshops, you shall also get the scope to learn about the new and sophisticated methods which are used by the gardeners to grow these exotic flowers.

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The Borobodur Temple complex is one of the greatest monuments in the world. It is of uncertain age, but thought to have been built between the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century A.D. For about a century and a half it was the spiritual centre of Buddhism in Java, then it was lost until its rediscovery in the eighteenth century. The structure, composed of 55,000 square meters of lava-rock is erected on a hill in the form of a stepped-pyramid of six rectangular storeys, three circular terraces and a central stupa forming the summit. The whole structure is in the form of a lotus, the sacred flower of Buddha. For each direction there are ninety-two Dhyani Buddha statues and 1,460 relief scenes.

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In Luzon Province of the Northern Philippines, through mountains and rice terraces, the road ends at a church, in a small town called Banaue. 4,000 feet above sea level in Banaue sits a small market village in Ifugao province. Located north of Manila in the Philippines, Ifugao province is famous for the handiwork of its people, who increased cultivable lands by carving gigantic rice terraces from the sides of mountains.

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Ha Long Bay is a body of water of approximately 1,500 square kilometres in north Vietnam with a 120 kilometre coastline, in the Gulf of Tonkin near the border with China, and 170 kilometres east of Hanoi. Ha Long Bay means Bay of the Descending Dragon in the Vietnamese language.

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