Deep Dive Dubai is verified by the Guinness World Record as the world's deepest swimming pool, at a depth of 60.02 meters and holds 14 million liters of water. That, the owners say, is the equivalent of six Olympic-sized swimming pools. This facility is an investment in Dubai's growing sports culture and will add another world-class destination to Dubai's thriving tourist attraction. Deep Dive Dubai is now open and…
Underwater Waterfall - Indian Ocean Off the coast of a small island in the Indian Ocean, there is — what appears to be — a waterfall submerged in the ocean itself. From the island’s shore, there is a gradual slope leading out to a sudden 2.5-mile drop to the ocean floor. The “waterfall” is actually an optical illusion formed by sand and silt deposits sliding down the slope in a way that makes it…
White Sands National Park, located in New Mexico, USA, is the largest gypsum sand dune in the world. Here, great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert. Over 250 million years ago, the area that is now White Sands used to be a body of water called the Permian Sea. When the sea dried up and disappeared, the gypsum seabed eventually broke down into smaller particles. …
Grape Harvest Festival, Argentina One of the highlights of the year on the Argentine cultural calendar has to be the Grape Harvest Festival is one of the world’s most famous wine regions, Mendoza. The main event takes place during the first days of March. The festival culminates with a spectacular show in the Frank Romero Day Greek amphitheater. On the 7th of March, the show kicks off, with a beauty pageant electing the official Harvest…
• Angel Falls The world's highest waterfall drops 979 meters (3,211 ft) from the Auyan-Tepui table mountain in Venezuela. It originates from the Río Churún River. This is 15 times higher than Niagara Falls for comparison. Read More... • Iguazu Falls Iguazu Falls is actually a chain of hundreds of individual waterfalls stretched out almost three kilometers to create the world's largest waterfall on the border between Brazil and Argentina on the Iguazu River. Read…