Yunnan - A Major Tourist Destination In China

Yunnan: A Major Tourist Destination In China


Yunnan (Chinese: Chinese Pinyin: Yunnan, IPA hear: (), literally "South of the Clouds" is) a province of the People's Republic of China, south-west of the country's extreme about 394,000 square kilometers ( 152,000 square miles). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Vietnam.

Yunnan is located in a mountainous area with elevations in north-western and southern lowlands. The majority of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the West, the relative height can be the top of the river valleys are all 3,000 m. Yunnan is rich in natural resources and the greatest diversity of flora in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has more than 17,000. reserve in Yunnan Aluminum, lead, zinc and tin, the largest in China, and there are also significant reserves of copper and nickel. Yunnan has more than 600 lakes and rivers, which provide an annual water supply of 222 billion cubic meters. water reserves projected at 103 GW stand, with a useful capacity of 90 GW.

Yunnan is part of the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220) in the second century BC. It was the seat of a kingdom Tibeto-Burmese language in the 8th Century Nanzhao known. Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite probably spoke a language close to Yi and modern Burma. The Mongols conquered the region in the 13th century, performed by the local control of warlords until the 1930s. As with other parts of the South-West China Japanese occupation in the north during the Second World War forced a migration of Chinese into the region. Ethnic minorities in Yunnan accounts for about 34 percent of the total population. The main ethnic groups are the Yi, Bai, Hani, Zhuang, Miao and Dai.

Yunnan is a generally mild, with pleasant weather and beautiful, because the location of the province on the south side, receiving the influence of both the Pacific and Indian oceans, although the growing season is long, there is little arable land. See agriculture in Yunnan. January average temperatures between 8 ° C to 17 ° C on average in July range from 21 ° to 27 ° C. Average annual rainfall varies between 600 mm to 2300 mm, with more than half the episodes of rain from June to August The plateau has a moderate temperature. The region of West Canyon is hot and humid in the valleys, but there are icy winds on the summits.

Lakes

There are several large lakes in Yunnan. The province has nine lakes with areas of about 30 square kilometers. [4] These include:

* Dianchi Lake near Kunming
* Fuxian Lake, Yuxi, the second deepest lake in China
* Erhai Lake near Dali
* Lugu Lake, in Ninglang near the border of Sichuan
Qilu Lake *
* Lake Yangzong in Yiliang, Kunming
* Lake Yilong
* Lake Xingyun

Rivers

Yunnan is the source of two rivers, the river Xi (known there as the Nanpan and Hongshui) and the Yuan River. The Hongshui is a major source of the river flows Xi. Rising Nanpan that in eastern Yunnan Province, it flows south and east, are part of the border between Guizhou province and Guangxi autonomous region. Arising out of 345 km, it joins the river forming the Yu Guiping and finally to the Xi River.

The province is drained by six major river basins:

* The Yangtze River, which, here called the Jinsha Jiang (River of Golden Sands), which drains the northern province.
* The Pearl River with its source near Qujing, collects water from the east.
* The Mekong (Lancang), which flows from Tibet into the South China Sea as a border between Laos and Burma, between Laos and Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam
* The Red River (Yuan Honghe) has its source in the mountains south of Dali and enters the South China Sea from Hanoi, Vietnam
* The Salween (Nujiang), which empties into the Gulf of Martaban and the Andaman Sea through Burma
* The Irrawaddy has a few small tributaries Yunnan far west as Dulongjiang and rivers in the prefecture of Dehong.

National Parks
See also: List of national parks in China

* Pudacuo National Park, opened in 2007 in the county of Shangri-La
* Laojunshan National Park, pending Lijiang Prefecture,

Abu Simbel - Egypt

Not only are the two temples at Abu Simbel, a major monuments in the world and the removal of the reconstruction was an historic event in itself. When the temples (280 km from Aswan) were threatened with flooding of Lake Nasser, the High Dam, the Egyptian Government secured the support of UNESCO and launched construction of the action world. During the rescue operation, which began in 1964 and lasted until 1968, broke two churches and grew to 60 meters of sandstone when it was built more than 3,000 years until today. Here are gathered in the same ratio between the sun and covered with an artificial mountain. Most of the associated stone, now filled by antiquity experts, but inside the house can still see where the block was reduced. You can go inside an artificial dome and see pictures showing the different stages of a huge exhibition program removal. Abu Simbel was first reported in JL Burckhardt in 1813, when he came over hill and just as big facade of the church, as he prepares to leave the area within a river.

Both temples Ramses II primarily for Re-Harakhte, and his wife, Nefertari is Hathor, was needed to see Victoria visited Egypt, but it should be up and traveling the Nile, and often involve deeply in the sand, as they were when Burckhardt took them.

Fraser Island Australia - World Heritage Listed

Fraser Island Australia - World Heritage Listed

Fraser Island stretches over 123 kilometers long and 22 kilometers at the widest point. The area of 184,000 hectares is the largest sand island in the world.

Fraser Island World Heritage listing ranks it with Australia Uluru, cockatoo and the Great Barrier Reef. Fraser Island is a valuable part of the natural and cultural heritage of Australia, is protected for all to appreciate and enjoy.

Fraser Island is a place of exceptional beauty with its long uninterrupted white beaches flanked by highly colored sand cliffs, and more than 100 freshwater lakes, tea and other colors are clear and blue all ringed by white sand beaches. Ancient rainforests grow in sand along the banks of fast flowing, crystal clear bay.

Fraser Island is the only place on earth where large trees were found growing on sand dunes in an increase of more than 200 meters. Low "vallum" heaths on the island, particularly evolutionary and ecological significance, and provide magnificent wildflower displays in spring and summer.

Huge sand blows and cliffs of colored sands are part of the longest and most complete years down the coastal dune systems in the world and is still developing. Constantly record on climate change and sea level over the past 700 000 years. Most of the dunes on the island and up to 240 meters above sea level. Great Sandy Strait, separating Fraser Island from the mainland, is listed by the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention).

Wetlands are rare fern patterns, mangrove colonies, sea grass beds and up to 40,000 migratory shorebirds. Rare, endangered or vulnerable species are dugongs, turtles, blue ant-Illidge, butterfly and Eastern curlevs.

The Louvre Museum

Louvre (French pronunciation: myze), or the official Grand Louvre - in English, Louvre Museum, or the Grand Louvre, or simply the Louvre - is one of the largest museums in the world's most visited museums in the world and a historic monument. This is a major landmark in Paris, France, and is located on the right bank of Seine, in the first Arrondissement (district). Nearly 35,000 objects from Prehistory to the 19th century, is exposed over an area 60,600 square meters (652,300 square feet).

The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) which began as a fortress built in the 12th century by Philip II. The fortress is still visible. The building was extended several times to create the current Palais du Louvre. In 1672, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles in his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to exhibit the royal collection, including the 1692, a collection of ancient sculptures. In 1692 the building occupied by the Inscriptions and Letters and the Royal Painting and Sculpture in 1699 was the first series of exhibitions of the Academy Academy. Academy Louvre remained for 100 years. During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum, displaying masterpieces of the nation.

The museum opened in August 10, 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, most of the unfinished church and confiscated the goods of King. Due to structural problems in the construction, the museum was closed in 1796 to 1,801th Collection volume increased by Napoleon when the museum was renamed the Musée Napoléon. After his defeat at Waterloo, many works seized by Napoleon's army had returned to their original owners. This collection had continued to grow by Louis XVIII and Charles X, there, and in accordance with the Second French Empire, the museum acquired 20,000 pieces. Farms has grown steadily through donations and gifts since the Third Republic, except during the two world wars. 2008 collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities, Oriental Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art Islamic sculpture, decorative arts, paintings, drawings and prints.

French Revolution

During the French Revolution, the Louvre was converted into a public museum. In May 1791 the Assembly declared that the Louvre will be "a place to collect the monuments of all the sciences and the arts." On August 10, 1792, Louis XVI was imprisoned and Louvre became the royal collection of good government. for fear of vandalism or theft, Aug. 19, the National Assembly adopted the museum as an emergency preparedness. In October, the Committee to "preserve the national memory" began assembling the collection display.

Discovery
Antonio Canova Psyche Revived Kiss was commissioned in 1787 and the first version was given to the Louvre after the reign of Napoleon I, 1824th

The museum opened in August 10, 1793, the first anniversary of the disappearance of the monarchy. The public was freely available three days per week, which was "perceived as a great achievement and it is generally appreciated." Collection by 537 paintings and 184 works of art. Three quarters were from the royal collections, the emigrants, and recreational goods confiscated Church (State Property). Develop and organize the collection, the Republic spends £ 100,000 a year. In 1794, the revolutionary army in France began to bring the pieces from all over Europe, like Laocoon and his son, and the Apollo Belvedere, in order to determine the Louvre museum and the "sign in the people's sovereignty."

The first few days were hectic, the artists lived in residence, and pictures hanging by reference "image from floor to ceiling. The building itself closed in May 1796 because of structural weaknesses. It again July 14, 1801, in chronological order, and with new lighting and columns.

The Great Hadrian’s Wall in England

The Great Hadrian’s Wall in England

Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Aelium - as seen from the hook on the Staffordshire moorlands) is a wood and stone fortifications built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England. Launched in the year 122, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian, was the first of two fortifications built across Great Britain, the second is the Antonine Wall in what is now Scotland. Hadrian's Wall is best known for both its physical remains were more evident today.

Opinions differ, but the growing consensus is that the wall was built as a fortress easily defended that clearly defines the northern border (lat. limes) of the Roman Empire in Britain (Britannia). It will also improve the economic stability and provide peaceful conditions in the border region.

The wall was the most fortified borders of the empire. Apart from his role as military fortifications, we believe that many doors through the wall would have served as customs posts to allow trade and tax collection.

An important part of the wall still exists, especially in the middle section, and for much of its length, the wall can be followed by Wall Path or the course of Hadrian to the National Cycle Route 72. It is the most popular tourist attraction in Northern England, where it is often known simply as the Roman walls, or wall. She was named a UNESCO World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1987. English Heritage, the government department responsible for managing the historic environment of England, which he describes as "the most important monument built by the Romans in Britain"

Hadrian's Wall was built following a visit by Roman emperor Hadrian (117-138) during 122.Hadrian trying to conquer new lands for the Roman army and seized land from any height in the United Kingdom (Scotland, Ireland and England) . Hadrian in military difficulty Roman Britain and the peoples of various conquered lands across the Empire, including Egypt, Judaea, Libya, Mauritania, and most of the peoples conquered by his predecessor Trajan so wanted to impose order . The construction of such a wall was impressive, but probably also a symbol of the power of Rome, both in occupied Britain and Rome. [Citation needed]

are borders of the Empire, the authorities relied heavily on the natural features or fortified zones with a strong military presence. Military roads often marked the border, with forts and towers spread along a message, and it was not until the reign of Domitian that the first solid frontier was constructed, in Germania Superior, using a simple fence. Hadrian expanded this idea to redesign the German border by ordering a continuous timber palisade supported by forts behind it. Although these defenses could not slow down any concerted effort to invade, did in fact mark the limit of Roman territory and partly to provide a degree of control over who crossed the border and where. The wall was constructed primarily to prevent entry by small strips of raiders or unwanted immigration from the north, not as a fighting line for a major invasion. The wall has cattle raids along the border is extremely difficult.

Hadrian Roman reduce its military presence in the territory of the Brigantes, who lived between the rivers Humber and Tyne, and focuses on building a more solid linear fortification to the north of them. This was to replace Stanegate road is generally considered to have served as a limes (the limit of the Roman Empire) until then.

Euro Disneyland

Disneyland Paris is a holiday and recreation resort in Marne-la-Vallée, a new city in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. The complex is located 32 km (20 miles) from downtown Paris, and is largely rural area in Chessy, Seine-et-Marne.

Disneyland Paris consists of two theme parks, retail, dining and entertainment district and seven Disney-owned hotels. In operation since 12 April 1992, it was the second Disney resort to open outside the U.S. (following Tokyo Disney Resort) and the first owned and operated by Disney. What 15300000 visitors in 2008, this is one of Europe's leading tourist destinations.

Disneyland Paris is owned and managed by French company Euro Disney SCA, a public company, 39.78 percent of its stock belongs to the Walt Disney Company, Saudi Prince Alwaleed 10 percent and 50.22 percent of other shareholders. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Philippe Gas Chairman of the resort.

The complex subject of controversy during the periods of negotiation and construction in the late 1980s and early 90s, when many well-known French figures voiced their opposition and protests, the French trade unions and others. Next, a setback followed the opening of the resort as park attendance, hotel occupancy and revenues fell below projections. Partially it was difficult to re-Euro Disney at Disneyland Resort Paris, the 1995th In July the same year, the company's first quarterly profit.

The second theme park, Walt Disney Studios Park, opened to the public 16th March 2002.

In August 2008, Disneyland Paris is the most visited attraction in Europe.

Palace of Westminster: Houses of Parliament

Palace of Westminster: Houses of Parliament

Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, a meeting place of two houses the House of Lords and the Parliament's lower house. Located on the north shore of Thames Note that the heart of London City of Westminster, Westminster Abbey, near the historic and government buildings in Whitehall and Downing Street. The name may refer to one of two buildings, the Old Palace, a medieval complex of buildings, most of them perished in 1834 and its replacement by a new palace, which stands today but retained their original status as a royal residence style and ceremonial purposes.

Royal Palace was built in the eleventh century, a site in London and Westminster was the principal residence of Kings of England until a fire destroyed a large part of the complex after that he was the 1512th house Parliament, which has been meeting since the thirteenth century, and the location of the Royal Courts, based in and around Westminster Hall. In 1834, a fire devastated the rebuilt houses in Parliament even higher, and the only surviving structure of the importance of Westminster Hall, monasteries and chapter of St Stephen's Chapel of Our Lady Undercroft and the Jewel Tower.

Increased competition in the reconstruction of the palace by architect Charles Barry and his winning design for the building of the Cross Gothic style. Remnants of the old castle (with the exception of a separate Jewel Tower) have been incorporated into its much larger replacement, which includes over 1,100 guest rooms, symmetrically arranged around a series of two courtyards. Part of the New Palace of 3.24 hectares (8 acres) were allocated to the Thames dams, which are assigned to the main facade, 265.8 meters (872 feet) from the river front. Barry was assisted by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin WN, a leading expert in Gothic architecture and style, which saw the designs for the decoration and equipment for the palace. Construction began in 1840 and lasted for thirty years, suffering from major delays and cost overruns, as well as the death of the two leading architects, interior decoration construction continued intermittently into the twentieth century. Home maintenance was done because due to the impact of air pollution in London and the repairs made after World War II, including the reconstruction of the Commons chamber after the bombing of the 1941st

Landing is one of the centers of political life in the UK, "Westminster" has become a metonym for the British Parliament and the Westminster system of government adopted its name after him. His Clock Tower, which became known as particularly "Big Ben" after its main Bell, best known sights in London and the UK's most popular tourist city in general and the nature of parliamentary democracy. Palace of Westminster was a Grade I listed building dating from 1970 and a UNESCO World Heritage List since 1987.