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Getting a Chinese Visa To Visit Mount Wutai
December 9th, 2009
Every year, Unesco scours the globe for places that are uniquely important to humanity's environmental or cultural heritage. The result is an ever-growing list of Unesco World Heritage sites, all of which are excellent places for an adventurous traveler to visit.
One of this year's new World Heritage sites is Mount Wutai in China. The mountain is on the list because it is one of Chinese Buddhism's Four Sacred Mountains. As such, it is the home of many of the most beautiful and important temples and monasteries.
According to Wikipedia, some of the monasteries are the oldest wooden structures still standing in China today, dating back to the Tang Dynasty, dating back as far as 782 AD. Important temples on Mount Wutai include Nanshan Temple, Shouning Temple, Bishan Temple and othe
Getting a Syrian Visa to Visit Damascus
December 8th, 2009
The world's oldest continuously inhabited city, the Syrian city of Damascus has been inhabited since at least the 2nd millennium BC. By the time of the Roman empire, it had become an important center of trade for the ancient world, a crossroads that brought together goods from Southern Arabia, Palmyra, Petra, and China's Silk Road.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Rashidun Caliphate took Damascus from the Byzantines. The city remained one of the most important cities in the Arab world until it was eclipsed by Baghdad, which became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 AD.
Damascus gained importance as a center of trade and commerce again starting in the 11th century, when it was ruled by the Seljuk Turks. The city passed through the hands of many different rulers, and
Getting a Jordan Visa to Visit the Dead Sea
December 5th, 2009
Jordan's Rift Valley is the home of the world-famous Dead Sea. Located just over 400 miles below sea level, the Dead Sea shore is the lowest land area on the planet.
The Dead Sea is fed by the River Jordan, but the water has no place to go and so it slowly evaporates, leaving deposits of salts and other minerals behind. The Dead Sea has a salinity level of 33.7%, according to Wikipedia. For comparison, the ocean has an average salinity level of 3.5%.
The Dead Sea is approximately 8.6 times as salty as seawater. Because of the high concentration of salt, if you go for a swim in the Dead Sea you will float like a cork!
With this much salt in the water, the Dead Sea is almost completely devoid of animal and plant life, the only exception being small amounts of certain types
Get a Gabon Visa to See Hippos Surf
December 3rd, 2009
Have you ever seen a hippopotamus surf? If not, you should definitely put Gabon on your list of places to visit.
Tourists flock to Gabon for its amazingly diverse forests and parks. A full 10% of Gabon's land area was protected and turned into national parkland in 2002 by President El Hadj Omar Bongo. The most famous of Gabon's national parks is Loango National Park, which encompasses savanna, dense forests and unspoiled white sand beaches.
In the forests, you'll find elephants and even families of gorillas. The beaches are home to the famous surfing hippos-if you're lucky, you'll see them playing in the waves just off the shore. Further away from the beach, you can spot whales and dolphins.
Visiting Loango National Park helps maintain this amazing ecosystem. The money you spend
Get a Chinese Visa to See the Great Wall
November 29th, 2009
The Great Wall of China is one of China's most famous landmarks. Built to protect China from invasion by neighboring peoples, the wall was constructed over many centuries, starting in 5 BC and ending in the 16 century AD. However, most of what is there now was constructed in the 16th century, during China's Ming Dynasty.
According to Wikipedia, the entire wall, including natural fortifications and trenches, stretches 5,500.3 miles! The Great Wall is truly an ambitious feat of construction, so grand that people have long assumed that it must be visible from space. However, as it turns out, space travel makes even the Great Wall seem insignificant. If it can be seen from space at all, it can only be seen at low orbits by people who know exactly where to look. You definitely would not b
