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Sunday, October 16, 2011
Madagascar Tourism (Natural Beauty of Madagascar) - Madagascar is a country that occupies the world's fourth largest island of the same name. Located in the Indian Ocean, off the east coast of Africa. It is said that the population of Madagascar or Malagasy people are descendants of a mixture of people originating from Borneo and Africa, then added with a little mixture of Arab, Indian, and Chinese culture and enrich the appearance and style of their clothing.
Friday, June 10, 2011
2 Secret Rooms in the Pyramid of Giza. Pyramids of Giza allegedly storing two hidden room that has not been found. Both the room serves as a place to store furniture funeral.
Allegations were made Jean-Pierre Houdin, a researcher pyramid of France, after studying the data an expert on the history of Egypt from the United States, Bob Brier, who combined with a simulated three-dimensional (3D) he made. Search gives clues about the possible existence of two secret rooms in the heart of the big building.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Ichkeul is a 12,600 acre National Park in the north of Tunisia, about 25 km southwest of the city of Bizerte. The National Park was established in 1980 mainly to protect the endangered birds in the same year in the list of World Natural Heritage (UNESCO) database. As a wetland it is also protected under the Ramsar Convention. In 1996 he was due to its increasing salinity as being at risk and thus recorded in the red list of endangered world heritage. 2006 Ichkeul was again removed from this list.
The Ichkeul Lake and its wetlands are important stops the bird route of hundreds of thousands of Tunisia on the Mediterranean, arriving birds such as ducks, geese, storks and flamingos that arrive that here to find food and build their nests. Ichkeul is the last remaining river in a chain that entlangzog sooner than the whole of North Africa.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
The archaeological site of Kerkouane on the Tunisian peninsula of Cap Bon is one of the most important archaeological and North Africa is on the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage have been included, since this is probably the only surviving Punic city.
Kerkouane probably destroyed during the First Punic War, in the so-called Regulusexpedition, but never rebuilt. Excavations have taken place since 1953 and lasted, with interruptions of up to 1976. The town's origins are uncertain, but one suspects that there has been a Berber settlement, before the Phoenicians arrived. The earliest Punic objects date to the sixth century BC. The city itself forms a semicircle facing the sea, and until now, however, are no port facilities have been discovered, although the coast line in the city has been well studied. A port is therefore assumed outside the city.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Sousse (Susa) is a port city on the Mediterranean and the fourth largest city in Tunisia. The name is of Berber origin, with these parallels are found in Libya. In southern Morocco the whole region is known as Bilad al-sus.
The town of Sousse is located some 130 kilometers south of the Tunisian capital of Tunis in the south of the Gulf of Hammamet on the Mediterranean. The city has 173 047 inhabitants, with their wider surrounding areas 432 171 (census 2004). It is the capital of Sousse Governorate Sousse Wilayat / Wilayat Susa (census 2004: 544 413 inhabitants) and capital of the Tunisian Sahel.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Qairawān (Kairouan) is a city in Tunisia with 117,903 inhabitants (2004). It is located 150 km southwest of Tunis, 50 km west of Sousse and is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate wilayat / Wilayat al-Qairawān. By 11 Century the city was an important center of Islamic learning in North Africa (Ifriqiya).
With the old city and its oriental tradition according to market-level guilds, with mosques and other religious buildings Qairawān since 1988 on the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage. According to the decision of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), a subsidiary organization of the Islamic World League, Qairawān "Capital of Islamic Culture 2009"was.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Thugga (now Dougga) was an ancient city in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, in what is now northern Tunisia. Since 1997, it is on the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage.
Thugga is upon the steep cliffs (Numidian: Tukka), which close the city in the north. In the 4th Century BC It was founded as a Phoenician city in the territory of Carthage. Diodorus mentions Thugga in connection with the conquest of the Greeks Agathocles of Syracuse in 305 BC After the fall of Carthage in 146 BC conquered the Numidian king Massinissa Thugga. After the defeat of the Numidian Thugga was 46 BC, Roman finally.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
The Kasubi Tombs are gravestones and tombs of the kings (Kabakas) of Buganda in the Kasubi Hill in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. They are considered as the union of the historical, religious and cultural values of the nation and as a spiritual center of the Baganda. Nowhere else in the Kingdom of the religion is practiced as active as here. In addition, the Kasubi Tombs are a good example of the architecture of the Baganda.
The Kasubi Toms are recognized since 2001 as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
The Ruwenzori Mountains (Ruvenzori / Rwenzori), with up to 5109 meters the third highest mountain in Africa. It is in East Africa on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda and has as one of only three mountains in Africa glaciations. Because of its high ecological significance, it is part of UNESCO's world natural heritage.
The name "Ruwenzori" is derived from the term 'Rwenjura' (pronounced Rwen dschura) in the language of the resident on Ugandan side Batoro now and say something like "The Rainmaker ", but can also be translated as "Cloud King ". Many initial spellings like Ruwenzururu, Ruwenjura, Runssoro, Rundjuru, Rwenzuzu, Rwenzeri and many other favorite of the explorer Henry Morton Stanley "Ruwenzori.
Friday, April 22, 2011
The Bwindi rain forest covers the flanks of the Albert Rift, the northern most part of the East African grave breach. The rain forest of Bwindi is original and very old. He has developed since the last Ice Age to what he is today. The amount of the park extends from sea level to 1160 m to 2607 m. The park since 1994 on the UNESCO list of World Natural Heritage.
In the sanctuary of Bwindi Forest Lands holds 340 animals, about half of all still living mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, and alongside, other species of monkeys, elephants and various small antelope. The endangered mountain gorillas in Uganda are well protected even in the Mgahinga Gorilla National Park. Other mountain gorillas live in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Monday, March 21, 2011
The nature park Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park is a province in Bamingui-Bangoran the Central African Republic. Since 1988, the area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, is continuously on the red list of endangered world heritage, because of illegal grazing and heavily armed poachers estimated 80% of the wild stock were destroyed.
The park is significant for its rich flora and fauna. These include black rhino, elephant, cheetah, leopard, wild dog, African buffaloes and gazelles. In the northern flood plains are home to many water birds.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Nile River is one of two longest rivers in the World. The length of the Nile reaches approximately 6500 km. Nile River through nine countries include Ethiopia, Zaire, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan and Egypt.
There is a condensed history of the Nile by the Egyptians and this river flow through the mountainous region of Sinai (where Moses received revelations from God).
Location of the Egypt Kingdom with the pyramids is closest to the Nile this. The emergence of civilization in the Nile valley, formerly sometimes due to soil fertility around the valley of the river by a natural tragedy of floods that accompany the mud so that this location is rumored to be attracting people to live and build, creating a civilization there. The view of the Nile in
Egypt is now becoming modern.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
A region that is believed to be the location of the Eden Park stores of biological riches that saves mankind from extinction. Residents are able to survive in most exstreme climate change ice age thousands of years ago.
The place was located on the southern coast of South
Africa. Presumably, this is the only place that still can be inhabited by humans in the ice age that lasted about 195,000 years ago.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Kairaouine Mosque in Fes el Bali (Medina), Fes is considered the best and holiest in Morocco as well as the second largest after the new Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca. Kairaouine Mosque (Djemaa el Kairaouine) was founded in 857 by Fatima al-Fihri, daughter of a wealthy immigrant from the holy city of Kairouan, Tunisia.
Fatima inherited a lot of money from his father, and Fatima vowed to spend all their wealth in a
mosque. The mosque which has the original towers and a-Naffara Burj (Tower trumpet) is the oldest Islamic monument in Fes that was made in the year 956.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Famous wineries in South Africa, namely Rebel Wineland. This plantation is one destination tourists who want to enjoy the scenery of green plantations. This location can be visited through Cape Town heading to the mountainous area located on the east Constantia Stellenbosch and Franschhoek, South Africa.
In addition to these wineries, but there again the other wineries who called Swartland. Wineries that are not quite famous, Wineland area became one of the destinations frequented by tourists.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world. The name "Sahara" is taken from Arabic, meaning "desert. " Arabic in turn took from the Sumerian language.
Located in the northern Saharan Africa and 2.5 million years old. This desert stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. From the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Sahel in the south. From Mauritania in the west to Egypt in the east. This
desert divides the continent of Africa into North Africa and Africa "are true. " Both parts of this continent are very different, both in climate and culture. This vast desert around 9 million km2.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Namib Desert is a desert in Namibia which is part of the Namib-Naukluft National Park, one of the largest national park in Africa. The name "Namib" is derived from the name. This desert covers an area of about 50,000 km ², stretching 1,600 km (1,000 miles) along the Atlantic coast in Namibia, which gets its name from this desert. Area of west-east vary from 50-160 km (30 to 100 miles). Namib Desert also reaches the southwest Angola.
This area is regarded as the oldest desert in the world and have experienced a state of semi-arid or arid at least 80 million years. Gersangnya circumstances caused by the decrease in dry water-cooled by the Benguela current along the coast. Less than 10 mm (0.4 inches) rain fell in the desert every year so it is almost barren.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Kalahari Desert is a desert located in southern Africa with an area of 900.000 km ² (362.500 sq. mi.) which covers most of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa. Kalahari Desert is a dry semi-desert with the section and there is pasture after the rain. Kalahari Desert is also a habitat of various animals and plants, because it is not entirely desert. Rainfall in the Kalahari Desert to reach 3-7 1 / 2 inches per year.
Kalahari Desert have a captive animal - The Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), the second largest breeding area in the world) which includes Khutse Game Reserve and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Animals that exists between the other Chocolate Hyena, lion, meerkat, giraffe, wild boar, Jackal, several types of antelope, and many species of birds and reptiles. Vegetation consists of grass and acacia.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Amr bin Ash Mosque is a mosque in Cairo City, Egypt. The mosque was built in the year 641 H. M/21 This mosque is the oldest mosque in Egypt and also became the oldest mosque in Africa. Amr bin Ash Mosque was founded by the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad, who is also conquering the land of Egypt, Amr bin Ash.
Ablution in the mosque was very interesting, because it is divided into two. The first place is intended for those using the flip, while the use of shoes can take it off and direct barefoot his ablutions in the space provided. The center of the mosque was not roofed and marble floor had not given the carpet. In the middle of the mosque that is open, the available water ready for drinking. Pillars of the mosque that the mosque's neat to make a high artistic value.
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