Palawan Island

 

                           Palawan Island is the largest island of the Palawan Province, Philippines. The northern coast of the island is along the South China Sea, while the southern coast forms part of the northern limit of the Sulu Sea.This island is very undeveloped and traditional. Abundant wildlife, jungle mountains, and white sandy beaches attract many tourists.Palawan, the only Philippine island cited, is rated by National Geographic Traveler magazine as the best island destination in East and Southeast Asia region in 2007, and the 13th best island in the world having "incredibly beautiful natural seascapes and landscapes. One of the most biodiverse (terrestrial and marine) islands in the Philippines. The island has had a Biosphere Reserve status since early 1990s, showing local interest for conservation and sustainable development".Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm, one of seven operating units of the Bureau of Corrections, is located on the island.In April 2013, a fishing vessel loaded with illegally poached animals ran aground on a coral atoll off the coast of Palawan Island.

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Monument Valley

Monument Valley is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. It is located on the Arizona-Utah state line near the Four Corners area. The valley lies within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation, and is accessible from U.S. Highway 163.Director John Ford used the location for a number of his best known films, and thus, in the words of critic Keith Phipps, "its five square miles have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West."

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Marrakesh

Marrakesh, or Marrakech is a major city in the northwest African nation of Morocco. it is Morocco's fourth largest city after Casablanca, Fes and Rabat.It is near to the foothills of the snow-capped Atlas Mountains. By road, Marrakesh is located 580 km (360 mi) southwest of Tangier, 327 km (203 mi) southwest of the Moroccan capital of Rabat, 239 km (149 mi) southwest of Casablanca, and 246 km (153 mi) northeast of Agadir.Marrakesh is the most important of the four former imperial cities in the history of Morocco. Marrakesh is served by Ménara International Airport and Marrakesh railway station, which connects it to Casablanca and the north. Marrakesh has several universities and schools, including Cadi Ayyad University. A number of Moroccan football clubs are located here including Najm de Marrakech, KAC Marrakech, Mouloudia de Marrakech and Chez Ali Club de Marrakech. The Marrakesh Street Circuit hosts races of the World Touring Car Championship, Formula 2 and Auto GP World Series.

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Cappadocia

Cappadocia is a historical region in Central Anatolia, largely in Nevşehir Province, in Turkey.In the time of Herodotus, the Cappadocians were reported as occupying the whole region from Mount Taurus to the vicinity of the Euxine (Black Sea). Cappadocia, in this sense, was bounded in the south by the chain of the Taurus Mountains that separate it from Cilicia, to the east by the upper Euphrates and the Armenian Highland, to the north by Pontus, and to the west by Lycaonia and eastern Galatia.

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Overberg (Canola fields in South Africa)

Overberg is a district in South Africa to the east of Cape Town beyond the Hottentots-Holland mountains. It lies along the Western Cape Province's south coast between the Cape Peninsula and the region known as the Garden Route in the east. The boundaries of the Overberg are the Hottentots-Holland mountains in the West; the Riviersonderend Mountains, part of the Cape Fold Belt, in the North; the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in the South and the Breede River in the East.The major towns are Hermanus, Caledon, Bredasdorp and Swellendam and the region includes Cape Agulhas, the southermost point of Africa. The landscape is dominated by gently to moderately undulating hills enclosed by mountains and the ocean.

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Egypt

Egypt is in north-eastern Africa with its capital located in its largest city, Cairo. Egypt also extends into Asia by virtue of holding the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt is bordered by Israel and the Gaza Strip to the north-east, by Sudan to the south and by Libyato the west. The country is bounded by the Mediterranean and Red Seas and geographically dominated both by the Nile River and its fertile well-watered valley, and by the Eastern and Western deserts.Egypt is perhaps best known as the home of the ancient Egyptian civilization, with its temples, hieroglyphs, mummies, and - visible above all - its pyramids. Less well-known is Egypt's medieval heritage, courtesy of Coptic Christianity and Islam - ancient churches, monasteries and mosques punctuate the Egyptian landscape. Egypt stimulates the imagination of western tourists like few other countries and is probably one of the most popular tourist destinations world-wide.

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Portugal

Portugal is a country located in Southwestern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula. It is the westernmost country of mainland Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east.Portugal is a developed country with a very high Human Development Index.The Capital of the Porugal is Lisbon.

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Tower Bridge, London

Tower Bridge (built 1886–1894) is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, from which it takes its name. It has become an iconic symbol of London.The bridge consists of two towers tied together at the upper level by means of two horizontal walkways, designed to withstand the horizontal forces exerted by the suspended sections of the bridge on the landward sides of the towers. The bridge's present colour scheme dates from 1977, when it was painted red, white and blue for the Queen Elizabeth II's silver jubilee. Originally it was painted a mid greenish-blue colour.The nearest London Underground station is Tower Hill on the Circle and District lines, and the nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Tower Gateway.Contrary to popular belief, the song "London Bridge is Falling Down" has nothing to do with Tower Bridge, instead referring to the collapses of other various London Bridges.

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A Botanical garden in Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun". Tokyo is the Capital of Japan and  largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.

list of botanical gardens in Japan:

·         Akatsuka Botanical Garden (Tokyo)

·         Amami Islands Botanical Garden

·         Aoshima Subtropical Botanical Garden

·         Aritaki Arboretum (Koshigaya)

·         Atagawa Tropical & Alligator Garden (Kamo, Shizuoka)

·         Botanical Gardens Faculty of Science Osaka City University

·         Samuel Cocking Garden (Enoshima)

·         Enoshima Tropical Plants Garden

·         Fuji Bamboo Garden (Shizuoka-ken)

·         Fukuoka Municipal Zoo and Botanical Garden

·         Futagami Manyo Botanical Gardens (Takaoka, Toyama)

·         Hakone Botanical Garden of Wetlands

·         Handayama Botanical Garden (Okayama)

·         Hattori Ryokuchi Arboretum (Osaka)

·         Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens (Nagoya)

·         Himeji City Tegarayama Botanical Garden

·         Himi Seaside Botanical Garden (Himi, Toyama)

·         Hiroshima Botanical Garden

·         Hirugano Botanical Garden

·         Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens

·         Ibaraki Botanical Garden

·         Ibusuki Experimental Botanical Garden (Kagoshima University)

·         Ishikawa Forest Experiment Station

·         Itabashi Botanical Garden (Tokyo)

·         Jindai Botanical Garden (Tokyo)

·         Kagoshima Botanical Garden

·         Kanagawa Prefectural Ofuna Botanical Garden

·         Botanic Garden, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University

·         Botanical Garden of Kawaguchi-City

·         Kemigawa Arboretum (Chiba)

·         Kiseki No Hoshi Greenhouse

·         Kitayama Botanical Garden

·         Kobe City Forest Botanical Garden

·         Kobe Municipal Arboretum

·         Koishikawa Botanical Gardens (Tokyo)

·         Kosobe Conservatory (Osaka)

·         Kubota Palm Garden (Masaki)

·         Kyoto Botanical Garden

·         Makino Botanical Garden (Kōchi, Kōchi)

·         Manyo Botanical Garden

·         Manyo Botanical Garden, Nara

·         Michinoku Mano-Manyo Botanical Garden (Kashima, Fukushima)

·         Mito Municipal Botanical Park

·         Miyajima Natural Botanical Garden

·         Miyakojima City Tropical Plant Garden

·         Mizunomori Water Botanical Garden (Kusatsu, Shiga)

·         Nagai Botanical Garden (Osaka)

·         Nagasaki Subtropical Botanical Garden

·         Nambo Paradise Botanical Garden (Tateyama)

·         Nigawa Botanical Garden

·         Niigata Prefectural Botanical Garden

·         Nikko Botanical Garden

·         Nunobiki Herb Garden (Kobe)

·         Omoro Botanical Garden

·         Rokko Alpine Botanical Garden (Kobe)

·         Sakuya Konohana Kan (Osaka)

·         Sapporo Botanic Garden

·         Sasebo Zoological Park and Botanical Garden

·         Sawara Municipal Aquatic Botanical Garden

·         Seinan Gakuin University Biblical Botanical Garden

·         Shimokamo Tropical Botanical Gardens

·         Shinrin Botanical Garden

·         Southeast Botanical Gardens (Okinawa)

·         Suma Rikyu Park (Kobe)

·         Tajima Plateau Botanical Gardens

·         Tama Forest Science Garden

·         Tennoji Botanical Garden (Osaka)

·         Botanical Garden of Tohoku University

·         Tokyo University of Agriculture Botanical Garden (Atsugi, Kanagawa)

·         Botanic Gardens of Toyama

·         Tropical & Subtropical Arboretum

·         Tsukuba Botanical Garden

·         Wakayama Prefecture Botanical Park

·         Yamashina Botanical Research Institute

·         Yokohama Municipal Children's Botanical Garden

·         Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome (Tokyo)

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Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi is the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population and the largest of the seven member emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Arab Gulf from the central western coast. The city proper had a population of 921,000 in 2013.Abu Dhabi houses important offices of the federal government, and is the seat for the United Arab Emirates Government and the home for theAbu Dhabi Emiri Family and the President of the UAE from this family. Abu Dhabi has grown to be a cosmopolitan metropolis. Its rapid development and urbanisation, coupled with the relatively high average income of its population, has transformed Abu Dhabi to a larger and advanced metropolis. Today the city is the country's center of political, industrial activities, and a major cultural, and commercial centre due to its position as the capital. Abu Dhabi alone generated 56.7% of the GDP of the United Arab Emirates in 2008.Abu Dhabi is the second most expensive city for expatriate employees in the region, and 67th most expensive city in the world.

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