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Oct

Galapagos Island

Posted in South America  by visit on October 5th, 2009

The Galapagos Islands are located in the Pacific Ocean, being some of the most isolated islands on the earth. The whole archipelago is composed of 13 large and medium islands and islets and rocks almost deserted. The 13 islands with sizes varying from 45,000 square kilometers to 14 kilometers square is practically a miracle of nature, a paradise whose existence confirms the theory of evolution but the perfect balance of nature.

The position of these islands amid some extremely strong ocean currents favored the evolution of several species on the island, a unique evolution worldwide. An absolutely fascinating thing is that on these islands, animals are not afraid of humans. His intervention was very supeficial until 15 years ago. This feature as well as the exceptional biodiversity of this ecosystem unfortunately attracts lots of tourists every year. The firsts whoaffected this perfect balance were the sailors of the seventeenth century who brought on the island both microbes and infected animals or with a modified behavior such as: wild cats, dogs, rats, were first outrsiders in the middle of the Pacific paradise
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The Galapagos Islands were formed because of the eruption of volcanoes about 4, 5 million years ago. Since then, they are in a constant change, but the volcanoes are still being active.

Each island is different from the other, and the multitude of species surprises even now many researchers. It is probably the only natural place on the earth where penguins and flamingo birds share the same square foot of sand. Sea lions, turtles, dolphins and a unique species in the world of penguins are very friendly, extremely gentle and fearless people.

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11
Jul

The Machu Picchu Ruins

Posted in South America  by visit on July 11th, 2009

Machu Picchu is a old city whose ruins were rediscovered in 1911 by a very important archeologist, Hiram Bingham. The ruins of Machu Picchu are known to be some of the most exciting and splendide ancient sites of the world that tourists could ever see.

This old city is also surrounded by agricultural terraces that is enough to feed people around, the population, offering them especially water in spring and summer. Machu Picchu has been told it was used by Inca as being a secret ceremonial city. Knowing that it was discovered only in 1911, its ruins seems to be a real and impregnable maze.
That’s what is interesting about it.

Covering an area over 4000 meters, the wood was not found so often, so that the citadel was made by stone, including terraces, royal palaces, housing accumulation of rainwater, bricks, squares, everything’s about livelihood.

The views around here are unique in the world. The Machu Picchu ruins are also including around 200 buildings.

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