The Great Wall of China is in China of course and is roughly 6400km long. Some of you may have heard that the wall is the only visible man made object from space but it is a myth and has been proven by NASA. The Great Wall of China is one of the most beautiful places of the world because of the land around it and the spectacular views that you get at certain points of the wall. On a clear day you can miles and miles of shrubs and trees. If you see it in person the view is breathtaking.

The Victoria Waterfalls

The Victoria Waterfalls are located on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe. You can easily see wildlife from the waterfall and when the water is high mist rises up from the bottom and if you are in the right place at the right time you can see a rainbow in the mist. The drop of the waterfall is around 108 metres.

The Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is found of the coast of Queensland in North-East Australia and is a World Heritage Site. In recent years the reef has been affected by rising water temperatures thus causing some of the fish to find another place to live and this is causing the sea birds the die due to lack of food. On a clear sunny day you can see coral and fish for as far as you can see underwater.

Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls is shaped like a horse shoe and some people say if you visit it you will get good luck. It is located between the U.S. and Canada. Looking at the picture you can see that there are three waterfalls. The Horseshoe Falls are on the right side of the picture. Fifteen people have gone over the falls in some sort of capsule or device. Some of them survived other drowned and some escaped with serve injuries. Anyway Niagara Falls is an excellent place to visit in the spring and summer because of the clear skies and the mist that rises up because of the water falling down.

Venice

The Venice Canals are found in Italy. Venice is often referred to as the City of Water because of its canal system. Venice is one of the most beautiful places in the world because the buildings are built literary on the water and if you are at the edge of the city when the sun rises up you can see the beautiful ocean glistering in the morning sunlight. To get around Venice you have to travel by a Gondola or a motorised waterbus. There are very few cars in Venice as it is built on the water.

Niagara Falls is the second largest waterfall on the planet, and it is a true sensory delight with visual impact, exciting sounds, and the sweet smell and embrace of the ever-present mist.

 Each year 12 million tourists travel thousands of miles from all corners of the earth to look at, and be amazed as 750,000 gallons of water per second drops 170 feet from the upper Niagara River to the rock-strewn canyon below. 

 

Did you know that almost 20 percent of all the fresh water in the world lies in the four ‘upper’ Great Lakes of Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior?  Most of the outflow from those upper lakes empties into the Niagara River, and eventually rolls over the falls and into Lake Ontario.

There are two towns and three falls named “Niagara Falls”

People who have not previously visited the region are often surprised to learn that there are two towns in different countries, with the name “Niagara Falls.”  The US town is in New York; -the other is in Ontario, Canada.  The Niagara River separates the towns and countries, and the Rainbow Bridge spans the river, and joins them.

 Three cascading water formations make up Niagara Falls.  The American Falls and the Bridal Veil Falls are both on the American side of the river and are separated by a tiny island.  One third of the Horseshoe Falls is on the American side, and two-thirds is in Canada. 

  

 See it dry –or- see it wet

 Niagara Falls is the best water watching experience in North America, and you can do it one of two ways – dry or wet.  The dry experience is available from either Canada or the United States.  Both countries have verdant park systems next to the falls.

 The ‘wet’ methods interact with the grandeur of the falls.  There is the “Cave of the Winds” on Goat Island on the American side, and “Journey Behind the Falls,” at Table Rock on the Canadian side.  Both of these adventures have elevators that drop you down 175 feet to the base of the falls.  Each requires dressing in raincoats and boots because you get very wet as tons of crashing water sprays up from the rocks before you. 

  

 The Maid of the Mist boat tour is another ‘wet’ adventure available in both parks.  Starting in April (depending on river ice) and into October, powerful diesel engines propel boatloads of thrill seeking tourists past the American Falls and to within vibrating distance of the majestic Horseshoe Falls. 

 For several exciting minutes as the Maid of the Mist approaches the Horseshoe Falls, it labors to stay in place against the rushing current and winds caused by the mighty cataract.  Passengers stand steadfast on the deck in shiny blue raincoats, soaked to the bone by waves of pounding mist, and mesmerized by the magnificent hurricane that rages directly in front of them -- and just yards off the boat’s bow.

  

 The best month to visit

 Most of the millions of annual tourists that visit Niagara Falls do so between the months of June and September.  However, if you are like us, you appreciate quick access to the best sites.  All too often, that is not possible at Niagara Falls during the summer months.

 In our opinion, October is the best time for a trip to the Falls.  Imagine finding a parking space and walking directly to the best location for an uncrowded photograph.  It is possible in October.

  

Another good reason for considering October for your holiday is that the surrounding trees will be dressed up in a dazzling array of autumn colors. 

 One final reason is that October is the month when many of the Bed and Breakfasts and local hotels drop their room rates as much as 40 percent.

 October daytime temperatures are splendid for walking, and the nights are pleasantly cool.  Bring a warm sweater to enjoy the evening view of the magnificent falls.

 If you go 

Niagara Falls is easy to reach by air.  It is conveniently situated 25 miles from New York’s Buffalo International Airport, and 75 miles from the Toronto International Airport.  Many major airlines serve Toronto and Buffalo from San Francisco, and there are excellent bus, shuttle, limousine, and rental car services throughout the area.

Hotels can be the hardest to find a deal on. The lowest prices are always in the off-season, but if you do not want to bare the Canadian winter (which, in Niagara Falls can be very unpredictable) try to go mid-week. Weekends always have higher prices because the hotel's occupancy, but if you don't care about your room or bed type, you can find something easily. During the week, one can find Fallsview rooms for as low as $119.95. If you are looking to stay in the city where most of the activities are, there are hotels on Clifton Hill (the main attraction strip) that can go for as low as $69.95. Shop around and compare hotels; be advised when using online companies to find your hotel, as they actually charge an average of ten to fifteen percent more per hotel room to cover their costs.

There is much to see and do in Niagara Falls, and though for some activities you may need a vehicle, or rely on public transportation, the majority of the attractions are within walking distance from the city's most popular strip, called Clifton Hill. It runs between Victoria Avenue and Falls Avenue, and hosts a few hotels, including a Hampton Inn and Comfort Inn, as well as many restaurants, haunted houses and the Great Canadian Midway, where one can play games and win carnival prizes. There is also the Sky Wheel, which is a large Ferris wheel that runs all year around, offering some of the best views of the Falls. On Fall Avenue, there is a Hard Rock Café, a Canadian Mountie Trading Post (offering souvenirs like tee shirts, shot glasses, and even cute stuffed animals like beavers dressed up like Mounties) and even a 50's style Coca-Cola shop, where one can buy Cola floats and lots of old and new Coke merchandise for the collectors.

Though it is good to save some money for things you'd really like to do, make sure you put a little extra aside for the Niagara Falls excursions like Maid of the Mist, or for the more adventurous, the Niagara Jet Boat tours. For the Maid of the Mist, each adult ticket is CDN$14.50, and for a child it is CDN$8.90. The Maid of the Mist boat will take you close up in the basin of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls, to show everyone just how massive it really is, the roar of the water itself is just breathtaking. For the thrill seekers, there is the Niagara Whirlpool Jet Boat tours, that drive up the Niagara gorge towards rapids, passing the American and Canadian power plants, an eerie feeling as you go past them. This ride is CDN$56.00 for an adult, and CDN$47.00 for a child. There is the option of the uncovered jet boat (not an inch of you will stay dry on this ride! Life jackets and water shoes are given by the company) or the covered boat, where you get all of the thrill, and none of the chill. Please keep in mind that these are activities that will not be open during the winter months.

Chain-restaurants make up much of Niagara Falls, and while it is good to see familiar names (these names include Tony Roma's, TGI Fridays, The Keg and Outback Steakhouse), it is usually much cheaper to give a chance to a hole-in-the-wall restaurant run by locals to get a great meal at an even better price. Why pay USD$50.00 for two hamburger meals at TGI Fridays, when you can discover the great dinner buffets that the Fallsview Casino offers, or an oversized plate of your favourite pasta from Mama Mia's?

Lundy's Lane is a great place to grab something to eat that isn't too out of the way from the main hotel strip, and isn't saturated with chain-restaurants. Some personal favourites have to be Johnny Rockets, for sandwiches and shakes, and especially The Flying Saucer. Both restaurants are reasonably priced and have a very wide selection of things to choose from, including those with very large appetites, and both are very popular family restaurants. The Flying Saucer is well known for being for once being a place where you could drive in, and the waitress would roller skate to your car. Unfortunately, the restaurant no longer does this, but it is known for its early bird breakfast special of only 99 cents for two extra large eggs, toast, and hashbrowns.

In North Africa, there are 80 blocks of such pyramids scattered around the Egypt's Nile River, which have become one of the most miraculous places in the world. The highest pyramid called Cheops Pyramid and it was build by overlapping pile of boulders together. In the making of pyramids, Egyptians were not using any adhesive, glue or nails to attach the pile of boulders and one could even hardly find cracks or gaps among the rocks or stones from the overlapping plot. Nevertheless, the structure is extremely firm and strong that the sharp blades or swords could not even pass through. In addition, Egyptian Pyramids have experiencing 5,000 years of strong wind's erosions and yet these artifacts are remained not touch by the nature. They appeared to stand alone like warriors in the desert. These towering pyramids are such spectacular and superior buildings human had ever made on the Earth.

This is a mysterious place encountered in the Antarctic Island. People call it “a dry valley with no snow cover.” Antarctic is a place with fewer inhabitants and dwellers and thus some unexplainable phenomenon happenings in Antarctica remain mystery to the outsiders. Approximately 14 million square kilometers of the total area of the Antarctic continent have the snow cover. When viewing from the high sky, the central of the Antarctic is like a pot's lid plateau. Most of the areas vividly have their surfaces covered with snow with its thickness reaching 2000m and sometimes may attain the thickness up to 4,800m. In winter, the surrounding ice combines with the ice from the ocean to form up one smooth, large plateau to which people can hardly distinguish between the land and the sea.

Bermuda Triangle is located in Western North Atlantic, which comprises of seven major islands, 150 small islands, some islands composed of reefs group. Any high-tech devices or equipments will become malfunction when reaching this mysterious place and thus the survivors may have encountered problems to communicate with the outside world. Because of its extremely mysterious characteristic, people have called this place as a devil triangle.

In China, people have named this desert as “Moguicheng” or a city of devil. “Moguicheng” is famous in Xinjiang, China. When someone is strolling towards the castle in a sunny day accompanying with a gentle blowing breeze, one may heard a nice rhythm coming from the distance. The melodies are just like 10 million shaking bells, and sometimes one may feel the music like gentle flicking of 10 million guitars' strings. However, when cyclones come, bulks of sands are rising up in the sky by the strong winds, the sky turns pitch dark suddenly like a hell, and the nice music no longer heard but turns into strange sounds. The sounds resemble the roaring of the tigers, trumpeting of the elephants, and sounds by pigs that are being slaughtered, babies' crying, shouting of the women who are going to die, and alternately the sounds change to shouting, mourning and quarreling. The storms are then swirling aggressively by shooting up to the sky accompanying by terrified wolf growling sounds in the cloudy nightfall. People are wandering who had built this city and where do the sounds come from?

This island is legendary full of Surreptitious and specter. Westerners prefer sailing by venturing many historically strange events occurred here in the history of seafaring. In 1707, the British captain of the Andean Julius had discovered this land; however, it was strange that he could hardly reach this land. He later affirmed that this was not an optical illusion, so he marked the “land” on the map. 200 years later, the admiral Makaluofu and his inspection team who were sailing to the North Pole on their icebreaker vessel called "Ye Ermake," accidentally came across this piece of land. In 1925, Navigator called Woershi, too, passed through this land and he memorized the outline of the land. Nevertheless, the investigation team comprising of scientists, who sailed to this land in 1928 never found any islands as claimed by the previous navigators.

This place is located in Henan, China, and local people called it “bingbing bei” or the back of the ice. When midsummer approaches, people tend to move to places that are cool and refreshing. Although the change of four seasons, namely summer, autumn, spring and winter is an unchangeable law, in certain parts of the world, this theory seems not to be applicable. They are some fortunate people live in “warm” zone. This phenomenon is applying to people dwelling in the eastern mountain areas of Liaoning Province, China. They are experiencing warm temperature while other areas of China are experiencing the changes of seasons. Thus, this area has named after this phenomenon as "temperature anomaly zone." This "geothermal anomaly zone" extends from 1.5m out of the town of the left riverbank of Hunjiang to the end part of the right riverbank of Hun River and to the foothills near Guandian Province. The entire length for this "temperature anomaly zone" is approximately 15km, occupying the areas of approximately 106,000 square meters. The advent of summer is always accompanying with a decline of temperature in the area of "temperature anomaly zone." When the temperature reaches as high as 30 degree Celsius during the summer, the temperature is minus 12 degree Celsius at one-meter deep into the underground of this area, and the ice froze underground. When someone dips a drop of water one-meter deep into the underground of this area, the water will immediately turn into ice.

Shennongjia is located at the intersection of Sichuan, in Hubei zone, with the meeting of two rivers, namely China's Yangtze River and Hanjiang River. This region comprises an area of 3,250 square kilometers, accounting for more than 85 % of woodland. The average elevation is 1,700m, with the highest point of 3,105 meters, and with the characteristic of various types of climate. When speaking of Shennongjia, people here will think of “savage.” Since ancient times, large numbers of documentations have revealed the existence of savage roaming around this area. Legendary, people could even hardly identify the authenticity of the savage. The effort of collecting evidence on the existence of savage was initiating by the relevant departments from 1977 to 1980. They had collected savage hairs, footprints and feces left by the savage. This proved to us that a kind of bizarre animal might have existed in Shennongjia not long ago.

This is the famous ancient city of Teotihuacan in America, which called “death to the road.” This region stretched from a so-called main road of “death to the road” to the north-south roadway. In the tenth century AD, Ards heroes who were the earliest team walking along this way leading to a castle found nobody in the city, and thus they believed that the buildings on either side of the road were gods' tomb lands. In 1974, a Mexican person called Dayton • Halisi said that he had found a suitable unit measurement for all these streets and buildings at this city at the International American meeting. This unit length is 1.059m using a calculation from a computer. For example, the units for the Teaodiwakan snake temple, the moon and the Sun Pyramid is the height of 21, 42, and 63 "units" respectively with the ratio of 1:2:3 based upon the ancient calculation.

People not allowed entering this Kunlun Mountains as its name suggested as "The Gates of Hell." This valley is a death valley, which further claims the Kunlun Mountains "The Gates of Hell." The remains found in this valley were the furs, bones, skeletons of wolves, bears and hunters and some scattered lonely tombs, rendering the world in the death of a ghastly terrifying atmosphere. The Xinjiang Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of a geological team in China had recorded a true story in the year of 1983 on a group of hungry horse that was grazing the grass and disappeared suddenly in the "The Gates of Hell." A herdsman went into the prohibited area of "The Gates of Hell" to search for his horse. After few days, he was found missing but the horse emerged at the foothill of Kunlun Mountains. Later, the herdsman was found lying on a small hill with his clothes badly torn off, barely footed, eyes widely opened with an angry look, a shotgun gripping in one of his hands showing that he was reluctantly to die. The miraculous thing was that no wounds or signs found around his body to show that he had attacked.

Canada Niagara Falls is the world's most mysterious places in the world. Niagara Falls constitutes a part of Canada and the border of United States, the New York State and Ontario, Canada, separating from the Niagara River by flowing northward from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario with a total length of nearly 30 miles. Located in the north, covering an area of 250,000 square miles, Niagara Falls is a smooth exit to these lakes. Its maximum water flow reaches 250,000 cubic feet per second. Niagara Falls is indeed very awesome.

This Geysering is a magical spring found in the upper part of the Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet, China. The spring bursts out in a short while and stops for a while before following by other bursts. The burst goes on, stops and goes on. In other words, its eruption cycle is continuous for a few minutes, auto stop after a few dozen minutes; and followed by another burst and so forth. It bursts like an eruption with a huge, shocked sound. It vents out some high temperature steam from the mouth of the spring. The spring then expands immediately into one to two meters in diameter, and rushes out as water column as high as 20m into the sky. In addition to China's Geysering, in the place near Reykjavik, capital of Iceland, the Geysering is renowned in the world with its diameter of 20m. When there is drizzling rain, this water column can even soar up as high as 70m into the sky.

• Casino Niagara, it’s the first hotel you will see coming over the border. It’s attached to “The Brock” hotel by an enclosed bridge allowing occupants easy access to the casino, especially in those cold winter months. And don’t forget the enormous indoor water park on the top level of The Brock hotel. This casino offers everything from sports betting to table games to the always popular slot machines. And you don’t need a small fortune to play as there are plenty of penny slots available.
• Clifton Hill, it’s the busiest place by the falls. If you’re lucky enough to be staying in one of the hill’s hotels, you’ll have quick access to several tourist shops, museums, and attractions such as mini golf and arcades. It also holds the largest Ferris wheel in Canada. It’s perfect for families or a great place to take a break from the casino.
• When you make your way down to the other side of the falls, you’ll find the newest casino, Fallsview. It’s a casino and five star hotel all in one. With luxurious accommodations, and a casino a few floors down, you could have fun for days. And like Casino Niagara, there are plenty of penny and nickel slots for those just looking to have some fun, and table games for the more serious gambler.
• The majestic Niagara Falls, whether seeing it on the Canadian or American side, it’s hard to beat the view of this amazing waterfall. In the summer, you can brave the choppy waters and head into the falls on “The Maid of the Mist”, an amazing boat ride that takes you to the very edge of the falls. You can’t leave without seeing one of the wonders of the world.

These are just a few places that you can go to make sure you have a great trip. There are so many more places, it’s impossible to list them all. You can venture out and discover new things on your own and you’re guaranteed to go home with some great memories, and an extraordinary experience.

While I was sort of feeling deflated by the experience and was only going to go back to the hotel on the last day and watch television, I spoke with my father and he suggested that I go try to see the sights in the area. I worried at first about the money, but am so glad that I did it anyway.

I did not realize before that Niagara Falls is considered one of the new natural wonders of the world, and it truly is a wonder. If you ever take the time to go, there are many things you will love about it.

First of all, there is a walkway along the entire sight. There are two prominent waterfalls there that you can view. During the day, even if it the temperature is hot, the spray from the falls will keep you refreshed and naturally air conditioned.

Nearby is Falls Avenue, it is the main tourist attraction strip. You will be able to find everything from Haunted House attractions to a Wax Museum. Even more fun, the Wax Museum's gift shop has a section where you can get a wax molding of your own hand!

While I was there, there was a cute older couple who was holding hands and having a wax mold made of their hands together. It was incredibly romantic and touching. The twinkle in their eyes was a memory I will forever cherish in my heart.

There are plenty of tourist shops, restaurants, and even a large Ferris wheel. In one area there was a nice outdoor seating area where visitors could be entertained by a live guitarist singing beautiful love songs. I sat for a long while in this area peacefully watching birds dip and glide around the falls.

It was recommended to me to stay until the sun set. People told me that they light up the falls. It was worth the wait. They lighted it up with a wide array of colors everything from purple to green and sometimes many at the same time. It was a magical experience. I would not have had this powerful experience had I dwelled in my disappointment and the bad experience I had had.

This experience taught me that sometimes some of the most incredible things can come out of even the most difficult of times. Keep your head up, your heart light and stay open to the positive energy and love from others and your life will always be filled with the most beautiful, moving moments life has to offer.