Dawn in Yosemite National Park

Yosemite is famous for its landscapes and nature: impressive granite cliffs, waterfalls, rivers with clear water, groves of sequoyadendrons and rich biodiversity (almost 95% of the park is considered wilderness area). In 1984, the park received World Heritage status under the auspices of UNESCO.

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Pailon del Diablo (Devil's Cauldron)

The most powerful waterfall of Ecuador! The Pailon del Diablo is not the largest waterfall in Ecuador, but it is quite famous in the country. Here you can literally walk right up to a huge boiling cauldron, which is what they call Pailon. It is the cauldron that is associated with the bubbling lagoon in the canyon with vertical walls of stone.

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Mount Whitney

The highest point of the Sierra Nevada range, located in California, USA. Its height is 4,421 meters. The western slope of the mountain is located in Sequoia National Park.

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A billboard in London.

A boy appears on it, showing information about an approaching plane

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"The Wave" in Arizona, USA

The state of Arizona in the United States has cliffs covered in bizarre layered patterns that give the place an ethereal look. The Arizona Wave is located near major population centers, so it has become very popular with tourists.

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The Guinness Book of World Records includes all the records of the world. That's how a 75-year-old man, Albert Marcantonio, got into the book. He lives in the English town of Hitchin. He managed to grow the world's longest zucchini, a length of 165 cm.

By the way, the Guinness Book of Guinness is the most frequently stolen book in the world, this record is also included in the same book.

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"Titanic these days

This is what the Titanic looks like now.
At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, it is being devoured by bacteria and destroyed by corrosion. The upper decks have already rotted away. It will take another two decades for the ship to finally disappear.

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The smartest retreat in history was organized by a Siamese monarch.

He ordered his soldiers to fill their cannons not with cannonballs, but with coins of pure silver. The advancing enemy woke up greedy and began to collect the money, stopped the attack and could not withstand the ensuing counterattack by the Siamese.

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The imperial tamarin is a monkey with a magnificent mustache.

In 1907, the Swiss zoologist Emil August Geldy jokingly called these tamarins "emperors" for the resemblance of their mustache to that of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II. The name caught on and stuck in science.

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Sea of flowers on Hokkaido Island, Japan

The Higashimokoto Flower Park, located on a hill overlooking the picturesque city of Takinoe, covers more than 100,000 square meters and is home to a million pink shilovid phlox flowers.

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