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Problem
Many videos on Facebook and elsewhere showing unusually dramatic or cute and quirky places leave you with hours of research and appealing for help to track down the place shown.
The videos on the science nature page are in a new league, top of the ladders when it comes to clarity. I started watching a video on science, on dolphins being intelligent. A friend on Facebook who comes from Toastmasters International had sent it to me. Then I spotted in a column on the right, the mention of the words travel and places.
After watching the video, I tried to find it again. It had vanished. So I scrolled down the Science Nature page until I found it.
What is so good about this video? The clarity of the captions and the factual information. You know which continent, which country, the name of the place. The information is given large on easy to read subtitles. I love subtitles. Then, even if you turn off the sound, you can see the name of the place, long enough to copy it down to look up later.
All that it missing is the practical travel information. That is where I come in. I have to research how near is each destination to the country's main airport. I would also like to know the best local hotel.
I bet there are more costs. Is there a charge to enter the area such as a national park, if you are driving, or if you are on a tour which does not include entrance fees? Alternatively, what is the cost of a local all-inclusive a day trip to see the place, or an inclusive holiday including that destination?
This video on travel shows some of the world's best places to visit, not the usual man-made landmarks, quaint villages, ancient archaeological sites and underwater discoveries of lost cities, but all natural wonders.
They are:
1 BOLIVIA.
2 The Dark Hedges, NORTHERN IRELAND.
3 Long Sheng Rice Terraces, Guangxi, CHINA.
4 Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, RUSSIA.
5 Caño Cristales, Meta, COLOMBIA. (That sounds and looks like Canyon of Crystals.)
6 Grand Prismatic Spring, Wyoming, USA.
7 Pamukkale, Denizli, TURKEY.
8 Iguazu Falls, Misiones, ARGENTINA.
I had heard of Iguazu Falls in Argentina and Pamukkale in Denizli, Turkey. I had seen pictures of The Dark Hedges in Northern Ireland and the rice terraces in Guanxi, China.
Other places which are already well-known waterfalls such as Niagara on the border of Canada and the USA, and Victoria Falls on the African continent. My other wishlist item is Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, which could be added to a trip to see The Dark Hedges.
Useful Websites
https://www.facebook.com/officialsciencenaturepage/videos/187180335228143/
https://wikitravel.org/en/Kuril_Islands
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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