Taiwan’s Rainbow Bridge

Here’s a unique way to illuminate a bridge. Behold Taiwan’s “rainbow bridge.”

 

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Beautiful Potash Mining

This is a giant potash mine located near Moab, Colorado. Water from the Colorado River is injected subsurface to absorb the potash and then it is pumped back to the surface for the water to evaporate leaving the potash and the by-product salt. The area that you see is over 400 acres used for solar drying.

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Cano Cristales- The River of Five Colors

Cano Cristales is a river located in northern part of Colombia, in “Sierra de la Macarena”. A unique biological wonder, Caño Cristales has been referred as the "river of five colors," "the river that ran away from paradise," and "the world's most beautiful river " due to the algae produced colors like red, yellow, green, blue and black at the bottom of the river giving it a unique appearance. The river is less than 100 km long and 20m wide.

Color of the river depends on the season and the amount of water. During Colombia's wet season, when the water flows too fast and deep, a unique species of plant that lines the river floor called Macarenia clavigera turns a brilliant red. when the water is enough to let the sun reach the mosses and algae, the nature “blossoms”. But for a few weeks from September through November, the river transforms into a veritable living rainbow.

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The Seven Coloured Earth in Mauritius

The Seven Coloured Earth(s) are a geological formation and rominent tourist attraction found in the Chamarel plain, in the Rivière Noire District of south-western Mauritius. It is a relatively small area of sand dunes comprising sand of seven distinct colours ( approximately red, brown, violet, green, blue, purple and yellow). 

The main feature of the place is that since these differently coloured sands spontaneously settle in different layers, dunes acquire a surrealistic, striped colouring. This phenomenon can also be observed, on a smaller scale, if one takes a handful of sands of different colours and mixes them together, as they'll eventually separate into a layered spectrum. Another interesting feature of Chamarel's Coloured Earths is that the dunes seemingly never erode, in spite of Mauritius' torrential, tropical rains.

The sands have formed from the decomposition of volcanic rock (basalt) gullies into clay, further transformed into ferralitic soil by total hydrolysis; the two main elements of the resulting soil, iron and aluminium, are responsible for red/anthracite and blue/purplish colours respectively. The different shades of colour are believed to be a consequence of the molten volcanic rock cooling down at different external temperatures (hence rates), but the causes of their consistent spontaneous separation are yet to be fully clarified.

The place has become one of Mauritius' main tourist attractions since the 1960s. Nowadays, the dunes are protected by a wooden fence and visitors are not allowed to climb on them, although they can look at the scenery from observation outposts placed along the fence. Curio shops in the area sell small test-tubes filled up with the coloured earths.

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The Largest Flower Garden In the World - Dubai Miracle Garden

Dubai Miracle Garden- The Largest Flower Garden in the World

The Flowers are decorated in shapes of Heart, Stars, Different styles of Circles, Flower Pyramids, Igloos, Flower-decked vintage Cars, Different style Layers, Water Bodies, arc-shaped walkways, Colorful Umbrellas Covered Pathways. All of them are patterned beautifully that every inch of garden has its own uniqueness.Dubai Miracle Garden is the most beautiful and largest garden in the World. This garden has 45 million flowers in 72,000 sq.m area and all are surrounded by a flower-decked wall. According to spokesperson Dubai Miracle Garden is currently going for a Guinness World Record for the longest flower wall with a 1 km circumference. Dubai Miracle Garden was opened on Valentine’s Day 2103. Most of visitors named it as a “little piece of Eden” on earth. It is located in Dubailand near Arabian Ranches. 

Dubai Miracle Garden is developed by Akar Landscaping and Agriculture Co. the same company that developed Al Ain Paradise near the Oman border. Al Ain paradise consists of 10 million flowers and the size of garden is equivalent to four football fields.