Great Wall of China

Great Wall of China, is a miracle among the most prominent of the seven wonders of the world old and new. Which is the tallest building ever in history, with an estimated length of approximately 6400 square kilometers, and built all by hand.


Work has begun on the first of the fourth century BC, probably, and continued until the beginning of the seventeenth century AD.


The Chinese built a wall to protect their northern border from invaders.
And extending the wall between the north China's east coast and north-central China. The eastern end is located in Shanhaiguan, a village near the city of Qinhuangdao. In the west, should end near the village of Jyayoiqguan.


One of the most prominent tourist sites in China and the world, as it annually visited by millions of people from all parts of the world, for the landmark building from the date of the human, reflecting the intelligence of human genius and creativity.


Says historical records, that in the second century BC and the first Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang Petty and linking the border fences of the various republics to become the Great Wall of China.


During the more than 1000 years after it was prolonging the Great Wall of China and restored in different periods, even extended to thousands of kilometers.


Built the first parts of the fence in the Spring and fall between 770-476 BC, and in the Warring States Period of 475-221 BC.


The Badaling section, which is located province to Beijing's Yanqing, about two hours drive from central Beijing, the most famous sectors between tourists and visitors to the wall Chinese and foreigners. With a length of 3741 meters, and height of 8 meters on average, the highest increase by up to 15 meters, and the total length of the parts can be had from this section of the fence is 19 thousand square meters.


This was part of the Great Wall of China among the first parts, which officially opened for the visit.


Statistics indicate that around 130 million visitors, of whom almost 14 million foreign, have visited this sector of the fence since its official opening in 1954, including Heads of State and Governments, politicians, intellectuals and public figures famous literary, artistic, sports, and others.


Said by late leader Mao Zedong, "It is not up (or not laser) Wall of China, it is not a real man."
Add this site to the World Heritage List by UNESCO, the Organization for the hybrid, in 1987.


It is best to visit the famous tourist site from 7 am to 5:30 pm daily, the taxi enter between 40 to 45 yuan Chinia (5-6 dollars or so). Can get to this location quite easily either by car or taxi bus that drives many of them from several yards and stations in Beijing and at very low wages.
When you climb the fence built much of rock large rectangle, which amounts to an average height of eight meters and width of 6 meters inevitably be met with a lot of Chinese and ask you to take a commemorative photograph with them on the stairs of the wall opposite is common, where it asks tourists always take photos with the people of the country, but because the Chinese proud of their heritage and like to record Friends of the country through the pictures and said to me «ENI», who wore a dress of traditional Chinese side of her friend and also taken a commemorative photograph clothes veterans and behind the Great Wall to believe anyone who watches the image that girls wives of veterans Alemradin Wall time attacks of nomadic tribes.

During a trip to climb the fence to reach the platform of the city wall, which resembles Little Castle which is located at a distance of 300 to 500 meters you will find a balcony wall on the outer side of the surface at altitudes of 1.7 m and the holes for the control and holes of fire, but the platform is composed of two floors in the upper floor vents control and the other to fire. On the underside lived soldiers defending the city and stored grain, equipment and military equipment as well.


And clear strategic locations along the fence line where the forts and towers warning for the transfer of information, news and issue orders and directives by raising the smoke from spark Ruth wolves, according to our tour guide «Joe» his name in the foreign is not the Chinese also told us also that subscribe to the fence construction about 1.0005 million thousand soldiers and a civilian for the construction of the fence during the reign of Emperor «Qinshihuang» has been building the fence in the desert areas of materials consisting of salicylic given the scarcity of rocks and yellow brick, but in the areas of Plateau, the soil built for dust Almdcock or mud-brick, but at least as strong as the wall west China, the construction of the wall in the Ming Dynasty was a brick or a rock or a mix of rocks, bricks and there is a channel for water drainage at the top of the wall for rainwater drainage and automatically protect the wall, which tourists can see the most beautiful landscapes, which calls for reflection and lucidity of the highest peak.


There are other parts of the fence does not know a lot of tourists by something like the sector «Huang Huacheng» located 60 km from the city of Beijing in the north-west province of Huairou, although the sector lower sections of the fence Fame, but it was a sector of the fence the original pure states Tobath be installed and stone soup of rice, making it solid and impregnable. Despite the collapse of and damage to many parts of the fence, but its path and balconies, towers it is still full and some have remained in a healthy state as it was in ancient times and engraving on one of rocks leading chopped from the Chinese writing «Jane Tang» meaning «Fort solid» so-called sector «Huang Huacheng »sur« Jane Tang »also, who was a length of more than 10 thousand square meters where the mountains meet the water as they go in the middle of a lake to a depth of tens of meters.


Visiting the Great Wall discovered at the end of his visit to the greatness of a people is embodied in its effects, which tells the history of periods of time sequence and the construction of this wall not only to defend the country but was Msheedih outlook that it would be a major cause of China's opening to other countries and one of the economic resources of the country.


It is said that Great Wall of China is the only building which can be seen from space.

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Tourism in Italy

Is a European country located in Southern Europe. Italy is composed of three basic parts, the land in relation to Europe, and the two islands are Sicily and Sardinia. Italy from the north limits of the Alps, and there within the Italian territory two independent countries, the Vatican and San Marino.

Romanian people was formed in the old eighth or ninth century BC, when northern tribes came to the depth of the Italian peninsula to settle at the river Tiber. For several centuries, over time, Rome was the most important city in the western world, when the imperial capital of Romania. With the advent of the call and spread of Christianity, Rome became the center of the Christian faith and the seat of the popes of the Catholic Church. In the Middle Ages, especially after the decline of the empire Romanian, entered the era of darkness. Shining star again in the Renaissance and have become artists and writers in Italy the political capital of Europe.

Italy is today's fifth largest economic power in the world, one of the eight industrialized countries of the Group of G8.

Italy is famous for its art, culture and diet. Of the most famous landmarks Leaning Tower of Pisa, is included Colosseum in Rome and canals of Venice (Venice). Italian cuisine is one of the most kitchens in the world famous varieties in pasta and pizza. Italy has also Boziaha, theater, literature, music, Nbivha and many others. After Paris, Milan is the fashion capital of the world.

Leaning Tower of Pisa


Located Tower of Pisa in Italy, the city of Pisa in the state of Tuscany, construction started in 1175 AD, and lasted for building 174 a year, known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa to the presence of Milan by the deviation from the vertical plane, consisting of eight floors, built of white marble Roman-style, up 54.5 meters the view of a staircase built inside the walls consisting of 300 degrees, (currently equipped with an electric elevator).


Tendency is clearly visible with a about 18 feet (the tendency for more than five degrees), and said that the reason for this inclination is slack, and the decline in the soil it is built tower. The back of this inclination since the early stages of building this tower, but the architects have continued to build on the basis of the same inclination, and in 1275 AD when they were building a combined fourth and fifth of the tower tried to architects moved the center of the tower to avoid the inclination, but seems they did not succeed so, and yet are attempts to stop the inclination and by establishing the pillars of dolly.

Included Colosseum


included Roman Colosseum, a giant in the city center of Rome can originally about 45000-50000 scenes. The arena was used in fighting wrestlers (Algeladiatorz) and public competitions. Construction was initiated between 70 and 72 AD under the reign of Emperor Vespasian and was completed mainly year 80 during the reign of Titus, but has some additional changes during the reign of Domitian.

Venice in Italy


is the most famous cities of the world and the most bizarre and departure from the ordinary. Includes the debtor Venice, about 120 islands in the Adriatic Sea and its channels instead of the streets. The city's population and uses boats instead of cars, buses, taxis and trucks;. And includes the city of Abannkadip also part of the main Italian mainland. , With a population of about 332.775 people.


Helped the high-art architecture of Venice to become a major tourist center. And the city is also one of the largest Italian ports of space. , Venice, Venice, the capital of a territory twenty-political in Italy.

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Tourism in Turkey

Turkey is a country or from one of civilizations across the Middle East brought the most beautiful for tourists from different nationalities and due to its diversity of natural and geographical and cultural.

The advantage of Turkey is located in each of the continents of Europe and Asia, so as to fall nearly 3% of the area of the country In the far eastern edge of southern Europe, and is called Thrace, the capital city of Istanbul, the largest cities of Turkey in this region, while the remainder of the area of Turkey from the east it covers a wide area of a mountainous peninsula called Anatolia or Asia Minor, as well as limiting all of Turkey, Bulgaria in the north-west and Greece to the west, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran in the east.

Iraq and Syria to the south and the Black Sea is located on the north from Turkey, the capital Ankara and the most important Cities where Istanbul, Izmir and Antioch.

By studying the climate of the country shows that it varies from region to region, where winter is mild and rainy in each of Thrace and coastal areas which are located in southern and western Anatolia Plateau, while characterized by the summer around here heat, drought and high temperature in summer on the shores of the Aegean Sea while on the coast Black Sea, the summer season is less heat.

Available Turkey road network a strong link between all the cities and less than 2% of the total population in Turkey have their own cars as the majority travel by buses, trains or taxis, and linking the railway network between the cities of Turkey and extend lines of airline-owned Government to cover the many cities of Turkey and the European and the Middle East and Turkey, issued in more than 1000 daily newspapers and owns most of the Turkish families, radios, and the average family owning the Turkish TVs to one machine for every ten people.

and diversify tourism in Turkey, Apart from tourism, the natural and cultural and tourist resorts to modern, there is archaeological tourism Greece and Romania the old, and there are Islamic monuments, which has characterized architecture old Turkish relatively, but it is one of the tourist destinations because they represent the glory era Turkish had been in his glory more than a century and a half decades. In it the great mosque and the bridge and museums, drawings, statues and palaces that are a source of pride for Turkey and magic for tourists.

There is a hesitant in Turkey, and believed by all who visited the springs in Turkey, namely, that tourism to Turkey without passing one of the hot springs tourism, mineral deficient, so most of the programs of Turkish tourism.

Among the programs include a visit even for hours to a natural hot baths, which are spread widely throughout Turkey, are found in every province of Turkey, in every corner of the country, but it was the main factor in the recovery of the tourism industry earlier in Turkey,

The about this spa and springs tourist hotels varied and numerous, and each of these baths special privileges, and characteristics of the natural temperature of the water from the springs fixed to 36 degrees Celsius, and contains many salts and minerals such as bicarbonate and calcium and magnesium, and these springs live fish are very small and not more than the length of the big ones to 10 cm, and the fish of great benefit to those suffering from skin diseases as they feed on human skin found stuck, and can their small size and small teeth to gain access to minute parts of appendages and the inside layers of human skin.

The cost of visiting these springs are not high cost, but a lot of tourism programs offered within the programs offered by the mass tourism, and be part of the overall cost.

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