Tokyo Tower

Tokyo Tower is a communications and observation tower located in Shiba Park, Tokyo, Japan.
Tokyo Tower as a symbol of Tokyo's famous and attractions rather than its function as an analog TV transmitter tower antenna (UHF / VHF), digital local TV and FM radio. Overall Height 332.6 m and is building the world's tallest steel tower that stood alone on the ground. Based on aviation safety regulations, the tower is painted international orange with white in some places. Lower surrounding buildings, so the Tokyo Tower can be seen from various locations in downtown.

Built in 1958, the main source of income is tourism and the tower antenna leasing. More than 150 million people have visited the tower since it opened. FootTown, 4-story building located directly beneath the tower houses, museums, restaurants and shops. Departing from here, guests can visit the two observation deck. 2-main floor observatory is located at 150 meters (490 feet), while the smaller Special Observatory reached an altitude of 250 meters (820 feet).

To climb the tower by elevator, visitors can reach the observation room at the top of the tower, precisely located at an altitude of 120 meters-125 meters. From this observation we are free space staring at the beauty of following the Tokyo skyscrapers, keruwetannya, density, area and grandeur of the palace the emperor's funeral. One more observation room located at an altitude of 223 m.
When the weather is sunny, a few other areas that are far from Tokyo clearly visible, including Mount Fuji, Hakone mountains, mountain Tsukuba, etc.. When the sunset to midnight, Tokyo Tower emit a beautiful glow. This light comes from hundreds of colored lights arranged in the body of the tower. There are 176 lights One hundred seventy-six floodlights installed in various parts of the tower.

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Galang Island

Galang Island is an island that has an area of ​​approximately 80 km2, located 350 m (560 miles) southeast of Batam, Indonesia. Galang included in a series of three large islands connected by six bridges Barelang (abbreviation of Batam, Galang Rempang-).

The island is famous because of the Vietnamese refugee camps that occurred on a large scale in the year 1979 - 1996 and to the attention of the UN and the international parties. And at that moment there was a major administrative UNHCR office to run the Galang Refugee Camp, where many Vietnamese boat people and asylum seekers who temporarily accommodated during the determination of refugee status and their subsequent settlement in the United States, Australia and some European countries.

Now this Galang refugee camps become tourist attraction and historical city of Batam, because it is relatively close to the island of Batam (about 7 miles). In addition to this attraction, Galang island is also visited by many tourists on weekends because of Melur in the western coast of the island is quite beautiful.

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Amazon Rainforest

Amazon Rainforest is also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle is a moist broadleaf forests that covered most of the Amazon Basin of South America. Amazon represents over half the planet's remaining rain forests, and it consists of the channel's largest and most species-rich tropical rain forest in the world.

This watershed covers seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), a five and a half million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres) of protected rainforest. Tergolonbg forest This forest is very large, because to cover the region's nine states. And contained the majority of forests in Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, and with a small amount in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French (French Guiana).
Forest is also known for having animals that are categorized as violent and savage.

Amazon rain forest was elected in 2008 as a candidate for one of the New7Wonders of Nature by the Seven New Wonders of the World Foundation.

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