Japan has numerous attractions and Iwakuni castle is just one of them but it is definitely worth our undivided attention, not only because of its fantastic surroundings and architecture, but: it is open to tourists all year round, it is a home of a strange white snake and the city itself offers fantastic fishing experience, especially in summer.
Today, I just want to share with you some amazing information and incredible photos of cherry tree or sakura. To my mind, its looks not just fascinating, but adorable and mesmerizing as well. The cherry blossom can be called the Japan’s unofficial but still beloved, the most photographed and national flower. There are even special cherry tree blossom festivals in Japan, that take a special and very prominent position in Japanese culture.
There are many volcanoes in the world. Volcanoes are a natural way that our Earth and other planes use in order to cool off. All planets are warm in their mantles. Sometimes this heat inside melts rocks and these hot rocks - magma - combining with gasses break through the crust and namely in such a way happens an eruption. Lava flows out of a volcano top. It’s really dangerous but nevertheless, eruptions hold a lot of appeal to many tourists. Some volcanoes erupt only once or twice but some erupt many times and seem never stop.
There is no strict and commonly approved classification of volcanoes, but I will try give a list of some most dangerous volcanoes as to their explosive history and closeness to populated locality.
I think you hardly find a person hasn’t heard about Mt Vesuvius. Mount Vesuvius belongs to one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. It’s eruption cycle is more than 20 years, the last eruption occurred in 1994. Millions of people live near it. Namely eruption of this volcano destroyed Pompei in 79 AD.
Japan adores to be ahead of the whole world, its people will never get tired of these constant creations and inventions. The Japanese are always making something new, something really interesting and completely addictive. What do you think about world’s biggest artificial indoor sea beach, that was created in the southern Japan? Cool? Why not?
This time, the Japanese-inventors tossed a challenge to our Mother Nature. Actually, their cool beach is just a huge Ocean Dome (approximately 6 football pitches, it can house 10,000 tourists), that allows everybody to lie on the artificial beach, among artificial palm-trees and enjoy the sound of artificial tide. The real beach is only 300 meters away and it looks really lonely, since if failed to win in this extremely stiff competition.
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