Tag: “National Park”

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  1. Bwindi National Park

    Home to the mountain gorillas on the Ugandan side of the Virunga Mountains, but also the main village of the pygmies of the Impenetrable Rainforest. Bwindi isn't much, a frontier town blooming with the small amounts of cash left by the rich tourists who trickle through.

  2. Cabrillo National Park

    Cabrillo National Park offers amazing views of the Pacific Ocean, especially during sunset.

  3. National Park of "Ordesa y Monte Perdido"

    The National Park of "Ordesa y Monte Perdido" is situated in the Spanish side of the Pyrenees at Huesca, Aragón.
    Declared a National Park in 1918 by a Royal Decree, this IUCN Category II National Park becomes every year meeting point for mountaineers and
    families around Europe and even overseas.
    Today it has 156 km² and it's included in the Biosphere Reserve of "Ordesa-Viñamala" declared by UNESCO in 1997.

    Its orography is dominated by the calcareous mass (the biggest of Europe) of the massiff of the Three "Sorores", "Treserols", whose greater elevation is the "Monte Perdido" (3355m), from which in a more or less radial form descend a series of impressive mountainous crests and glacial valleys beeing the most characteristic the "Ordesa Canyon (or Valley)".

    In the French territory it's called "Pyrenees" National Park and it shares with Spain wonderful places like the "Circus of Gavarnie" (a glacial cirque with the highest waterfall in Europe with more than 400 meters of vertical fall) or the impressive "Brecha de Rolando -Brèche de Roland in french-" a natural gap, 40m across and 100m high at an altitude of 2804m.

  4. The Road to Bandipur

    Aggressive monkeys, wild elephants, and the elusive endangered tiger made this journey to India's Bandipur National Park one to remember.

  5. Tunnel View, Yosemite National Park

    Find your inner Ansel Adams from the fantastic vista point at Tunnel View in Yosemite National Park.

    Located on Highway 41 just before Wawona Tunnel as you leave Yosemite Valley, the view from the parking lot is one of the most photographed in the park.

    From here you can see El Capitan on the left, Bridalveil Falls on the right and Half Dome in the distance.

  6. Glacier National Park

    People rhapsodize about Glacier, but why? The pretty peaks and bright blue lakes?

  7. Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge

    The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, located near Folkston, GA, contains 438,000 acres of the Okefenokee Swamp. The park offers hiking and biking paths, fishing, canoeing, and historical and wildlife exhibits.

  8. Sawback Prescribed Burn

    Along a five kilometer section on the Bow Valley Parkway a prescribed burn, started by Parks Canada in 1993, can be seen.

  9. The Taroka Gorge National Park in Taiwan

    One of the most famous spots for locals and tourists in Taiwan in the Taroka Gorge National Park

  10. Kiplings Den?

    Kanha National Park, a reserve forest in the heartland of India, Madhya Pradesh, is a 940 sq Km wilderness of amazing beauty.