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Four major tourist destinations in the world

1. TheGrandCanyon in the United States. The Grand Canyon in the United States is a world-famous natural wonder. It is located on the Kaibabu Plateau in the northwest of Arizona, with a total area of 2,724.7 square kilometers. Because the Colorado River flows through it, it is also known as the Colorado Grand Canyon, which is one of the natural heritages selected by UNESCO for protection.

2. CapeTown, the Cape of Good Hope. When visiting South Africa, don't miss the opportunity to visit the tip of the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. The Cape of Good Hope, about 6 kilometers from Cape Town, is the intersection of the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. In fact, the Cape of Good Hope is a prominent hill, which used to be called Storm Cape. Because of the bad weather here, many ships were in distress here in the past. The Cape of Good Hope is the boundary between the warm and cold waters of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The weather is changeable and the scenery is wonderful. It stands in the sea, and there is Dharma Peak, which is more than 2, feet high, with dangerous cliffs and splashing waves, which is eye-opening.

3. The Mayan ruins in Mexico, ChichenItzaMexico and Chichen Ithaca, were once the largest and most prosperous city-states in the ancient Mayan empire. The site is located in the middle of Yucatan Peninsula. It was founded in 514 AD. The main monuments of the polis are: Thousand Pillars Square, which once supported a huge dome-shaped roof. You can see the size of this building. The reclining stone statues of the two gods in front of the samurai temple and the temple. 9-story, 3-meter-high stepped Ku Courquin Pyramid. As well as the sacred well (limestone vertical cave) and the Mayan ancient astronomical observatory built in a snail shape on the high platform, it is called "snail platform".

4. The Great Wall is one of the great projects in ancient China. It was built in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period (77 ~ 476 BC), and the surviving one was built in the Ming Dynasty. It starts from Jiayuguan in the west and reaches Hushankou on the Yalu River in Dandong in the east, spanning Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Mongolia, Hebei, Liaoning and other places. There are checkpoints along the route, such as Shanhaiguan, Juyongguan and Niangziguan. The Great Wall for short. The Great Wall is the only three-dimensional building that can be seen in space in history.