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Top 10 Most Dangerous Places on Planet

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Whenever we plan for a family vacation or cross-country trip, we decide to visit any healthful place. But we also have to check for all those places where we shouldn’t go. Here is the list of 10 most dangerous places, where we shouldn’t visit as it causes very serious problem for our health.

1. Cite Soleil

Cite Soleil

This place is located at Port-au-Prince in Haiti. It is highly populated town having 200,000 to 300,000 people, living in a small piece of land. This place is also considered as the most dangerous place as there is no police, no stores and no sewers found there. There is also shortage of basic facilities.

2. Mogadishu

Mogadishu

This city is the capital of Somalia and is also the largest city there. This city is serving as the most important port for whole country. This city is under the scene of worst fighting between Ethiopian and Somali government with Islamist guerrillas.

3. Room 39

Room 39

It is the secret organization of Government located in North Korea. No one exactly knows its location but many people think that this place came into being as a result of Labor party building in Pyongyang, North Korean Capital. This organization is hugely funded by the government from past few years.

4. Linfen

Linfen

This is the densely populated city of China, situated along the banks of Fen River in Shanxi province. The cause of the increase in its population is that it has a large amount of coal power plants. That is why; children are suffered heavily by respiratory illness.

5. Dharavi

Dharavi

Dharavi is situated between the famous suburb Mahim and Sion of Mumbai in India. It is one of the heavily populated slums of Asia. Read the full story

Top 10 Most Dangerous Traditions

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While many would use culture as something that bonds them together, Traditions amidst the culture becomes another interrelating aspect.  With the changing race, attitudes and beliefs at every other corner, a specific set of practices that holds them together also take many different forms.  Below are a set of traditions that various sects carry out and are more dangerous than fun and games.

1. New Years Dive:

New Years Dive

On the day of the New Year, countless divers gather around and take a dip into the Baikal lake. As if this isn’t dangerous enough, one specified diver carries the new year’s tree to plant it at the bottom of the lake.

2. Polar Bear Plunge:

Polar Bear Plunge

The event aims to gather donations for the Special Olympics and welcomes a huge number of participants every year. The participants have to jump in cold water during the winter season, and the dodgy part is, that it may cause paralysis, hypothermia, and even death but fortunately, nothing of that sort has happened as of yet.

3. Firework Battle:

Firework Battle

This is a battle between two churches on an Easter Sunday in Chios, Greece. While the service session carries on, these churches aim at each other’s bell with the help of 150 people. The crowd’s fires over 24,000 rockets and have caused damages to homes and even deaths in the past.

4. Baby Dropping Ritual:

Baby Dropping Ritual

This is a ritual where countless Muslim children are dropped down from a 13 meter tower into white sheets. The babies have been dropping in at Solapur, India for over 300 years with the faithful claim that no baby is ever harmed. They believe that the children grow up strong and healthy.

5. Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling:

Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling

In Gloucester, England, a Double Gloucester cheese is rolled down a steep hill and a bunch of daring people chases it down.   Read the full story

Top 10 Destinations For Alcohal Lovers

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If you have grown tired of drinking the local beer and find Jim Beam a little too soft, then it’s the right time to take a trip down the below stated places. The following list contains a list of countries, which are well known for their alcohol and its taste.

1. Thailand:

Thailand

At the top of the list is Thailand with its Rice whiskey or Lao Khao. Although this place is famous for its sage-like people, Thailand is also well known for its local favorite. In Thailand, receiving invitations for a taste of the local brew from middle aged men isn’t unusual. You might end up highly drunk, but the experience is worth it.

2. Ghana:

Ghana

Amidst the political coups and violence, Ghana follows Thailand in the list with its palm wine at the purest. With the history of Ashanti and their hospitality, if you are a man and earns an invitation to a home brewery, then this may be the beginning of a lifelong friendship.

3. Brazil:

Brazil

This is an inhuman form of Brazilian beauty that is loved by the young and the old alike. The advantages of such a drink include finding a good substitute for water, more friends and a lot of savings. Cachaca is also used as an important ingredient while making the Brazillian national drink, the Caipirinha.

4. South Korea:

South Korea

This place has an age old drinking tradition in its culture. Although an economic power house, this place is highly famous for its Soju and Dongdongju.

5. Mexico:

Mexico

With a Mayans history, Mexico stands at number five with Octli.

6. Ethiopia:

Ethiopia

Now out of the shadows, this place is also famous for Tej. Read the full story

Most Extreme Places in the World

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It is the fact that planet Earth is one of most beautiful planet in universe with large diversity of Nature. There are thousands of place on earth where we can see nature on its full extent. Beautiful green and snowy mountains, deserts, blue oceans different type of animals, birds, beautiful plants and so many species. No one can hold his tongue from appreciating the beauty and wonders of Nature. Though about Nature so much can be written but here below are the fascinating extremes of Earth, which makes mind hypnotized.

The World’s Largest Rock Formation

The World’s Largest Rock Formation

Ayers Rock is the world’s largest rock formation it’s also known as Uluru. That sandstone massive pillar is located in Australia with height of 1,142 ft. and almost 9.4km in basal circumference. The beauty of Ayers Rock is that it changes its colors from morning till sun set. Changing of its colors is because of the sunlight that strikes it at different hours of the day.

The World’s Most Active Volcano

The World’s Most Active Volcano

The World’s current most active volcano is Kilauea that is 90% made of lava. This volcano is located in Hawaii.

The World’s Lowest Lake

The World’s Lowest Lake

The Dead Sea is the world’s lowest lake. It’s located between Israel and Jordan. Its density of water is high than all oceans in world contain highest level of salts in it. The amazing thing about Dead Sea is that if you swim in that you wont drown. That’s because of the high water density. There is no fish or any other sea species in it, that’s why its called Dead Sea because no life exists in it. Its 1,240 ft deep, 1,385 feet below sea level, 67 kilometers long and 18 kilometers wide in the Jordan Rift Valley. It is considered as world’s saltiest bodies of water.

The World’s Largest Coral Reef

The World’s Largest Coral Reef

The world’s largest coral reef system is the Great Barrier Reef that is composed of more than 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands. That coral reef is stretched almost 26,00 square kilometers over an area about 344,400 square kilometers in the Coral Sea, Australia. The reef is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the year 1981.

The World’s Largest Cave Passage

The World’s Largest Cave Passage

Deer Cave is largest cave passage in world, located in Borneo. Several caves that are found in Mulu National Park includes this also. It’s almost 90 kilometers long and over 90 meters high and wide.

The World’s Longest River

The World’s Longest River

The world’s longest river is Nile River, having history of thousands of years it flows through nine countries. The White Nile starts from Lake Victoria, Uganda and flowing journey through Sudan and Egypt. The Blue Nile starts from Lake Tana, Ethiopia and flows through Zaire, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Burundi. The Nile river flowing distance in east Africa is 5,584 km and it discharges an average of 65 million liters water in a second.

The World’s Highest Peak

The World’s Highest Peak

The world’s highest peak is Mount Everest it’s called Everest in honor of Sir George Everest, its also called Sagamatha. Its height is 29,035 ft (8,850 m) above sea level; some people believe that it rises 4mm every year. Mount Everest is situated on the border between Sagamatha Zone, Nepal, Tibet and China.

The World’s Highest Water Falls

Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest waterfall at 3,212 ft (879 m), with a clear drop of 2,647 ft (807 m). Water falling from such height gives a wonderful cloudy sight.

The World’s Hottest Place

The world’s largest desert is Sahara desert scattered on 9 million square kilometers covers most of North Africa. Sahara desert is the Earth’s hottest place where temperature frequently reaches 55-degree centigrade. The highest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 57.8 degree centigrade and that was recorded at Sahara desert in 1922.

The World’s Coldest Place

The world’s fifth largest continent area wise is Antarctica and on average of sea level height it’s the highest of all continents. Its area is almost 14.0 million square meters, 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice. It is driest, windiest and coldest continent its almost impossible for human to live there. The coldest temperature on Earth was minus 89.2 degree centigrade recorded at Antarctica continent.