The World Natural Wonders
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One of such natural wonders is the Mammoth Cave located in Kentucky. The Cave got its name due to its sizes in height, width and deepness inside. The Mammoth Cave is the great labyrinth of underground corridors full of colorful formations made for centuries. Stalactites drop from the ceiling, stalagmites rise from the floor creating wonderful and sometimes incredible forms of animals, flowers, plants, birds and even human beings. Many tourists used to give names to stalactites and stalagmites so as one can imagine a large fairy land while walking along the Cave.
Mammoth Cave aged about two hundred and forty million years and it was discovered in only 1800 when a hunter running after a wonderful bear and suddenly came up its entrance.
Another wonder from the seven natural wonders list is Victoria Falls. Everybody knows that it is in the South of Africa and it was named in honor of the British Queen Victoria who ruled Great Britain when these lands were the British colonies. Victoria is more than twice as high as Niagara and almost one and a half times as wide. At Victoria the long river Zambezi carries as much as seventy five million gallons of water in a minute over one cliff and against another into a gorge not more than one hundred feet wide which is know as the Boiling Pot. This created massive clouds of spray, a fantasy of rainbows which can be seen from miles away. The local aborigines call Victoria Falls Mosy oatunya which means the smoke that thunders. Thousands of tourists come to the Falls every year and they used to say they would stay near it forever.
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