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The most awesome water slide in the world has found a new home at Action Park in Vernon, New Jersey.
Bangkok, Nov 30 (EFE), ((Camera: Mak Remissa).- An elephant known as the loneliest in the world after living along for 35 years in a Pakistan zoo arrived Monday in Cambodia, where he will live in a sanctuary following a campaign led by American singer Cher, who met him at the airport.Kaavan, a 37-year-old pachyderm of 5 tons, traveled the close to 4,000 kilometers that separate Islamabad airport from Siem Reap, the Cambodian city closest to the Kulen Prom Tep sanctuary, where he will live with hundreds of other elephants and wild animalsAfter arriving, operators removed the container of the Russian cargo plane in which they made the trip, with a stop in Delhi to refuel.Cher, wearing a black mask and a welcome sign, waited for Kaavan with local authorities as Buddhist monks blessed the container.FOOTAGE OF
One of the world's longest over-water bridges is finally nearing completion after nearly a decade of construction. The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge is set to connect Hong Kong with Macau and Zhuhai, three major cities on the Pearl River Delta in China. The crossing consists of three cable-stayed bridges and one undersea tunnel. The construction formally began in 2009 and is due to be completed in December 2017, opening to traffic in 2018. Over 400,000 tons of steel was used to buid the project, about 60 times the amount used to build the Eiffel Tower.
Are you a thrill seeker looking for the next adrenaline rush? Do you love the rush of wind in your hair as you fly through the air hundreds of feet above the ground? Well, perhaps you should make your way down to Mexico's Acapulco and try out the world's longest zipline course running over water. Daredevils can ride on the zipline, which spanns nearly a mile in length, and enjoy the majestic sights of Puerto Marques Bay, all while hurtling along at speeds of up to 75 mph. Four separate lines suspended 328 feet above sea level run parallel from a mountaintop on the mainland and over the Puerto Marques bay to the end of the line, located on the tip of the Cabo Marques Peninsula. Before ziplines became the tourist attractions they are today, they were used to fulfill a very practical need - crossing large expanses and chasms. Civilizations across the world, including Asia and Europe, used ziplines as bridges when no better path could be found. Even when bridges were built, some ziplines continued to be used to transport food and other goods. But now, they are mainly used to provide the thrill of flying and zipping through the air.
The howling of dogs, the bite of frosty winter, and the butterflies floating in your stomach moments before the race begins. Welcome to BaikalRace2017, the annual 96-mile-long endurance dog sled race which takes place on the frozen surface of the deepest freshwater lake in the world. Teams of racers and their dogs kicked off the first leg of the race on Saturday and rode long and hard throughout the weekend to vie for the crown. The annual Baikal dog-sledding endurance competition has drawn scores of adventurous tourists to frosty but beautiful Siberia. This year's sled race is set to run over several days, with the dogs sledding through Lake Baikal, the Baikal National Park and the Baikal Nature Biosphere Reserve. The annual BaikalRace is not the longest official dog sledding race in Russia, not by a longshot. That title goes to the Beringia race, an annual long distance dog sledding endurance race around the Kamchatka Peninsula running for about 590 miles in total, or about 6 times as long as Baikal Race. Longer still is the world famous Iditarod Race in Alaska, which runs for about 1,000 miles on a trail from Anchorage to Nome, making it the longest dog sled race in the world.
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