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Visit Chauvet Cave, France (UNESCO Site)
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in the Ardèche department of southern France is a cave that contains the earliest known and best preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. It is located near the commune of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc on a limestone cliff above the former bed of the Ardèche River, in the Gorge... -
Visit Chavín de Huántar, Peru (UNESCO site)
Chavín de Huántar is an archaeological site containing ruins and artifacts constructed beginning at least by 1200 BCE and occupied by later cultures until around 400-500 BCE by the Chavín, a major pre-Inca culture. The site is located 250 kilometers (160 mi) north of Lima, Peru, at an elevation of 3,180 meters (10,430 ft), east of the Cordill... -
Visit Ch’ëdähdëk (Forty Mile), Yukon, Canada
Forty Mile (Hän:Ch’ëdähdëk) is best known as the oldest town in Canada’s Yukon. It was established in 1886 at the confluence of the Yukon and Fortymile rivers by prospectors and fortune hunters in search of gold. Largely abandoned during the nearby Klondike Gold Rush, the town site continued to be used by Tr’ondëk Hwëch&... -
Visit Chehel Sotoun, Isfahan, Iran (UNESCO Site)
Chehel Sotoun s a pavilion in the middle of a park at the far end of a long pool, in Isfahan, Iran, built by Shah Abbas II to be used for his entertainment and receptions. In this palace, Shah Abbas II and his successors would receive dignitaries and ambassadors, either on the terrace or in one of the stately reception halls. The name, meaning "Forty Columns" in Persi... -
Visit Chellah, Rabat, Morocco (UNESCO site)
Chellah or Sala Colonia is a necropolis and complex of ancient Roman Mauretania Tingitana and medievalruins at the outskirts of Rabat, Morocco. First spot of Salé, this latter was completed towards the north of the river. It is the most ancient human settlement on the mouth of the Bou Regreg River. The Phoenicians and the Carthaginians, who founded several colo... -
See Chengde Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, China (UNESCO site)
The Mountain Resort in Chengde (literally: Mountain Resort for Avoiding the Heat) or Ligong, the Qing Dynasty's summer palace is situated in the city of Chengde in Hebei Province, China. Built between 1703 and 1792, the Mountain Resort took 89 years to complete. It covers a total area of 5.6 km², almost half of Chengde's urban area. It is a vast complex of palace... -
Visit Chengjiang Fossil Site, China (UNESCO site)
Chengjiang County is located in Yuxi, Yunnan Province, China, just north of Fuxian Lake. Within evolutionary biology, and especially paleontology, Chengjiang County is famous for soft-tissue fossil finds, of theMaotianshan Shales, dated to between 525 and 520 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion, which "are as spectacular as the Burgess Shale fauna, and sig... -
Visit Chengqi Lou (Gaobei Tulou Cluster), Fujian, China (UNESCO site)
Chengqilou, nicknamed "the king of tulou", of Gaobei Tulou cluster at Gaobei Village (Gaotou Township) of Yongding County was built in 1709. Inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Site 1113-003 in 2008. It is massive round tulou with four concentric rings surrounding an ancestral hall at the center, the outer ring is 62.6 meters in diameter and four stories tall, 288 room... -
Visit Chennakeshava Temple, Belur, India
Chennakeshava Temple, also referred to as Keshava, Kesava or Vijayanarayana Temple of Belur, is a 12th-century Hindu temple in, Hassan district of Karnataka state, India. It was commissioned by King Vishnuvardhana in 1117 CE, on the banks of the Yagachi River in Belur also called Velapura, an early Hoysala Empire capital. The temple was built over three generations an... -
Visit Chennakeshava Temple (Keshava Temple), Somanathapura, Karnataka, India
The Chennakesava Temple, also referred to as Chennakeshava Temple and Keshava Temple, is a Vaishnava Hindu temple on the banks of River Kaveri at Somanathapura, Karnataka, India. The temple was consecrated in 1258 CE by Somanatha Dandanayaka, a general of the Hoysala King Narasimha III. It is located 38 kilometres (24 mi) east of Mysuru city.[note 1] The ornate t... -
See Cherry Blossoms on Mount Yoshino, Japan (UNESCO site)
The most famous place in the world to view Cherry Blossoms is in Yoshino, Japan at Yoshinoyama (Mt. Yoshino). Yoshinoyama boasts over 30,000 cherry trees, the first of which were planted on the mountainside over 1,300 years ago. The cherry trees on Yoshinoyama are segregated into 4 distinct regions of the mountain with those on the lower section (Shimo Senbon) floweri... -
Explore Chersonesus, Crimea (UNESCO Site)
Chersonesus is an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula, known then as Taurica. The colony was established in the 6th century BC by settlers from Heraclea Pontica. The ancient city is located on the shore of the Black Sea at the outskirts of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine, where it ... -
Explore Chewore Safari Area, Zimbabwe
Chewore Safari Area (339,000 ha) is a wild, remote unspoiled Big Game Hunting paradise and part of the World Heritage Site with Mana Pools National Park and Sapi Safari Area. -
See Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, India (UNESCO site)
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus, prior to that Bori Bunder Station) and better known by its abbreviation CST or Bombay VT, is a historic railway station in Mumbai which serves as the headquarters of the Central Railways. It is one of the busiest railway stations in India, and serves Central Railway trains terminating in Mumbai as well as the M... -
Visit Chichen-Itza, Mexico (UNESCO site)
Chichen Itza, located on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, was a sacred site and one of the great centers of the Mayan Empire. The stone monuments and art work left behind by the Maya and Toltec inhabitants of this Yucatan civilization that lasted for over 1,000 years act as a window to their view of the world. Among the masterpieces of construction and Mesoamerican a...
