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5 FASCINATING places you should visit with Google Earth

There is no doubt that technology has changed the way we see the world, and Google Earth is a perfect example of this.This wonderful tool can be downloaded for free and allows you to see the world like never before, zooming in on the world at will. But there is much more that Google Earth can do besides showing you your home (and who has not looked at your home in Google Earth)? So here we want to propose 5 interesting places to visit with Google Earth.

5 FASCINATING places you must visit with Google Earth

1.Krakatoa

On 27 August 1883, after several weeks of noise and threats (accompanied by minor eruptions), Krakatoa Island literally exploded in a series of four volcanic eruptions.The explosions were so powerful that they they heard clearly about 3,000 miles away, global weather patterns were interrupted in the next few years, and the shockwave went around the world seven times!

5 FASCINATING places you should visit with Google Earth

Since then, the Island has grown again and is now known as Anak Krakatau (Son of Krakatoa).It is volcanically active and has constantly increased its size since the decade of e 1950.Can it be much bigger then? Only time will tell.

2.Meteor Crater

Around 43 miles east of Flagstaff, there is a crater about 4,000 feet in diameter and 570 feet deep.It was created about 40,000 years ago, probably by a meteor about 54 yards wide.Discovered in the late 1800s, it was originally believed that the crater had been the site of a volcanic eruption, but in 1903, Daniel Barringer , a mining engineer and businessman, expressed the opinion that had been the result of the impact of a meteorite.

5 FASCINATING places you should visit with Google Earth

August 8, 1964, John L.Kidd of American Airlines and another pilot, Gary Chapin, landed on the crater.They intended to fly over it, but had problems and found themselves trapped inside. They circled the crater until they stayed without fuel and landed.Both pilots survived, and the remains of their plane can still be seen today.Will you look for them?

3.Great Pyramid of Giza

The wonder that It remains of the ancient world, the Great Pyramid of Giza was built sometime in the 1st century BC.

5 FASCINATING places you should visit with Google Earth

The pyramids were built to house the mortal remains of the great pharaohs of Egypt and their It could well be a representation of the "Orion Belt." From the central pyramid, just a little to the southeast, you can also clearly see the Great Sphinx.

4.Stonehenge

It is believed that it was built around 2500 BC, Stonehenge is known to have been used as a cemetery by the Bronze Age farmers who lived in the region.Beyond d And that, there is not much that is known with certainty.

5 FASCINATING places you should visit with Google Earth

As the people who built it did not leave written records, there is much speculation about its function.The most commonly accepted theories are that it served as a primitive observatory, or maybe as a place of worship. In Google Earth, it is visible from the northeast of the structure, right next to the road.

5.The Spring Buddha Temple

The Temple of the Spring Buddha is one of the tallest statues in the world, with 502 feet.Until its destruction by the Taliban in 2001, Bamiyan Buddhas were considered the largest standing Buddhas in the world .

5 FASCINATING places you should visit with Google Earth

Plans for the construction of the spring Buddha temple were announced shortly after its destruction.It was completed in 2002, at a cost of 55 million dollars and represents the Vairocana Buddha, seen as the embodiment of emptiness ( sunyata ).Perhaps taking advantage to become the tallest Buddha statues in the world?

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