Here’s some great information on Meteora, Greece.
The Greek word Meteora means “suspended in the air”, and our
words meteorite and
meteorology come from the same root.
The conglomerate rock at Meteora, Greece, has eroded into
fantastic
peaks upon which medieval monks built monasteries, several of which are
still active. The isolated monasteries of Meteora helped keep alive
Greek
Orthodox religious traditions and Hellenic culture during the turbulent
Middle Ages and Ottoman Turk
occupation of Greece (1453-1829). In 1988, UNESCO declared Meteora to
be
a World Heritage Site. |
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Here’s Purnululu National Park of Australia in case you want to pay a visit.
| Purnululu National Park is a World Heritage Site in Western Australia, 2054 km northeast of Perth. The nearest major town is Kununurra to the north, or Halls Creek to the south. Access to the park by road is via Spring Creek Track, from the Great Northern Highway approximately 250 km south of Kununurra, to the track’s end at the visitor centre. The track is 53 km long and is usable only in the dry season (about April 1 to December 31), and only by four-wheel-drive (4WD) vehicles. Safely navigating it takes approximately 3 hours. Access by air is less demanding; helicopter flights are available, from Turkey Creek Roadhouse at Warmun, 187 km
south of Kununurra, and light aircraft, from Kununurra.
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