We can dive or go to the underwater aquarium to enjoy the natural beauty under the sea. For those of you who can not swim and feared drowned like me, enjoy nature might just be seen above the earth. Uh, but whoa ... what about beautiful places in the basement?
Apparently there are many beautiful places hidden beneath the soil, also called underground tours. The attractions of this underground of course has its own uniqueness and interesting to explore. These places can be formed by natural processes or man-made as well.
Maybe the places underground in this article is not included in the top 10 list of the world, but it's still interesting to read.
St. Beatus-Höhlen or St. Beatus Cave in Interlaken Ost (East Interlaken), Switzerland. St. Beatus name derives from the name one of the saints in Switzerland. Legend has it, St. Beatus was born in Ireland about the year 20 AD. After graduating from religious schools in Rome, St. Beatus was sent off to Interlaken to spread Christianity. Once there, the cave is guarded by a dragon. St. Beatus slay the dragon and lived in the cave until the end of his life. A dragon statue now adorn the entrance to the cave to remind the struggle St. Beatus.
The key to the beauty of this cave is a stalactite and stalagmite that is in it. Stalactites are formed from the deposition of drops of calcium and other minerals. If water droplets are located on the roof of the cave, it will trickle down and stalagmite formed with the same deposition process.
Although the St. Beatus Cave has been used by humans in the stone age, this new cave opened to the public as a tourist attraction since 1904. Lights illuminate the cave reflect the light, adding to the natural beauty of the cave. Not to forget, the sound of splashing water to accompany your journey along it. It's amazing work of God through nature that formed during millions of years, and now you can enjoy in a day.
Pyramids of Giza in Cairo, Egypt
Umm ... who had never heard the word pyramid. For those who likes to read Tintin comics, must also have known this word since the first. Especially when Professor Calculus and possessed ill after returning from a search expedition mummy along with seven other scientists.
Construction of the pyramid can be more than 20 years and require 2.3 million limestone which each have an average weight of 2.5 tons. Pyramid was built as a tomb in the days of Pharaoh dynasties. Require that the king of ancient Egyptian culture and the royal family or a pet preserved through embalming events when they died as a mark of respect. This is what we now know the name of the mummy.
The curiosity of the greatness of the reign of King Pharaoh's interesting to see how the heck I was in a pyramid shape. Apparently, you have to scour along the hallway a few feet before it could reach the tomb where they used to store mummies. Hallway to the tomb deliberately made with a height of less than 1 meter, so we have to bend to track it down. This was made again and again as a tribute to the king.
Arriving at the base, you could stand upright again. In the first place where mummies lie. At that time, our chance to get into one of the three pyramids of Giza. Unfortunately not allowed to take pictures, so only keep memories without photo evidence, the term my friend, no camera picture, only a mind picture. There are few relics of the letters on the walls of pyramids hieroglyphics, but it's almost gone, either eaten by age or by human hands.
Cistern
Basilica of St. water reservoirs in Istanbul, Turkey, also called the Sunken Palace Cistern or Sunken. Cistern is located in the city of Istanbul, about 150 meters from Hagia Sophia. This place was built in the Age of Constantine's imperial king. History records, the old name of Istanbul was the Byzantine or Constantinople, taken from the name of King Constantine in the Byzantine era. This place was forgotten after Istanbul was conquered by the Ottoman Turkish army. St. Basilica Cistern was rediscovered in 1545. Water reservoirs was used to irrigate the gardens of Topkapi Palace.
Inside the Basilica of St. gardens are surrounded by massive pillars. You're lucky if you can find one of the pillars are carved with faces Mendusa. According to myth, Mendusa is one of the three most hideous creatures in ancient Greece. Creepy indeed to me, because the snake-haired Mendusa. This snake can change anyone who saw it to stone. Image of this creature used to protect the great buildings, one of them, yes, St. Basilica.
To see these historic relics, you should go down to the underground. Down the stairs to the Basilica of St. mystical impressed. The lights were beautiful highlight of this place and make the water sparkle like colored. There was a ripple of water from the fish that swim there. He said, required 7000 slaves to build this historic place. One again the work of man through slavery that can be enjoyed until now. Hope can be a useful lesson without having to perform a similar slavery. (Almeria Allen)
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