On holiday you need to visit exotic places! Alley baobabs in Madagascar

When planning your vacation, we often choose the journey abroad. And a very good reason: the nature of Russia is so interesting and multifaceted that each deserves attention. In this post I want to introduce you to unique places on the beauty of our country. Of course included in this collection are all beautiful places Russia is simply impossible, so I suggest you add to it.

Unique geographical popular science magazine National Geographic has shared the best pictures that were made in various parts of our planet for the past month. In this collection you will be fascinated by the extraordinary natural beauty, majestic animals and diverse national culture in different countries.

Agronomists have identified five areas in Kalmykia covered with locusts.The total area is more than 36 thousand hectares, RIA Novosti reports, quoting the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the republic. The spread of locusts in the country began in early June. At the present moment crops in five areas of Kalmykia have been covered with locusts.

The final turbine of China’s massive Three Gorges Dam was connected to the grid on July the 5th, marking the completion of a controversial hydro-power project that cost the country more than $50 billion and displaced at least 1.3 million people. The installation of the project’s 32nd 700-megawatt unit brought total capacity up to 22.5 gigawatts (GW), accounting for 11 percent of the country’s total hydroelectric capacity.

 Unbelievable pictures of Nature.

At 3,454 metres (11,332 feet) Jungfraujoch railway station is also known as The Top of Europe, which figures, as the station is the highest in EU. The station is nestled between the peaks of the Monch and the Jungfrau mountains in central Switzerland and boasts spectacular views over the Great Aletsch Glacier and the Bernese Alps. On reaching the station you can walk out onto the viewing platform to take in the breathtaking vistas or explore the Ice Museum, a series of tunnels and rooms carved into the glacier and filled with ornate ice sculptures. For those with a serious head for heights there’s a lift which rises a further 117 metres inside the mountain to the Sphinx Observatory, home to another viewing platform and a scientific observatory.