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23 years, two months, 5 days ago ( 1503nineteeneightynine ), a cute baby girl was born in Hospital Besar Kota Bharu, Kelantan, at 4.15pm on Wednesday.

The baby was born in healthy condition and a few days later both baby and mother was taken home safely by a father who is still young and strong.

This is the fourth children for En. Hj. Yunus binYusuf and Pn. Hjh. Mek Nga binti Mamat.

Then, the baby girl was given a lovely name. Norliawana Yunus. That is me.

I grew up in moderate and happy life with my parents and three siblings. My parents provided me a better education since i was a young girl in order to be a good person in future. When we was a children, 'what is your ambition' is a normal questions that will come to our ear. In school, when teachers ask me 'what is your ambition' , my answer is 'my ambition is...' i stuck. Because my ambition keep changing, i don't know which ambition i want to choose and i don't know why. For now, since i already grew up and able to think, my ambition is, i want to be a teacher. Reason is, my student will remember me for the rest of life as their teacher.

After my primary and secondary school, now, i'm studying in Universiti Malaysia Kelantan majoring in Health Entrepreneurship (A09A125), Faculty of Entreprenuership and Business. This blog is my individual assignment under subject Travel and Tours Management ( ATS 3053 ), semester 6 year 3.

Thank you very much to my lecturer, Miss Raja Norliana for giving this such of assignment and guidances. This blog is for you. Before this, i never involve in this such social thing and this is my first blog. Now, after doing and finishing my assignment, i made my learning even a little about this blog. Besides that, towards this assignment i made to know about the destination and beautiful places in the world that i never know that it exist before.

It is quite simple and easy to manage the blog but not all of the functions are my expertise yet. Maybe after this i will try to proceed my another blog to make me better understanding.

This blog is my outcome but it is not perfectly from my idea and i hope the deficiency and mistake can be consider.

Thank you.

01. Koh Rong, Cambodia

Koh Rong Island is the biggest Cambodian resort island off the coast of SihanoukVille. The Island is a great place to relax or to explore because the island is still almost deserted, undeveloped and natural treat. The trip to Koh Rong takes two or more hours from the mainland, in Silhanoukville, Cambodia.

The island is certainly the most beautiful island of the Sihanouk Ville region. A snowdrift bay, covered by a crystal clear and turquoise water, stretches on several kilometers. At the center, a jungle with thousands of coconut palms and waterfalls invade the island. Paradise found on Koh Rong.

There are several smaller islands surrounding Koh Rong, and tourist can visit them in a quick boat trip. Scuba diving, snorkeling, swimming, exploring, and fishing covers most of the activities available on the island.

02. Niah Great Caves, Malaysia

Gua Niah National Park, Sarawak is the lrgest limestone caves in the world. although it is one of the sarawak's smallest national park, it is certainly one of the most important and unusual atrractions to visitors. what is most interesting about Niah is that one of the main claims to fame is the birthplace of civilization in the region. the oldest modern human remains in Southeast Asia along with many others relics of prehistoric man were discovered about 40 000 years ago. it making the park one of the most important archeological sites in the world.

the park has a size of 3 140 hectares of forest and limestone karts area. it was first gazetted as a National Historic Monument in 1958 and on 23 November 1974 was gazetted as National Park and open to public on 1 January 1975.
like other caves in Sarawak, it has extremely bug chambers and passages. the cave systems has eight entrances. the west entrance also called west mouth, is one of the world's most spectacular cave entrance with over 60m high and 250m wide, leading to an even larger chamber within. proceeding into the cave, the sound of disembodied voices mingled with the squeaking of millions of bats and swiftlets to create an eerie atmosphere. the voices belong to the guano (bird and bat excrement) covering the cave floor. the guano is then carried in sacks to the sungai niah, where it is graded and sold as fertilizer.

03. Salar of Uyuni, Bolivia

Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi). It is located in the Potosi and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia near the crest of the Andes.
In Bolivia, the must visited place is the Salar de Uyuni. It will be unlike anything that have ever seen.
It is covered by a few meters of salt crust, which has an extraordinary flatness with the average altitude variations within one meter over the entire area of the Salar.
The salt is over 10 meters thick in the center. In the dry season, the salt planes are a completely flat expanse of dry salt, but in the wet season, it is covered with a thin sheet of water that is still drivable. The Salar of Uyuni is estimated to contain 10 billion tons of salt of which less than 25.000 tons is extracted annually.
Every November, the Salar of Uyuni is the breeding grounds for three species of pink South American flamingos like the chilean, andean and rare james's flamingo. Their color their color presumably originating from feeding on pink algae. There are about 80 of other bird species present, including the hoorned coot, the andean goose and the andean hilstar.

There are also a few places surrounding the salar of Uyuni that promising an excitement such as Colorful Lakes  Laguna Colorada, Tupiza, Valles de Rocas, isla Incahuasi.

in the rainy/wet season is roughly from January to April (subject to change). During this period parts of the Salar may be covered with water. It's still possible to do the trip, to visit the Salar and the beautiful lagoons, the highlights of the trip for most people. However with water on the Salar tourist cannot cross it for hours like in the dry season and generally cannot get to Isla Incahuasi/Fish Island.

A salt hotel in salar of Uyuni also the atrraction to tourist.

04. The Nabatean city of Petra, Jordan

The ancient Nabataean city of Petra was recently voted as the seventh wonder of the ancient world. Is a historical and archeological city in Jordan. Established sometime around the 6th century BC as the capital city of the Nabateans, it is a symbol of Jordan as well as its most visited tourist attraction. It lies on slope of Mount Hor in Basin  among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the dead sea to the gulf of aqaba. Petra has been a UNESCO world heritage since 1985.

It was complete with several temples, a festival theater, a nymphaeum, a bathhouse, a sacred way, a monument gate, many pools, and several other public buildings. The temples and other public buildings occupied the central valley, where the royal tombs were situated.

Along with this, the people who maintained Petra had to live there. This included priests, sculptors, grave diggers, temple attendants, administrative staff for the many public buildings, merchants who sold temple and burial paraphernalia, and other support people who ran services that provided things like food and water. If there was a royal court in Petra, then this would have entailed another whole group of people. These people alone may have numbered several thousand, along with their spouses and families.

There are also over one thousand burial monuments in Petra and several hundred others in the other burial cities. Most of these were for family and tribal units. Thus the tombs could have contained tens of thousands of people. Added to this, there are extensive Nabataean graveyards located near Petra and the other cities where the more common people were buried. This adds up to a lot of graves.The Nabataeans wealthy were mostly buried in five Nabataean burial cities.
From the inscriptions, it can see that the tombs were made by Nabataean sculptors and not by imported slaves or laborers.

05. The Giants' Causeway, Northern Ireland

The Giant's Causeway lies at the foot of the basalt cliffs along the sea coast on the edge of the Antrim plateau in Northern Ireland. The volcanic activity 60 million years ago led to the formation of the 38,000 basalt columns that make up the Giant's Causeway. Lava welling up through fissures in the chalk bed formed a "lava plateau". Three periods of volcanic activity gave rise to the Lower, Middle and Upper Basalts, and it's the Middle Basalt rock which forms the famous amphitheaters of hexagonal columns in the Causeway, built the hexagonal stones in shape, the stones stretch far out into sea and some stand as tall as 36ft (12m).
The site plays a major part of Ireland’s heritage, attracting visitors from around the world each year since it was first documented in 1693 and realistic sketches were published in 1740. The Giant’s Causeway has often been described as the Eighth Wonder of the World and was declared as Ireland’s first World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1986.
The most characteristic and unique feature of the site is the exposure of a large number of regular polygonal columns of basalt in perfect horizontal sections forming a pavement.
Besides that, the sea birds can be seen off the coast around
the Causeway, with species such as fulmar, petrel, cormorant,
shag, redshank guillemot and razorbill being frequently observed by tourists. Also a rare and unusual plant species including sea spleenwort, hare's foot trefoil, vernal squill, sea fescue and frog orchid can be found on the cliffs and nearby rock formations.
Visitor facilities for The Giant's Causeway include a shop providing refreshments and souvenirs. Guided tours of the Causeway are available by arrangement for groups of more than 15 people, and there is access for visitors with disability. The area is suitable for picnics, cliff and country walks, and dogs are welcome on leads

06. The Perito Moreno glacier, Argentina

The Perito Moreno Glacier is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia.
An ice cloak, or glacial cap, covers this Protected Area of 600,000 hectares. Among the 356 glaciers, the Perito Moreno is the most outstanding one, having a front of 5 km long and a height of over 60 meters above the level of the water.

Already known worldwide because of its process of fractures, the front of the glacier closes the running of the waters of Brazo Rico when it approaches the coast. This produces a kind of pond where the water goes up 20 meters over the level, creating the filtration that ends up in the fracture.
Every year, thousands of tourists flock to Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier for majestic views of frozen H2O (water). Around 2,500 tourists watched and cheered as the 97 square miles glacier is splintered and ice crashed down. Perito Moreno is one of three glaciers in Patagonia that is growing. As the 230-foot-high body of ice moves forward, it cuts off a river feeding the lake.

Water then builds up pressure and slowly undermines the ice, forming a tunnel until eventually the ice forming the arc becomes so unstable it comes tumbling down. The latest collapse occurred on March 4 after several large chunks of ice broke away from the glacier.
Tourists who were visiting the attraction from the nearby city of El Calafate, witnessed whole sections of the glacier sink into the sea, with many onlookers cheering and whistling at the phenomenon. The glacier, which is located in Los Glaciares National Park, was recently a candidate to be named one of the seven natural wonders of the world, but lost out in the final voting stages.

07. Pagan, Myanmar

Pagan (also called Bagan), located some 425 miles (680 KM) north of Yangon in Myanmar (Burma), is one of the famous religious places in the world. Over 2000 temples, pagodas , stupas and shrines located in this ancient city were designed , built and decorated.
More than a thousand years ago, Pagan was the capital of northern Burma. Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, in a burst of religious fervor, Pagan's rulers had thousands of temples, pagodas, kyaungs and other religious monuments constructed. It's believed that more than 13,000 structures once occupied the Pagan plain.
Pagan is a very well know religious place in the World. It’s known for its mystical relics and the historical importance. This has ended up forming the much known Buddhist Monument in the world. Alongside the site, it’s believed to be holy in such a way that you can’t move some steps without touching some sacred.
The Pagan is among the country’s generating income despite the many attractions in the state of Myanmar. It is known to attract tourists, researchers, photographers from all over the world. It’s a lifetime trip that would choose to have by visiting the Pagan: thousand pagodas plain.













The common and available accommodations at Pagan are Hotels. The Hotels in the area are quite affordable and give the best rates suitable to everyone. The hotels rage from 3 to 5 star and most of them serve half board meals since most of the time during the day tourists are out on the tour and get back later in the evening. These hotels include Sairas Garden Hotel, the Sovereign corporate Hotel, zylan Luxury Villa, Bungalow Hotel, the park street Hotel and the Hilton Colombo Residence. There are many more Hotels and resorts that make the tourist stay easy and comfortable for any period of time you would wish to.

08. The Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Ha Long Bay is one of the world natural wonders. It is the most beautiful tourist place in Vietnam.
Ha Long Bay, situated in the Gulf of Tonkin, includes some 1600 islands and islets forming a spectacular seascape of limestone pillars. Because of their precipitous nature, most of the islands are uninhabited and relatively unaffected by human influence.

Several of the islands are hollow, with enormous caves, floating villages of fisherman, who ply the shallow waters for 200 species of fish and 450 different kind of mollusk. Ha Long Bay features are more than one awesome limestone karsts and islands of various sizes and shapes along the 120 km coastline of Bai Chay Beach.
 Its waters are host to a great diversity of ecosystems including offshore coral reefs, freshwater swamp forests, mangrove forests, small freshwater lakes, and sandy beaches.

The folk tale has it that the dragons descended from heaven to help locals by spitting jewels and jade to the sea, forming a natural fortress against invaders; these precious stones are represented by the lush green outcrops. Several islands boast beautiful grottos and caves with contiguous chambers, hidden ponds and peculiar stone formations.

The climate of the bay is tropical, wet, with two seasons ( hot and moist summer, and dry and cold winter).

Hạ Long bay is also a member of the Club of the Most Beautiful Bays of the World. In 1994, the core zone of Hạ Long Bay was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

In summary, Ha Long Bay possesses a tremendous diversity of caves and other landforms which derive from the unusual geomorphological process of marine invaded tower karst. These areas provide a unique and extensive reservoir of data for the future understanding of geoclimatic history and the nature of karst processes in a complex environment.

09. The Great Coral Reef, Australia

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders of the natural world. A closer encounter with the Great Barrier Reef's impressive coral gardens reveals many astounding underwater attractions including the world's largest collection of corals (in fact, more than 400 different kinds of coral), coral sponges, molluscs, rays, dolphins, over 1500 species of tropical fish, more than 200 types of birds, around 20 types of reptiles including sea turtles and giant clams over 120 years old.

Swimming with the fish and admiring the colours of the coral is a must for any holiday to the Great Barrier Reef. Outer reef scuba diving and island day trips are some of the more common pastimes on the reef along with scenic flights and rainforest tours to Kuranda and the Daintree Rainforest.one area of the Great Barrier Reef is reaches is the Whitsunday islands. It is a popular spot for diving vacations. Diving in on the Great Barrier Reef is the best way to experience the thrill of scuba diving with beautiful corals.

There are hundreds of accommodation providers all along the Tropical North Queensland coast. The Great Barrier Reef Visitors Bureau provides the tourist with one easy booking centre for all of your extensive itinerary planning, including resort & hotel accommodation, tours & cruises, dive trips and car rentals.

10. The Carnival of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

the carnival in rio de janeiro is a world famous festival was held in every year. it is consider as the biggest carnival in the world with two million people per day on the streets. Rio de janeiro is a wild 4 days celebrtion, 40 days before easter every year. it is normally happen on february, the hottest month in southern hemisphere, when the rio summer is at its peak. usually started on saturday and finished on tuesday. carnival with all its excess, being celebrated as a profane event, and also can be considered an act of farewell to the pleasure of the flesh. Incorporated into every aspect of the Rio carnival are dancing and music. the most famous dance is the samba, a Brazilian dance with African influences. the samba was created by the African . the samba remains a popular dance not only in carnival but in the ghetto villages outside of the main cities. the samba is the main dance of Rio Carnival but it is not performed in silence. the samba school will entertain the community through samba nights and create a peagent. they have to picked themes, write music, make costumes and floats.

Music is a major aspect of all parts of carnival. as stated by Samba City, “Samba Carnival Instruments are an important part of Brazil and the Rio de Janeiro carnival, sending out the irresistible beats and rhythms making the crowd explode in a colourful dance revolution fantasy fest!" . the samba that is found in Rio is named, batucada. it is referring to the dance and music being based on percussion instruments. other dances include the lundu, the polka, and the maxixe. they are all together in mesmerizing the carnival.

one of the greatest elements os rio de janeiro carnival is, it not only provides entertainment for many people around the world, but it also gives people a chance to learn and know about the true culture of brazil. for the brazilians, carnival is very important, it is sums up their culture. to be threre during the carnival can be the most unforgettable experience in life. it represent great entertainment and colouful of life.
for tourist, the accomodation there is quite simple and easy to approach.

11. Migrating Animals in the Serengeti Park, Tanzania

Serengeti Park is one of the most popular places in Tanzania and it is famous for its animals and natural wildlife. also a safari park. it is really captivating and totally natural because of the area and location it is built on. situated on the 15,000 square kilometers this national park was built in the beginning to preserve and conserve what was left up to be the wildlife circle and the major purpose was to have all the animals and plain land greenery saved. now, this is a major tourist attraction and people from all across the globe come to visit the wildebeest annual migration species and groups of several different animal species.
besides that, UNESCO has declared Serengeti National Park as one of the WORLD HERITAGE SITE. Serengeti is one of the most unique wilderness areas of the world, fantastic in its natural beauty and unequalled in it's scientific value. one of the most unique remarkable scenes is the annual migration of wildebeest, zebras, giraffe, gazelle, buffalo and other plains animals. as the herds move to new grazing ground, they are followed by predators such as lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, jackals and hunting dogs waiting for weak prey while vultures soar overhead waiting for their share of the kill.

the migratory animals will pass through Central Serengeti on the way to the Southern Serengeti in December as well as May when they are going to Western Serengeti. during the dry season July to November, the Seronera River provides refugee to the resident wildlife making this a high concentration area. when a seasonal drought dries up grass and water supplies in one area, the grazing animals move on to the next area along the Serengeti migration route where seasonal rains are falling. if made a planning a decent trip for the Serengeti Park, the best way is by do something like camping so, tourist can make the best out of the wildlife migration which is the biggest in East Africa. there are lofts and camps made for the ideal groups that are supposed to be there to cater for the services and accommodations.