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Os melhores lugares para visitar no Reino Unido e Irlanda

Os melhores lugares para visitar no Reino Unido e Irlanda

Composto pela Inglaterra, Escócia, País de Gales e Irlanda do Norte, o Reino Unido é um dos destinos turísticos mais populares da Europa. O apelo do país tem muito a ver com suas diversas paisagens e rico patrimônio cultural. O roteiro Reino Unido e Irlanda é aquele tipo de viagem absolutamente mágica, que vai ficar gravada na sua memória pelo resto da sua vida. É uma das regiões mais magnificas,…

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¿Sabías que...

... tengo tres primos menos famosetes repartidos por ahí? Uno en China, en el lago Tianchi. 

Otro en en el lago Champlain, cerquita de Nueva York. Le llamamos Chappy cariñosamente.

Y otro en la Patagonia argentina, más concretamente en el Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi. ¡Se llama Nahuelito! Y os encantaría, es como una vaca marítima. 

Sé lo que estáis pensando y sí, las comidas familiares son unas risas. 

Y lo más bonito es que creemos los unos en los otros.

Créditos de la imagen: blairjcampbell.

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Loch Ness, Scotland

Loch Ness is a lake that lies in the Highland council area of Scotland. With a depth of 788 feet (240 metres) and a length of about 23 miles (36 km), Loch Ness has the largest volume of fresh water in Great Britain. It lies in the Glen Mor and forms part of the system of waterways across Scotland that civil engineer Thomas Telford linked by means of the Caledonian Canal in 1822. But the reason of its popularity is the rumor that the lake is inhabited by an aquatic monster.

The modern legend of Loch Ness dates from 1933, when a new road was completed along the shore, offering the first clear views of the loch from the northern side. One April afternoon, a local couple was driving home along this road when they spotted "an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface." Their account was written up by a correspondent for the Inverness Courier, whose editor used the word "monster" to describe the animal. The Loch Ness Monster has been a media phenomenon ever since.

Eyewitnesses continued to come forward with accounts of their sightings—more than 4,000 of them. Most of the witnesses described a large creature with one or more humps protruding above the surface like the hull of an upturned boat. Others reported seeing a long neck or flippers. What was most remarkable, however, was that many of the eyewitnesses were sober, level-headed people: lawyers and priests, scientists and school teachers, policemen and fishermen—even a Nobel Prize winner. In the 1950s, a local doctor named Constance Whyte began collecting these eyewitness accounts, along with sketches of what the people had seen, finally publishing them in 1957 as a book entitled More Than a Legend.

Whyte's book inspired a new generation of monster hunters, including Tim Dinsdale, who on his first visit to the loch in 1960 took an intriguing film of something moving across the loch—and promptly gave up his career as an aeronautical engineer to devote his life to pursuing the monster. The next year, a group of dedicated amateurs formed the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau, keeping a constant vigil on the loch from an observation post on the northern shore. But perhaps the most important effect of Whyte's book was to turn the tide of public opinion. Long dismissed as fodder for "silly season" press reports, Nessie was finally considered a subject worthy of serious scientific investigation.

Prehistoric animal? Elaborate hoax? Seismic activity? A simple trick of the light? It’s even been said that the whole mystery could be explained by the presence of circus elephants in the area in the 1930s. Who know’s, but there truly is something special about Loch Ness and it’s vast waters. Whatever the truth, it’s always worth a trip to Loch Ness to see for yourself.

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La fotografía más increíble jamás capturada

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El lago Ness es tan profundo que contiene más agua fresca que todos los lagos de Inglaterra combinados.