Nature - a much better designer, though at times in her plan interferes man, and thanks to this alliance, there are amazing places. We offer you a selection of the most unique parks in the world.
1. Park 200 Buddhas, Laos
Park 200 Buddhas was created relatively recently one of the religious leaders of Laos Bunlya Sulitatom. The work took a long time, and he Sulitat finish it but could not, because crazy. And yet, the park is striking: on the comparatively very large area harvested most 200 statues of Buddhas, snakes, gods and heroes of the Hindu and Buddhist mythology. Thanks to the carefully thought-out flatness, guest has the opportunity to come close to any stone sculpture, to explore all the features of thread, or in the case if he tried, to look into the faces of the stone from a distance. What is surprising is that any rock-hewn hero inherent in their own expression. Certainly all the sculptures crafted to the last detail: the scales on snake bodies, folds in clothing characters, attributes, people ... some sculptures height reaches 20 meters in height and some do not exceed the growth of a child of five.
The park is located just five kilometers from the town of Nong Khai, and if desired, there may easily reached by bike or including foot. In addition to the sculptures, it has a gorgeous ponds, manicured flower beds, and still open to offers glass sphere, where the embalmed body rests creator park Bunlya Sulitata.
2. Green Lake, Austria
This park, located in the Austrian town of Tragoess is amazing especially in the winter - it is a regular park here with broken flower beds, walkways, trees. People come here to sit on comfortable benches, picnic and enjoy the stunning views of the mountains and the lake, the water in which there is an unusual shade of green. But summer lake poured, and the water level therein rises from two to ten meters. Then the park is flooded and completely disappears under the water.
And then here from all over the world come to divers. Perhaps it is - the only place in the world where you can see the familiar world under water. All plants, park benches and paths remain in place, as you scuba swim past them. Among the terrestrial vegetation in the crystal-clear water floating small fishes. And so it goes, until winter comes again.
3. Park sinners, Thailand
The park is not recommended to visit people with unstable mentality. The fact that the Park sinners in the Buddhist temple, 40 km from Bangkok is filled with sculptures of people, pierced with spears, hung consumed by mythical animals and other dead, no less terrible ways - a sort of demonstration of its might look like hell on earth . In addition, the set of speakers around the park and then came the muffled psychedelic music and eerie voice, which tells about the various horrors of torture and things like that - fortunately, in Thai.
By the way, Thais often come here with children - apparently, for educational purposes. But we would like to bring to the place of the child is not advised. And adults should visit this park only in the event that they have a mental or iron, or a specific sense of humor.
4. Park space reflection, Scotland
According to the creators of the park spouses Charles Jencks and Maggie Cheswick, this place should give visitors a glimpse of the universe and the human place in it, and the fact that modern science is - no more than a stage in the process of learning something quite extraordinary. Habitual flower beds or comfortable paths in the park there. But there is quite futuristic objects such as unusual forms of artificial hills, bridges and ladders. Everything is so harmonious that fit perfectly into the surrounding landscape aluminum sculptures of the most bizarre.
The visitor can even get into the black hole or to be in the Klein bottle, to reflect on complex mathematical formulas or wander inside fractals. An aerial view of all man-made objects of the park are the whole picture. This is - one of those amazing man-made places on Earth that are definitely worth a visit.
5. Creation Museum, USA
This park was primarily created to show people that the creation of the earth by God (as described in the Bible) or in any way contrary to the theory of evolution. The display includes a giant moving figures dinosaurs, adjacent to reconstruction huge Noah#39;s ark. For the glass cases near the bones of prehistoric animals and biblical artifacts. Park staff argue that the existence of dinosaurs is not contrary to the Bible - God could create them in the same way as all the other animals, but for some reason they did not survive the Great Flood.
Regardless of your religious beliefs park is certainly worth attention. The fact is that most of the dinosaur bones and reconstructed skeletons - authentic archaeological finds. And the idea is to combine the biblical story with science is interesting enough in itself.
6. Keukenhof gardens, the Netherlands
Keukenhof is world famous in the first place because of the growing on its territory huge fields of tulips. On 32 acres are more than 100 varieties of flowers. Of course, besides tulips growing in the park and other flowers: lilacs, orchids, roses, lilies. Spring in the park comes more than 800 thousand tourists - the fact that because of the fastidious tulip park is open only during the period from March to May.
Each year in late April in the park parade of colors: the streets Lissa move huge platform made entirely from plants.
7. Francisco Alvarado Park, Costa Rica
The park - a real miracle of landscape design. Taking a walk in his paths, you will see made of cypress living elephants, monkeys and other animals. But the most important thing in the park - it is a mystical maze of living plants: by hovering over countless green arches, under the feet stretched intricately intertwined paths, and on the way to meet a lot of surprises - which is just a giant figure of a sleeping woman, whose face and body are carved out of the moss-covered rocks .
8. Jurong Bird Park, Singapore
In Dzhauronge collected birds from around the world. Most of the feathered inhabitants of the park are, of course, the birds of South-East Asia, but there are many types from Europe, America and Africa. The main feature of the park is that the visitors created the illusion that the birds live in the wild - in a park not find any enclosures or cages. For each group of birds created conditions that mimic its natural habitat area, for example, for the Penguins made air-conditioning system, and for the flamingo - large artificial pond.
Most visitors like to explore an aviary with parrots - 110 species live here, these bright intelligent birds. No less interesting is the pavilion with an artificial waterfall, home to 1,500 species of birds from all over the world. You will be able to watch in real time of their lives, to see how the birds are feeding, sleeping, growing offspring. Only here you can not feed them - the park staff warn that it could adversely affect the health of the birds.
9. Kingdom of dwarfs, China
In truth, this is not the park. Rather, the Kingdom of dwarfs can be called a village, where they live exclusively dwarfs. In the park has its own school, hospital, shopping. But from time to time the door opened for the visitors of the village, and dwarfs dress up in fairy costumes and carried to their homes tours for the public. At home, by the way, are very interesting, in the shape of trees or spawn. The entire fleet is made up entirely subservient to its residents.
From the point of view of public morality park is some doubt as the Europeans and the Chinese. But, anyway, the place is popular, and deprived of a decent source of income Chinese authorities have been slow.
0. Chess Park, Japan
In the Japanese city of Osaka on one of the channels is a park dedicated to board games. The tracks, tables, slides and all other facilities are made in a chess theme. Of course, the park can be found directly chess boards, and table games such as backgammon, and boards to play in the first or checkers. The tourists park does not enjoy great popularity, but it is very like the locals who often come here with children.
The park is amazing by the fact that the creators were not so much money, so that all objects are made of low-cost and environmentally-friendly materials such as particle board and cardboard. If you find yourself in Japan - come, do not regret, because Chess Park is a great example of how to interesting and useful to make a place to stay right in the city.
