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? Grand Canyon National Park (The United States of America) - The Grand Canyon, the gorge with the most magnificent scenery of any in the world, narrates to visitors its recollections of the Earth?s past activities of the last several hundred million years. The Grand Canyon in northwestern Arizona is a gorge that was carved from the Kaibab and Coconino Plateaus that form part of the larger Colorado Plateau. The canyon is 1600 meters deep, about up to 30 kilometers wide and about 450 kilometers long. The magnificent precipitous landscape of the canyon overwhelms visitors with its power.

    ? Mount Huangshan (China) - One of China?s leading places of scenic beauty, Mount Huangshan features a plethora of extraordinarily beautiful overhanging cliffs that were scooped out by glacial erosion, and these coupled with ancient Huangshan Pines and the flowing ?sea of clouds? creates an atmosphere evocative of traditional Chinese landscape ?mountain-and-water? paintings. Since ancient times, the Chinese have considered Huangshan to be the most extraordinary mountain in the world. It is situated in the Anhui Province near the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The bizarre shapes of the peaks of Mount Huangshan are the result of glacial erosion, and their shapes, along with rare Huangshan pines and ?seas of cloud? combine to create a unique landscape.

    ? Pirin National Park (Bulgaria) - The Pirin Mountains area features basin-shaped cirques carved out by glaciers, a large number of lakes that dot these cirques, and lush vegetation nourished by spring water. The mighty Pirin Mountain Range in southwest Bulgaria has a total of 81 peaks that exceed heights of 2500 meters. The mountains were shaped during the 4th glacial period of the Pleistocene epoch, and the valleys that lie between them have been carved into beautiful, rounded cirques by glaciers. These cirques are dotted with lakes making the park one of Eastern Europe?s most beautiful scenic spots.

    ? Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (Canada) - The Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks feature U-shaped valleys, lakes and marshes, and precipitous mountainsides that were formed by glacial activity one million years ago. The Rocky Mountains are a vast chain of mountains that stretches a total of 4800 kilometers north to south along the western side of the North American Continent. The section of the mountain range that lies within Canadian territory is called the Canadian Rockies.
The mountains are characterized by their craggy topography, which is the result of glacial erosion. There are four contiguous national parks in the area: Jasper, Yoho, Banff, and Kootenay.