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The Banaue Rice Terraces also called Payew, are 2000-year old terraces that were carved into

the mountains of Ifugao in the Philippines by ancestors of the indigenous people. The Rice Terraces are commonly referred to by Filipinos as the "Eighth Wonder of the World". It is commonly thought that the terraces were built with minimal equipment, largely by hand. The terraces are located approximately 1500 meters (5000 ft) above sea level and cover 10,360 square kilometers (about 4000 square miles) of mountainside. They are fed by an ancient irrigation system from the rainforests above the terraces. It is said that if the steps are put end to end it would encircle half the globe.

GATE TOWER BUILDING - Amazing Building Gate Tower Building is a 16-story office building in Osaka, Japan. It is notable because a highway passes through the 5th-7th floors of this building as a bridge. The Gate Tower Building is Japans first building to have a highway pass through it.

SALT HOTEL- AMAZING HOTEL :SALT HOTEL (Hotel de Sal Playa) is located near the famous Uyuni salt deposit in the southwestern part of the Bolivia. At this 'Salt Hotel' almost everything is made up of salt; you sit on the salt chairs, eat on salt tables, sleep on salt beds and enjoy your drinks in the salt bar. Apart from these even the roof, walls are made of salt and the even the floor is covered with salt granules. The hotel was built in 1993 by a salt artisan to capitalize the opportunity which was existing as the numerous tourists were looking for a place to stay during the visit to the nearby deposit.

Aerogel is a glass-like material but it's 1000 times lighter than glass because it's 99.8% air! Aerogel is a synthetic porous material derived from a gel, in which the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with a gas. The result is a solid with extremely low density and thermal conductivity. It is nicknamed frozen smoke, solid smoke, solid air or blue smoke owing to its translucent nature and the way light scatters in the material; however, it feels like expanded polystyrene (styrofoam) to the touch.

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