Lonely Planet Kids World's Strangest Places 1

Description

Discover the planet's weirdest and most wonderful places. Our travel experts have found 40 of the planet's most bizarre sights and natural wonders - and ranked them in order of their oddness! With jaw-dropping facts and amazing photos, we reveal the incredible power of nature, amazing feats of human construction and the world's most mysterious locations.

The world is full of beautiful and strange places to visit and marvel at. Some are thousands of years old, others modern and recently discovered. Inside World's Strangest Places, kids will discover the city where everything is underground, a post office you need a swimsuit to visit, and secret locations that, well, are far too secret to mention here. And with our 'strange-o-meter', they can compare each place based on its uniqueness, wow factor, surreality and mysteriousness.

Places include:

• Pig beach in the Bahamas
• Plane Graveyard in Arizona
• Rainbow Mountain in Peru
• Chocolate Hills in the Philippines
• Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean
• Area 51 in Nevada
• Crooked Forest in Poland
• Salt flats of Uyuni in Bolivia
• Eye of the Sahara in Mauritania
• Snake Island in Brazil
• Stonehenge in England
• Bermuda Triangle
• Cave of the Crystals in Mexico
• Nazca lines in Peru

Other titles in the series include:

- World's Strangest Predators

- World's Strangest Ocean Beasts

- World's Strangest Creepy Crawlies

About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let's start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place - inspiring children at home and in school.