10 Month Travel Update – 10 Largest/Longest/Deepest… in the world adventures!
After 10 months of traveling Vicky and I have seen quite a lot, probably doubling what we’ve seen in our entire lives before the trip. Sometimes the records can be a little trivial, in that if you get specific enough just about anything can hold a world record – still, it’s fun to keep track of all the biggest/largest/longest/oldest things we’ve seen/done so far. Here’s 10 for 10 months on the road!
Record #1: Largest wooden building in the world
Where: Nara, Japan
One of our first world record adventures was to see this massively large wooden temple in Nara, Japan.
Record #2: Largest bronze statue of the Buddha in the world
Where: Todaiji temple, Japan
Who knew it was a two for one deal? Inside the largest wooden building in the world is the largest bronze statue of Buddha! Guess it makes sense since they needed a large building to have room for it huh?
Record #3: Largest wooden Buddha in the world
Where: Beijing, China
Combine the first two and you have the largest wooden Buddha in the Lama temple in downtown Beijing!
Record #4: Largest palace by area enclosed within the palace’s fortified walls
Where: Beijing, China
Kind of a mouthful but it’s a controversial record so you have to be clear – The Forbidden City in Beijing.
Record #5: Longest wall in the world
Where: Beijing, China
Ok this one is an easy one – The Great Wall of China, of course.
Record #6: Longest passenger cableway of high mountains in the world
Where: Tianmenshan, China
Big mountains require big cableways – this one took us about 45 minutes just to ride it up!
Record #7: Deepest river canyon in the world
Where: Tiger leaping gorge, China
This is also one of the best hikes in the world, but that’s a bit more subjective.
Record #8: Oldest salt mine in the world
This was pretty neat as we got to put on minor suits and travel underground to explore.
Record #9: Largest ice caves in the world
Where: Salzburg, Austria
It’s actually not THAT cold in there, just around freezing.
Record #10: Longest continuous rack railway in the world
Where: Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
Had no idea what a rack railway was until I was on one – cool that my first time was on the world’s longest!
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