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Home Remedies to Get Rid of Dark Neck

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What Are The Causes Of Dark Neck?</h2>
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The exact cause of dark neck varies and is often unknown. Some of the causes of dark skin around the neck are diabetes, hereditary, obesity, polycystic ovary etc. In some cases, poor personal hygiene has also resulted in dark neck. Too much exposure to sun is another reason for the dark colored skin on the neck area. The condition can be treated to a certain level by the right cleansing, scrubbing and moisturizing using natural methods. Reducing the weight of the person also helps if the darkness is caused by overweight or obesity</div>
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What Are The Symptoms?</h2>
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Usually the only symptom will be dark, thick and velvety patches of skin in the neck. In rare cases mild itching is seen in the affected areas. Patches of skin will change the color slowly taking months and years to spread. . There are many home remedies available to reduce the discoloration of skin around the neck and to get back to the normal colored skin. Some of them are discussed below for your use.</div>
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Home Remedies For Dark Neck</h2>
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1. Cucumber</h3>
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Cucumber cleanses the skin and help to soothe the skin and bring back the glow of the skin. Scrubbing the neck with cucumber removes the dead skin cells.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Apply grated cucumber or cucumber juice on the dark neck.</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Gently scrub the neck for a few minutes</li>
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2. Lemon Juice</h3>
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The citric acid present in the lemon juice is a natural bleaching agent. If you have sensitive skin, you will have to use diluted lemon juice for this purpose.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Apply lemon juice to the dark skin of the neck using cotton ball</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Leave it there for 10-20 minutes and wash it off with water.</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Do not expose the skin to sunlight after applying lemon juice.</li>
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3. Honey And Tomato</h3>
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Honey helps to lighten the skin and it is a natural moisturizer. Tomato and lemon has acids in them which will help to lighten the dark color.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Mix honey , tomato juice and lemon juice and apply it to the affected areas</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Leave the mix on the skin for 20 minutes and wash it off.</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Repeat the remedy daily to get faster result</li>
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4. Almonds</h3>
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Almonds contain vitamins which are essential for the skin health. The oil also acts as a moisturizer.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Make a paste of powdered almond and milk powder with honey</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Apply this paste on the sides and back of the neck, where the skin is dark</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Leave the mixture on the skin for 30 minutes and wash off with water.</li>
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5. Olive Oil</h3>
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Olive oil helps to moisturize the skin and to nourish the skin.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Mix olive oil and lemon juice and apply it on the dark neck areas</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Keep the mix on the skin for at least 20 minutes to reduce the darkness of the skin.</li>
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6. Aloe Vera</h3>
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Aloe Vera is a natural skin lightener and it also moisturizes the skin</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Apply pure gel of Aloe Vera directly on the neck</li>
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• Wash your neck after 20 minutes.<br />
• Repeat the remedy daily to get faster result</div>
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7. Potato</h3>
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The potato has bleaching abilities and this will lighten the skin.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Take grated potato or potato juice and apply it on your neck</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Leave it there for 15 minutes and clean the neck using water</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">You can also apply a mix of lime juice and potato juice to get faster results</li>
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8. Walnut</h3>
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Walnut acts as a scrubber and removes the dead cells on the skin reducing the dark color. Milk cleanses and moisturizes the skin. The vitamins and zinc present in the walnut nourishes the skin</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Make a paste of walnut with milk</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Apply this paste on your dark neck and slightly scrub the area</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">After ten minutes wash the area with cold water</li>
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9. Yoghurt</h3>
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Yoghurt helps to cleanse the skin and the acid present in it lightens the skin. It also helps to moisturize the skin.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Apply a yoghurt to the affected area and leave for 10-15 minutes</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">You can apply a mixture of yoghurt and lime juice to get faster result.</li>
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10. Turmeric</h3>
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Turmeric has antiseptic properties and is used for treating various skin problems. You can use turmeric in different ways to get rid of the dark neck problem.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Mix turmeric powder and milk and apply it on the affected areas for at least 15 minutes.</li>
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11. Orange Peel</h3>
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Orange peel helps to cleanse the skin and to bleach the skin. This will reduce the dark skin considerably. This is one of the best remedies for dark neck.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Mix the dried orange peel powder with milk</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Apply it on the neck for 20 minutes and wash it with cool water.</li>
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12. Chickpea Flour</h3>
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Chickpea flour is an excellent scrubber which removes the dead skin and exposes the fresh skin.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Take one teaspoon of chickpea flour and add a pinch of turmeric to it</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Make a paste of this with water and apply it on the neck</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Allow it to dry for 30 minutes and wash it off with cold water</li>
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13. Baking Soda</h3>
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Baking soda cleanses the skin and reduces the dark shade.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Make a paste of baking soda and warm water</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Apply it on the neck and allow it to dry</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Wash it off after some time</li>
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14. Vitamin E Oil</h3>
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Vitamin E oil nourishes the skin and moisturizes the skin.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Apply vitamin E oil to your dark neck and massage the area lightly, before going to bed at night</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Next day morning wash the area</li>
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15. Sandalwood Powder</h3>
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Sandalwood helps to soothe the skin and helps to regain the glow.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Make a paste of sandal wood and rose water</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Apply it on the affected area and allow it to dry</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Wash it off with cool water</li>
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16. Sunscreen</h3>
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Using sunscreen creams or lotions helps to prevent and reduce the dark neck problem.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Use sunscreens with SPF at least 30 to protect your neck while going outside.</li>
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17. Mint Leaves</h3>
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Mint leaves have antiseptic properties and also cleanses the skin.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">You can apply the paste of mint leaves to the neck</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">You can also make a paste of neem leaves and turmeric and apply it, to get rid of dark neck.</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Remember to leave the paste for at least 15 minutes</li>
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18. Cocoa Butter</h3>
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Cocoa butter helps to moisturize the skin and reduce the dark appearance of the neck. Milk cleanses the skin and also lightens the skin.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Mix cocoa butter, milk and honey and apply it on the affected areas of the neck</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Use this remedy at least twice a day for seven days to feel the difference</li>
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19. Oatmeal</h3>
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Oatmeal can be used in different ways to remove the dark neck. Oatmeal acts as a scrub and helps in the exfoliation of the skin.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Mix oatmeal powder with milk and apply on the dark skin</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Apply oatmeal mixed with honey on the affected area</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Mix some curd or yoghurt with oatmeal powder and apply it</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Keep the mixture applied on the neck for 20-30 minutes and wash it off</li>
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20. Fruit Masks</h3>
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Fruit masks provide nourishment to the skin and help to cleanse the skin and reduce the dark pigmentation.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Mash fruits like banana, orange, avocado separately or make a mix of all these fruits</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Apply the fruit mask to the neck area and leave it for half an hour.</li>
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Are you a person with dark neck? Are you trying to avoid embarrassment caused by a dark neck by wearing high collared clothing? Are you looking for low expensive methods to treat the problem of dark skin on your neck? Then you can try some of the home remedies given above to get rid of the problems effectively. You can try out the remedies and find out which one will be effective for you. Once you find the effective remedy stick with it to get the best results. It requires some time to get rid of dark neck. Hence the regular use of the appropriate home remedy is necessary to see the difference.</div>
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How To Plan A Romantic Holiday In Amalfi Coast, Italy

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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Myth Buster: </strong></em>Just because it’s a favourite destination with the rich and famous doesn’t mean that you can’t do it. There’s no travel that good planning can’t afford. Trust me, I’ve done it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Myth Buster: </strong></em>Unless you are on a super tight schedule, a day trip to Amalfi is not enough. I gave it three precious days in my Italy itinerary of 17 days and felt like I could have stayed forever!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t believe me? Read on and decide for yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you wondering what this is about, let’s start with a quick introduction. After sharing details of my honeymoon sojourn part deux, I thought it’s only logical to share where it all began. I went to Italy for my honeymoon (woohoo!). Much to my parents’ dismay, my husband and I spent more time researching our holiday than planning the wedding. We looked up every travel portal and spoke with every friend’s friend who had ever set foot on the Italian soil. Here’s a sneak peek into one of the most special chapters of my Italy diaries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because it’s just so beautiful. It looks like it’s straight out of a fairy-tale. Amalfi Coast is a stunning coastline in Southern Italy with steep cliffs that drop right into the sea creating a dramatic union of land, sea and sky. What adds to the charm are the lemon groves winding down the luxurious villas leaning out over the edge. No wonder it’s a favourite with writers and poets!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Located just about two hours from Naples, you will also cross the ancient town of Pompeii, which was destroyed after the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The coast itself has a number of towns, the popular ones being Positano, Amalfi and Ravello.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>10 Things You Didn’t Know About Italy</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Often, people plan a day trip to Amalfi from Rome (costing 217 Euros) or Naples (costing 85 Euros). The overall cost usually includes a trip to Pompeii followed by a coach tour to the coast with about one hour free in one of the towns. While this option works well if you are short on time, I strongly recommend spending at least one night by the coast if you really want to do justice to your travel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you do decide to stay here, you will have the following three ways to reach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first option is to ask your hotel to send for a pick up at Naples. This is of course very convenient but much more expensive than if you were to take public transport. For some perspective, our hotel in Positano offered to pick us up from Naples at a charge of 100 Euros each way. Alternatively, they also offered to pick us up from Sorrento (the base town connecting Naples and Amalfi Coast) at a charge of 45 Euros each way.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Train + Bus</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both my husband and I love using public transport. No, not because we are stingy! We love the whole local experience, travelling with the locals, asking for directions, finding a new place all by ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our journey started with the Circumvesuviana Train that goes from Naples and takes you to Meta di Sorrento. Remember, this is not your fancy Euro Rail, this is a cheap (and dirty!) but safe and efficient way to reach the coast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once you reach Sorrento, which is the base of the cliff, there is a regular bus service called Sita Bus (don’t ask me why) which goes every half an hour to all the towns all the way to the top. So we took the “Sita Bus” to Positano. Obviously, this doesn’t drop you right up to your hotel. For that, you need to take another internal red bus till the hotel. It might sound a little complicated, but it’s really not. To give you an idea, we left Naples at around 9 am and checked into our hotel at Positano before lunch. Easy breezy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The third option is to rent a car and drive yourself. This is also a great option because the drive up the cliff is spellbinding. Just make sure you find a hotel that allows free parking, otherwise you would end up paying a lot for that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Do You Know The 3 P’s Of Italy?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had booked a hotel called Conca D’Oro in Positano for two nights. At first I was a little disappointed because we had to climb an awful lot of stairs with our luggage to actually get to the hotel. But after much whining, all my complaints dissolved as soon as I stepped into this cosy little family-run property. The hotel was beyond beautiful and we had the most gorgeous sea facing balcony in our room. The morning welcomed us with clouds gliding through the window and nights were spent gazing at the stars twinkling over the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spent months planning our Italy itinerary which we are very proud of, so for those of you planning or dreaming of a trip to Amalfi Coast, here are the details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After checking into our hotel, we headed out immediately to paint the town red. We stopped for lunch and had one of the best (and most expensive!) pizzas of the trip. Meals here in general are more costly than in say Rome or Florence. Then we just walked around and went to the beach. The town is quite small so you can easily cover all of it on foot in less than a day. But it’s so gorgeous that you can just soak in the views for hours. There isn’t much nightlife, so it’s best to catch a good dinner, buy some delicious (and very reasonable) Italian wine from the local grocery and take it back to your hotel for a relaxed time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next day we had planned to visit the islands of Capri-Anacapri. The ferry to the islands leaves from Sorrento so we had to take the bus back. Because we were running a little late, the lady at our hotel told us a ‘shortcut’ to the bus stop was through a staircase close to the hotel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A word of caution:</em> If an Italian tells you to take the ‘stairs’ be careful because in Italy stairs are like streets, long ones. This one seemed to never end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, don’t buy a tour from anyone on the ferry. It started raining and we bought a tour for 30 Euros each and ended up feeling quite cheated because the coach just took us up and down the island, which we could have easily done ourselves for one-fourth the price.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because it was raining we couldn’t go to the Blue Grotto, which otherwise is a must-do attraction from Capri. But we managed to explore both Capri and Anacapri with their little churches, boutiques and cosy little coffee shops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the evening we took the ferry back to Sorrento and spent a few hours exploring this town. Sorrento is busier compared to Positano and is a convenient hub for tourists because of its easy accessibility. There are a lot more reasonable restaurants and quirky geletarias that you can choose from. I even managed to shop for some clothes here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the third day while we checked out from our hotel, we were planning to spend the day exploring the rest of the coast. So we left our luggage at the concierge and went back to the bus stop (this time not from the ‘shortcut’!) and took the Sita to Amalfi. The drive is just so beautiful that it leaves you speechless. The town has a lively vibe with people relaxing by the sea or walking by the main market area. Since we were feeling particularly enterprising, we decided to take the bus up to Ravello. I must confess that being an obsessive literature enthusiast I also wanted to see Ravello because this was a favourite with both Virginia Woolf and DH Lawrence. Yes, it is beautiful, but my loyalties remain with Positano.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, we headed back to Sorrento and then Naples. But somewhere up there, maybe in the narrow staircase, maybe in the clouds, I left a piece of my heart behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are probably hundreds of <i><b>famous living trees</b></i> in the world. They are mostly known because of its location, age, size, unusual appearance, connections with some historical events or because of strange uses by humans. Most of these trees are visited by tens of thousands of tourists from around the world each year.</span></div>
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<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="color: #105cb6;"></a><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teapot Baobab takes the form of bottle and also looks like teapot, which is why its name has teapot in it. This tree and the trees similar like this are located in <i><b>Ifaty</b></i>, Madagascar.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The famed Teapot Baobab is around 1200 years old and has the capacity of storing more than 31,000 US gallons (117.000 litres)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> of water. It can show the endurance for severe drought conditions. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Chandelier Tree in Drive Thru Tree Park is a 315 foot (96 metre) tall coast redwood tree in Leggett, <b><i>California</i></b> with a 6 ft (1.83 m) wide by 6 ft 9 inch (2.06 m) high hole cut through its base to allow a car to drive through.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <i><b>Chandelier Tree</b></i> is a giant redwood located 175 mi (280 km) north of San Francisco on US 101. The massive tree had the ignoble fate of having a tunnel carved through its base more than 60 years ago and is now the centerpiece of a 200-acre grove of redwoods.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>For $3</b></i>, you can drive your car through the tree - unless you are driving a Winnebago </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(a type of recreational vehicle)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"> - and set up a picnic at its base.</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boab Prison Tree, Australia</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Boab Prison Tree is a large hollow Adansonia gregorii (Boab) tree just south of Derby,<i><b>Western Australia</b></i>. It is reputed to have been used in the 1890s as a lockup for Indigenous Australian prisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing.</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cotton Tree, Sierra Leone</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Cotton Tree is a Ceiba pentandra (tropical tree), a historic symbol of <i><b>Freetown</b></i>, the capital city of Sierra Leone. According to legend, the "Cotton Tree" gained importance in 1792 when a group of former African American slaves, who had gained their freedom by fighting for the British during the American War of Independence, settled the site of modern Freetown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to tradition, they landed on the shoreline and walked up to a giant tree just above the bay and held a thanksgiving service there, gathering around the tree in a large group and praying and singing hymns to thank God for their deliverance to a free land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, a huge Cotton Tree stands in the oldest part of Freetown near the Supreme Court building, music club building and the National Museum. Sierra Leonians believe that this very tree was where the Nova Scotian settlers prayed more than two hundreds years ago, and they regard it as the <i><b>symbol of their capital city</b></i>. Its exact age is unknown, but it is known to have existed in 1787. </span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lone Cypress Tree, USA</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chief among the scenic attractions at <i><b>17-Mile Drive</b></i> (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">California) is the Lone Cypress Tree, a salt-pruned Monterey cypress (macrocarpa) tree which is the official symbol of Pebble Beach and a frequent fixture of television broadcasts from this area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1990 the Monterey Journal reported that Pebble Beach's lawyer, Kerry C. Smith, said "The image of the tree has been trademarked by us," and that it intended to control any display of the cypress for commercial purposes. The company had warned photographers that "they cannot even use existing pictures of the tree for commercial purposes."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other legal commentators have questioned the Pebble Beach Company's ability to invoke intellectual property laws to restrict others' use of such images.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i><b>6. Chêne Chapelle, France</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Chêne chapelle (Oak Chapel) is an oak tree located in <i><b>Allouville-Bellefosse in Seine-Maritime</b></i>, France. The oak tree is between 800 and 1,200 years old. It is 15m (50ft) high and its base has a circumference of 16m (53 ft).</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A staircase spirals around its twisted trunk but neither is this an everyday tree house. Instead of a dwelling place atop or amongst its branches the visitor will discover that the interior holds the secret of this ancient oak.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Within there are two small chapels, which were built there in 1669. How old the tree is exactly is the subject of some debate but it is without doubt the oldest known tree in France. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While it has persevered the centuries, others have come and gone but Chêne chapelle has remained.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today the common oak is showing signs of age and stress. Now held up by poles, part of the 33-foot (10 m) trunk has died and the majority of the tree has been covered over with wooden shingles where the bark has fallen away. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i><b>7. Sunland Baobab, South Africa</b></i></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunland Baobab is a well-known enormous baobab (Adansonia digitata) in South Africa. The tree is located on <i><b>Sunland Farm</b></i> (Platland Farm), near Modjadjiskloof (previously known as Duiwelskloof), Limpopo Province. The Sunland Big Baobab is renowned because in its hollowed trunk there is established a bar and a wine cellar.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tree has been carbon dated and is estimated to be around 1060 years old.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trunk of the tree consists of two connected parts. Each of these parts has its own enormous hollow connected with a narrow passage.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Diameter of the tree - 10.64 metres or 35 ft (only Glencoe Baobab up to recent split had larger diameter), height 19 metres (62 ft) and crown diameter - 30.2 metres (99 ft). Circumference of the trunk - 33.4 metres (110 ft).</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carbon investigations inside the hollows of the tree testify that there have been fires in the hollow in 1650 AD, 1750–1780, 1900, 1955 and 1990. Hollows have been turned into pub in 1993 by the owners of Sunland farm and this unusual landmark since then has turned into<i><b>popular tourist destination</b></i>. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i><b>8. Bartek, Poland</b></i></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bartek is an ancient oak tree in Poland. It grows in <i><b>Zagnańsk near Kielce</b></i> in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. Its age, previously estimated at up to 1200 years, has recently been established to be 650–670 years, with a corer used to extract a sample for a ring count. An accurate count is impossible, as Bartek's interior has hollowed with age. There are several older trees in Poland, both oaks and yews (some over 1000 years old), yet none of them has matched Bartek's fame.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 30-metre (98 ft) tall Bartek measures 13.5 metres (44 ft) in girth at its base. Its crown spreads about 40 metres (131 ft). King Casimir III (1310–1370) is known to have held court under Bartek. King Jan III Sobieski rested under the oak on his way back from the Battle of Vienna (1683). He reputedly hid a Turkish sabre, an arquebus and a bottle of wine inside it to commemorate the victory.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The oak is still alive, but is in decline. In 1829 it had 14 main branches, today only 8 are left. In the 1920s the hollow inside the trunk was covered with limestone. The limestone was removed in the 1960s, replaced with resin-based filling and covered with bark. The living sapwood is very thin (5–20 cm or 2-8 inches). The weakened trunk has begun to lean toward the heavy branches. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i><b>9. Basket Tree, USA</b></i></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the famous "Basket Tree" authored by <i><b>Axel Erlandson</b></i> (1884-1964), well-known Swedish American farmer, who shaped trees as a hobby, and opened a horticultural attraction in 1947 advertised as "See the World's Strangest Trees Here," and named "The Tree Circus."  Basket tree and all the other masterpieces of Axel Erlandson is located in Gilroy Gardens - a garden-themed family theme park in Gilroy, <i><b>California</b></i>.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To create the "Basket Tree", Erlandson planted six sycamore trees in a circle, topped them all at one foot, then approach-grafted them together one to another to form the diamond patterns. For the first 2.5 meters (8') he left an opening at the top. This specimen today is featured as the <i><b>centerpiece</b></i> of Gilroy Gardens.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i><b>10. Árbol del Tule, Mexico</b></i></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">El Árbol del Tule (Spanish for The Tree of Tule) is a tree located in the church grounds in the town center of <i><b>Santa María del Tule</b></i> in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, approximately 9 km (5.6 mi) east of the city of Oaxaca on the road to Mitla. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2001 it was placed on a UNESCO tentative list of World Heritage Sites.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum), or ahuehuete (meaning "old man of the water" in the local language). It has the stoutest trunk of any tree in the world. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2005, its trunk had a circumference of 36.2 m (119 ft), equating to a diameter of 11.62 m (38.1 ft), a slight increase from a measurement of 11.42 m (37.5 ft) m in 1982.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tree is occasionally nicknamed the "Tree of Life" from all the <i><b>images of animals</b></i> that are reputedly visible in the tree's gnarled trunk. As part of an official project local schoolchildren give tourists a tour of the tree and show all manners of creatures that the trunk features, including jaguars and elephants.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i><b>11. The Great Banyan, India</b></i></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Great Banyan is a banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) located in Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, <i><b>near Kolkata</b></i>, India. It was the widest tree in the world in terms of the area of the canopy and is estimated to be about 200 to 250 years old.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It became diseased after it was struck by lightning, so in 1925 the middle of the tree was excised to keep the remainder healthy; this has left it as a clonal colony, rather than a single tree. A 330 metre (1,080ft) long road was built around its circumference, but the tree continues to spread beyond it.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <i><b>Great Banyan tree</b></i> is over 250 years old and in spread it is the largest known in India, perhaps in Asia. There is no clear history of the tree, but it is mentioned in some travel books of the nineteenth century. It was damaged by two great cyclones in 1884 and 1886, when some of its main branches were broken and exposed to the attack of a hard fungus. With its large number of aerial roots, The Great Banyan looks more like a forest than an individual tree.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tree now lives without its main trunk, which decayed and was removed in 1925. The circumference of the original trunk was 1.7 m (5.6ft) and from the ground was 15.7 m (51.5ft). The area occupied by the tree is about 14500 square metres (about 1.5 hectares or 4 acres). The present crown of the tree has a circumference of about 1 kilometre (0.6mi) and the highest branch rises to about 25 m (82ft); it has at present 3300 aerial roots reaching down to the ground. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i><b>12. Angel Oak, USA</b></i></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This famous tree is a Southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) located in Angel Oak Park on Johns Island near Charleston, <i><b>South Carolina</b></i>.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Angel Oak Tree</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is estimated to be in excess of 500 years old, stands 66.5 ft (20 m) tall, measures 28 ft (8.5 m) in circumference, and produces shade that covers 17,200 square feet (1,600 m2). From tip to tip Its longest branch distance is 187 ft (57 m).</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <b><i>Angel Oak</i></b> was damaged severely during Hurricane Hugo in 1989 but has since recovered. The City of Charleston has owned the tree and surrounding park since 1991. This tree is one of the most visited oaks in the United States.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently, a plan for apartment development nearby the Angel Tree has been scrutinized and fought against by the S.C. Coastal Conservation League. They argue that the development would alter the groundwater flow to the tree and clear the nearby forests whose root systems are intimately related with the Angel Tree. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i><b>13. Dragon Tree at Icod, Spain</b></i></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Icod (a municipality on the island of Tenerife, in the <i><b>Canary Islands</b></i>), close to the Church of San Marcos, stands a famous dragon tree (22 m or 72 ft high, lower trunk diameter 10 m or 33 ft, estimated weight 70 t), which is reputed to be a thousand years old. While no study seems to have confirmed such longevity for the tree (dracos do not produce annual rings with which to tell their ages; the tree is more likely to have an age in the hundreds of year), it is the long-time <i><b>symbol of Icod</b></i>. After an abortive attempt by the city council in 2002, another bid to list the Icod Dragon Tree as a UNESCO World Heritage Site was made in 2011. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i><b>14. Gloucester Tree, Australia</b></i></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Gloucester Tree is a giant karri tree (Eucalyptus) in the Gloucester National Park of<i><b>Western Australia</b></i>. At 72 metres (236 ft) in height, it is the world's second tallest fire-lookout tree, and visitors can climb up to a platform in its upper branches for a spectacular view of the surrounding karri forest.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Built in 1947, the <i><b>Gloucester Tree</b></i> was one of eight karri trees that between 1937 and 1952 were made relatively easy to climb so that they could be used as fire lookout spots. The suitability of the tree as a fire lookout was tested by forester Jack Watson, who climbed the tree using climbing boots and a belt. Another forester, George Reynolds, pegged the ladder and lopped branches to facilitate climbing the tree, and a wooden lookout cabin was built 58 metres (190 ft) above the ground. The Governor-General of Australia, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, visited the site during construction, and the tree and national park are named in his honour.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wooden lookout cabin was demolished in 1973 for safety reasons, and was replaced with a steel and aluminium cabin and visitors' gallery. Currently the climb is done by stepping on <i><b>153 spikes</b></i> that spiral the tree. Only 20 percent of visitors climb to the top of the tree; most make it only part of the way before turning back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i><b>15. Ying Ke Pine, China</b></i></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>Welcoming Guest Pine</b></i> (The Ying Ke Pine</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">) is located on the east side of Jade Screen Peak, by Wenshu Cave. It's about 10 meters (33 feet) high. The diameter of its trunk is 64cm (25 inches), and the diameter of its roots is 75 meters (246 feet). Half way up the trunk, two main lateral branchess, which are 7.6 meters (25 feet) long, stretch forwards. It looks like a hospitable host who flings his arms out to warmly welcome guests from China and abroad.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This pine is the representative example of Huangshan's pines, and seems to act as an ambassador for the Yellow Mountains. Being the <i><b>most photographed thing in Huangshan</b></i>, its image appears as decoration in restaurants and homes all over China. It's a treasure of China. A huge iron relief of Welcoming Guest Pine is exhibited in Anhui Hall in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. </span></div>
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The World's Oldest Tree

There are probably hundreds of famous living trees in the world. They are mostly known because of its location, age, size, unusual appe...