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The Great Wall, one of the greatest wonders if the world, was  listed as a World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987. Just like a gigantic dragon, the Great Wall winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and pleateaus, stretching approximately 8,861.8 kilometers (5, 500 miles) from east to west of China. With a history of more than 2000 years, some of the sections all around the world iwing to its aechitextural grandeur and jidtirical significance. 

Great Wall if China is the longest structure ever built. It was erected entirely by hand. The main part of the wall is about 3,460 kilometers long. One of the highest sections of the Great Wall, on Mount Badaling, near Beijing, rises to about 11 metres high. Thus section is about 7.5 metres wide as its base and nearly 6 metres at the top. Watchtowers stand about 90 to 180 metres apart along the wall. 

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Pulau Merah is one of awesome 'hidden' germ that Indonesia has. It is still virgin with many trees. It hasva vast white sandy beach stretching for miles, featuring the island in the middle of the bay. Not only sandy beach, there are also great scenery with many amazing tremendous rocks and sunset. 

Moreiver, the constant and huge waves invite surfers to have an enjoyable surfing and experience the mystical feeling of surfing next to this gigantic "red island" rock in the middle of tgr waves though it is a very forgiving beach break. 

It takes 3 hours driving from Banyuwangi to reach this place or abour 1 hour from Purwoharjo. 

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Venice is a magical place to explore and experience: unique environment to enjoy the day with an atmosphere so romantic in the evening.

In the evening, in that mysterious silence that is only possible in Venice, the city becomes even more extraordinary and dreamlike, leaving us time to abandon ourselves to romance, postry, and melancholy. 

Venice need to be visited day and night to get the real unforgetable feelinhs: find your Venice Hotel s, search for them on the Venice Italy map and make your reservatiion before you leave. 

Self-esteem:

At the end of thus chaptee, ask yourself the following questions to know how effective your learning process is. 

1. What have you learned from this chapter? 

2. Can you do all the exercises here? 

3. What is your plan to improve your ability in describing place?