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8. Denver International Airport (DEN), Colorado, United States.


Cost: $5 billion



Denver International Airport, also commonly known as DEN/DIA, is an international airport in Denver, Colorado, United States.

At 33,531 acres (13,570 ha, 52.4 sq mi), it is the largest airport in the United States by total land area.

Runway 16R/34L, with a length of 16,000 feet (4,877 m), is the longest public use runway in the United States.

As of 2017, DEN was the 20th busiest airport in the world and the fifth busiest in the United States by passenger traffic handling 61.3million passengers.

It also has the third largest domestic connection network in the country.

DEN has non-stop service to destinations throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia serving 187 destinations in 2015.


The new Jeppesen Terminal has become an international icon with its tent-like roof.

Crowning the terminal, the white fiberglass roof resembles snow-capped mountains.

9. Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK), Bangkok, Thailand



Cost: $3.88 Billion


Built in 2006, the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok has the tallest free-standing control tower in the world, at 434 feet tall.

It is also one of the busiest airports in the world, with over 55 million passengers passing through the airport each year.

10. Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.


Cost: $3.5 Billion



One of South Asia’s biggest airports, the Kuala Lumpur International Airport covers 25,000 acres of space.

It was built in 1998, it took 25,000 workers from 52 countries over four years to build the airport.

Is the largest and busiest airport in Malaysia.

In 2017, it handled 58.5million passengers and 710,186 tonnes of cargo.

It is the world's 23rd busiest airport by total passenger traffic.

Airports are critical for travel throughout the world and some places are going to spend more money than others to make them work.

It is anything but expensive to build airports as they can include a large variety of different strips of land for planes to take off, a large number of security, tecnology features and places to house planes in and getting enough space just to have runways that each can be at least a mile long.

The fact that you'd have to get a large amount of land taken out just to get space for planes to actually take off and land on only makes the charges more expensive.

Airports are made to last and are supposed to be around for years to come.

Many airports are often designed with elaborate architectural features and support for dozens of stores, shops, restaurants, lodges just to make the travel experience more enjoyable.



Airports play a role in contributing to a country’s economy.

Ambitious projects often cost billions, in the hopes that it can generate more with tourism and travel.

With more people trotting the globe than ever before, airports are expanding and upgrading at unprecedented rates.






https://www.air-port-codes.com/blog/most-expensive-airports-ever-built/
Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Israeli troops firing from across a border fence have shot and wounded two Palestinians as a protest near the Gaza border gets underway

Security has been tightened around Jerusalem ahead of the embassy opening this afternoon. Pictured: A road leading to the embassy.

A Stars and Stripes flower bed outside the new US embassy compound in Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted 'what an amazing day! Thank you @POTUS Trump' ahead of the opening

Around 1,000 police officers were being positioned around the embassy for the inauguration. Israel's army said it was almost doubling the number of troops surrounding Gaza and in the occupied West Bank

By midafternoon, at least 18 Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed while over 500 were wounded by Israeli fire, Palestinian health officials said

Thousands gathered in five spots along the border in protest at the embassy move, while sporadic clashes also erupted with Israeli soldiers

A Palestinian demonstrator lies on the ground as smoke billows from burning tyres during clashes with Israeli forces near the border between the Gaza strip and Israel east of Gaza City this morning.

Dozens have been injured some of them seriously by Israeli gun fire, according to Gaza's Health Ministry after the army warned that anyone attempting to approach the security fence would be risking their lives.

A Palestinian woman near the border between the Gaza Strip

rotesters used a horse and cart as they carried wounded Palestinians away from the conflict this afternoon as it emerged at least 37 had been killed and hundreds more injured.

The celebrations in Jerusalem were a stark contrast to the bloodshed along the Gaza border where tens of thousands of Palestinians protested.

Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka (right) and husband Jared Kushner (left) have joined Benjamin Netanyahu for the opening of the embassy this afternoon

Scores of Palestinians have been killed and wounded hundreds more as 35,000 protesters rallied against the US Embassy opening in Jerusalem overseen by Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka.

A 14-year-old was among 41 shot dead along the Gaza border on what is already the deadliest single day in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since a 2014 war between the Jewish state and Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas.

At least 1,300 more have been injured with about 450 of them by live bullets, according to Gaza officials as the Palestinian government accused Israel of committing a 'terrible massacre' and Amnesty International called the bloodshed an 'abhorrent violation' of human rights.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5725195/US-set-deeply-controversial-Jerusalem-embassy-move.html
Lalasticlala, Mynd44

kalvoken:
chai,

you are not even bordered about the life that's 50/50.

True Nigerian you are.

Lol....

justi4jesu:
That's why you can represent some of us that can't take the leap of faith bro.

I don't even understand, i have to spend about #30m on an adventure that making it back is 50/50.

The major challenge for me is the money though.

Anonymous47:
550,000 naira??

Oga, let me give you 150,000 na.

Na 95k me get o and i go pay am twice.

Nice focus.

Demmzy15:
I'd like to climb this mountain, probably be the first Nigerian to reach the summit

Na money o, about ₦30m and returning is 50/50.

You ready

caye:
Pls @explorers, how does one insert more than one images into a thread, with a text separating them? Pls. teach me. Thanks.

Can't do it also.

Congrats bro, hope we no go chop snake for there sa?

All the best bro.

Lol...Wetin u wan use salary do?

Bigtotoboi:
Wow. I watched the movie Pompeii and I never thought it'd be this real. Thanks for this informative piece Explorers.

It happened bro.

ademoladeji:
Can you please enlighten us on Africans who have made it to the crest of Everest

The last time i checked, i saw South Africans with their flag at the summit.

TrumpDonald2:
Are you kidding me?!

Aint kidding you bro, the climbing is not for the poor.

You can do the research on your and see Everest(2015).

CT scan of victims.

Ancient remains of a horse that died 2,000 years ago (pictured) in the inferno that obliterated Pompeii have been discovered.

About three-quarters of Pompeii’s 165 acres have been excavated, and some 1,150 bodies have been discovered.


This victim looks as if they are praying, or holding their face in their hand possibly out of fear.

Mount Vesuvius unleashed its power in 79AD by spewing ash hundreds of feet into the air for 18 hours, which fell onto the doomed town, choking residents and covering buildings.

People were buried in the ash, which hardened to form a porous shell, meaning that the soft tissues of the bodies decayed, leaving the skeleton in a void

Here, a researcher prepares to break a plaster cast to look at the human remains encased inside it

The boy (whose cast is pictured in the foreground) was discovered alongside an adult male and female, presumed to be his parents, as well as a younger child who appeared to be asleep on his mother's lap.

This haunting image shows what appears to be a child resting on the stomach of an adult.


The Orto dei fuggiaschi (The garden of the Fugitives)shows the13 bodies of victims who were buried by the ashes as they attempted to flee Pompeii during the 79 AD eruption of the Vesuvius volcano.


The tragic skeleton of a man who died during the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago has been found in Pompeii.


The 35-year-old man was seemingly beheaded by a falling rock as he tried to escape the eruption.



It is estimated that anywhere between 20,000 and 30, 000 residents of Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum were killed on the spot.



https://www.nairaland.com/4543021/shocking-photos-guatemala-volcanic-eruption

Lalasticlala

Their last days began on Aug. 24, 79 AD, the day after the Roman holiday of Volcanalia, dedicated to the god of fire.

At noon Mount Vesuvius roared to life, spewing ash hundreds of feet into the air for 18hours straight.

The choking ash rained down on the cities in the surrounding countryside, filling courtyards, blocking doors, and collapsing roofs.

In the only known eyewitness account to the eruption, Pliny the Younger reported on his uncle’s ill-fated foray into the thick of the ash from Misenum, on the north end of the bay:...


The buildings were now shaking with violent shocks, and seemed to be swaying to and fro as if they were torn from their foundations.

Outside, on the other hand, there was the danger of failing pumice stones.

And then: “You could hear the shrieks of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men; some were calling their parents, others their children or their wives, trying to recognize them by their voices.

People bewailed their own fate or that of their relatives, and there were some who prayed for death in their terror of dying. Many besought the aid of the gods, but still more imagined there were no gods left, and that the universe was plunged intoeternal darkness for evermore.”

The next morning the cone of the volcano collapsed, triggering a hundred-mile-an-hour avalanche of mud and ash that flooded Pompeii, just a little over 5 miles away, destroying everythingin its path.
Mynd44

Mount Vesuvius, a volcano in modern-day, erupted in 79 AD in one of the most catastrophic volcanic eruptions in European history.


Spewing forth a deadly cloud of tephra and gases to a height of 33 kilometres (21 mi), ejecting molten rock, pulverized pumice and hot ash at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings.

Several Roman settlements were obliterated and buried underneath massive pyroclastic surges and ashfall deposits.



Those that did not flee the city of Pompeii in August of 79 AD were doomed.

Buried for 2,000 years under 30 feet of mud and ash and reduced by the centuries to skeletons, they remained entombed until excavations took place in the early 19th century.

As excavators continued to uncover human remains, they noticed that the skeletons were surrounded by voids in the compacted ash.


Some of the plaster-encased bodies of victims who were buried by the ashes as they attempted to flee Pompeii during the 79 AD eruption of the Vesuvius volcano.








http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2015/03/12/plaster_casts_of_victims_bodies_at_pompeii_in_italy.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3089659/Who-petrified-child-Pompeii-Restoration-work-begins-body-boy-House-Golden-Bracelet.html
Lalasticlala, Mynd44