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Article about Hawaii including one of the world’s only...

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:11:03 -0500

Article about Hawaii including one of the world’s only green sand beaches http://dealnews.com/features/hawaii-vacation-deals/

Sümela Monastery Monastery in the Mountains From...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:39:13 -0500

Sümela Monastery

*Monastery in the Mountains*

From Wiki: The Sümelamonastery is a Greek Orthodox monastery… [in the] Melá mountain, in the region of Maçka in the Trabzon Province of modern Turkey. Nestled in a steep cliff at an altitude of about 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) facing the Altındere valley… It was founded in 386 AD during the reign of the Emperor Theodosius I (375 - 395AD). Legend has it that two priests undertook its creation after discovering a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary in a cave on the mountain.

Shirakawa-go, Japan.

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:21:13 -0500

Shirakawa-go, Japan.

Marakesh, Morocco The Red City From Wiki: “Marrakesh is...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:35 -0500

Marakesh, Morocco

*The Red City*

From Wiki: “Marrakesh is the most important of the four former imperial cities in the history of Morocco. Inhabited by Berber farmers from Neolithic times, the city was founded in 1062... Led by the Almoravids, many mosques…were built here during the 12th century with Andalusian influence. The red walls of the city, built…in 1122-1123, and various buildings constructed during this period have given the city the nickname of the “Red City” or “Ochre City” because of the red sandstone used…David Prescott Barrows, who describes Marrakesh as Morocco’s “strangest city”, describes the landscape, “The city lies some fifteen or twenty miles from the foot of the Atlas mountains, which here rise to their grandest proportions. The spectacle of the mountains is superb. Through the clear desert air the eye can follow the rugged contours of the range for great distances to the north and eastward. The winter snow mantle them with white, and the turquoise sky gives a setting for their grey rocks and gleaming caps that is of unrivaled beauty.”

Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve, Madagascar *Best Stone...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:01:00 -0500

Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve, Madagascar

*Best Stone Forest*

From Wiki: “The word tsingy is indigenous to the Malagasy language as a description of the karst badlands of Madagascar. The word can be translated into English as where one cannot walk barefoot… The Tsingys are karstic plateaus in which groundwater has undercut the elevated uplands, and has gouged caverns and fissures into the limestone. Because of local conditions, the erosion is patterned vertically as well as horizontally. In several regions on western Madagascar, centering on this National Park and adjacent Nature Reserve, the superposition of vertical and horizontal erosion patterns has created dramatic “forests” of limestone needles.

Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania Best Wildlife in Africa From Wiki:...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:48:00 -0500

Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

*Best Wildlife in Africa*

From Wiki: “The area is part of the Serengeti ecosystem and, to the north-west, it adjoins the Serengeti National Park and is contiguous with the southern Serengeti plains, these plains also extend to the north into unprotected Loliondo division and are kept open to wildlife through transhumance pastoralism practiced by Maasai. The south and west of the area are volcanic highlands, including the famous Ngorongoro Crater and the lesser known Empakai. The southern and eastern boundaries are approximately defined by the rim of the Great Rift Valley wall, which also prevents animal migration in these directions.”

Plitvice Lakes National Park - Croatia Unknown Waterfalls From...

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:31:00 -0400

Plitvice Lakes National Park - Croatia

*Unknown Waterfalls*

From Wiki: “the oldest national park in Southeast Europe and the largest national park in Croatia. The national park was founded in 1949 and is situated in the mountainous karst area of central Croatia, at the border to Bosnia and Herzegovina…The national park is world famous for its lakes arranged in cascades. Currently, 16 lakes can be seen from the surface. These lakes are a result of the confluence of several small rivers and subterranean karst rivers.”

The Maldives - My no. 1 dream destination in the world

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:18:35 -0400

The Maldives - My no. 1 dream destination in the world

Les Roulottes de la Serve, Provence, France At Les Roulottes de...

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:15:13 -0400

Les Roulottes de la Serve, Provence, France

At Les Roulottes de la Serve in Provence, France, you can feel just what it is like to live like a gypsy. This hotel is made up of 3 restored gypsy caravan cars. Guests share communal bathrooms, kitchen and a campfire.

Jumbo Stay, Stockholm The Jumbo Stay in Stockholm at the Arlanda...

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:14:29 -0400

Jumbo Stay, Stockholm

The Jumbo Stay in Stockholm at the Arlanda Airport is a 27 room hotel inside a retired Boeing 747 airplane. There is a special room located in the cockpit where you can press buttons and play with all the controls – and not worry about crashing.

Can Sleep, Lake Skanderborg, Denmark Can Sleep in Lake...

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:13:08 -0400

Can Sleep, Lake Skanderborg, Denmark

Can Sleep in Lake Skanderborg, Denmark is a 121 room hotel made up of giant beer cans placed in groups of 6. It is actually open only in August each year for a music festival and each “can” has a sleeping loft, a “lid” that opens and the minibar is stocked with Royal Unibrew beer.

Hotel Kakslauttanen, Finland Hotel Kakslauttanen in Finland is...

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:11:23 -0400

Hotel Kakslauttanen, Finland

Hotel Kakslauttanen in Finland is made up of 12 “igloos” in addition to traditional wood cabins. The winter interior temps in the igloos ranges from 21 to 27 degrees fahrenheit, but unrestricted views of the aurora borealis make it worth donning wool socks and sleeping in sleeping bags.

Almost invisible mirrored tree house built in...

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:58:24 -0400

Almost invisible mirrored tree house built in Sweden

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/56/almost-invisible-mirrored-tree-house-built-in-sweden.html

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Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:02:56 -0400

Mont Saint-Michel - Normandy - France *Natural Tidal...

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:40:00 -0400

Mont Saint-Michel - Normandy - France

*Natural Tidal Island*

From Wiki: “a rocky tidal island and a commune in Normandy, France. It is located approximately one kilometre (just over half a mile) off the country’s north coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches. The population of the island is 41, as of 2006. The island has been a strategic point holding fortifications since ancient times, and since the 8th century AD it became the seat of the Saint-Michel monastery, from which it draws the name.”

Tanah Lot - Bali Temple of the Day From Wiki: “Tanah Lot...

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:35:14 -0400

Tanah Lot - Bali

*Temple of the Day*

From Wiki: “Tanah Lot means “Land [sic: in the] Sea” in Balinese language ^[2] Located in Tabanan, about 20 km from Denpasar, the temple sits on a large offshore rock which has been shaped continuously over the years by the ocean tide.”

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The Tanah Lot temple, Bali

«It is said that a giant snake might protect the temple.»

Isuien Garden 依水園, Nara - Japan Best photo I ever took From...

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:14:56 -0400

Isuien Garden *依水園*, Nara - Japan

*Best photo I ever took*

From Wiki: a Japanese garden located in Nara, the old capital of Japan near to Kyōto. It has been preserved since its creation in the Meiji era, and is the only walking garden in Nara. It is divided into two sections (which were originally two separate gardens) that each feature a pagoda. The gardens cover roughly 145,000 square feet (13,500 m²). In 1939, the two gardens were bought and combined by Jyunsaku Nakamura, a merchant of Nara, in order to provide a site for the attached Neiraku museum (寧楽美術館), which hosts a collection of traditional Japanese ceramics.

Aurora Borealis *The Valkyrior are warlike virgins, mounted...

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:16:25 -0400

Aurora Borealis

*The Valkyrior are warlike virgins, mounted upon horses and armed with helmets and spears. /…/ When they ride forth on their errand, their armour sheds a strange flickering light, which flashes up over the northern skies, making what men call the “aurora borealis”, or “Northern Lights” - Bulfinch’s Mythology from 1855 by Thomas Bulfinch*

From Wiki: “An aurora is a natural light display in the sky, particularly in the polar regions, caused by the collision of charged particles directed by the Earth’s magnetic field. An aurora is usually observed at night and typically occurs in the ionosphere. These phenomena are commonly visible between 60 and 72 degrees north and south latitudes, which place them in a ring just within the Arctic and Antarctic polar circles.”

Mars Impossible Dream ulaulaman: Chasma Boreale, Mars Chasma...

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:32:02 -0400

Mars

*Impossible Dream*

ulaulaman:

Chasma Boreale, Mars

Chasma Boreale, a long, flat-floored valley, cuts deep into Mars’ north polar icecap. Its walls rise about 4,600 feet, or 1,400 meters, above the floor. Where the edge of the ice cap has retreated, sheets of sand are emerging that accumulated during earlier ice-free climatic cycles. Winds blowing off the ice have pushed loose sand into dunes and driven them down-canyon in a westward direction.

This scene combines images taken during the period from December 2002 to February 2005 by the Thermal Emission Imaging System instrument on NASA’s Mars Odyssey was part of a special series of images marking the orbiter as the longest-working Mars spacecraft in history.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Boston - USA *New Favourite...

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:54:37 -0400

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Boston - USA

*New Favourite Museum*

From Wiki: “Isabella Stewart Gardner collected and carefully displayed a collection of more than 2,500 objects—paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles, architectural elements, drawings, silver, ceramics, illuminated manuscripts, rare books, photographs and letters—from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world, and 19th-century France and America. Among the artists represented in the galleries are Titian, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Manet, Degas, Whistler and Sargent. The first Matisse to enter an American collection is housed in the Yellow Room.

Well-known artworks in the museum’s collection include Titian’s The Rape of Europa, John Singer Sargent’s El Jaleo and Portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fra Angelico’s Death and Assumption of the Virgin, Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait, Aged 23, Cellini’s Bindo Altoviti, and Piero della Francesca’s Hercules.

Link: http://www.gardnermuseum.org/home/

Gotta Go There

Article about Hawaii including one of the world’s only...

Sümela Monastery *Monastery in the Mountains* From...

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Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania *Best Wildlife in Africa* From Wiki:...

Plitvice Lakes National Park - Croatia *Unknown Waterfalls* From...

The Maldives - My no. 1 dream destination in the world

Les Roulottes de la Serve, Provence, France At Les Roulottes de...

Les Roulottes de la Serve, Provence, France

Jumbo Stay, Stockholm The Jumbo Stay in Stockholm at the Arlanda...

Jumbo Stay, Stockholm

Can Sleep, Lake Skanderborg, Denmark Can Sleep in Lake...

Can Sleep, Lake Skanderborg, Denmark

Hotel Kakslauttanen, Finland Hotel Kakslauttanen in Finland is...

Hotel Kakslauttanen, Finland

Almost invisible mirrored tree house built in...

Almost invisible mirrored tree house built in Sweden

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Mont Saint-Michel - Normandy - France *Natural Tidal...

Tanah Lot - Bali *Temple of the Day* From Wiki: “Tanah Lot...

Isuien Garden *依水園*, Nara - Japan *Best photo I ever took* From...

Aurora Borealis *The Valkyrior are warlike virgins, mounted...

Mars *Impossible Dream* ulaulaman: Chasma Boreale, Mars Chasma...

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Boston - USA *New Favourite...

Sümela Monastery Monastery in the Mountains From...

Marakesh, Morocco The Red City From Wiki: “Marrakesh is...

Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania Best Wildlife in Africa From Wiki:...

Plitvice Lakes National Park - Croatia Unknown Waterfalls From...

Tanah Lot - Bali Temple of the Day From Wiki: “Tanah Lot...

Isuien Garden 依水園, Nara - Japan Best photo I ever took From...

Mars Impossible Dream ulaulaman: Chasma Boreale, Mars Chasma...