Colored Hills Of Yunnan

13 05 2011

Yunnan is a province in southern China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately 394,000 square kilometers.

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Singapore Marina Bay Sand Hotel

11 05 2011

Marina’s Bay Sand Hotel is a unique structural masterpiece, designed by visionary architect Moshe Safdie, floats atop the three soaring Marina Bay Sands hotel towers 200m in the sky.

Stretching longer than the Eiffel tower laid down, with an impressive 12,400 square meters of space, the Sands SkyPark can host up to 3900 people. The gravity-defying cantilever is one of the largest of its kind in the world. From this privileged observation deck, hundreds of visitors at a time can feast their eyes on the unforgettable panorama view.

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Netherlands Tulips In May

1 05 2011

At first glance, it looks like a giant child armed with a box of crayons has been set loose upon the landscape. Vivid stripes of purple, yellow, red, pink, orange and green make up a glorious patchwork. Yet this is in fact the northern Netherlands in the middle of tulip season.

The Dutch landscape in May is a kaleidoscope of color as the tulips burst into life. The bulbs are planted in late October and early November. More than three billion tulips are grown each year & two-thirds of the vibrant blooms are exported, mostly to the U.S. and Germany.

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Dolmabahce Palace Istanbul

30 04 2011

Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, located on the European side of Bosphorus, was the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire. The construction, cost five million Mecidiye, Ottoman gold coin, the equivalent of 35 tons of gold. Fourteen of those tons of gold were used to gild the ceilings of the 45,000 square foot palace.

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Sherlock Holmes Museum

28 04 2011

The Sherlock Holmes Museum is a popular privately-run museum in London, dedicated to the celebrated 19th century detective created by Sir Conan Doyle. The museum opened in 1990 and is situated in Baker Street, bearing the number 221b.

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Unusual Mountain Huts

26 04 2011

At a height of 4,003 meters on a rocky ridge of the Matterhorn, Switzerland’s iconic, triangular peak, is the Solvay hut, managed by the Swiss Alpine Club.

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Since 1983, the Rifugio Nuvolau has been a refuge for exhausted trekkers in Italy’s Dolomite Mountains.

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Rock Climbers Good Night Sleep

13 04 2011

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Nyiragongo Vulcano Crater

9 04 2011

Mount Nyiragongo is located inside Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 20 km north of the town of Goma and Lake Kivu and just west of the border with Rwanda. The main crater is about two km wide and usually contains a lava lake.

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Cactus Flowers

5 04 2011

Astrophytum super kabuto
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Lobivia robusta
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Signs That Make You Smile

3 04 2011

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