Tokyo, Japan

Japanese Style Passaport-Type Photography


Purikura among friends
Group of colleagues photographed in a Purikura studio in Shibuya.
Purikura cabin interior
Flash lights from a Purikura cabin.
Purikura Machine
Panel of a Purikura machine.
Album of memories
Mini photographs left by clients from a Purikura studio in Shibuya.
Customer uses Purikura-Shibuya-Tokyo-Japan machine
Customer uses a Purikura machine housed in an elegant cabin.
Tokyo night
Passersby walk along a street lined with illuminated billboards.
A Brown Client
Clients wait their turn at a Purikura studio in Shibuya, Japan.
hidden magic
Detail of a Purikura cabin panel.
The Magic Pen
Young client retouching a photograph just taken in a Purikura studio.
Skirt Purikura
Customers have fun in their Purikura booths.
Private Session
Customer uses a Purikura machine with privacy ensured by a bright cabin.
Preparations
Customer puts on make-up before entering a Purikura house in Shibuya.
Example poster
A promotional poster for Purikura, featuring young photogenic models.
Purikura Sharing
Two friends share purikura photos from mobile to mobile.
Creativity 2
Couple of lovers illustrates an image of both at their pleasure.
vivid beauty
Another inspiring poster decorates a Shibuya Purikura studio.
In the late 80s, two Japanese multinationals already saw conventional photo booths as museum pieces. They turned them into revolutionary machines and Japan surrendered to the Purikura phenomenon.

The fur coat, the black ankle boots high above the knee and the miniature denim shorts are not faithful to the looks recommended inside the studio, but nothing seems to demotivate the young gyaru.

The corner of Shibuya's busy street is far from granting her any privacy, but as she hastily fiddles with her mascara brush, only her reflection in the small mirror and the volume of her long eyelashes seem to count.

A suitcase already tagged suggests that the teenager is about to travel and that she wants to take with her a narcissistic memory of recent times in Tokyo.

Make-up client, Purikura, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Customer puts on make-up before entering a Purikura house in Shibuya.

Inside, the store is as busy as it is colorful. It's the third time we've been there. Right in the first one, we were made clear that we could not photograph neither the other customers nor with professional cameras.

The prohibition forces us to play a complicated game of cat and mouse with the employee on duty, in the labyrinth of the cabins he supervises.

Curtains decorated with flowers and images of friends with immaculate skins, large almost Western eyes, glossy cashew or golden hair and bright smiles close the spaces of the devices to the users' imagination or capacity to imitate.

Many are not begging and are inspired by those looks that the creators christened in Japanese but with semi-precious complements in English: Pink Eye, Jewel is Saphire, Jewella, among others.

Saphire Cabin, Purikura, Tokyo, Japan

Customer uses a Purikura machine housed in an elegant cabin.

Entering the required 500 or 600 yen in the slot, customers rush into the booth's photo area, assume the freshest poses and expressions they can remember.

They await the end of the count Uan, tsū, surii, pōzu (adapted from English – One, two, three, Pose) enunciated by video-hostesses with female and youth voices and allow themselves to be frozen by the powerful flashes.

Group Photo, Purikura, Japan

Group of colleagues photographed in a Purikura studio in Shibuya.

In any conventional photo booth, the experience would end here, but Japanese technology tried to enrich it and then monetize it.

We walked the corridors between the cabins and, through the half-open curtains, we noticed the enthusiasm of groups of friends and couples who, against the clock, decorate their images with little stars, hearts, flowers, rainbows and other myriad symbols and effects that digital pens and complex screen menus allow them to combine.

Couple retouch Purikura, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Couple of lovers illustrates an image of both at their pleasure.

The Ignored Genius Idea

This was the vision that Sasaki Miho had and that he transmitted to the company he worked for – Atlus, creator of computer games – allowing him to develop, in partnership with the famous SEGA, the revolutionary Purikura devices.

Miho was inspired by the Japanese youth hobby of decorating the covers of school books, backpacks, lockers, cell phones and everything else with popular Japanese figurines and remembered that the habit could be transposed to electronic format.

Strangely enough now, when the first models of the strange machines appeared on the market in 1995, they aroused little interest.

Purikura poster, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

A promotional poster for Purikura, featuring young photogenic models.

Finally, the Japanese Phenomenon of Purikura Photography

But a few years of persistence later, J-Pop (read Japanese pop) band SMAP offered pictures of themselves produced in Purikura, live on a television show, and set the tone.

The idea was not long in being copied by other music groups and personalities. And the fashion for producing, trading and collecting these fun photos quickly spread among teenage girls.

As of spring 1998, there were around 25.000 cabins across the country and many imitations. Other opportunistic entrepreneurs were installing, in the vicinity, houses with cosplay suits (custom play), hair and other accessories, an idea that, however, some Purikura studios came to assimilate.

Thus, the concept of a Japanese Print Club was popularized, which the younger people converted first to a gairaigo (transliteration) almost mandatory, "kurabhu purinto” and then shortened it to Purikura.

Much More than Just Pass Photos

Purikura materialization is optional. We see history repeating itself, in Shibuya stores and in many others across the rest of the country.

Pictures Purikura, Japan

Mini photographs left by clients from a Purikura studio in Shibuya.

Coming from design machines – let's call them that – users decide whether to receive the final image on glossy paper contact sheets or, through a system similar to Bluetooth, directly to the screens of their mobile phones, tablets and company. last generation.

As we could see, first choice requires some scissors work, to separate the strips or individual images that can come out of different sizes. The latter proves to be more practical and allows easy and immediate copying and resending as MMS or emails.

Friends pass photos-Purikura, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Two friends share purikura photos from mobile to mobile.

As long as the flow of customers is high, any of the machines and modalities is highly profitable.

Accordingly, we find purikuras throughout urban Japan and even in some more rural corners, both in gaming machines and in their own studios where the quantity and variety increases and the decoration, from the facade of the establishment to the exit door, it is entirely dedicated to them.

Once Purikura's photographic base became commonplace, ambitious developments were launched on the market, with an obvious exponent in the so-called Videkura, machines that allow the creation and sending of short videos via the mobile phone network or the Internet.

Different companies have chosen to attract different target audiences with concepts that are attractive to them. Love & Berry bet on love relationships, the Mushi King and Naruto allow martial arts aficionados to show off their most impressive combat moves.

Photo booth, Purikura, Japan

Flash lights from a Purikura cabin.

Another, created by the Ututu company, chose the name MYSQ – My Style So Qute and seems doomed to success by challenging users to produce videos of different styles using special effects and music.

Purikura's Technological Innovation and International Expansion

As is to be expected, neither the original invention nor these developments are limited to Japan. It was discovered a few years ago that Taipei, capital of Taiwan and attentive imitator of Japanese novelties, it was already the city with the highest number of machines per capita.

In Ximen – its Shibuya – there is even a three-story building equipped with dozens of state-of-the-art Purikura.

In mainland China, the most common is to have old models, in gaming houses or small stores. Bangkok and Manila are also regular customers while in Australia – where the Japanese, Chinese and Korean population is constantly increasing – and in some Western countries, machines are almost always available in small numbers.

During an excursion in which we take part by the Red Center Outback e Northern Territory, the successive games with digital cameras bring the purikura theme to the conversation.

Yummi, one of several Japanese passenger passengers, reacts immediately, at the same time excited and embarrassed about the role she is about to assume: “I have !! look here, so many !!!”. And he takes out his wallet and a PDA to show us his extensive collection.

In Japan, any passerby up to the age of forty is a potential Purikura user, but some are more than others. Groups of fellow teenagers on their way to or from school in their uniforms of coat, dark pullover and short skirt with socks just below the knee proved to be the perfect customers.

Purikura Booths, Tokyo, Japan

Customers have fun in their Purikura booths.

Soon after, there are the exuberant friends a little older who have freed themselves from this dictatorial phase of life and dedicate most of their time to beautifying themselves in order to refine their identity.

For many girls and women, the purikura function as yet another extension of this fragrant search for meaning and they are the main reason for the phenomenon's existence.

On an afternoon of fun, each can spend up to 4000 yen (40€). We even saw long lines in front of some new or more popular machines.

Customers in Purikura, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo teenager await their turn in a Purikura studio in Shibuya, Japan.

But certain behavioral deviations around the phenomenon challenged the established harmony of the hypocritical Japanese society. The problem became more serious when certain men began visiting homes with the aim of seducing and hooking up teenagers.

And it got worse when some of these teenagers started to leave pictures of them with phone numbers, offering to make new friends or enjo kosai, as they are called in Japan, financially assisted relationships.

Beauty Vivid-Purikura poster, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Another inspiring poster decorates a Shibuya Purikura studio.

The reaction to the scandal emerged in a short time, with the ban on entry of men into Purikura's houses if they were not accompanied by friends or girlfriends and the installation of cabins for single use by couples.

This restriction was expected. We are talking about a nation with Spartan customs and seemingly immaculate morals where people almost never touch one another, or show affection, in public.

From Purikura to Videkura

The sending of images to mobile phones has become banal (from where they can be sent to other mobile phones or devices as MMS or e-mails), ambitious developments were recently launched on the market, with an obvious exponent in the Videkura calls.

As the name implies, these machines allow you to create short videos and send them via the mobile phone network or the Internet.

Purikura Panel, Tokyo, Japan

Panel of a Purikura machine.

In the emperor's realm, any revolutionary prototype quickly becomes technological junk or, with any luck, a museum piece.

Despite the permanent modernization to which they are subject, Purikura continue to deserve the respect due from their fans. After all, these prodigious cabins have been part of their lives for ten years.

And they make life in Japan happier.

Tokyo, Japan

Pachinko: The Video - Addiction That Depresses Japan

It started as a toy, but the Japanese appetite for profit quickly turned pachinko into a national obsession. Today, there are 30 million Japanese surrendered to these alienating gaming machines.
Japan

The Beverage Machines Empire

There are more than 5 million ultra-tech light boxes spread across the country and many more exuberant cans and bottles of appealing drinks. The Japanese have long since stopped resisting them.
Tokyo, Japan

The Endless Night of the Rising Sun Capital

Say that Tokyo do not sleep is an understatement. In one of the largest and most sophisticated cities on the face of the Earth, twilight marks only the renewal of the frenetic daily life. And there are millions of souls that either find no place in the sun, or make more sense in the “dark” and obscure turns that follow.
Tokyo, Japan

Disposable Purrs

Tokyo is the largest of the metropolises but, in its tiny apartments, there is no place for pets. Japanese entrepreneurs detected the gap and launched "catteries" in which the feline affections are paid by the hour.
Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo's fashion

In ultra-populous and hyper-coded Japan, there is always room for more sophistication and creativity. Whether national or imported, it is in the capital that they begin to parade the new Japanese looks.
Tokyo, Japan

The Emperor Without Empire

After the capitulation in World War II, Japan underwent a constitution that ended one of the longest empires in history. The Japanese emperor is, today, the only monarch to reign without empire.
Tokyo, Japan

The Fish Market That Lost its Freshness

In a year, each Japanese eats more than their weight in fish and shellfish. Since 1935, a considerable part was processed and sold in the largest fish market in the world. Tsukiji was terminated in October 2018, and replaced by Toyosu's.
Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo's Hypno-Passengers

Japan is served by millions of executives slaughtered with infernal work rates and sparse vacations. Every minute of respite on the way to work or home serves them for their inemuri, napping in public.
Kyoto, Japan

Survival: The Last Geisha Art

There have been almost 100 but times have changed and geishas are on the brink of extinction. Today, the few that remain are forced to give in to Japan's less subtle and elegant modernity.
Takayama, Japan

From the Ancient Japan to the Medieval Hida

In three of its streets, Takayama retains traditional wooden architecture and concentrates old shops and sake producers. Around it, it approaches 100.000 inhabitants and surrenders to modernity.
Longsheng, China

Huang Luo: the Chinese Village of the Longest Hairs

In a multi-ethnic region covered with terraced rice paddies, the women of Huang Luo have surrendered to the same hairy obsession. They let the longest hair in the world grow, years on end, to an average length of 170 to 200 cm. Oddly enough, to keep them beautiful and shiny, they only use water and rice.
Natural Light (Part 2)

One Sun, So Many Lights

Most travel photos are taken in sunlight. Sunlight and weather form a capricious interaction. Learn how to predict, detect and use at its best.
Kyoto, Japan

The Kyoto Temple Reborn from the Ashes

The Golden Pavilion has been spared destruction several times throughout history, including that of US-dropped bombs, but it did not withstand the mental disturbance of Hayashi Yoken. When we admired him, he looked like never before.
Okinawa, Japan

Ryukyu Dances: Centuries old. In No Hurry.

The Ryukyu kingdom prospered until the XNUMXth century as a trading post for the China and Japan. From the cultural aesthetics developed by its courtly aristocracy, several styles of slow dance were counted.
Miyajima, Japan

Shintoism and Buddhism with the Tide

Visitors to the Tori of Itsukushima admire one of the three most revered scenery in Japan. On the island of Miyajima, Japanese religiosity blends with Nature and is renewed with the flow of the Seto Inland Sea.
Iriomote, Japan

The Small Tropical Japanese Amazon of Iriomote

Impenetrable rainforests and mangroves fill Iriomote under a pressure cooker climate. Here, foreign visitors are as rare as the yamaneko, an elusive endemic lynx.
Nikko, Japan

The Tokugawa Shogun Final Procession

In 1600, Ieyasu Tokugawa inaugurated a shogunate that united Japan for 250 years. In her honor, Nikko re-enacts the general's medieval relocation to Toshogu's grandiose mausoleum every year.
Nara, Japan

The Colossal Cradle of the Japanese Buddhism

Nara has long since ceased to be the capital and its Todai-ji temple has been demoted. But the Great Hall remains the largest ancient wooden building in the world. And it houses the greatest bronze Vairocana Buddha.
Okinawa, Japan

The Little Empire of the Sun

Risen from the devastation caused by World War II, Okinawa has regained the heritage of its secular Ryukyu civilization. Today, this archipelago south of Kyushu is home to a Japan on the shore, anchored by a turquoise Pacific ocean and bathed in a peculiar Japanese tropicalism.
Kyoto, Japan

An Almost Lost Millennial Japan

Kyoto was on the US atomic bomb target list and it was more than a whim of fate that preserved it. Saved by an American Secretary of War in love with its historical and cultural richness and oriental sumptuousness, the city was replaced at the last minute by Nagasaki in the atrocious sacrifice of the second nuclear cataclysm.
Residents walk along the trail that runs through plantations above the UP4
City
Gurué, Mozambique, Part 1

Through the Mozambican Lands of Tea

The Portuguese founded Gurué in the 1930th century and, from XNUMX onwards, flooded it with camellia sinensis the foothills of the Namuli Mountains. Later, they renamed it Vila Junqueiro, in honor of its main promoter. With the independence of Mozambique and the civil war, the town regressed. It continues to stand out for the lush green imposing mountains and teak landscapes.
Host Wezi points out something in the distance
Beach
Cobue; Nkwichi Lodge, Mozambique

The Hidden Mozambique of the Creaking Sands

During a tour from the bottom to the top of Lake Malawi, we find ourselves on the island of Likoma, an hour by boat from Nkwichi Lodge, the solitary base of this inland coast of Mozambique. On the Mozambican side, the lake is known as Niassa. Whatever its name, there we discover some of the most stunning and unspoilt scenery in south-east Africa.
savuti, botswana, elephant-eating lions
safari
Savuti, Botswana

Savuti's Elephant-Eating Lions

A patch of the Kalahari Desert dries up or is irrigated depending on the region's tectonic whims. In Savuti, lions have become used to depending on themselves and prey on the largest animals in the savannah.
Mount Lamjung Kailas Himal, Nepal, altitude sickness, mountain prevent treat, travel
Annapurna (circuit)
Annapurna Circuit: 2th - Chame a Upper BananaNepal

(I) Eminent Annapurnas

We woke up in Chame, still below 3000m. There we saw, for the first time, the snowy and highest peaks of the Himalayas. From there, we set off for another walk along the Annapurna Circuit through the foothills and slopes of the great mountain range. towards Upper Banana.
Alaskan Lumberjack Show Competition, Ketchikan, Alaska, USA
Architecture & Design
Ketchikan, Alaska

Here begins Alaska

The reality goes unnoticed in most of the world, but there are two Alaskas. In urban terms, the state is inaugurated in the south of its hidden frying pan handle, a strip of land separated from the contiguous USA along the west coast of Canada. Ketchikan, is the southernmost of Alaskan cities, its Rain Capital and the Salmon Capital of the World.
Salto Angel, Rio that falls from the sky, Angel Falls, PN Canaima, Venezuela
Aventura
PN Canaima, Venezuela

Kerepakupai, Salto Angel: The River that Falls from Heaven

In 1937, Jimmy Angel landed a light aircraft on a plateau lost in the Venezuelan jungle. The American adventurer did not find gold but he conquered the baptism of the longest waterfall on the face of the Earth
good buddhist advice
Ceremonies and Festivities
Chiang Mai, Thailand

300 Wats of Spiritual and Cultural Energy

Thais call every Buddhist temple wat and their northern capital has them in obvious abundance. Delivered to successive events held between shrines, Chiang Mai is never quite disconnected.
now from above ladder, sorcerer of new zealand, Christchurch, new zealand
Cities
Christchurch, New Zealand

New Zealand's Cursed Wizard

Despite his notoriety in the antipodes, Ian Channell, the New Zealand sorcerer, failed to predict or prevent several earthquakes that struck Christchurch. At the age of 88, after 23 years of contract with the city, he made very controversial statements and ended up fired.
young saleswoman, nation, bread, uzbekistan
Lunch time
Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, The Nation That Does Not Lack Bread

Few countries employ cereals like Uzbekistan. In this republic of Central Asia, bread plays a vital and social role. The Uzbeks produce it and consume it with devotion and in abundance.
Djerbahood, Erriadh, Djerba, Mirror
Culture
Erriadh, Djerba, Tunisia

A Village Made Fleeting Art Gallery

In 2014, an ancient Djerbian settlement hosted 250 murals by 150 artists from 34 countries. The lime walls, the intense sun and the sand-laden winds of the Sahara erode the works of art. Erriadh's metamorphosis into Djerbahood is renewed and continues to dazzle.
4th of July Fireworks-Seward, Alaska, United States
Sport
Seward, Alaska

The Longest 4th of July

The independence of the United States is celebrated, in Seward, Alaska, in a modest way. Even so, the 4th of July and its celebration seem to have no end.
Alaska, by Homer in Search of Whittier
Traveling
Homer a Whittier, Alaska

In Search of the Stealth Whittier

We leave Homer in search of Whittier, a refuge built in World War II and housing two hundred or so people, almost all in a single building.
The Great Mosque of Portto Novo, built by Afro-Brazilian Agudás.
Ethnic
Porto Novo, Benin

An Unsafe Harbor at the Afro-Brazilian Crossroads

In 1730, the Portuguese added Porto Novo to their slave trading posts in the Gulf of Guinea and increased the number of slaves sent to Brazil. After Brazil's independence in 1822 and successive revolts, slaves and even slave traders created a movement to return to their African origins. Today, Porto Novo is the capital of Benin and one of the Beninese cities that has been influenced by these so-called slaves. sharp.

View of Fa Island, Tonga, Last Polynesian Monarchy
Got2Globe Photo Portfolio
Got2Globe Portfolio

Exotic Signs of Life

Jeep crosses Damaraland, Namibia
History
Damaraland, Namíbia

Namibia On the Rocks

Hundreds of kilometers north of Swakopmund, many more of Swakopmund's iconic dunes Sossuvlei, Damaraland is home to deserts interspersed with hills of reddish rock, the highest mountain and ancient rock art of the young nation. the settlers South Africans they named this region after the Damara, one of the Namibian ethnic groups. Only these and other inhabitants prove that it remains on Earth.
Gran Canaria, island, Canary Islands, Spain, La Tejeda
Islands
Gran Canaria, Canary Islands

Grand Canary Islands

It is only the third largest island in the archipelago. It so impressed European navigators and settlers that they got used to treating it as the supreme.
Era Susi towed by dog, Oulanka, Finland
Winter White
PN Oulanka, Finland

A Slightly Lonesome Wolf

Jukka “Era-Susi” Nordman has created one of the largest packs of sled dogs in the world. He became one of Finland's most iconic characters but remains faithful to his nickname: Wilderness Wolf.
José Saramago in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, Glorieta de Saramago
Literature
Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain

José Saramago's Basalt Raft

In 1993, frustrated by the Portuguese government's disregard for his work “The Gospel According to Jesus Christ”, Saramago moved with his wife Pilar del Río to Lanzarote. Back on this somewhat extraterrestrial Canary Island, we visited his home. And the refuge from the portuguese censorship that haunted the writer.
Coin return
Nature
Dawki, India

Dawki, Dawki, Bangladesh on sight

We descended from the high and mountainous lands of Meghalaya to the flats to the south and below. There, the translucent and green stream of the Dawki forms the border between India and Bangladesh. In a damp heat that we haven't felt for a long time, the river also attracts hundreds of Indians and Bangladeshis in a picturesque escape.
Girl plays with leaves on the shore of the Great Lake at Catherine Palace
Autumn
Saint Petersburg, Russia

Golden Days Before the Storm

Aside from the political and military events precipitated by Russia, from mid-September onwards, autumn takes over the country. In previous years, when visiting Saint Petersburg, we witnessed how the cultural and northern capital was covered in a resplendent yellow-orange. A dazzling light that hardly matches the political and military gloom that had spread in the meantime.
mini-snorkeling
Natural Parks
Phi Phi Islands, Thailand

Back to Danny Boyle's The Beach

It's been 15 years since the debut of the backpacker classic based on the novel by Alex Garland. The film popularized the places where it was shot. Shortly thereafter, the XNUMX tsunami literally washed some away off the map. Today, their controversial fame remains intact.
Mahé Ilhas das Seychelles, friends of the beach
UNESCO World Heritage
Mahé, Seychelles

The Big Island of the Small Seychelles

Mahé is the largest of the islands of the smallest country in Africa. It's home to the nation's capital and most of the Seychellois. But not only. In its relative smallness, it hides a stunning tropical world, made of mountainous jungle that merges with the Indian Ocean in coves of all sea tones.
Visitors to Ernest Hemingway's Home, Key West, Florida, United States
Characters
Key West, United States

Hemingway's Caribbean Playground

Effusive as ever, Ernest Hemingway called Key West "the best place I've ever been...". In the tropical depths of the contiguous US, he found evasion and crazy, drunken fun. And the inspiration to write with intensity to match.
Vilanculos, Mozambique, Dhows travel along a canal
Beaches
Vilankulos, Mozambique

Indian Ocean comes, Indian Ocean goes

The gateway to the Bazaruto archipelago of all dreams, Vilankulos has its own charms. Starting with the elevated coastline facing the bed of the Mozambique Channel which, for the benefit of the local fishing community, the tides sometimes flood, sometimes uncover.
Composition on Nine Arches Bridge, Ella, Sri Lanka
Religion
Yala NPElla-Candia, Sri Lanka

Journey Through Sri Lanka's Tea Core

We leave the seafront of PN Yala towards Ella. On the way to Nanu Oya, we wind on rails through the jungle, among plantations in the famous Ceylon. Three hours later, again by car, we enter Kandy, the Buddhist capital that the Portuguese never managed to dominate.
Train Kuranda train, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
On Rails
Cairns-Kuranda, Australia

Train to the Middle of the Jungle

Built out of Cairns to save miners isolated in the rainforest from starvation by flooding, the Kuranda Railway eventually became the livelihood of hundreds of alternative Aussies.
Australia Day, Perth, Australian Flag
Society
Perth, Australia

Australia Day: In Honor of the Foundation, Mourning for Invasion

26/1 is a controversial date in Australia. While British settlers celebrate it with barbecues and lots of beer, Aborigines celebrate the fact that they haven't been completely wiped out.
Young twin women, weavers
Daily life

Margilan, Uzbequistan

A Tour of Uzbekistan's Handicraft Fabrics

Located in the far east of Uzbekistan, in the Fergana Valley, Margilan was one of the essential stops on the Silk Road. Since the 10th century, the silk products produced there have made it stand out on maps; today, haute couture brands compete for its fabrics. More than just a prodigious center of artisanal creation, Margilan values ​​and cherishes an ancient Uzbek way of life.
Hippopotamus moves in the flooded expanse of the Elephant Plain.
Wildlife
Maputo National Park, Mozambique

The Wild Mozambique between the Maputo River and the Indian Ocean

The abundance of animals, especially elephants, led to the creation of a Hunting Reserve in 1932. After the hardships of the Mozambican Civil War, the Maputo PN protects prodigious ecosystems in which fauna proliferates. With emphasis on the pachyderms that have recently become too many.
Napali Coast and Waimea Canyon, Kauai, Hawaii Wrinkles
Scenic Flights
napali coast, Hawaii

Hawaii's Dazzling Wrinkles

Kauai is the greenest and rainiest island in the Hawaiian archipelago. It is also the oldest. As we explore its Napalo Coast by land, sea and air, we are amazed to see how the passage of millennia has only favored it.