Samaná PeninsulaLos Haitises National Park Dominican Republic

From the Samaná Peninsula to the Dominican Haitises


Under the skies of Cayo Los Pájaros
Helmsman at the stern of a boat, next to the Cayo Los Pájaros de Los Haitises.
dark anchorage
Boat enters Mouth of Tiburon de Los Haitises
Cayo de Los Pajaros
Frigates fly over the Cayo de Los Pájaros, in Los Haitises.
A (un)Communal Wait
Horse riding guides await guests to take them to Cascada Limón.
pure exhibitionism
Male frigate with Cayo Los Pájaros in Los Haitises.
cow stew
A frightened cow leaves the Cascada Limón lagoon, on the Samaná Peninsula.
The Owner's Landing
Macaw on a keeper in front of Cascata Limón, on the Samaná Peninsula.
light of that day
Opening in one of the many caves de los Haitises, off the Samaná Peninsula.
the last goal
Couple on the seafront of a beach in Las Terrenas, on the Samaná Peninsula.
lost cow
Cow in the jungle, next to Cascada Limón, Peninsula of Samaná.
Read from the house Las Ballenas
Eduardo Cancu irons Las Ballenas cigar packs.
in the sun
Guide under an opening in one of the many caves in Los Haitises.
Currucupaco
Cascada Limón visitor holds a blue macaw.
Cueva de La Linea backwards
Boat about to leave the mangrove swamp surrounding the Cueva de la Línea, Los Haitises.
Silver Peninsula
Bathers on the waterfront of Las Terrenas on the Samaná Peninsula
In the northeast corner of the Dominican Republic, where Caribbean nature still triumphs, we face an Atlantic much more vigorous than expected in these parts. There we ride on a communal basis to the famous Limón waterfall, cross the bay of Samaná and penetrate the remote and exuberant “land of the mountains” that encloses it.

The Caribbean Revolt of Las Terrenas

We are approaching the end of September.

The official Caribbean hurricane season is halfway through. We've been lucky. The storms that were building by this time to the east of the Atlantic were bent north.

Days later, one of them, Lorenzo, strengthened to a category 5 hurricane, defied any logic of the weather. It advanced the North Atlantic and lashed the Azores. It still had the energy to torment the coasts of Ireland and Great Britain.

The Caribbean seaside of Las Terrenas that welcomed us also showed a different face from the sunny turquoise-emerald that attracted vacationers from other parts of the world in a flood.

Agitated by a Karen tropical storm that curved abruptly to the north as it passed beyond the Lesser Antilles, the darkened and churning sea extended in vigorous, frothy waves to the base of the coconut trees and to the edge of the already shortened sands.

Las Terrenas Beach, Peninsula of Samaná, Dominican Republic

Bathers on the waterfront of Las Terrenas on the Samaná Peninsula

To the added frustration of bathers, these days, lifeguards from offshore hotels held up the red flag and followed instructions to forbid them from entering the water, even for mere refreshing dips. That left the pools of shiny tiles and fresh water. It wasn't the same thing. Nor to what had gone there.

We decided to walk out of its range. A few hundred meters to the east, entry into the sea was less deep and problematic. We realized that there were no currents, just the normal and controllable movement of the waves, so common on our Portuguese beaches. We had fun facing them and hitching rides from them, until we saw the crown of coconut trees high above our heads.

We resume the walk. As we approached Punta Bonita on the Samaná Peninsula, we realized that part of the projects – the most exposed to the sea – had not yet recovered from the damage caused by hurricanes or storms of the past season.

And how the vagaries of the climate made volatile investments made thinking above all about the long Caribbean lull from December to May, when that same coastline and those of the Caribbean in general take on their immaculate views of sea, sky and lush vegetation.

Cascada Limon, Cigars of Other Flavors

The next day dawns radiant. We left the hotel at eight in a convertible truck that began by making up its capacity with passengers from other hotels on the seafront and from distant and soon frigid places in the world: Canadians, French, Germans, Americans, among others.

Then, we follow the path through the green and picturesque little lands and terrains of the peninsula of Samaná. As is customary on these tours, the company had a scheduled stop at a local store, in the case of cigars. It was Las Ballenas, located in El Cruce. We went down. We crossed the road after giving way to two young men who had emerged from the end of the road at a gallop on savage horses.

We entered. We immediately smell the widespread smell of natural tobacco, with hints of the various aromas in which cigars were made there: mango, vanilla, brandy and others. One cigarette working by hand behind a small counter focuses attention.

It attracts a curious group of spectators who follow their busy hands cutting and rolling the tobacco leaves until they reach another of the handcrafted cigars that gave the brand its name. And to another. And to others more.

The different Las Ballenas packages surround us. In a small separate work station, a younger craftsman, armed with an old iron and wearing an Oklahoma City Thunder basketball t-shirt, tries to enlarge them. We approach you and get to know your craft better.

Employee at Las Ballenas cigar shop, Samaná Peninsula, Dominican Republic

Eduardo Cancu irons Las Ballenas cigar packs.

Afraid of destroying the packages he was responsible for finalizing, Eduardo Cancu barely takes his eyes off the iron. Still, it gives us enough rope to realize that it processes a good hundreds a day. And that, “thank God, that's not the only task he carries out in the company”.

We all return to the truck and travel mode. For a mere 2km, the same ones that were from there Rancho Limón from where we were supposed to leave towards the homonymous waterfall.

As soon as we got back to the ground, we came face to face with a small crowd of expectant Dominicans from the area, each holding his horse. More outsiders arrive. A person responsible for the operation of putting them on horseback calls his fellow countrymen according to any criteria.

Little by little, the foreigners are invited to mount the assigned horse and follow them into the forest guided by their dismounted squires.

Horseback Riding Guides, Cascada Limón, Samaná Peninsula, Dominican Republic

Horse riding guides await guests to take them to Cascada Limón.

We are not one of the first to receive a horse, or anything like that. To compensate, the guides that suit us are young, fun and unconscious. Moments after we leave, we are already urged to pull at the horse's trot. For them, we could even have completed the route at a gallop, and it is not entirely unrelated to the fact that one of them is called Geronimo.

But the route was rocky, irregular and muddy, uninviting to large animals. Even so, we took the lead in a flash.

On the last winding descent to the waterfall, we passed a lost cow that stalked all this action suspiciously from the middle of the rainforest. Now, when we disassemble, already overlooking the waterfall Limón, without realizing either how or why, this or another almost identical cow swam in panic, circling, inside the waterfall's lagoon.

Stewed cow, Cascada Limón, Samaná Peninsula, Dominican Republic

A frightened cow leaves the Cascada Limón lagoon, on the Samaná Peninsula.

The cow takes two more laps, realizes that there is only an exit from the side where humans watch, in disbelief, the swimming she practiced, and resigns herself. Finally, he leaves the pond, messed up and out of control. It forces us all to take refuge from its unpredictable trajectory. When most of the truck's passengers gathered there, the animal was already gone.

Due to the lack of rain in the previous weeks, the Waterfall Limón exhibited a contained flow. Thus, the protagonism passed almost directly from the bovine to two macaws that opportunistic entrepreneurs took there to earn some pesos each time someone gave in to the chromatic and instagrammatic attraction of taking pictures with them.

Visitor with Macaw, Cascada Limón, Peninsula of Samaná, Dominican Republic

Cascada Limón visitor holds a blue macaw.

Cow outside, humans inside. The lagoon soon filled with bathers eager to cool off from the humid, chlorophyllinous heat of the rainforest. There we also dive and relax for a while. After which we return to the ride, this time uphill.

We found that most of the pseudo-jockeys had stopped at a small craft and food shop at the top of the ramp. We dismounted to investigate it and buy the bottled water we were already in short supply. A salesman hears us chatter.

Even if we spoke our usual original Portuguese, not Brazilian, it recognizes the language. “Portuguese? My bankroll is good for you! Nobody sells that cheap. Only cheaper at Pingo Doce!” he shoots, amused.

In the case of Dominican Republic, a destination in Portugal for a long time, it didn't surprise us beyond that a cibao from the rural interior of Hispaniola were aware of the advertising slogans of Portuguese supermarkets.

Incursion to Los Haitises, the Dominican “Land of the Mountains”

We had been circling the peninsula of Samaná for some time, from the north coast to the interior rancher. Three days later, it was time for us to go to its bay. From Las Terrenas we travel diagonally to the south coast of the peninsula, towards the port city of Samaná.

We got into a boat with a fishing profile. In three times, we set sail from the jetty to the bay in front of the city. We sail under the Puente Peatonal de Cayo Samaná. Shortly after, we faced a dense forest with an incredible concentration of coconut palms stretching from the seashore to the top of the slope.

We are in favor of the swell, so that, with no maritime traffic to condition it, the boat advances stabilized, at high speed and diagonally, from one side of the bay to the other.

Half an hour later, we glimpse the colony of rounded and forested hills between 30 and 50 meters – lomites, that's what the Dominicans call them – which signals the entrance to the Bahia de San Lorenzo and the access to Los Haitises National Park, further inland.

As we head deeper into the park, we pass some of these lomites independent. Some appear alone, others in duos or trios that seem to float over the sea.

Boca de Tiburón boat, Los Haitises

Boat enters Mouth of Tiburon de Los Haitises

Connoisseurs of these labyrinthine domains, the helmsman and the guide take us straight to a cave known as mouth of shark, the hollow interior of a Haiti (mountain in the Taíno tribal dialect) to which we were quick to surrender.

Slowly, slowly, they anchor the boat on the beach hidden inside the cave. We disembark onto the soaked sand and inspect the inverted scenery in its time-carved limestone frame.

Returning to the sunny Haitises, we point to Cayo de los Pájaros, a rocky formation crowned with vegetation and which, even at that distance, we could see overflown by dozens of birds.

Frigates, Cayo de Los Pájaros, Los Haitises, Dominican Republic

Frigates fly over the Cayo de Los Pájaros, in Los Haitises.

We get a little closer. Enough to appreciate the peculiar flights of frigates that took us back to the prehistoric imagery of conflicting flocks of pterosaurs. And, in eight or nine male frigates, in particular, the scarlet hearts they have under their crop and which they inflate to win over females for mating.

Male frigate, Cayo Los Pájaros, Los Haitises, Dominican Republic

Male frigate on the Cayo de Los Pájaros in Los Haitises.

A few vultures that hovered in the same airspace above the verdant islet broke the frigates' exclusivity without disrespecting the uniformity of the blackness that dotted the blue sky.

From the avian Haiti of Cayo de los Pájaros, we set sail for another of the park's various caves, filled with pictograms and petroglyphs there bequeathed by the ancestors of the Taínos natives found by Christopher Columbus and his men at these stops.

Cave guide, Los Haitises, Dominican Republic

Guide under an opening in one of the many caves in Los Haitises.

In order to avoid the desecration of this heritage, the authorities keep guards at the small anchorage that gives access to the cave. One of them rests sitting in a chair. He is wearing a gray cap and t-shirt, green trousers and wellies. On his belly and chest, he keeps a shotgun with sawed-off pipes, ready for anything.

From that cave, we navigate to one of the park's mangrove areas. We followed a channel delimited by the amphibious roots of these trees until we came across a new dock.

Vessel in Los Haitises, Dominican Republic

Boat about to leave the mangrove swamp surrounding the Cueva de la Línea, Los Haitises.

We were at the entrance to Cueva de la Línea, another cave patrolled by bats and studded with more pictographic inscriptions. This one, too, has a natural opening that displays the resplendent green of the forest above.

Visitors after visitors are photographed in that underworld. Until an unexpected overpopulation of the cave forces them all to disband. We traversed the same mangrove channel.

However, we returned to the secluded sea of ​​Los Haitises and the much more open Bahia of San Lorenzo. We make the return to the port of Samaná against the wind, with the boat always jumping over small waves. Much smaller than the ones we found to resist returning to the beaches of Las Terrenas.

Henri Pittier NP, Venezuela

PN Henri Pittier: between the Caribbean Sea and the Cordillera da Costa

In 1917, botanist Henri Pittier became fond of the jungle of Venezuela's sea mountains. Visitors to the national park that this Swiss created there are, today, more than they ever wanted
Margarita Island ao Mochima NP, Venezuela

Margarita Island to Mochima National Park: a very Caribbean Caribe

The exploration of the Venezuelan coast justifies a wild nautical party. But, these stops also reveal life in cactus forests and waters as green as the tropical jungle of Mochima.
Guadalupe, French Antilles

Guadeloupe: A Delicious Caribbean, in Counter-Butterfly Effect

Guadeloupe is shaped like a moth. A trip around this Antille is enough to understand why the population is governed by the motto Pas Ni Problem and raises the minimum of waves, despite the many setbacks.
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

The Desired City

Many treasures passed through Cartagena before being handed over to the Spanish Crown - more so than the pirates who tried to plunder them. Today, the walls protect a majestic city always ready to "rumbear".
Santa Marta and PN Tayrona, Colombia

The Paradise from which Simon Bolivar departed

At the gates of PN Tayrona, Santa Marta is the oldest continuously inhabited Hispanic city in Colombia. In it, Simón Bolívar began to become the only figure on the continent almost as revered as Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary.
Martinique, French Antilles

The Armpit Baguette Caribbean

We move around Martinique as freely as the Euro and the tricolor flags fly supreme. But this piece of France is volcanic and lush. Lies in the insular heart of the Americas and has a delicious taste of Africa.
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

The Dominican Home Silver

Puerto Plata resulted from the abandonment of La Isabela, the second attempt at a Hispanic colony in the Americas. Almost half a millennium after Columbus's landing, it inaugurated the nation's inexorable tourist phenomenon. In a lightning passage through the province, we see how the sea, the mountains, the people and the Caribbean sun keep it shining.
Oviedo Lagoon, Dominican Republic

The Dead Sea (nothing) of the Dominican Republic

The hypersalinity of the Laguna de Oviedo fluctuates depending on evaporation and water supplied by rain and the flow coming from the neighboring mountain range of Bahoruco. The natives of the region estimate that, as a rule, it has three times the level of sea salt. There, we discover prolific colonies of flamingos and iguanas, among many other species that make up one of the most exuberant ecosystems on the island of Hispaniola.
Barahona, Dominican Republic

The Bathing Dominican Republic of Barahona

Saturday after Saturday, the southwest corner of the Dominican Republic goes into decompression mode. Little by little, its seductive beaches and lagoons welcome a tide of euphoric people who indulge in a peculiar rumbear amphibian.
Lagoa Oviedo a Bahia de las Águilas, Dominican Republic

In Search of the Immaculate Dominican Beach

Against all odds, one of the most unspoiled Dominican coastlines is also one of the most remote. Discovering the province of Pedernales, we are dazzled by the semi-desert Jaragua National Park and the Caribbean purity of Bahia de las Águilas.
Lake Enriquillo, Dominican Republic

Enriquillo: the Great Lake of the Antilles

Between 300 and 400 km2, situated 44 meters below sea level, Enriquillo is the supreme lake of the Antilles. Regardless of its hypersalinity and the stifling, atrocious temperatures, it's still increasing. Scientists have a hard time explaining why.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

The Longest Colonial Elder in the Americas

Santo Domingo is the longest-inhabited colony in the New World. Founded in 1498 by Bartholomew Colombo, the capital of the Dominican Republic preserves intact a true treasure of historical resilience.
Saona Island, Dominican Republic

A Savona in the Antilles

During his second voyage to the Americas, Columbus landed on an enchanting exotic island. He named it Savona, in honor of Michele da Cuneo, a Savoyard sailor who saw it as an outstanding feature of the greater Hispaniola. Today called Saona, this island is one of the beloved tropical edens of the Dominican Republic.

Montana Redonda and Rancho Salto Yanigua, Dominican Republic

From Montaña Redonda to Rancho Salto Yanigua

Discovering the Dominican northwest, we ascend to the Montaña Redonda de Miches, recently transformed into an unusual peak of escape. From the top, we point to Bahia de Samaná and Los Haitises, passing through the picturesque Salto Yanigua ranch.
Believers greet each other in the Bukhara region.
City
Bukhara, Uzbequistan

Among the Minarets of Old Turkestan

Situated on the ancient Silk Road, Bukhara has developed for at least two thousand years as an essential commercial, cultural and religious hub in Central Asia. It was Buddhist and then Muslim. It was part of the great Arab empire and that of Genghis Khan, the Turko-Mongol kingdoms and the Soviet Union, until it settled in the still young and peculiar Uzbekistan.
Host Wezi points out something in the distance
Beaches
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.
Rhinoceros, PN Kaziranga, Assam, India
safari
PN Kaziranga, India

The Indian Monoceros Stronghold

Situated in the state of Assam, south of the great Brahmaputra river, PN Kaziranga occupies a vast area of ​​alluvial swamp. Two-thirds of the rhinocerus unicornis around the world, there are around 100 tigers, 1200 elephants and many other animals. Pressured by human proximity and the inevitable poaching, this precious park has not been able to protect itself from the hyperbolic floods of the monsoons and from some controversies.
Faithful in front of the gompa The gompa Kag Chode Thupten Samphel Ling.
Annapurna (circuit)
Annapurna Circuit 15th - Kagbeni, Nepal

At the Gates of the Former Kingdom of Upper Mustang

Before the 1992th century, Kagbeni was already a crossroads of trade routes at the confluence of two rivers and two mountain ranges, where medieval kings collected taxes. Today, it is part of the famous Annapurna Circuit. When hikers arrive, they know that, higher up, there is a domain that, until XNUMX, prohibited entry to outsiders.
Architecture & Design
Castles and Fortresses

A Defending World: Castles and Fortresses that Resist

Under threat from enemies from the end of time, the leaders of villages and nations built castles and fortresses. All over the place, military monuments like these continue to resist.
Boats on ice, Hailuoto Island, Finland.
Aventura
Hailuoto, Finland

A Refuge in the Gulf of Bothnia

During winter, the island of Hailuoto is connected to the rest of Finland by the country's longest ice road. Most of its 986 inhabitants esteem, above all, the distance that the island grants them.
Roman morione on tricycle, moriones festival, Marinduque, Philippines
Ceremonies and Festivities
Marinduque, Philippines

When the Romans Invade the Philippines

Even the Eastern Empire didn't get that far. In Holy Week, thousands of centurions seize Marinduque. There, the last days of Longinus, a legionary converted to Christianity, are re-enacted.
São Tomé, city, São Tomé and Príncipe, alley of the Fort
Cities
Sao Tome (city), São Tomé and Principe

The Capital of the Santomean Tropics

Founded by the Portuguese, in 1485, São Tomé prospered for centuries, like the city because of the goods in and out of the homonymous island. The archipelago's independence confirmed it as the busy capital that we trod, always sweating.
Beverage Machines, Japan
Lunch time
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.
Culture
Look-alikes, Actors and Extras

Make-believe stars

They are the protagonists of events or are street entrepreneurs. They embody unavoidable characters, represent social classes or epochs. Even miles from Hollywood, without them, the world would be more dull.
Spectator, Melbourne Cricket Ground-Rules footbal, Melbourne, Australia
Sport
Melbourne, Australia

The Football the Australians Rule

Although played since 1841, Australian Football has only conquered part of the big island. Internationalization has never gone beyond paper, held back by competition from rugby and classical football.
trip around the world, symbol of wisdom illustrated in a window at Inari airport, Finnish Lapland
Traveling
Around the World - Part 1

Traveling Brings Wisdom. Find out how to travel around the world.

The Earth turns on itself every day. In this series of articles, you will find indispensable clarifications and advice for those who make a point of going around it at least once in their life.
Ethnic
Shows

The World on Stage

All over the world, each nation, region or town and even neighborhood has its own culture. When traveling, nothing is more rewarding than admiring, live and in loco, which makes them unique.
View of Fa Island, Tonga, Last Polynesian Monarchy
Got2Globe Photo Portfolio
Got2Globe Portfolio

Exotic Signs of Life

View from John Ford Point, Monument Valley, Nacao Navajo, United States
History
Monument Valley, USA

Indians or Cowboys?

Iconic Western filmmakers like John Ford immortalized what is the largest Indian territory in the United States. Today, in the Navajo Nation, the Navajo also live in the shoes of their old enemies.
View from the top of Mount Vaea and the tomb, Vailima village, Robert Louis Stevenson, Upolu, Samoa
Islands
Upolu, Samoa

Stevenson's Treasure Island

At age 30, the Scottish writer began looking for a place to save him from his cursed body. In Upolu and the Samoans, he found a welcoming refuge to which he gave his heart and soul.
Oulu Finland, Passage of Time
Winter White
Oulu, Finland

Oulu: an Ode to Winter

Located high in the northeast of the Gulf of Bothnia, Oulu is one of Finland's oldest cities and its northern capital. A mere 220km from the Arctic Circle, even in the coldest months it offers a prodigious outdoor life.
Baie d'Oro, Île des Pins, New Caledonia
Literature
Île-des-Pins, New Caledonia

The Island that Leaned against Paradise

In 1964, Katsura Morimura delighted the Japan with a turquoise novel set in Ouvéa. But the neighboring Île-des-Pins has taken over the title "The Nearest Island to Paradise" and thrills its visitors.
Hikers below Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, California, United States of America
Nature
Death Valley, USA

The Hottest Place Resurrection

Since 1921, Al Aziziyah, in Libya, was considered the hottest place on the planet. But the controversy surrounding the 58th measured there meant that, 99 years later, the title was returned to Death Valley.
Mother Armenia Statue, Yerevan, Armenia
Autumn
Yerevan, Armenia

A Capital between East and West

Heiress of the Soviet civilization, aligned with the great Russia, Armenia allows itself to be seduced by the most democratic and sophisticated ways of Western Europe. In recent times, the two worlds have collided in the streets of your capital. From popular and political dispute, Yerevan will dictate the new course of the nation.
female and cub, grizzly footsteps, katmai national park, alaska
Natural Parks
PN Katmai, Alaska

In the Footsteps of the Grizzly Man

Timothy Treadwell spent summers on end with the bears of Katmai. Traveling through Alaska, we followed some of its trails, but unlike the species' crazy protector, we never went too far.
Jabula Beach, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
UNESCO World Heritage
Saint Lucia, South Africa

An Africa as Wild as Zulu

On the eminence of the coast of Mozambique, the province of KwaZulu-Natal is home to an unexpected South Africa. Deserted beaches full of dunes, vast estuarine swamps and hills covered with fog fill this wild land also bathed by the Indian Ocean. It is shared by the subjects of the always proud Zulu nation and one of the most prolific and diverse fauna on the African continent.
Era Susi towed by dog, Oulanka, Finland
Characters
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.
Viti Levu, Fiji Islands, South Pacific, coral reef
Beaches
Viti levu, Fiji

Islands on the edge of Islands

A substantial part of Fiji preserves the agricultural expansions of the British colonial era. In the north and off the large island of Viti Levu, we also came across plantations that have only been named for a long time.
Pemba, Mozambique, Capital of Cabo Delgado, from Porto Amélia to Porto de Abrigo, Paquitequete
Religion
Pemba, Mozambique

From Porto Amélia to the Shelter Port of Mozambique

In July 2017, we visited Pemba. Two months later, the first attack took place on Mocímboa da Praia. Nor then do we dare to imagine that the tropical and sunny capital of Cabo Delgado would become the salvation of thousands of Mozambicans fleeing a terrifying jihadism.
On Rails
On Rails

Train Travel: The World Best on Rails

No way to travel is as repetitive and enriching as going on rails. Climb aboard these disparate carriages and trains and enjoy the best scenery in the world on Rails.
Creel, Chihuahua, Carlos Venzor, collector, museum
Society
Chihuahua a Creel, Chihuahua, Mexico

On Creel's Way

With Chihuahua behind, we point to the southwest and to even higher lands in the north of Mexico. Next to Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, we visited a Mennonite elder. Around Creel, we lived for the first time with the Rarámuri indigenous community of the Serra de Tarahumara.
Fruit sellers, Swarm, Mozambique
Daily life
Enxame Mozambique

Mozambican Fashion Service Area

It is repeated at almost all stops in towns of Mozambique worthy of appearing on maps. The machimbombo (bus) stops and is surrounded by a crowd of eager "businessmen". The products offered can be universal such as water or biscuits or typical of the area. In this region, a few kilometers from Nampula, fruit sales suceeded, in each and every case, quite intense.
Wadjemup, Rottnest Island, Quokkas
Wildlife
Wadjemup, Rottnest Island, Australia

Among Quokkas and other Aboriginal Spirits

In the XNUMXth century, a Dutch captain nicknamed this island surrounded by a turquoise Indian Ocean, “Rottnest, a rat's nest”. The quokkas that eluded him were, however, marsupials, considered sacred by the Whadjuk Noongar aborigines of Western Australia. Like the Edenic island on which the British colonists martyred them.
The Sounds, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand
Scenic Flights
Fiordland, New Zealand

The Fjords of the Antipodes

A geological quirk made the Fiordland region the rawest and most imposing in New Zealand. Year after year, many thousands of visitors worship the sub-domain slashed between Te Anau and Milford Sound.