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light trail
Vehicle travels across an arid plain in the region of Damaraland, Namibia
while the kid rubs his eye
Young gatha dancers, taking a break from a bartaman or kayta puja ritual, a spiritual exit from dependent life. Bakhtapur, Nepal
Sulfur slaves
Workers try to control the toxic smoke emission of the Ijen volcano crater, in Java, Indonesia
Warm Hug
Berber elders greet in a ksar (sand fortress) in the Tataouine region, Tunisia
holy discussion
Buddhist monks during a lively discussion session on the principles of Tibetan Buddhism, Sera Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet
Above the Floating Peaks
Visitor admires the misty scenery of Huang Shan, a cliff-ridden region of Anhui Province, China
Kigurumi welcome
Kigurumi Satoko from the series "Higurashi no naku koro ni" ("When they Cry") interacts with the photographer at the Hachiman temple, Ogimashi, Japan
A Soaked Herd
Cows travel in a relentless rain along a road on top of the island of São Miguel,
Lighted Shopping
Tamil Singaporeans pick vegetables at a street market in Little India, Singapore
Naghol jump
Teenager dives from a log tower during a Naghol teen initiation ritual on the island of Pentecost, Vanuatu
A Solemn Procession
Orthodox priests on their way to a mass, in Suzdal, Russia.
Disengagement
Worker cuts a tree fallen on a road in the north of the island of Mahé, Seychelles.
Light of life
Cormorant silhouetted against an exuberant sun, Vermelho River, Miranda, Pantanal, Brazil
on the path of the shadow
Passersby cross an underground passage in Yerevan, Armenia
just because yes
Girls exchange a spontaneous kiss close to central mosque of Ilha de Moçambique
Furious speed
Jockeys drive camels on Sam Sam Dunes during the main race of the Jaisalmer Desert Festival, Rajasthan, India
Furious Speed ​​II
Spectators observe the riders during a skill test of the Pirenópolis' Cavalhadas, Goiás, Brazil
Vision of the Great Water
Visitors gathered on a panoramic platform of Garganta do Diabo, Iguaçu Falls, Brazil
morning fishing
Couple collaborates in an ice fishing on the island of Hailuoto, northwestern Finland.
Vegetable Coziness
Female sloth and cub rest under a tree in Tortuguero, Costa Rica
Troubled Exit
"Sampo" icebreaker passengers wrestle to get out of the icy-water, after a short swimming experience in the Gulf of Bothnia, Finland.
Post-Beach Landing
Passengers plane about to land at Princess Juliana Airport, Sint Maarten Island
A Suffered Hang out
Antipos self-mutilate during Holy Week in Gazan, Marinduque Island, Philippines
Medieval coziness
Guardian of Gyeongbokgung Palace huddled against the freezing winter of Seoul, South Korea
Geometric Works
Workers make up a crucial framework for the renovation of the Mérida cable car, Venezuela
End of Another Day
Native drives a wheelbarrow among the baobabs on Avenue des Baobas in Madagascar
Riverside passion
Couple in love next to one of the many boats moored in St. Petersburg during Russian Navy Day.
Mussiro Fashion
Women protected from the sun with natural mussiro masks, Ibo island, Mozambique
bridge to another day
Passersby walk the u-Bein, the longest wooden bridge in the world, over the Lake Taunghtaman, Myanmar
Divine Ride
Cavaleiros do Divino traverse a country road in Pirenópolis, state of Goiás, Brazil
Day Chat
Girl friends in traditional dresses chat at the entrance to an Orthodox church, in Suzdal, Russia
Aussie sunset
Man holds an australian flag during the Australia Day celebrations
Mars Bound
Vehicle crosses a landscape full of small plateaus of the White Desert, a section of the Sahara, Egypt
Maternity
Grizzly bear and cub on a Katmai coastal meadow, Alaska
Sulfuric Clouds
Worker carries two baskets of sulfur on a crest of the Ijen volcano crater, Java, Indonesia
Pastoralism
Shepherd above his flock in the Malealea highlands, Lesotho
First Marriage Troubles
Japanese bride in traditional dress is helped to get into a car.
Balinese sunset
Sun sets behind the Agung volcano, with the Batu Bolong temple in silhouette, Lombok island, Indonesia.




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The Earthly and the Celestial

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Exotic Signs of Life

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Sensations vs Impressions

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life outside

Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, Wildlife, lions
Safari
NP Gorongosa, Mozambique

The Wild Heart of Mozambique shows Signs of Life

Gorongosa was home to one of the most exuberant ecosystems in Africa, but from 1980 to 1992 it succumbed to the Civil War waged between FRELIMO and RENAMO. Greg Carr, Voice Mail's millionaire inventor received a message from the Mozambican ambassador to the UN challenging him to support Mozambique. For the good of the country and humanity, Carr pledged to resurrect the stunning national park that the Portuguese colonial government had created there.
Young people walk the main street in Chame, Nepal
Annapurna (circuit)
Annapurna Circuit: 1th - Pokhara a ChameNepal

Finally, on the way

After several days of preparation in Pokhara, we left towards the Himalayas. The walking route only starts in Chame, at 2670 meters of altitude, with the snowy peaks of the Annapurna mountain range already in sight. Until then, we complete a painful but necessary road preamble to its subtropical base.
Architecture & Design
Cemeteries

the last address

From the grandiose tombs of Novodevichy, in Moscow, to the boxed Mayan bones of Pomuch, in the Mexican province of Campeche, each people flaunts its own way of life. Even in death.
Salto Angel, Rio that falls from the sky, Angel Falls, PN Canaima, Venezuela
Adventure
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
drinks entre reis, cavalhadas de pirenopolis, crusades, brazil
Ceremonies and Festivities
Pirenópolis, Brazil

Brazilian Crusades

Christian armies expelled Muslim forces from the Iberian Peninsula in the XNUMXth century. XV but, in Pirenópolis, in the Brazilian state of Goiás, the South American subjects of Carlos Magno continue to triumph.
gaudy courtship
Cities
Suzdal, Russia

Thousand Years of Old Fashioned Russia

It was a lavish capital when Moscow was just a rural hamlet. Along the way, it lost political relevance but accumulated the largest concentration of churches, monasteries and convents in the country of the tsars. Today, beneath its countless domes, Suzdal is as orthodox as it is monumental.
Cocoa, Chocolate, Sao Tome Principe, Agua Izé farm
Meal
São Tomé and Principe

Cocoa Roças, Corallo and the Chocolate Factory

At the beginning of the century. In the XNUMXth century, São Tomé and Príncipe generated more cocoa than any other territory. Thanks to the dedication of some entrepreneurs, production survives and the two islands taste like the best chocolate.
Tatooine on Earth
Culture
Matmata Tataouine:  Tunisia

Star Wars Earth Base

For security reasons, the planet Tatooine from "The Force Awakens" was filmed in Abu Dhabi. We step back into the cosmic calendar and revisit some of the Tunisian places with the most impact in the saga.  
combat arbiter, cockfighting, philippines
Sport
Philippines

When Only Cock Fights Wake Up the Philippines

Banned in much of the First World, cockfighting thrives in the Philippines where they move millions of people and pesos. Despite its eternal problems, it is the sabong that most stimulates the nation.
Traveling
Inle Lake, Myanmar

A Pleasant Forced Stop

In the second of the holes that we have during a tour around Lake Inlé, we hope that they will bring us the bicycle with the patched tyre. At the roadside shop that welcomes and helps us, everyday life doesn't stop.
António do Remanso, Quilombola Marimbus Community, Lençóis, Chapada Diamantina
Ethnic
Sheets of Bahia, Brazil

The Swampy Freedom of Quilombo do Remanso

Runaway slaves have survived for centuries around a wetland in Chapada Diamantina. Today, the quilombo of Remanso is a symbol of their union and resistance, but also of the exclusion to which they were voted.
Rainbow in the Grand Canyon, an example of prodigious photographic light
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Natural Light (Part 1)

And Light was made on Earth. Know how to use it.

The theme of light in photography is inexhaustible. In this article, we give you some basic notions about your behavior, to start with, just and only in terms of geolocation, the time of day and the time of year.
History
Nikko, Japan

Nikko, Toshogu: the Shrine and Mausoleum of the Tokugawa Shogun

A unavoidable historical and architectural treasure of Japan, Nikko's Toshogu Shrine honors the most important Japanese shogun, mentor of the Japanese nation: Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Solovetsky, Islands, Archipelago, Russia, Autumn, UAZ, Autumn road
Islands
Bolshoi Solovetsky, Russia

A Celebration of the Russian Autumn of Life

At the edge of the Arctic Ocean, in mid-September, the boreal foliage glows golden. Welcomed by generous cicerones, we praise the new human times of Bolshoi Solovetsky, famous for having hosted the first of the Soviet Gulag prison camps.
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.
On the Crime and Punishment trail, St. Petersburg, Russia, Vladimirskaya
Literature
Saint Petersburg, Russia

On the Trail of "Crime and Punishment"

In St. Petersburg, we cannot resist investigating the inspiration for the base characters in Fyodor Dostoevsky's most famous novel: his own pities and the miseries of certain fellow citizens.
Chã das Caldeiras to Mosteiros, Fogo Island, Cape Verde
Nature
Chã das Caldeiras a Mosteiros, Fogo Island, Cape Verde

Chã das Caldeiras to Mosteiros: descent through the Ends of Fogo

With the Cape Verde summit conquered, we sleep and recover in Chã das Caldeiras, in communion with some of the lives at the mercy of the volcano. The next morning, we started the return to the capital São Filipe, 11 km down the road to Mosteiros.
Sheki, Autumn in the Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Autumn Homes
Autumn
Sheki, Azerbaijan

autumn in the caucasus

Lost among the snowy mountains that separate Europe from Asia, Sheki is one of Azerbaijan's most iconic towns. Its largely silky history includes periods of great harshness. When we visited it, autumn pastels added color to a peculiar post-Soviet and Muslim life.
Bather, The Baths, Devil's Bay (The Baths) National Park, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands
Natural Parks
Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands

Virgin Gorda's Divine “Caribbaths”

Discovering the Virgin Islands, we disembark on a tropical and seductive seaside dotted with huge granite boulders. The Baths seem straight out of the Seychelles but they are one of the most exuberant marine scenery in the Caribbean.
At the end of the afternoon
UNESCO World Heritage
Ilha de Mozambique, Mozambique  

The Island of Ali Musa Bin Bique. Pardon... of Mozambique

With the arrival of Vasco da Gama in the extreme south-east of Africa, the Portuguese took over an island that had previously been ruled by an Arab emir, who ended up misrepresenting the name. The emir lost his territory and office. Mozambique - the molded name - remains on the resplendent island where it all began and also baptized the nation that Portuguese colonization ended up forming.
female and cub, grizzly footsteps, katmai national park, alaska
Characters
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.
La Digue, Seychelles, Anse d'Argent
Beaches
La Digue, Seychelles

Monumental Tropical Granite

Beaches hidden by lush jungle, made of coral sand washed by a turquoise-emerald sea are anything but rare in the Indian Ocean. La Digue recreated itself. Around its coastline, massive boulders sprout that erosion has carved as an eccentric and solid tribute of time to the Nature.
Pilgrims at the top, Mount Sinai, Egypt
Religion
Mount Sinai, Egypt

Strength in the Legs, Faith in God

Moses received the Ten Commandments on the summit of Mount Sinai and revealed them to the people of Israel. Today, hundreds of pilgrims climb, every night, the 4000 steps of that painful but mystical ascent.
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.
In elevator kimono, Osaka, Japan
Society
Osaka, Japan

In the Company of Mayu

Japanese nightlife is a multi-faceted, multi-billion business. In Osaka, an enigmatic couchsurfing hostess welcomes us, somewhere between the geisha and the luxury escort.
Visitors at Talisay Ruins, Negros Island, Philippines
Daily life
Talisay City, Philippines

Monument to a Luso-Philippine Love

At the end of the 11th century, Mariano Lacson, a Filipino farmer, and Maria Braga, a Portuguese woman from Macau, fell in love and got married. During the pregnancy of what would be her 2th child, Maria succumbed to a fall. Destroyed, Mariano built a mansion in his honor. In the midst of World War II, the mansion was set on fire, but the elegant ruins that endured perpetuate their tragic relationship.
Meares glacier
Wildlife
Prince William Sound, Alaska

Journey through a Glacial Alaska

Nestled against the Chugach Mountains, Prince William Sound is home to some of Alaska's stunning scenery. Neither powerful earthquakes nor a devastating oil spill affected its natural splendor.
Bungee jumping, Queenstown, New Zealand
Scenic Flights
Queenstown, New Zealand

Queenstown, the Queen of Extreme Sports

In the century. XVIII, the Kiwi government proclaimed a mining village on the South Island "fit for a queen".Today's extreme scenery and activities reinforce the majestic status of ever-challenging Queenstown.