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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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life outside

Lion, Elephants, PN Hwange, Zimbabwe
Safari
PN Hwange, Zimbabwe

The Legacy of the Late Cecil Lion

On July 1, 2015, Walter Palmer, a dentist and trophy hunter from Minnesota killed Cecil, Zimbabwe's most famous lion. The slaughter generated a viral wave of outrage. As we saw in PN Hwange, nearly two years later, Cecil's descendants thrive.
Aurora lights up the Pisang Valley, Nepal.
Annapurna (circuit)
Annapurna Circuit: 3rd- Upper Banana, Nepal

An Unexpected Snowy Aurora

At the first glimmers of light, the sight of the white mantle that had covered the village during the night dazzles us. With one of the toughest walks on the Annapurna Circuit ahead of us, we postponed the match as much as possible. Annoyed, we left Upper Pisang towards Escort when the last snow faded.
Luderitz, Namibia
Architecture & Design
Lüderitz, Namibia

Wilkommen in Africa

Chancellor Bismarck has always disdained overseas possessions. Against his will and all odds, in the middle of the Race for Africa, merchant Adolf Lüderitz forced Germany to take over an inhospitable corner of the continent. The homonymous city prospered and preserves one of the most eccentric heritages of the Germanic empire.
Totems, Botko Village, Malekula, Vanuatu
Adventure
Malekula, Vanuatu

Meat and Bone Cannibalism

Until the early XNUMXth century, man-eaters still feasted on the Vanuatu archipelago. In the village of Botko we find out why European settlers were so afraid of the island of Malekula.
MassKara Festival, Bacolod City, Philippines
Ceremonies and Festivities
Bacolod, Philippines

A Festival to Laugh at Tragedy

Around 1980, the value of sugar, an important source of wealth on the Philippine island of Negros, plummeted and the ferry “Don Juan” that served it sank and took the lives of more than 176 passengers, most of them from Negrès. The local community decided to react to the depression generated by these dramas. That's how MassKara arose, a party committed to recovering the smiles of the population.
In elevator kimono, Osaka, Japan
Cities
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.
Meal
Margilan, Uzbekistan

An Uzbekistan's Breadwinner

In one of the many bakeries in Margilan, worn out by the intense heat of the tandyr oven, the baker Maruf'Jon works half-baked like the distinctive traditional breads sold throughout Uzbekistan
Bolshoi Zayatski Orthodox Church, Solovetsky Islands, Russia.
Culture
Bolshoi Zayatsky, Russia

Mysterious Russian Babylons

A set of prehistoric spiral labyrinths made of stones decorate Bolshoi Zayatsky Island, part of the Solovetsky archipelago. Devoid of explanations as to when they were erected or what it meant, the inhabitants of these northern reaches of Europe call them vavilons.
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.
Traveling
unmissable roads

Great Routes, Great Trips

With pompous names or mere road codes, certain roads run through really sublime scenarios. From Road 66 to the Great Ocean Road, they are all unmissable adventures behind the wheel.
Passage, Tanna, Vanuatu to the West, Meet the Natives
Ethnic
Tanna, Vanuatu

From where Vanuatu Conquered the Western World

The TV show “Meet the Native” took Tanna's tribal representatives to visit Britain and the USA Visiting their island, we realized why nothing excited them more than returning home.
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.
Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay
History
Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay

The Legacy of an Historic Shuttle

The founding of Colónia do Sacramento by the Portuguese generated recurrent conflicts with their spanish rivals. Until 1828, this fortified square, now sedative, changed sides again and again.
Islands
São Nicolau, Cape Verde

Photography of Nha Terra São Nicolau

The voice of the late Cesária Verde crystallized the feeling of Cape Verdeans who were forced to leave their island. who visits São Nicolau or, wherever it may be, admires images that illustrate it well, understands why its people proudly and forever call it their land.
Boats on ice, Hailuoto Island, Finland.
Winter White
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.
Kukenam reward
Literature
Mount Roraima, Venezuela

Time Travel to the Lost World of Mount Roraima

At the top of Mount Roraima, there are extraterrestrial scenarios that have resisted millions of years of erosion. Conan Doyle created, in "The Lost World", a fiction inspired by the place but never got to step on it.
Barrancas del Cobre, Chihuahua, Rarámuri woman
Nature
Barrancas del Cobre (Copper Canyon), Chihuahua, Mexico

The Deep Mexico of the Barrancas del Cobre

Without warning, the Chihuahua highlands give way to endless ravines. Sixty million geological years have furrowed them and made them inhospitable. The Rarámuri indigenous people continue to call them home.
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.
Maria Jacarés, Pantanal Brazil
Natural Parks
Miranda, Brazil

Maria dos Jacarés: the Pantanal shelters such Creatures

Eurides Fátima de Barros was born in the interior of the Miranda region. 38 years ago, he settled in a small business on the side of BR262 that crosses the Pantanal and gained an affinity with the alligators that lived on his doorstep. Disgusted that once upon a time the creatures were being slaughtered there, she began to take care of them. Now known as Maria dos Jacarés, she named each of the animals after a soccer player or coach. It also makes sure they recognize your calls.
Bathers in the middle of the End of the World-Cenote de Cuzamá, Mérida, Mexico
UNESCO World Heritage
Yucatan, Mexico

The End of the End of the World

The announced day passed but the End of the World insisted on not arriving. In Central America, today's Mayans watched and put up with incredulity all the hysteria surrounding their calendar.
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.
Tombolo and Punta Catedral, Manuel António National Park, Costa Rica
Beaches
PN Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica

Costa Rica's Little-Big National Park

The reasons for the under 28 are well known national parks Costa Ricans have become the most popular. The fauna and flora of PN Manuel António proliferate in a tiny and eccentric patch of jungle. As if that wasn't enough, it is limited to four of the best typical beaches.
Faithful light candles, Milarepa Grotto temple, Annapurna Circuit, Nepal
Religion
Annapurna Circuit: 9th Manang to Milarepa Cave, Nepal

A Walk between Acclimatization and Pilgrimage

In full Annapurna Circuit, we finally arrived in Manang (3519m). we still need acclimatize to the higher stretches that followed, we inaugurated an equally spiritual journey to a Nepalese cave of Milarepa (4000m), the refuge of a siddha (sage) and Buddhist saint.
Chepe Express, Chihuahua Al Pacifico Railway
On Rails
Creel to Los Mochis, Mexico

The Barrancas del Cobre & the CHEPE Iron Horse

The Sierra Madre Occidental's relief turned the dream into a construction nightmare that lasted six decades. In 1961, at last, the prodigious Chihuahua al Pacifico Railroad was opened. Its 643km cross some of the most dramatic scenery in Mexico.
Walter Peak, Queenstown, New Zealand
Society
New Zealand  

When Counting Sheep causes Sleep Loss

20 years ago, New Zealand had 18 sheep per inhabitant. For political and economic reasons, the average was halved. In the antipodes, many breeders are worried about their future.
Busy intersection of Tokyo, Japan
Daily life
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.
savuti, botswana, elephant-eating lions
Wildlife
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.
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.