Breathtaking Panorama of the Austrian Alps: Top of Tyrol
Top of Tyrol is a mountain-top viewing platform placed in the Stubai Glacier, Tirolean Alps, one hour away from Innsbruck, Austria. The innovative project completed in 2008 by Astearchitecture is located on the Great Isidor which is centrally positioned in the Stubai Glacier, dividing it into the western half and eastern half. Being situated at […]
Austrian Alps, Innsbruck, mountain station, mountain-top viewing platform, panorama view, ski, Stubai Glacier, Top of Tyrol, tourism, wild beauty
Hidden Places, North & Central America
Canyon de Chelly, Mysteries of a Lost World
Although not as famous as the Grand Canyon, Canyon de Chelly has landscapes that are just as beautiful. This wonder of nature is located in northeastern Arizona and is very special place, due to the profound influences it had over the life and beliefs of the people who used to live here: the Navajo Indians. […]
Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia: a Tour of the World’s Largest Salt Lake
Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa) is the largest salt lake in the world, having 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 square meters). It is located in southwest Bolivia, near the Andes and it is a place of breathtaking and unworldly views. The salt here can reach up to 10 meters in thickness. Visiting Salar de Uyuni is […]
Hidden Places, North & Central America
White Sands in New Mexico, a Different Type of Desert
Contrary to all beliefs, this is not snow, but a fantastic natural landscape called “White Sands”, located in New Mexico, USA. White Sands is the world’s largest gypsum sand dune field – 275 square miles of fine white sand, spread forming surreal looking white dunes. Visiting Details: “A car is pretty much the only way […]
Reed Flute Cave, an Underground Fairyland in China
The Reed Flute Cave, also known as “the Palace of Natural Arts”, is a natural limestone cave situated in the northwest of Guilin City, China. It is said that locals gave this name from the reeds growing outside it, as they were used for making flutes. With a length of 240 meters, the cave is […]
Rainbows In The Dark [10 Rare Captures]
Even though they are rare, they are not a myth. All it takes for a rainbow in the dark to be seen is a full moon, rain/water and being in the right place at the right time. For this post, we gathered 10 lovely photos taken during such happy circumstances. Most of them are taken […]
Hidden Places, North & Central America
Experience Hiking in a Fascinating Canyon: The Zion Narrows
The Zion Narrows is a fascinating canyon section situated in Zion National Park (near Springdale, Utah, USA), on the North Fork of the Virgin River.With its soaring walls, sandstone grottoes, hanging gardens and natural springs, the Zion Narrows is one of the premier hikes on the Colorado Plateau. Having a 6 km long section between […]
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Travel Inspired, Travel Journals
Expedition Lofoten: 2 Weeks Above the Polar Circle
For years, I’ve been charmed by Scandinavia. I love the languages, the people always seemed beautiful and last but certainly not least: the scenery is amazing. We’ve been to Norway on our first trip, in the west of the country, but decided to do something different in 2010. Going to the polar circle, a mythical border between warm and ice cold, and even crossing it, seemed like a crazy idea when we first thought of it. We thought we would need special clothes, buy special camping gear, and who knows what else, but all that turned out to be false. We were also drawn to the concept of the Midnight Sun, which occurs there in the summer: the sun actually never went down when we were there. When we finally googled ‘Lofoten’, we were sold: we’re definitely going there.I spent months setting up the perfect route, planning every little piece of the way to see the most beautiful places of the region in a limited amount of time. We had 13 days of spare time, minus the days we would spend traveling, that left about 10 days of Lofoten-goodness.
Mysterious Abbey in Kalyazin, the Remains of a Sunk Historic Region
Image Credit Flickr User Basykes Seen on Kuriositas, the abbey in the Russian city of Kalyazin, located on the Volga river is both mysterious and intriguing. Makaryevsky monastery stands tall in the middle of an artificial lake and seems like a deserted lighthouse with an architecture reminiscent of past centuries. The story behind this “monument” […]
Improvised Nature Symphony [Video]
We ran across this incredible ad on Creative Monkeys which left us staring at the monitor for quite some time after the movie finished. Morihiro Harano came up with the concept of creating a giant wood xylophone in order to promote a phone with a wooden housing. The installation is memorable, and so are the […]
Climbing Down Into an Active Volcano [Video]
In october 2010, the volcanologist Geoff Mackley came up with the crazy idea of descending into the Marum volcano which was active at that time. He gathered a team and went to Ambryum Island, Vanuatu, in an extreme adventure to approach as much as they could of the boiling caldera. To document the furious lava […]
Ambryum Island, descending into an active volcano, extreme adventure, Marum volcano, Vanuatu
Nature can Sting: Tsingy Needle Formations in Madagascar [Video]
by photographer Stephen Alvarez The Tsingy Formations are located in northern Madagascar and they are a world renowned natural reserve. Imagine a miniature world, lost somewhere on a calcareous coast, composed of stone needles resembling daggers which rise up 30 meters above the ground and you will get a glimpse of what the Tsingy Formations […]
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Australia and Oceania, Hidden Places
Deliver A Postcard From the World’s First Underwater Post Office
The Underwater Post Office is situated in Vanuatu, an island nation located in South Pacific Ocean that consists of 82 small, geologically newer islands. The post office is just three meters below the surface and only 50 meters offshore the Port Villa, on Highway Island. Since its opening in 2003, approximately 100,000 visitors have posted […]
Highway Island, Pacific Ocean, Port Villa, scuba diving, snorkeling, underwater post office, Vanuatu
Art Installation Linking People from London&New York in Real Time: Telectroscope [VIDEO]
Even if many of you probably already heard about the Telectroscope, this great invention captured our attention and we thought of sharing it. Although it had a short existence (May-June 2008), it is a famous creation that consisted in outdoor interactive video installations linking London (near Tower Bridge) and New York (Brooklyn Bridge). It was […]
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1800 Pop-Up Books, an Exhibition [Video]
Pop-Up Books are known worldwide for their fascinating design. Flipping pages and discovering three-dimensional characters, buildings and so on makes for a fun readers’ experience, both for children and adults. Bowdoin College from Brunswick, USA has a collection of over 1,800 pop-up books and they will all be on display this spring as part of […]
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