A tea in the desert
Wahiba Sands originally took its name from a tribe who lived here. Now renamed Sharqiya Sands, it’s a perfect specimen of sand sea – a small and isolated sand desert.
Tag: Nature & National Parks
The Hole in the Ocean
There is a hole in the Pacific Ocean which looks like a portal to a ancient and secret marine world. It is called Thor’s Well and it actually is a natural salt water fountain.
The Marble Cathedral
An intricate network of caves, a one-of-a-kind geological formation located at the southern far end of the world, in that charming, wild and remote region of America known as Patagonia.
Blyde River Canyon, the third largest canyon in the world
Blyde River Canyon, in the eastern part of South Africa, thanks to its length of 50 kilometers (~31 miles), its depth of 750 meters (~2460 feet) and its surface of 260 square kilometers (~100 square miles) is the third largest canyon in the world, behind the Grand Canyon in the USA and the Fish Eagle Canyon in Namibia.
The bathing monkeys of Jigokudani
Since 1964, in the city of Yamanouchi, in the northern part of the Nagano Prefecture, a very unusual park can be found.
The name Jigokudani means “Hell Valley”, a name that’s been inspired by the vapours emitted by the thermal activities of these japanese valleys.
But what makes this park so peculiar is the presence of a large community of Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata), more commonly known as Snow Monkeys who love to bathe and relax in the thermal waters of the park.
The White Desert of USA
Although it looks like a snowy wilderness, it is actually a veritable sea of white sand due to the wind erosion of the crystallized gypsum which is abundant in the region. The dunes of White Sands, a protected area in New Mexico, United States, represent the world’s largest gypsum sandbanks and…
The Hole in the Ocean
There is a hole in the Pacific Ocean which looks like a portal to a ancient and secret marine world. It is called Thor’s Well and it actually is a natural salt water fountain.
The Marble Cathedral
An intricate network of caves, a one-of-a-kind geological formation located at the southern far end of the world, in that charming, wild and remote region of America known as Patagonia.
Blyde River Canyon, the third largest canyon in the world
Blyde River Canyon, in the eastern part of South Africa, thanks to its length of 50 kilometers (~31 miles), its depth of 750 meters (~2460 feet) and its surface of 260 square kilometers (~100 square miles) is the third largest canyon in the world, behind the Grand Canyon in the USA and the Fish Eagle Canyon in Namibia.
The bathing monkeys of Jigokudani
Since 1964, in the city of Yamanouchi, in the northern part of the Nagano Prefecture, a very unusual park can be found.
The name Jigokudani means “Hell Valley”, a name that’s been inspired by the vapours emitted by the thermal activities of these japanese valleys.
But what makes this park so peculiar is the presence of a large community of Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata), more commonly known as Snow Monkeys who love to bathe and relax in the thermal waters of the park.
The White Desert of USA
Although it looks like a snowy wilderness, it is actually a veritable sea of white sand due to the wind erosion of the crystallized gypsum which is abundant in the region. The dunes of White Sands, a protected area in New Mexico, United States, represent the world’s largest gypsum sandbanks and…