Monday, November 19, 2012

My planet

The fantastic world we live in.

 Desert with Phacelia (Scorpion Weed). Flowering once in several years.

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Dubai. The view from the skyscraper BurjKhalifa. The height of buildings is 828 m (163 floors).

This is the view looking down
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EmeraldLakein the crater of an extinct volcano. Tongariro National Park, New Zealand


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Pariscomputer games store. In fact, the floor is absolutely flat.


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Haus Rizzi – Germany.


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Lost paradise? Isle of Lamu, Indian Ocean.


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BanpoBridge, Seoul, South Korea


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Geological phenomenon known as Danxia landform, China. This example is located in Zhangye, Gansu Province. The color is the result of an accumulation for millions of years of red sandstone and other rocks.


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Lighthouse guard in Mare, France. Not everyone would have a smoke in such weather, and in such a place!


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Office of Selgas Cano in Madrid


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GibraltarAirport, where the runway crosses the highway.


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Forest near Gryfino, Poland. The cause of the curvature is unknown


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The canal above the river: Magdeburg Water Bridge, Germany.


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LenaPillars. Russia, the Lena River.


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Skagen, Denmark, where the Baltic and North Seas meet. The two opposing tides in this place cannot merge because they have different densities.


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Day and night. The monument in Kaunas, Lithuania


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Twice a year in the Gulf of Mexico rays migrate. About 10 thousand stingrays swim from the Yucatan Peninsula to Florida in the spring and back in the fall.


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Photo of storm in Montana, USA, 2010



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The longest traffic jam in the world,recorded in China.
Its length was 260 kilometers [that's 161MILES, folks!]


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Thor’s Well, a/k/a ”Gates of the Dungeon,” Cape Perpetua, Oregon.


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Restaurant on coast of Zanzibar. Depending on tide, the restaurant can be reached either by foot or by boat.


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Tunnel in Sequoia National Park,California

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