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Jigokudani (地獄谷) or "Hell Valley" is a spectacular, appropriately named valley just above the town of Noboribetsu Onsen, which displays hot steam vents, sulfurous streams and other volcanic activity. It is a main source of Noboribetsu's hot spring waters.
From the valley, there are attractive walking trails through the wooded hills above Noboribetsu. If you follow them for about 20 to 30 minutes, you will get to Oyunuma, a sulfurous pond with a surface temperature of 50 degrees Celsius and a smaller, even hotter, mud pond nearby. Flowing out of Oyunuma is a river called Oyunumagawa. Still hot, the river flows through the forest, making for an out-of-this-world sight. It is possible to follow the river for several hundred meters and enjoy a natural foot bath (ashiyu) along the way.
The autumn color season in Noboribetsu usually reaches its peak in mid October, adding further colors to the already spectacular scenery. During winter, some of the walking trails in the hills above the Jigokudani might not always be passable.
Once a thriving Roman city, this archaeological site evokes a strong sense of the days when the Roman Empire had control over this part of Africa. ItⳠoften overlooked by visitors to Morocco, but a trip there is well worth your time, even if only for a few hours.
Volubilis is one of MoroccoⳠbest-preserved Roman ruins located between the Imperial Cities of Fez and Meknes on a fertile plain surrounded by wheat fields. Established before the Christian Era, at a time when the area was part of Mauretania, Volubilis was considered the administrative center of the kingdom of Mauretania and also one of the most remote cities within the Roman Empire, located in the far southwestern region.
Drunken Bai Garden has an architectural style of Chinese traditional garden which was inherited from architectures in Suzhou: elegant pavilions, winding and zigzagging paves, carved beams and painted rafters. It was such a scenery of exceptional charm that it attracts an endless stream of tourists. In this image, I attempted to imitate the mood that in the eyes of Li Bai after he was drunken. Hope him didn't run into the pond to get to the little house.
Yes, it is a Public Primary School Saint-Thomas, Strasbourg, France.
This school was built on the former Palais de la Monnaie in the years 1905 to 1907 in the Alsatian neo-renaissance style with its scrolled gables and turrets at the ends. He reuses an old oriel window from the Renaissance for the Concierge apartments. The building deserves to be able to be visited. The architect had not made fun of the children who were to attend him (of whom I was in the 60s). Sculptures, ironwork, small columns around a monumental, light staircase are only a hymn to beauty. Failing to enter it, look in the courtyard for the well, the columns under the courtyard, inclusions in the walls of the old Palais de la Monnaie. Look for medallions and macaroons on the facade, cartridges on the facades, lion heads around the gutters ...
Wavelike rocks spreading out for 8 km around Aoshima Island (860 meter around, 6 meters above sea level) near the southeast coast of Miyazaki City. These rocks formed underwater and were later pushed above the surface, and were eroded by the waves for a long time. Sand accumulated on them and they took on the shape of a washboard, earning it the name ”The Devil's Washboard”.
Lake Matheson - South Island, New Zealand
Water reflection is one of my favourite to shoot landscape especially in a cloudy or rainy day. The day we visisted Fox Glacier that was pouring heavily. As a result, it was closed due to safety reason. Therefore we went to the close-by Lake Matheson.
MOROCCO DESERT:
A visit to the Moroccan Sahara desert is definitely an experience everyone should have at least once in their lifetime. It is a journey well worth the effort and you will have fond memories to last you forever.
Imagine yourself on a camel ride, trekking through the rolling orange Sahara desert of Erg Chebbi Dunes. There is nothing around you and all you can hear are the footsteps of the camel on the soft sand. The sky is vast and clear in the day and filled with millions of bright stars at night. It is a very peaceful experience, one raley known to most of the Western World.
(Length of this caterpillar is about 1cm)
Caterpillars are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera. As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary, since the larvae of sawflies are commonly called caterpillars as well. Both lepidopteran and symphytan larvae have eruciform body shapes.
The Amur Tiger, also called the Siberian Tiger has a "Head and body length of 9 to 12 feet; a tail length of 3 to 4 feet; and a weight of which males are 400 to 675 pounds and females are 220 to 370 pounds. Tigers are the only striped cat. The coat varies from dark orange to reddish ochre with the belly, neck, throat, and insides of the limbs being a creamy white. The vertical stripes may be black or dark brown. Amur (Siberian) tigers are the lightest -- as well as being the largest -- of the tigers, and have longer coats than do their southern-ranging relatives.
In the Amur Tiger, females’ territories may either be exclusive or overlapping, with range size being dependent on the density of the prey species. Males’ ranges are larger and usually overlap the ranges of several females. They are active chiefly at night. They can leap distances of 16 to 20 feet, and 6 feet high. Tigers are not unsocial, despite the fact that they usually hunt alone and, in fact, often come together to share a kill. Neighbors often have amicable relationships. Females spend a large portion of their lives accompanied by cubs. Tigers are tolerant of a wide range of climates and habitats, only requiring adequate cover, water, and prey. They depend primarily on sight and hearing for hunting, and kill by strangulation or a bite to the back of the neck. They will bury the remains of a carcass and may return to feed from it for several days. Tigers can eat as much as 88 lbs. of meat at one time. Although they are excellent hunters, only 10% of all attempts result in a kill. They lead a nomadic life, travelling long distances in the winter in search of food. They can endure intense frost, but when travelling in deep snow they tire rapidly, and must rest often. Vocalizations include woofs, roars, rasping grunts, purring, soft grunts or puffing sounds called “prusten”.
Cecil and Walter Peaks in the backdrop across The Wakatipu Basin seen from Queenstown wharf, Southern Alps, New Zealand