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Words cannot describe how magnificent this castle is, inside and out. The king who built this castle in the late 1800s really picked the best spot, and it really is like a fairytale and took our breath away when we first saw it from a distance. Look at this super deluxe royal family dinning room in the Peleș Castle - Bucharest (Romania) that can house a large group of guests in this huge dinning room.
The kea is a large parrot about 48 cm (19 in) long and weighs between 800 grams (1.8 lb) and 1 kilogram (2.2 lb). It has mostly olive-green plumage with a grey beak having a long, narrow, curved upper beak. The adult has dark-brown irises, and the cere, eyerings, and legs are grey. It has orange feathers on the undersides of its wings. The feathers on the sides of its face are dark olive-brown, feathers on its back and rump are orange-red, and some of the outer wing are dull-blue. It has a short, broad, bluish-green tail with a black tip. Feather shafts project at the tip of the tail and the undersides of the inner tail feathers have yellow-orange transverse stripes. The male is about 5% longer than the female, and the male's upper beak is 12–14% longer than the female's. Juveniles generally resemble adults, but have yellow eyerings and cere, an orange-yellow lower beak, and grey-yellow legs
塔布蘢寺為柬埔寨吳哥古蹟的一座古寺廟建築.
Prasat Ta Prohm HAD TA PROHM BEEN DILIGENTLY maintained from its construction in 1186 to the present day, it would be just a footnote to the larger Angkor Wat temple. But while Ta Prohm lay forgotten and neglected by men, the Cambodian jungle wasted no time in devouring it. Silk-cotton and strangler fig trees took root in the loosened stones of the temple, which was built entirely without mortar. Their roots wound through the structure, creating an astonishing merger of nature and architecture.
13° 26′ 6″ N, 103° 53′ 21″ E
Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, the only bird family in the order Phoenicopteriformes. Four flamingo species are distributed throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean, and two species are native to Africa, Asia, and Europe. This image was shot at The National Aviary, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Bow Falls is a major wide river waterfall on the Bow River, Alberta just before the junction of it and the Spray River. They are located near the Banff Springs Hotel and golf course on the left-hand side of River Road.
Borago officinalis, also known as a starflower, is an annual herb in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region and has naturalized in many other locales.[2] It grows satisfactorily in gardens in the UK climate, remaining in the garden from year to year by self-seeding. The leaves are edible and the plant is grown in gardens for that purpose in some parts of Europe. The plant is also commercially cultivated for borage seed oil extracted from its seeds. The plant contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids, some of which are hepatotoxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic (see below under Phytochemistry).
Pano view of the University of Potsdam where behind it was the New Palace; Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, Germany
Ōnuma Quasi-National Park (大沼 国 定 公園, Ōnuma Kokutei Kōen) is a 90.83 km (35.07 sq mi) national park on the Oshima Peninsula in southwest Hokkaidō, Japan. The park covers the Hokkaidō Komagatake volcano (北海道 駒 ケ 岳, Hokkaidō Koma-ga-take) as well as the Ōnuma (大沼) and Konuma (小 沼) Ponds, which reach the western slopes of the mountain. The park, designated quasi-national in 1958, is the smallest park in Hokkaidō.
Ōnuma and Konuma were created during mudflows due to the Hokkaidō Koma-ga-take eruptions dammed up depressions at the base of the mountain. The ponds, which are filled with watershields, are surrounded by birch and maple forests.
Volubilis (Berber languages: Walili, Arabic: وليلي) is a partly excavated Berber city in Morocco situated near the city of Meknes, and commonly considered as the ancient capital of the kingdom of Mauretania. The archaeological vestiges of this site bear witness to several civilizations. All the phases of its ten centuries of occupation, from prehistory to the Islamic period are represented. The site has produced a substantial amount of artistic material, including mosaics, marble and bronze statuary, and hundreds of inscriptions. This documentation and that which remains to be discovered, is representative of a creative spirit of the human beings who lived there over the ages. The limit of the site is represented by the Roman rampart constructed in 168-169 AD. The features of the site reveal two topographic forms: a relatively flat sloping area in the North-Eastern part, the monumental sector and a part of the sector of the triumphal arch, where the Romans employed an urban hypodamian system, and a rougher hilly area covering the South and Western parts where a terraced plan was adopted. The vestiges bear testimony to diverse periods, from Mauritanian times when it was part of an independent kingdom, to the Roman period when it was a metropolis of the Roman province of Mauritania Tingitana, a period called the « dark ages » with towards the end a Christian era, and finally an Islamic period characterised by the founding of the dynasty of the Idrissids.
The Rialto Bridge is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It was recently completed the repair in 2017. Today, the Bridge is one of the top tourism attractions in Venice. I captured this image at night becuase of less people.
The Smithsonian Institution Building, located near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. behind the National Museum of African Art and the Sackler Gallery, houses the Smithsonian Institution's administrative offices and information center. The building is constructed of Seneca red sandstone in the faux Norman style (a 12th-century combination of late Romanesque and early Gothic motifs; built in the Gothic and Romanesque revival styles) and is nicknamed The Castle. It was completed in 1855 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
The Roseate Spoonbill's (粉紅琵鷺)pink color comes from what it eats -- a naturally occurring carotenoid pigment in the shells of crustaceans. In captivity, Flamingos and Spoonbills require a specially formulated diet to help them retain their distinctive color. Distribution: South America east of the Andes Mountains, coastal regions of Central America, Mexico, and the U.S. Gulf Coast. Habitat: Shallow fresh and coastal waters. Diet: Crustaceans, aquatic insects, small amphibians.
Shiretoko National Park (知床国立公園 Shiretoko Kokuritsu Kōen) covers most of the Shiretoko Peninsula at the northeastern tip of the island of Hokkaidō, Japan. The word "Shiretoko" is derived from an Ainu word "sir etok", meaning "the place where the earth protrudes". Along the way, besides the four marshes of varying sizes, we encountered scattered wet plants (hygrophytes) and alpine plants at late autumn with fall foilage,
A barrier between the ocean and inland water to form Tairua Harbour.
Looking farther, you'll see Slipper (left), but Penguin and Rabbit Islands were hiding behind the mountain at right. The image was captured from Mount Paku.