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(5091 x 4561) The 2010 Mather Point and Grand Canyon Visitor Center improvements created much needed parking at the Grand Canyon Visitor Center, a vehicle-free visitor experience at Mather Point, a new rim-side amphitheater, and many informational and interpretive improvements to the visitor center plaza. Implementation of this plan has resulted in a vastly improved and more intuitive visitor experience. NPS photo by Michael Quinn
A rare total inversion was seen today by visitors to Grand Canyon National Park. This view is from Mather Point on the South Rim. Cloud inversions are formed through the interaction of warm and cold air masses. NPS photo by Erin Whittaker.
For more information about how to plan a trip to Grand Canyon National Park, download our Trip Planner: www.nps.gov/grca/parknews/upload/trip-planner-grca.pdf
The elevating sky bar in Luxembourg City providing panoramic views of Luembourg city. The bar is shown at maximum elevation. www.picfair.com/pics/07063945-sky-bar-luxembourg-city
Sanibel Island is a popular tourist destination in Lee County, Florida known for its shell beaches and wildlife refuges. Print Size 13x19 inches.
Doc Let white sand beach is a perfect destination in tropics for tourists and leisure located 40km north from the city Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam. With white sand beach and crystal clear water.
Cedar Key is a city in Levy County, Florida, United States. The population was 702 at the 2010 census. The Cedar Keys are a cluster of islands near the mainland. Most of the developed area of the city has been on Way Key since the end of the 19th century. The Cedar Keys are named for the Eastern Red Cedar, Juniperus virginiana, once abundant in the area.
The old-fashioned fishing village is now a tourist center with several regionally famous seafood restaurants. The village holds two festivals a year, the Spring Sidewalk Art Festival and the Fall Seafood Festival, that each attract thousands of visitors to the area.
In 1950, Hurricane Easy, a category 3 storm with 125-mile-per-hour (201 km/h) winds, looped around Cedar Key three times before finally making landfall, dumping 38 inches (970 mm) of rain and destroying two-thirds of the homes. Luckily, the storm came ashore at low tide, so the surge was only 5 feet (1.5 m).
Hurricane Elena followed a similar path in 1985, but did not make landfall. Packing 115-mile-per-hour (185 km/h) winds, the storm churned for two days in the Gulf, 50 miles (80 km) to the west, battering the waterfront. All the businesses and restaurants on Dock Street were either damaged or destroyed, and a section of the seawall collapsed.
After a statewide ban on large-scale net fishing went into effect July 1, 1995, a government retraining program helped many local fishermen begin farming clams in the muddy waters. Today Cedar Key's clam-based aquaculture is a multimillion-dollar industry.
A local museum exhibit displays a reproduction of one of the first air conditioning installations. The system, with compressor and fans, was used in Cedar Key to ease the lot of malaria patients.
Cedar Key is home to the George T. Lewis Airport (CDK).
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Small stream coming from Sampuren Efrata waterfalls, located at Sosor Dolok village, Harian Boho, North Sumatra
Tone mapped HDR using Photomatix from 4 exposures.
Shot during recent outing with Dr Jamal , Wan Badang, Dr Ali from Malaysia,
Johnny Siahaan and Dr.Anwar from Medan - North Sumatra.
Perito Moreno Glacier, Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina. (Apr 13, 2014).
I drove out of El Chalten since 3 am to the gate of the park at 7 am, 1 hour before the operating hour. The officer didn't allow any car to enter before 8 am so I spent an hour at the gate talking with a friendly male officer and finishing my breakfast.
There were many viewpoint along the way to the glacier but, in my opinion, the trail at the visitor center was the most stunning where you can see the glacier very close. There were intermittent showers that morning, slow moving cloud and not much tourists so it was perfect to use long exposure shot on the walking trail.
Two boulders and a rising sun making a triangle.
Image cropped to 16:9 for better composition.
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My two visits to Cobh in July were somewhat constrained because it rained most of the time.
Cobh,known from 1850 until the late 1920s as Queenstown, is a tourist seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and is home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal. Tourism in the area draws on the maritime and emigration legacy of the town - including its association with the RMS Titanic.
Facing the town are Spike Island and Haulbowline Island, and on a high point in the town stands St Colman's Cathedral, one of the tallest buildings in Ireland and seat of the diocese of Cloyne.
Just another view of The Guest House at Graceland, this time more focused on the front entrance gate. The place is so big, it was built on the site of another old apartment complex, *and* car dealership! (Honda or Mazda I think it was--not covered in my 2012 series, which is where a large parking lot on the south part of the property is now). Site preparation was shown to be underway (via Google Earth) in an August 2015 view, and this upscale-looking resort/hotel known as The Guest House at Graceland opened in late October 2016.
And here's one last view, just a more pulled back one showing the central part of the hotel. I feel certain Elvis would be proud of (and astonished at) this being built almost right next door (to the north) of Graceland! Yet another satellite view is definitely in order here, just to show the incredible scale of the complex, and how it dwarfs the other touristy hotels on the other side of the road (which won't be covered in this photo series). Heck, even 72 photos (with links to street views of other places) can't even cover everything!
For more views of The Guest House at Graceland (including some interior pics), start here (with a nice, Christmas Eve 2016 night view), and scroll right.
The Red Deer River and the Horsethief Canyon as seen from the Orkney Viewpoint on the Dinosaur Trail, Alberta.
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Monunent Valley at sunrise, I love the way the sky almost reflects the ground, the mittens nearly reflect each other, and the butte on the right balances the restaurant on the left
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
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Graceland was an ambition realized for me. I checked so many 'must go' places off my list in this one trip. The mansion is only a small part of the Graceland experience, across the road is Graceland the exhibition, which is huge and has 4 full buildings of just Elvis's cars and motorcycles, then there's his army days exhibit and a back stage lot from a film about him plus restaurants and a whole host of other things to see. When visiting you need to allow at least 6 hours and be prepared to get tired legs. I have quite a few images to post of Graceland, but for now here is a starter, the exterior front and the living room. (see next upload).
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Graceland is a mansion on a 13.8-acre estate in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, once owned by the singer and actor Elvis Presley. His daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, has been the owner of Graceland since the passing of her father. It is located at 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard in the vast Whitehaven community, about 9 miles from Downtown and less than 4 miles north of the Mississippi border.
It was opened to the public as a museum on June 7, 1982. The site was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1991 in fact becoming the first site related to rock and roll to be entered therein, and declared a National Historic Landmark on March 27, 2006, also a first for a rock singer. Graceland is the second most-visited house in the U.S. after the White House, with over 650,000 visitors a year
A soldier standing guard at Buckingham Palace.
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Nom : Karl-Theodor Brücke
Noms en français : Pont Karl-Theodor / Pont Vieux
Pays : Allemagne🇩🇪
Land : Bade-Wurtemberg
Ville : Heidelberg (69117)
Fonction : Passerelle piétonne et cycliste
Franchit : Neckar
Construction : 1786 → 1788
Longueur : 200 m
Largeur : 7 m
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Shot during recent outing with Dr Jamal , Wan Badang, Dr Ali from Malaysia,
Johnny Siahaan and Dr.Anwar from Medan - North Sumatra.
Bayside Marketplace is a two-story open-air shopping center located in downtown Miami, Florida. The banks of Biscayne Bay wrap around the property with the City of Miami marina at its side. It is recognized by the Greater Miami Convention & Visitor's Bureau as the number one most visited attraction in Miami. Different from typical shopping malls, Bayside offers an entertainment experience with live music daily, restaurants, bars, open-container policy, family events, and the picturesque settings that come with a waterfront property. Tenancy at the Bayside Marketplace consists of 140 inline spaces, in addition to over 50 carts and kiosks located in and around the center.
The entertainment complex opened during a major real estate boom in Miami. Instead of being planned to revitalize a specific area as its brother properties had, Bayside complements an existing marina. The shopping center was frequently featured on the crime drama TV series, Miami Vice.
The center attracts many tourists all year long. It is served by the Metrorail at the Government Center, and directly by the Metromover at College/Bayside station.
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The Incas built the estate around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Since then, Machu Picchu has become an important tourist attraction.
Location: River Great Ouse, Eaton Socon, St Neots, Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), England.
St Neots is an ancient parish, with visiting pilgrims bringing prosperity to the Town, the Normans having rebuilt the Priory in the early 1100's. It was given a Market Charter in 1130 and today it is still a thriving market town.
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The Fremont River, in its infancy, flows down from the Wasatch Plateau above Torrey Utah and Capitol Reef National Park.
Location: The Ghent-Ostend Canal, Bruges (Brugge), Belgium.
The Mayflower Lightship was built in 1883 as Lichtschip Nr.3 by the Rijkswerf (State Shipyard) in Amsterdam for the Dutch Government. It was refitted in 1925 and renamed Haaks. Today it is a popular Bar/Restaurant.
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My two visits to Cobh in July were somewhat constrained because it rained most of the time.
Cobh,known from 1850 until the late 1920s as Queenstown, is a tourist seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and is home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal. Tourism in the area draws on the maritime and emigration legacy of the town - including its association with the RMS Titanic.
Facing the town are Spike Island and Haulbowline Island, and on a high point in the town stands St Colman's Cathedral, one of the tallest buildings in Ireland and seat of the diocese of Cloyne.
Right on a hill at the left bank of Indus River, by the city of Rohri, the graves of seven sisters exist. Different hearsay stories prevail for this historical sight and according to the legend the seven women came with the convoy of Muhammad Bin Qasim and set to live on the hill. The ruler of the time set his unholy sights on them, the women were unmarried and scared to protect their honor prayed to God to save them and they were sucked inside the earth, the place they were kneeled praying, as the tale goes.
The women come over the place to offer prayers, as to get their wish accomplished, from the far flung areas of country.
The tombs over the hill are dated to 1018 AD.
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Established in the 16th century, Vigan is the best-preserved example of a planned Spanish colonial town in Asia. Its architecture reflects the coming together of cultural elements from elsewhere in the Philippines, from China and from Europe, resulting in a culture and townscape that have no parallel anywhere in East and South-East Asia. Source
Built on a large cliff overlooking the sea, the colourful homes of Manarola are particularly picturesque.
Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. In recent years, Manarola and its neighboring towns have become popular tourist destinations. Mostly all of the houses are bright and colourful.