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The wallabies seemed to have faired fairly well after the recent fires that went right through the area, and they were concentrated on the few grassy areas left unscorched, allowing for plenty of photographic opportunity.
These guys have always been quite common on the grassy, drier sclerophyll-dominated drive up to the park, and they're a real treat every time you drive up there. They're particularly easy to see and get reasonably close to at Cainbable Mountain Lodge, where this shot was taken, which is some 20 minutes before you reach O'Reilly's.
Riomaggiore (Rimazùu in the local Ligurian language) is a village and comune in the province of La Spezia, situated in a small valley in the Liguria region of Italy. It is the first of the Cinque Terre one meets when traveling north from La Spezia.
The village, dating from the early thirteenth century, is known for its historic character and its wine, produced by the town's vineyards. Riomaggiore is in the Riviera di Levante region and has shoreline on the Mediterranean's Gulf of Genoa, with a small beach and a wharf framed by tower houses. Riomaggiore's main street is Via Colombo and numerous restaurants, bars & shops can be found on this street.
The Via dell'Amore is a path connecting Riomaggiore to its frazione Manarola, also part of the Cinque Terre.
Riomaggiore is the most southern village of the five Cinque Terre, all connected by trail. The water and mountainside have been declared national parks.
Riomaggiore (Rimazùu in the local Ligurian language) is a village and comune in the province of La Spezia, situated in a small valley in the Liguria region of Italy. It is the first of the Cinque Terre one meets when traveling north from La Spezia.
The village, dating from the early thirteenth century, is known for its historic character and its wine, produced by the town's vineyards. Riomaggiore is in the Riviera di Levante region and has shoreline on the Mediterranean's Gulf of Genoa, with a small beach and a wharf framed by tower houses. Riomaggiore's main street is Via Colombo and numerous restaurants, bars & shops can be found on this street.
The Via dell'Amore is a path connecting Riomaggiore to its frazione Manarola, also part of the Cinque Terre.
Riomaggiore is the most southern village of the five Cinque Terre, all connected by trail. The water and mountainside have been declared national parks.
The world's first botanical garden was created in Padua in 1545. It still preserves its original layout – a circular central plot, symbolizing the world, surrounded by a ring of water. Other elements were added later, some architectural (ornamental entrances and balustrades) and some practical (pumping installations and greenhouses). It continues to serve its original purpose as a centre for scientific research.
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Built in 2010-2012, this contemporary visitor center replaced an earlier visitor center built on the same site in the 1960s as part of Mission 66.
Napatan statue of 4 baboons from Taharqa Temple at Sanam, early 7th C. BCE. The baboon was admired for its intelligence and was closely associated with Thoth, the god of wisdom, science and measurement. Baboons were usually depicted with their arms raised in worship of the sun and are connected to Divine Consciousness.
Many techniques are used to influence the 'desire line' in order to minimise wear and tear to the grass sward, rest areas and help pinch points to recover. This wooden structure, dubbed locally a 'tank trap', is a simple portable people deflector. The four legs, being sharpened to a point, leave no trace on the ground.
The tank trap is part of a suite of techniques and materials permitted under the aegis of the National Trail's Generic Scheduled Monument Consent.
In the Ice Palace an oversized Snow Globe / The Extension of the natural listing of a United Nations World Heritage property of Jungfrau - Aletsch - Bietschhorn (first inscribed in 2001), expands the site to the east and west, bringing its surface area up to 82,400 ha., up from 53,900. The site provides an outstanding example of the formation of the High Alps, including the most glaciated part of the mountain range and the largest glacier in Eurasia. It features a wide diversity of ecosystems, including successional stages due particularly to the retreat of glaciers resulting from climate change. The site is of outstanding universal value both for its beauty and for the wealth of information it contains about the formation of mountains and glaciers, as well as ongoing climate change. It is also invaluable in terms of the ecological and biological processes it illustrates, notably through plan succession. Its impressive landscape has played an important role in European art, literature, mountaineering and alpine tourism / Jungfraujoch - Top of Europe includes several restaurants and a permanent exhibition about the Jungfrau Railway and the Alps and the Ice Palace ‘s ice sculptures include vaulted rooms, birds, animals, penguins, people, automobiles, furniture, and even a bar. The palace is an amusing novelty and is worth visiting when you're on the Jungfraujoch. It also includes Europe's highest-altitude post office. An older building includes a research station / Jungfraujoch (German: "maiden saddle") is a saddle [the saddle between two hills (or mountains) is the region surrounding the highest point of the lowest point on the line tracing the drainage divide (the col) connecting the peaks] connecting two major 4000ers of the Bernese Alps: the Jungfrau and the Mönch. It lies at an elevation of 3,463 metres (11,362 ft) above sea level and is directly overlooked by the rocky prominence of the Sphinx. The Jungfraujoch is a glacier saddle, on the upper snows of the Aletsch Glacier, and part of the Jungfrau-Aletsch area, situated on the boundary between the cantons of Bern and Valais, halfway between Interlaken and Fiesch. Since 1912, the Jungfraujoch has been accessible to tourists by the Jungfrau line, a railway from Interlaken and Kleine Scheidegg, running partly underground through a tunnel through the Eiger and Mönch. The Jungfraujoch railway station, at an elevation of 3,454 metres (11,332 ft) is the highest in Europe. It lies east of the saddle, below the Sphinx station, and is connected to the Top of Europe building, which includes several panoramic restaurants, shops, exhibitions, and a post office. Several tunnels lead outside, where secured hiking trails on the crevassed glacier can be followed, in particular to the Mönchsjoch Hut. The normal route to the Jungfrau and Mönch starts from there. The Sphinx Observatory, one of the highest astronomical observatories in the world, provides an additional viewing platform at a height of 3,572 metres (11,719 ft), the second-highest in Switzerland. It can be reached by an elevator from the Jungfraujoch. The observatory houses one of the Global Atmosphere Watch's atmospheric research stations. The Jungfraujoch radio relay station, which is not accessible to the public, is installed west of the Jungfraujoch, on the Jungfrau ridge. It is Europe's highest radio relay station
t is surmised that upon visiting China, famous traveler Marco Polo witnessed the Chinese creating colorful figures of animals covered in paper that were strung up with harnesses. These figures were used in celebrations for the New Year. Polo brought the ideas of these early pinatas to Europe.
The temple is approached through an avenue of six pairs of ram statues, similar to the Temple of Amun at Jebel Barkal and at Karnak. The ram statues are made from a particularly hard sandstone and much work and skill have been invested in sculpting the details of the curls of the fleece.
Looking down from the rooftop above the entrance to the Khoja Akhmet Yassawi mausoleum between the two flanking towers
Drive to Ajlun Castle
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These are some of the amazing rock carvings in Petra possibly built by the Nabateans and a prosperous trade hub. You can only imagine now the life of these people during the ancient periods, and what and how they would have been like. Excavations are still ongoing; the true size of this site is still unknown, and more discoveries are still being made.
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Riomaggiore (Rimazùu in the local Ligurian language) is a village and comune in the province of La Spezia, situated in a small valley in the Liguria region of Italy. It is the first of the Cinque Terre one meets when traveling north from La Spezia.
The village, dating from the early thirteenth century, is known for its historic character and its wine, produced by the town's vineyards. Riomaggiore is in the Riviera di Levante region and has shoreline on the Mediterranean's Gulf of Genoa, with a small beach and a wharf framed by tower houses. Riomaggiore's main street is Via Colombo and numerous restaurants, bars & shops can be found on this street.
The Via dell'Amore is a path connecting Riomaggiore to its frazione Manarola, also part of the Cinque Terre.
Riomaggiore is the most southern village of the five Cinque Terre, all connected by trail. The water and mountainside have been declared national parks.
The Sanbutsudo Hall is currently undergoing major renovation works, which are scheduled to last until March 2021. During this period, the temple hall is covered by a huge scaffolding structure, but it remains open to tourists.
Number of World Heritage sites in different continents. From an exhibition at the Naturum exhibition hall.
Despite severely limited funding, protective casings, roofing structures and sand barriers were constructed, restoration measures undertaken and a site museum erected during the 1990s and 2000s. Here intricate Early Meroitic architectural decoration is displayed in a protected environment. This is one of two columns depicting a striding deity (unique to this area) which have been restored.