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"The world is a book and those who don't travel read only a page." (Saint Augustine)
Looking towards Alaska. At the eastern edge of Chukotka.
In Bolivia, near the Chilean border. Laguna Colorada.
At the Russian czars residence in Tsarskoye Selo.
At Corentyne River on the Suriname & Guyana border.
In the
Lower Valley
of the Omo, close to
the border of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan, live - not always in peace and
friendship - about ten African tribes, with quite distinguished cultures.
Northern Colombia. Several dys lasting trekking to mysterious city of Tayrona Indians leads through tropical rain forestê...
...and rapids of mountains rivers of Sierra Sierra Nevada.
And it's awarded at last! Hidden in the jungle, amazing stairways, heading just from the river to...
...Ciudad Perdida, the marvelous and unique beauty Lost City of Tayrona Indians.
From this perspective - at the stairways of National Museum of Iran In Teheran - the time is joyful and the future seems to be promising. Let's the youthful dreams come true!
In Tel Aviv
Also here, on the steep streets of Kasbah, a unique kind of medina, or Islamic city, the feelings happen to be cheerful, especially if the whole long life is ahead of us.
On the main street of Gudym at Chukotka. In a ghost town which supposedly hadn't even existed. At the time of cold war here was the base of transcontinental nuclear missiles aimed at the USA. And the taxi driver says: "And kakiye zdyes shagaly krasaviye dyevushky!" ("And how beautiful girls had been walking here!!")
Algeria. On Sahara one can still find oasis, where the Berbers continue to live according to their old, traditional way of life.
At the bus station in Venezuela.
And where is Julia?... Under the world most famous balcony in Verona.
Sunrise over Alaska, which is on the very far ...east. Even further than Czukotka. During the cold war the USA western coast had been carefully monitored from here.
Salar de Uyuni in the Bolivian Andes. The unique landscape of the enormous sweet of dried salt lake - spreading out from horizon to horizon.
At the Lao capital - Vientiane - at the Buddhist temple Pha That Luang.
At the market square of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In St. Petersburg
The 80 km long Lena Pillars (Lenskie Stolby), a 35-million-years-old strech of Kimberly limestone, about 200 km south of Yakutsk in East Siberia, are of utmost beauty. So is the Lena river going all the way, over four thousands kilometers, to the Laptev Sea at the Arctic.
Yet of quite different geological formation, actually volcanic rock pillars, but as much beautiful are the "Yenisey stolby", near Krasnoyarsk, in West Siberia, on the banks of the great Yenisey river, going also thousands of kilometers to the Arctic and emptying at the Kara Sea. To climb the pillars is not that easy, yet the panorama seen from the top is awarding the effort.
In Bahrain over 30 percent of population are the immigrants from south Asian countries. There are making their living through hard work, including the fishery, which the local people had given up long time ago..
Not far away, in Qatar, pearl diving is the thing of the past, if not counting some tourists which do scuba diving in the waters of Gulf, called here the Arabian. However, the pearl - the foundation of economy before the discovery of oil some 70 years ago - has deserved her own beautiful monument.
The greatest attraction (UNESCO World Heritage Site) of the gorgeous Kamchatka - the land of fire and ice - is about 200 volcanoes, of which about 30 is still active. It seems that the Creation continues here...
In the
Valley of
the Geysers, at Kamchatka, it roars and grumbles, buzzes and growls,
steams and spouts. There is quite a few such places on the earth where
the nature is so
Time to go...
...and now it's time to enjoy the coconut!
And from time to time one must also visit Washington, DC...
...and Moscow.
Edinburgh. At the monument of Boby, the famous dig, so faithful to his master, that he's become a hero of popular story and Disney movie.
The people of the old Muslim walled city Harar, in east Ethiopia, have had for a long time a unique relations with ...hyenas. These indeed beautiful and nice - yes! - creatures are coming on the evening close to the city walls and there are welcome by the "hyena man", who feeds them. If one wish one may try to do so too...
At the Caucasus.
And at Kamchatka.
The Guam island (GMT +9h) is surrounded by the warm waters of the Philippine Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
The Magellan landing, the place where in 1521, during his circumnavigating world voyage, anchored Ferdinand Magellan. The indigenous people, Chamorro, still count over 37 percent of the population of the Guam island.
At about the same time, e.g. early XVIth century, at the other end of the great water on the west cost of Indian Ocean, the Portuguese discoverers, this time unlike Magellan sailing eastbound, established their post at Ilha de Mocambique. The chapel of Nossa Senhora de Baluarte (at the background) is the oldest structure built by the Europeans in the southern hemisphere.
Guam. The 800 hundred years old Latte Stones are stone pillars of ancient houses notable for their two-piece construction; the supporting column (halagi) topped with a capstone (tasa). The latte is the signature of the Marianas Islands (Guam, Rota, Saipan, Tinian, Pagan), since the most massive ones - up to 4 meters high - are found primarily in the Marianas.
In Andes, on pick-up, with the people from the pueblos...
...and lonely ride on motorbike.
Waiting for an airplane to San Blas Archipelago at the Caribbean cost of Panama...
...and for a ferry to Ile de Goree at the other end of Atlanic Ocean, in Senegal.
On the lake Malawi to disembark, while sailing by the famous Ilala steamer, one has to take an overcrowded cockboat...
In turn, in Japan the most convenient way of traveling is by super express
The failure of a bus engine is always a problem, but especially if it occurs at the desert of Dankalia in Eritrea, probably the most inhospitable place on earth with the temperature reaching 115F!
Quite tranquil is trekking, the more so while surrounded by the green hills of eastern Africa.
Yet there are the place where one can move forward only by the 4WD car, as is the case at the extremely heat African desert close to the border of Djibouti.
At Czukotka one has to travel a lot by the small and rather slow, especially while going up the river, motorboats.
Yet in Tuscany one may drive Ferrari.
Where the cherries and plums trees blossom. At the Osaka castle, built by famous Japanese leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
...and to have a magnificent panoramic view at the lake from historical town of Livingstonia one must climb for the hours the escarpment.
In Swaziland there is still possible to buy more traditional medicaments at the local market than in the modern town pharmacy.
At the one of the nature "seven wonders of the world": the Victoria Falls on Zambezi river between Zimbabwe and Zambia
...and at the Awash Falls in the Awash National Park, Ethiopia...
...and at the world highest (3,212 feet!) waterfall Salto Ángel in the Venezuelan rain forest, in Canaima National Park...
...and at the Kaieteur Falls in the tropical jungle of Guyana, one of the absolutely most beautiful, with world's largest single water drop measuring 741 feet ...
...and at the magnificent Khon Phapheng Falls in Laos...
...and at the Niagara Falls.
Not only beautiful, but also unique is 243 feet high and 266 feet wide Huangguoshu Waterfall in Chinese province of Guizhou. It is perhaps the only waterfall in entire world which can be seen from six perspectives: from the left and the right, from the top and the bottom, from outside...
...and inside.
As much as 97 percent of the Galapagos territory has the status of national park. Thus, the unique tortoises from these islands are entirely safe. However, there is a species doomed for extinction. Its only representative, Lonely George, met on the Pinta island in 1971, is already 90 years or so old and may still live for another couple of dozens years more. Yet when he will die, all subspecies he represents so proudly will be gone for ever.
In several regions of Africa the number of magnificent white rhinos has declined dramatically in the aftermath of poaching. It is a good news therefore that here - in the Zambian reserve on Zambezi - the last two of these beautiful creatures are going to have a baby soon!
Not only Africa is beautiful. So is Amsterdam. Especially at the autumn.
And on the road again... Africa...
Along the Atlantic cost a lot of Wolof people are traditionally involved in fishery.
Barbados. The room with a view... And nobody's calling!
And
balcony with a view... Panorama seen from Arch 22 in the Gambia capital, Banjul.
ATLANTIS submarine. Not yet "20 thousand miles...", but at least a short yet
Where
the lemon tree grows. With a friend from the students days - Peter
Trus -
At the City Wall (muralla) in Avila, Spain. This magnificent structure from XIth and XIIth century is protected as the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage
Dogon country in Mali has been included on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List for its unique village architecture and its nature
Quite different, but still beautiful, are the buildings erected by Fulani, also in Mali
Everybody needs a break! Especially the camel...
In the ancient times the caravans were traveling from Chinquetti (in today's Mauritania) to Timbuktu (in Mali) in 55 days. The short distance to Ouadane can be traveled in some 3 days...
Among the Tuaregs during the journey on a camel through Sahara
Twilight at Barbados
Spitsbergen. Close to the 80th North parallel of latitude, at the gorgeous, blue-green Magdalenefjord. At the background tidewater glacier Lillehookbreen
The great and unique temple of Angkor Wat built in the XII century
Ta Som temple built by Jayavarman VII in 12th century. The magnificent ruins of Angkor, Cambodia, are indeed fascinating
At the eastern cost of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. The inhabitants are extraordinary kind and hospitable...
...and at another end of the global village, in Cambodia...
... and yet another one in Mali... . ...and in Tayrona Indian village in Colombian jungle...
...and one more in Mauritania
And in Mongolia
And at the Panama's coast on the Caribbean Sea, at the Archipielago de San Blas, between Cuna Indians.
And in Dong minority village in Chinese province Guizhou.
Savai'i island, Samoa. The only place on Earth where - looking to the West - one always sees TOMORROW
Ruapehu Vulcano in New Zealand became famous because of the film "Lord of the Rings"
There are only seven Bahia temples in the world. The one in Delhi is shaped after the lotus flower
Next temple shaped after the Lotus flower. This time on Samoa - islands of southern Pacific
On the Chinese Great Wall
In the Tibet's capital, Lhasa, the mighty Buddhists monastery Potala, with the Red Palace --traditional home of each successive Dalai Lamas -- dominates the whole city
The railway station at Vladivostok. The end or the beginning of the great Trans-Siberian Railway?
And in Krasnoyarsk, at the two third of the way to
Moscow, on the longest in
The Baikal Lake is charming during all seasons of the year
Kenia. Morning activities on the Lake Victoria cost - second biggest lake in the world
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Tracking the rare mountain gorillas in a thick tropical jungle, on the borderland of Uganda, Rwanda and Congo, is an unusual life experience. Meeting with this magnificent animals remains in memory for ever
Of course!
Thousands of flamingoes are walking without the rest on the shallows of the Turkana Lake in Kenia
Cordilliera de Lipez, Bolivia. Here, up to 5,000 meters above the sea level, on the shallow waters of colorful salty lakes, as many as three species of flamingo flourish. The biggest - and so beautiful! - are the Andean flamingos (two others are the James and the Chilean).
And not at all any sign of Nessie, the famous monster from Loch Ness in northern Scotland. Yet plenty of rain.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania. For Masays the time runs as if slower...
The May's ruins located in the center of the tropical jungle, in Tikal (Guatemala) fascinate theirs beauty and grandeurity
Tiwanaku still remains mysterious and splendid. What had happened with a civilization that here - at the high Andes, on the shore of today some dozen kilometers retreated bank of the Titicaca lake - already two thousand years ago was able to construct such wonderful monuments?
Isla de Ometepe on the Nicaragua Lake was formed by joining of the two volcanoes. The only one known fresh water shark's species lives there
On the "Silk Track". Registan - the mosque and Muslim seminars in Samarqand in Uzbekistan
The Mystery of Stonehenge still imperf. These stones are here from 5000 years...
...and these ones - in the Hagar Qim temple on Malta - even since 500 more
Lisbona. With Polish TV star and deputy prime minister advisor — Anna Popek
Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Moai figures at Tongariki
Alaska. Winter at Glacier Bay National Park
...and Spitsbergen (Svalbard). Summer at Kongsfjorden.
In New Your with daughter Gabriela
On the September 11th, 2001 the world was shocked by the terrorist attack on America
Washington. With El¿bieta Dzikowska, famous Polish globetrotter and art historian in the builiding of the World Bank
India. In the midst of the Assam tea fields
At the Sheraton Resort in Haikou, on the Hainan island, at the South China Sea...
...but more comfortable at the Phousi guesthouse in Luang Prabang in Laos...
...and - no doubt about that! - still more comfortable at the bed on the road in Ditochi, on the Ethiopian and Djiboutian border. |
