Cambodia
2010
Rainbow bee-eater
Manta Ray
New Zealand
White StiltNew Zealand: Tasman Glacier and Pukaki lake
Tasman Glacier, the largest of New Zealand, offers to its visitors a beautiful sight. Ice blocks collaps from its southern face, and remain afloat in a dark gray lake. While walking around the lake, these icebergs give us an image of a polar excursion.
The visit will continue up to the Pukaki lake, an attractive place of this glacier valley due to the turquoise color of the water.
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Australia: The Pinnacles Desert
Under your feet, a warm and golden sand…
The surrounding dunes are pierced with thousands limestone arrows . Some measuring almost four meters high, which give the whole place a strange atmosphere, almost surreal.
You are in the Australian Pinnacles Desert …
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Malaysia: Rafflesia, the world’s biggest flower
Rafflesia is a kind of parasitic flower which lives under tropical climate of the Southeast Asia. This genus has 28 species and can measure up to 1 meter in diameter (Rafflesia Arnoldii) and weights up to 10 kg. Even the smaller species, Rafflesia Baletei, has 12 cm diameter flowers. So, Rafflesias, is the world’s largest flower. The species introduced in this article, the Rafflesia Kerri, has a diameter of 50-90 cm.
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New Zealand: Color palette
New Zealand offers to its visitors varied and colorful landscapes. The pure white glaciers rubs turquoise blue or emerald green mountain lakes. An intense geothermal activity that reveals from soil gray mud pools, or sulfured water springs they brings small particles that colors the ground to yellow…
The pictures in this series, issued from a grandiose landscape or a small detail of a curious source, are, therefore, also rich in color.
Cambodia: Norry, the bamboo train
The bamboo train, called “Norry” in Khmer, is an original form of rail transport that can be seen on the railway that crosses through Cambodia. A norry consists of a bamboo tray about 2.5 x 4 meters assembled with two axles similar to heavy weights and powered by a small engine. He runs on the Cambodian railway.
New Zealand: Kauris, Legendary trees
The Kauri (Agathis australis), also called Kaori, is an endemic tree from the family of the conifer that can be found in the northern part of New-Zealand. Kauris exist in New-Zealand for ages. Some fossils had been discovered and have been estimated to 220 millions of years old.
Australia: Uluru / Ayers Rock
Uluṟu is a rock formation located in the heart of Australia, Northern Territory, near Alice Springs. Uluru, and other geological curiosities around (like Mount Olga) is part of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta. The park, covering an area of 1325km² created in 1987, was classified in the same year as a UNESCO Natural Heritage Site world.
Thailand: Diving Andaman sea
The experts may certainly recognize Moray, Manta Ray, Clown fish, Parrotfish, Squid and Cuttlefish, different species of hard and soft corals, and some Shellfishes. Have a good dive!
Portugal: Azores, Sao Miguel waters
Everyone has heard of the Azores … At least during a weather report. 😉 Indeed, an anticyclone is covering the Azores. It acts like a barrier and prevents precipitation to come to West Europe. However, this is synonymous of heavy rains and strong winds to the Azorean population.
It took me a few minutes after getting out of the plane to realize that water is omnipresent in the Azores. Rain, coulees, Hot springs getting out from nowhere, torrents, waterfalls … all in a small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean! You see for yourself on the pictures that I have created, that water is everywhere ! Take a poncho!