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It is difficult to realize but the majestic beauty of this place, its forested shores surmounted by the jagged, snow-clad peaks of the Barguzin mountains, is in winter when the lake freezes over, the ice gets so thick that the Trans-Siberian Railway was briefly run over its surface.
Lake BaikalSiberia
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On the banks the millet, with its thousand plumes, stay out like a rich entablature of gold, supported by the glowing shaft that the sun send deep down into the softly bright placid water.
Straits of MalaccaMalaysia#02
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A rare and beautiful azure-blue mineral occurring only in few places around the world. One of this is the westernmost and smallest of Canada’s territories. Lazulite derives from the term “Lazaward” which means “heaven” in Arabic, alluding to its crystalline blue color.
Rapid Creek, YukonCanada#79
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He appears on the steps to the Ganges. It is afternoon and he is dressed like a holy man in reddish saffron robes. He as a beatific smile on his face. He definitely is a saddhu and looks like he is quite close to nirvana.
Benares India
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The view of the Nile from here is truly grand, the opalescent hues of green, in shallow depths, becomes transparent and reminds of the calming color of the deep sea.
AswanEgypt
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N A S T R O N U D O It is a special event every night. Deliberately scenic. From the Sunset Serenade Point, a little after 9 pm the sun makes a quick and sudden slope down and it really starts glaring and reflecting off.
Oia Village, Santorini IslandGreece
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One may feel the flavor of blackberry, cassis and roasted espresso. A bright shade of red. Rich. Dense and intense. One can even envision the green vineyards bordered by the Loire.
Burgundy RegionFrance
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Each year, millions of monarch butterflies migrate from Canada and United States to winter in the forest of central Mexico. Along their way they cross-pollinate thousands of plants, including numerous cacti species. Among these cacti, between late April and June, blossoms the hummingbird-attracting Echinocereus coccineus.
Chihuahuan DesertMexico
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As dark a black as possible, jet has been used as a gemstone from the reign of Queen Victoria up to the American Roaring Twenties when long necklaces of jet beads became very popular.
WhitbyEngland
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It happens in autumn. Huge flocks of swans fly down the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the Unites States. Migration has started. Lake Erie’s shores host one of their preferred pit-stops. Hundreds of white swans, in a multitude, add lightness all around.
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It is an intuitive contemplation. It may happen in any situation. It’s a split second of inspiration. And it happens accidentally, as it reflects a mental experience.
ChengduChina
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N A S T R O N U D O A dune is illuminated, the side facing the sun refulgent in shades of perfect orange. As the sun creeps higher, the land becomes a tawny sea of sand, a million ripples on each dune. It is a remote territory, an unpeopled world.
Sossousvlei DesertNamibia
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One may look up at the sky and say, “Hey, that cloud looks like a dragon!”. Thick, luminous vapor, even solid in its appearance, the dragon-like cloud calls for rain wherever in the world.
From 0 to up 6,500 feet above sea level
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The “first of the season” is always delicious. Sweet. Juicy. One can assert an orange is just an orange. But a tangerine is not an orange. Indeed, it has a brilliant orange color inside.
TangierStrait of Gibraltar
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It is absolutely impossible to walk through the pastel-colored walkway of wisteria flowers tunnel at the Kawachi Fuji Garden without thinking that fairy princesses probably exixts.
KitakyushuJapan
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They are tiny and live on cactus plant, usually the prickly pear cactus. And they use to eat the red cactus berries and store the color in their bodies. These little cochineals are at the origin of this pure form of carmine red.
Peru
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N A S T R O N U D O In the haze of an early Sicilian morning, looking from the hill of the Monreale’s cathedral, one may imagine how once the valley visible beyond must have been indeed as beautiful a paradise as any on Earth: a vast land of scented lemon trees.
Monreale – PalermoItaly
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Etiquette, elegance and tradition epitomize every single event all year round. It still is the playground of some of the richest people in the world. And everything here reflects that, testimony of the unique and elitist position on the international scene.
Monte Carlo Principality of Monaco
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It has been for long the subject of scientific intrigue after it was described in one Icelandic saga as a magical gem which, when held up to the sky, it would reveal the position of the sun even before dawn or after sunset. Reality is not less intriguing.
TvedestrandNorway
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If one wear a Highland costume be sure that – no matter the gender – he/she will wear as well a brooch in smoky rock crystal. It is, in fact, the favorite ornamental stone in Scotland.
CairngormScotland
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N A S T R O N U D O This part of the world is the deepest of the world’s oceans. And if someone were to ask what is the color of the ocean, chances are that one would answer that it is blue. In fact, the more deep the water, the more blue the ocean.
Mariana IslandsMariana Trench
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One has to travel upriver to finally find the exact place from which waters get their original color of the sky. Local saying explains: “when God finished painting the sky, He washed His brushes in Rio Celeste”.
Celeste RiverCosta Rica
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N A S T R O N U D O Along with henna, it has been part of the beauty regimens of women since the dawn of history. Mesdemet for the ancient Egyptian, kohl or kajal throughout the Middle East and India, and surma in Pakistan it represents an unbroken connection with the past.
India
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N A S T R O N U D O Elegantly gracing the old stone terrace houses in the central suburbs of the town, branches are completely smothered in flowers, a mixture of light lavender, whitened pink.
WellingtonNew Zealand
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N A S T R O N U D O It seems to have a mind on its own. It even seems to move smoothly and swiftly. It may brighten like a far distant star or be a brilliant source that illuminated the white sand beaches facing the Baltic Sea at night.
Island of GotlandSweden
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N A S T R O N U D O The room is completely decorated by amber panels backed with gold leafs. Catherine The Great look at herself on a mirror. She slightly smiles. Indeed the Amber Room here at the Palace of Tsarskoye Selo is a singular beauty.
Saint PetersburgRussia
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The sound is the same of a waterfall. While crossing a bridge beside a multitude of orange-robed monks, the wash of noise becomes louder, more crystalline. That sound is the clack and rattle of hundreds of thousands of precious jade stones in the world’s largest jade market: Mandalay.
MandalayMyanmar
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N A S T R O N U D O Not all white are all the same. Naturally pure white is colored silver. Naturally pure is the element. And naturally rare. It can takes years to find even the smallest quantity. Even longer to extract it. Unlocking platinum from deep below the Earth’s surface is the start of the story. Because after that, the sky is the limit.
TumelaSouth Africa
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Born as Gabrielle Bonheur, it was during a brief stint as a singer in cafés that she adopted the name Coco.“Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.” – Coco Chanel
Auvergne France
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It is said to have been invented by millers in Rode, Somerset, a consortium of which won a competition to make a dress for the British queen, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. A splendid, even and saturated pure blue which exceptional clarity that recalls more the rare Imperial Blue diamond.
MacentaGuinea
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N A S T R O N U D O The forest is as dangerous as enchanting. The breeze of a butterfly’s wings fanning the air is a sudden encounter: exquisite in its slight sapphire iridescence and its gossamer delicateness.
Rain ForestBrazil
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The whirring is soft, like rain. One butterfly flutters by, and then another and another. Dozens of marbled white wings float past, their shadow dancing. One can only think that encapsulated in those wings there are tales of long flights.
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