This post is my first post on urban art that I will be featuring in my blog. Periodically, I will be posting on urban art that I have discovered during my travels. Many people think of urban art as graffiti or wall murals but urban art is expressed on many types of media. Funchal is…
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Harrison’s Cave is on the island of Barbados and is a massive stream cave system that is 2.3 Kilometers long. One of the unique things about these caves are that the tour can be taken by an electric tram. This is the most popular way to see the cave and the tram allows visitors to…
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Every day at 5:00 P.M. for the past 23 years, “The Pelican Man” shows up at Kingscote Wharf on Kangaroo Island and so do the pelicans. The pelicans don’t need a clock to tell them when to show up, they just know. About 10 minutes before 5:00 P.M the pelicans start to come to the…
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The Bonnet Macaque is common to the southern part of India and it is characterized by the hair on its head being parted in the middle. The Bonnet Macaque has clumps of hair on top of their heads that looks like they wearing a toupee. The person that named these monkeys thought that they looked…
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The Seine River is one of France’s longest rivers at 485 miles long. The river starts in the Burgundy Regions and it passes through Paris on its way to emptying into the English Channel. The focus of this post is on the portion of the river that pass through Paris. Taking a river boat on…
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The Lesser Adjutant Stork is a large size Freshwater Wetland bird that lives in Southeast Asia. These birds are under stress and their population is in decline. There are currently only two breeding locations, one in northern India and the other in Cambodia. Breeding season is during the dry season from October to June with…
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Ta Prohm is part of the Angkor complex that most people know as Angkor Wat. Ta Prohm is such a small portion of the Angkor complex that it normally would not get much attention but there are two things that made it one of the top points of interest to visitors coming to see the…
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The neighborhood known as the Gothic Quarter in Barcelona is called that because it was previously the Roman Village and still has some remnants from that time. Currently there is a mix of old and new but the feeling of the neighborhood is that of an older era. Probably the most prominent building in the…
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Toronto is the capital city of the Province of Ontario and is on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. It is a major Canadian city with the central business district full of skyscrapers. Toronto has two iconic buildings that make it instantly identifiable from any other city skyline. These buildings are the Rogers Center which…
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Today’s post I am featuring four different species of spiders from around the world that are drastically different from each other. Spiders are in a category of creatures that most people don’t want to see anywhere near them. If we see them in our house or come across them in our path then we try…
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The Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the Moon Festival or the Moon-Cake Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most popular events celebrated by the Singaporean Chinese community. It takes place on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month of the Lunar Year and has been celebrated for more than 1000 years…
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I always enjoy seeing hummingbirds! They are amazing to watch as they are hovering over a flower when they are eating the flower’s nectar. The White-Chested Emerald Hummingbird is a pretty humming bird. The emerald color on its back is bright when it is in the sunlight and the white on its chest makes for…
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