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Maxito Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 Few Pics of my trip to the Serengeti couple of years ago. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Just got back from Peru. I'll post a few of my photos. View from our hotel room in Miraflores, Lima: Old town square in LIma: View of the Sacred Valley on our drive from Cusco to Pisac: 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Guinea Pigs in a house in Ollantaytambo: The dinner (cuy) they would later become: 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 View of and from the Incan Sun temple at Ollantaytambo: 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 A cliffside hotel you can stay at on the road to Ollantaytambo. You have to climb up to your room and they deliver meals to you there. You rappel to get down A pulled back view for some perspective of how high the rooms are: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Ladies, and one of their children that gave us a weaving demonstration (how they make the dyes is really interesting): Some local flora: 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Some pics of Machupicchu (it was cloudy and foggy up high when we were there so not a lot of pictures of some of the spectacular vistas you might ordinarily see). It was still amazing nonetheless. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Some fauna in and around Machupicchu: Llama: Coati seen wandering by our hotel at breakfast: Hummingbird: More llamas: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 They were having a celebration in a little town where our train stopped in this is the bullfighting ring they have where one would later occur (we did not stay to watch). Their bullfighting is different than Spanish bullfighting and none of the bulls are harmed or killed. View (complete with rainbow) from the train ride back from Macchupicchu: Church of the Society of Jesus on one side of the Plaza de Armas in Cusco: Cusco Cathedral on another side of the Plaza de Armas (we went in but weren't allowed to take pictures inside). It had an altar of solid silver the Spanish made from looted Incan silver which weighs over 2 tons. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Views on the drive from Cusco to Puno: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 View from our hotel room of the sunrise over Lake Titicaca (highest navigable lake at 12,500 ft above sea level): Some of the Uros people who live on floating islands they make from reeds on Lake Titicaca: View looking towards Bolivia from Isla Taquile in Lake Titicaca: Laguna Umayo (slightly higher elevation than Lake Titicaca, but considered non-navigable - view from SIllustani): View of Lagunillas (altitude 13,900 ft - view is from 14,500 ft). Lake is only a couple of feet deep. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 The train ride from Cusco along the Urubamba is one most amazing rides I've ever been on. The bus ride from the station to the hotel at Machu Picchu was absolutely the scariest. This was back in the 70's so I'm wondering if they've improved it some. Awesome pics! Brought me back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 22 minutes ago, The 12th Commandment said: The train ride from Cusco along the Urubamba is one most amazing rides I've ever been on. The bus ride from the station to the hotel at Machu Picchu was absolutely the scariest. This was back in the 70's so I'm wondering if they've improved it some. Awesome pics! Brought me back. They bus ride to Machupicchu is still on a dirt road but they have put cobblestones on all the curves so the buses don't make ruts in the mud, especially during the rainy season. We were there in the dry season although it did rain overnight while we were there. Going now was also better because before the pandemic Machupicchu was seeing over 8,000 visitors a day. Now they are only seeing 3,500 visitors a day. Also, what you can see and where you can got there has changed and will continue to change and be restricted more and more and they try to minimize the impact of so many visitors on the site. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadySkinsFan Posted June 10, 2022 Author Share Posted June 10, 2022 Beautiful photos! I love to see travel photos of places I'd like to go but can't. So enjoyable! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 West Texas storm chaser Laura Rowe captured the picture of a lifetime, fantastic shot of a mature supercell thunderstorm, illuminated at varying heights from the setting sun. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 (edited) Male roufus showed up at the feeder yesterday and he's making life hell on the sedate black chin family that's been using it all summer. Like a gangster moved into their suburban neighborhood. Mine! Edited August 6, 2022 by The 12th Commandment 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 A Nikon photo competition shows us what an ant's face looks like up close, and it's straight out of a horror movie 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadySkinsFan Posted October 22, 2022 Author Share Posted October 22, 2022 (edited) Goodness! A scientist with the same last name as mine has a species ant family named after him. Felix Santschi (1 December 1872 – 20 November 1940) was a Swiss entomologist known for discovering that ants use the sun as a compass and for describing about 2000 taxa of ants.[1] Santschi is known for his pioneering work on the navigational abilities of ants. In one experiment, he investigated the way harvester ants used the sky to navigate.[2] He found that as long as even a small patch of sky was visible, the ants could return directly to the nest after gathering food. However, when the sky was completely hidden, they lost their sense of direction and began moving haphazardly. Some seventy years later it was shown that ants are guided by the polarization of light.[3] A new species of the ant genus Lepisiota Santschi, 1926 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Thailand. Lepisiota Santschi, 1926 is one of the large ant genera, currently comprising 94 species and 44 subspecies. It belongs to the subfamily Formicinae and is distributed in the Old World. A new species, L. chutimae sp. n., is described here from Nakhon Ratchasima Province based on the worker and queen castes. The type series of the new species was collected from a shrub tree at about 3 m above the ground in a primary dry evergreen forest at altitude 250 m. Holotype worker Paratype queen Edited October 22, 2022 by LadySkinsFan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 A storm above a lavender field in Provence, France. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 From a shoot last week. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 West Maui sunset tonight. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadySkinsFan Posted December 11, 2022 Author Share Posted December 11, 2022 My favorite place! I was lucky to visit Maui three times. Spent most of my time on West Maui. Beautiful place. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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