Much of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa does not resemble a conventional desert, but it certainly provides stunning scenery.
Month: May 2013
Banff Hotel
This hotel looks like it has been photoshopped onto the wide Canadian vista.
However it is real enough and this hotel in Banff, Alberta is a veritable resort.
Banff Springs Hotel can be accessed by rail, and must be one of the most spectacularly located hotels imaginable.
Tungurahua volcano
Active volcanoes can provide some of the most spectacular and most dangerous natural phenomena and the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador is no exception
One World Trade Center, view from above
It’s just been finished, the tallest building in the Americas, One World Trade Center.

Sunrise
This has to be the sunrise of all sunrises, photo from NASA.
Baby lemur
A baby crowned lemur has just been born in captivity in Twycross Zoo, UK.
Saturn Storm
A storm on Saturn is like nothing on Earth. This one is about the size of a continent.
Reinvardts tree frog
No wonder it took a long time before it was discovered, Reinvardt’s tree frog is tiny.
Horsehead nebula
The cataclysmic events in the Horsehead Nebula (as photographed by Hubble) make the Milky Way look like a walk in the park.