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3008 NETHERLANDS (Aruba) - Green iguana
The green iguana (Iguana iguana) is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana, which ranges over a large geographic area, from southern Brazil and Paraguay as far...
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3009 UNITED STATES (Montana) - Crow Nation
3009 A Crow man named Swallow Bird (1908)The Crow, called the Apsáalooke (children of the large-beaked bird) in their own Siouan language, or variants including Absaroka, are Native Americans, who in...
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2045, 3010 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Miami Beach
3010 Miami Beach - Ocean DrivePosted on 18.11.2015, 04.04.2017One of the most famous coastal resort city in the world, Miami Beach is located on a variety of natural and man-made barrier islands...
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3011 THAILAND (Bangkok) - The ordination of buddhist priesthood in Wat Suthat...
Wat Suthat Thepphaararam is a royal temple of the first grade, one of ten such temples in Bangkok (23 in Thailand). Construction was begun by King Rama I in 1807, and was continued by King Rama II,...
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3012 RUSSIA (Karachay-Cherkess Republic) - Festival of the peoples of the...
The Karachay-Cherkess Republic is a landlocked republic of Russia located at the slopes of northwestern Caucasus. Mountains cover 80% of its territory. The Caucasus is one of the most linguistically...
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3014 BAHAMAS - Junkanoo
Junkanoo is a street parade with music, dance, and costumes of Akan origin in many towns across the Bahamas every Boxing Day (December 26) and New Year's Day (January 1), the same as Kakamotobi or the...
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3015 CHINA (Gansu) - Yumen Pass - part of Silk Roads: the Routes Network of...
3015 The ruin of The Small Fangpa Castle at Yumen PassYumen Pass, or Jade Gate or Pass of the Jade Gate (named for the many jade caravans that passed through it), is a pass of the Great Wall. During...
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3016 NETHERLANDS (Aruba) - An Aruban girl
The culture of Aruba is an amalgamate of the various cultures that have occupied and lived on the island, including indigenous peoples of South America, descendants of African slaves, and Spanish and...
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3017 RUSSIA (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) - Churches of the Smolensk and Vladimir...
3017 Church of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother Of God (in front) and Church of Our Lady of Smolensk (in back) in Nizhny NovgorodThe Stroganovs (the richest businessmen in the Tsardom of Russia from the...
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3018 CHINA - Yao people
The Yao people are one of the 55 officially recognised ethnic minorities in China, and one of the 54 ethnic groups officially recognised by Vietnam (where they are called Dao), but they also live, in...
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3019 NETHERLANDS (Aruba) - Carnival in Aruba
As it is in many Caribbean and Latin American countries, the holiday of Carnival is an important one in Aruba, and goes on for weeks. Its celebration in Aruba started, around the 1950s, influenced by...
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0601, 0602, 1900, 3020 ROMANIA (Hunedoara) - Corvin Castle
0601 Hunedoara - Corvin Castle (1)Posted on 16.04.2013, 17.09.2015, 17.04.2017Located in Hunedoara, on a rock at the foot of which flow Zlaşti creek, a tributary of the Cerna River, Corvin Castle,...
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3021 ROMANIA (Sibiu) - The last Transylvanian saxon in Richiş
3021 Johann Schaas, the last Transylvanian saxon in RichişIn Târnavelor Plateau, at five km from Biertan, one of the emblem-communes of the Sibiu county, with a fortified church inscribed among the...
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2352, 2386, 3022 INDIA - Sādhus
3022 A sādhu at Gangotri, UttaranchalPosted on 06.03.2016, 16.03.2016, 20.04.2017In Hinduism, a sādhu (Sanskrit: good man, holy man) is a religious ascetic or holy person, solely dedicated to achieving...
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3023 INDIA (Odisha) - Sun Temple, Konârak (UNESCO WHS)
3023 One of the two war horses in front of the southern sideof the Sun Temple at Konârak The Sun Temple at Konârak, located on the eastern shores of the Indian subcontinent, at 65km from Bhubaneswar,...
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3024 MALAYSIA (Sabah) - Tun Sakaran Marine Park
3024 Tun Sakaran Marine Park - Aerial view of Bodgaya and Boheydulang islandsLocated off the east coast of Sabah, at the entrance of Darvel Bay, Tun Sakaran Marine Park, also known as Semporna Islands...
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3025 GREECE (South Aegean) - The Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery...
Patmos is one of the northernmost islands of the Dodecanese complex, off the west coast of Turkey, and its main communities are Chorá (the capital city), and Skala, the only commercial port. It is...
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3026 INDONESIA (Lesser Sunda) - Abui people
Also known as Barawahing, Barue or Namatalaki, the Abui are an indigenous ethnic group residing on Alor Island, located through southeastern Indonesia, not far from the northwestern coast of Timor. The...
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1607, 3027 UNITED KINGDOM / AUSTRALIA - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,...
1607 The Duke and Duchess Of Cambridge with their newborn son a day after his birth on 22 July 2013 Posted on 24.05.2015, 26.04.2017Duke of Cambridge is a title which has been conferred upon members of...
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3028 FINLAND - The gates of a barn
Obviously this is the front of a barn. What else would be to said? I searched for information about Finnish barns, based on the idea that they may have something specific, and I discovered that indeed...
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