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0954, 0955 UNITED STATES (Arizona) - Grand Canyon Railway
The Grand Canyon Railway (GCR) is a 103km-long passenger railroad, which operates between Williams (Arizona) and Grand Canyon National Park South Rim. The first train arrived to Grand Canyon on...
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0956 BRAZIL (Mato Grosso) - The female ritual of Yamurikumã
When the Portuguese arrived in South America in the 16th century, Brazil was inhabited by an estimated 2.4 million Amerindians, of more than 2,000 nations and tribes. Massacres, slavery and diseases...
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0957 FRANCE (Rhône-Alpes) - Dombes
The Dombes is an area in South-Eastern France, bounded by the rivers Saône, Rhône, and Ain, which forms an undulating plateau with a slight slope towards the north-west. Due to the fact that is...
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0958 AUSTRALIA (Western Australia) - Drosera lowriei
As is well known, Australia is full of endemic species of plants and animals, because of the continent's long geographic isolation, tectonic stability, and the effects of an unusual pattern of climate...
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0959, 0960 SPAIN (Andalusia) - Cathedral, Alcázar and General Archive of the...
Situated in the fertile valley of the Guadalquivir, on the both banks of the river, Seville is approximately 2,200 years old, and the passage of the various civilisations has left it with a distinct...
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0961 GERMANY (Hesse) - Express locomotive 01 523 in 1965 in Bebra station
The DR Class 01.5 was the designation given by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in East Germany to express train locomotives that were reconstructed from DRG Class 01, the first standardised...
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0962 VIETNAM (Mekong Delta) - An Thoi fishing village in Phú Quốc island
Located in the Gulf of Thailand, just 12km south of the (now) Cambodian coast, the mountainous and densely forested island Phú Quốc (known as Koh Trol in Khmer) now belongs to Vietnam, but was and is a...
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0963, 0964 ITALY (Sicily) - Map and flag of the island
Located in the extension of the tip of the Apennine peninsula, from which is separated only by the narrow Strait of Messina, Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Its terrain is mostly...
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0965 CHINA (Shaanxi) - Inside the Yellow Earth
In China, the Yellow Earth usually refers to the Loess Plateau (also known as the Huangtu Plateau), located in the country's northern part, on the upper and middle reaches of Yellow River (which in...
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0966 RUSSIA (Krasnoyarsk Krai) - Putorana Plateau (UNESCO WHS)
The Putorana Plateau is a high-lying basalt plateau, a mountainous area at the northwestern edge of the Central Siberian Plateau, to the south from Taymyr Peninsula. It is composed of Siberian Traps,...
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0967 BELARUS (Mogilev) - St. Nicholas Monastery Complex in the city of...
Located in eastern Belarus, at about 76km from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and 105km from the border with Russia's Bryansk Oblast, Mogilev (also spelled Mahilyow) is a city with a long...
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0968 UNITED STATES (Kentucky) - Fort Knox
Fort Knox is a U.S. Army post which occupy an area of 441 km.sq and currently holds the Army human resources Center of Excellence, being also one of only three Army posts (along with Fort Campbell,...
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0969 CZECH REPUBLIC (Central Bohemia) - Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre...
The town of Kutná Hora began in 1142 with the settlement of the first Cistercian monastery in Bohemia, Sedlec Monastery, on whose property German miners began to mine for silver in 13th century. The...
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0970 BELARUS (Minsk City) - Trinity Suburb
Located on left bank of the Svisloch River, on the Trinity Hill, Minsk’s old town, more commonly known as Troitskoe Predmestye (Trinity Suburb) after the former Trinity Church that once stood in the...
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0971 AUSTRIA (Salzburg) - The hotel on the peak Schafberg
Situated within the Salzkammergut mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps, the Schafberg (1783m) rises at the shore of the lake Wolfgang (538m above sea level). In the town of Sankt Wolfgang...
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0972 UKRAINE (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) - Ancient City of Tauric...
Chersonesus is an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago, by settlers from Heraclea Pontica, on the shore of the Black Sea (now in a Sevastopol's suburb), in the southwestern part...
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0973 UNITED STATES (New York) - St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City
The Cathedral of St. Patrick is prominent landmark of New York City, located on the east side of Fifth Avenue, between 50th and 51st Streets in midtown Manhattan, across the street from Rockefeller...
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0363 SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS - Wandering Albatross
Posted on 20.10.2012, and completed on 19.01.2014"Leo Terram Propriam Protegat", that mean "Let the Lion protect his own land", is the motto of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI)....
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0974 SINGAPORE - Supertrees in Gardens by the Bay
Gardens by the Bay is a park found on reclaimed land in central Singapore, adjacent to the Marina Reservoir, which consists of three waterfront gardens: Bay South Garden, Bay East Garden and Bay...
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0975 NEW ZEALAND - Map and flag
Located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, at 1,500km east of Australia, New Zealand (Aotearoa in Māori) comprises two main landmasses - the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and the South Island (Te...
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