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The majestic photos in turn, draw more and more tourists to this beautiful rural photographic haven. Photo credit Aside from photographers, Luopings blooming rapeseed flowers and the refreshing smell of spring attract bees. Luoping is a national base for raising bees and producing honey products. The rapeseed farms in Luoping are among the largest scale in China. Spring is also the season for beekeeping and honey processing. Hence most rapeseed farms are also abuzz with bees in the spring and can be a little irritating....

Here is another round of unusual festivals celebrated in October in different parts of the world. This is almost a third of the city population. A metal weight is attached to their underside so that they dont topple over on the way. The duck race is on this Saturday, October 6. Photos credit Oktoberfest Oktoberfest is a celebration of Bavarian beer from Munichs finest breweries. Morepictures of Oktoberfest 2012. The fair attracts hundreds of Rabadi herdsmen who buy and sell many thousands of camels here each year....

Bleduk Kuwu is a crater of mud in Wirosari area in Grobogan Region, Purwodadi, Central Java. For local people, bledug means explosion and kuwu or kuwur means to be scattered. The place has been a tourist destination for decades. People living near this site make money by selling salt to visitors. The salt is harvested from volcanic sediment that is dried in an open field. Visitors can watch the geyser from a distance of between 10 meters and 20 meters....

The 18 lakes is all that remains today. The almost-year-round northeast winds and cloudless skies make for very high evaporation rates. A NASA image taken on November 14, 2009, by the crew of the ISS. The lakes are divided into two groups, 40km apart. This is a hyper saline lake which supports only algae and a few other micro-organisms. The lakes of Ounianga form as exceptional natural landscape of great beauty with striking colours and shapes....

For hisClassroom Portraitsseries, Julian Germain photographed classes all over the world. The detailed colour photographs tell the story of the schools, the pupils and their environment. In this series, Germain reinterprets the traditional class photo in his own, perceptive way. He sets up his camera on the spot where the teacher usually stands, at ‘child height’. By photographing in colour with a large-format camera, Germain captures even the smallest details....

Indianapolis-born and New York City-based photographerDaniel Kuklaspent last March living in Joshua Tree National Park in southern California as part of an artists residency. While hiking and driving, he would catch glimpses of the border where the Sonoran Desert met the high Mojave. In the ecological sciences, the border space created by the meeting of distinct ecosystems is referred to as the edge effect. To document this unique confluence of terrains, Kukla took a large mirror and painters easel into the wilderness and captured opposing elements within the environment....

Mount Nemrut also called Mount Nemrud is one of the most interesting tourist attractions of Turkey. The mountain lies 40 km north of Kahta, near Adyaman. This spectacular structure is made of large slabs of rock to form a pyramid-like configuration. The east and west terraces of this mound are open-air temples. These statues were once seated, with names of each god inscribed on them. The pattern of damage to the heads suggests that they were deliberately damaged because of belief in iconoclasm....

The Horizontal Falls or Horizontal Waterfalls are located in the Talbot Bay in the Kimberley region of western Australia. When the tide changes, so does the direction of the flow. The twin gaps are located on two ridges running parallel approximately 300 meters apart. The process is reversed and it is repeated again in the opposite direction. On a slack tide it is possible to drive boats through the two gaps to the bay behind....

According toSpotCoolStuff.com, however, Cabrio is not the worlds only aerial tram with double-deck cabins. But both have enclosed upper floors. The journey starts in the village of Stans, about a 15-minute car or train ride from downtown Lucerne. Get on this cable car immediately. Its beautiful, worth every penny and a stunning piece of engineering, he added. Sources:Daily Mail,Gondola Project,

If you work out the math, that is 2.62 meters per year, on average. The island doesnt actually move. The name schiermonnikoog is derived from the monks who used to live on the island. “oog” translates as “island”. The name Schiermonnikoog therefore translates as island of the grey monks. Tourism is the main source of income on Schiermonnikoog.

Apart from the geological attractions, examples of petroglyphs or rock paintings are abundant in the area. Many of the rock art represent all kinds of animals that the first inhabitants of the desert had.

Tor is a local word of Celtic origin meaning ‘rock outcropping’ or ‘hill’. This was followed in the early 1100s by a chapel, St Michael de Torre. This was destroyed in a powerful earthquake in 1275 and rebuilt in the early 1300s. The tower is all that remains today. There are many myths and legends associated with the Tor. The Tor came to be represented as an entrance to Annwn or Avalon, the land of the fairies....

Alan Wolfsonhas been creating miniature urban dioramas of grimy New York scenes since the mid-1970s. His intricately detailed scenes feature complex interior views with that takes several months to complete. Wolfson uses wood, cardboard, paper, but mostly plastic to build his models. Wolfson never use a magnifier because he finds them too distracting to work with. If you liked this, you will also love the works ofLori Nix,Matthew AlbaneseandMichael Paul Smith