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  • Junks cluster on Ha Long Bay

    Photo by Tim Nafziger, 9 July 2008

    From one of the caves looking down on docked junks.

  • Russian subway

    Photo by Gijs Bekenkamp, 2 January 2008

    In case of a bombthreat Russians use their Metro-system as a hiding place. To make it safer they've build the system very deep underground.

  • Hill of Crosses (3)

    Photo by Gijs Bekenkamp, 31 December 2007

    Between Klaipeda and Vilnius there lays the 'Mecca of Lithuania', the hill of crosses. Attempts to detroy the pilgrimage spot proved the hill of crosses indestructable.

  • Ile de Goree (4)

    Photo by Gijs Bekenkamp, 27 December 2007

    to Ile de Goree, an island about three kilometres from the coast of Dakar. This small volcanic rock is inhabited by 1200 people.

  • Coober Pedy, underground Hostel

    Photo by Gijs Bekenkamp, 28 December 2007

    The opal capital of the world. Half of the population of this town lives underground in dugout caves.

  • Uyuni, traincemetery (6)

    Photo by Gijs Bekenkamp, 11 December 2007

    Located just north of the salt flat, Salar de Uyuni, lays a Train cemetery.

    Out there in the arid and dry plane lies the final resting place of a good dozen steam engines, most of which must be a good hundred years old as well as probably some fifty wagons of all kind of types.

  • Machu Picchu, Peru

    Photo by Gijs Bekenkamp, 12 November 2007

    Looking down at Machu Picchu.

    When we arrived at the popular travel destination we saw nothing at all.

  • Chellah

    Photo by Natalie Franco, 4 April 2008

    Inside the oldest ruins in Rabat (capital), Morocco.

  • Demolition City

    Photo by Natalie Franco, 4 June 2008

    A demolition in progress on the side of an isolated road at midnight in the "City of Angeles."
    LA, California

  • Anthropomorphic Invasion

    Photo by Natalie Franco, 27 April 2008

    Palmdale is located northeast of the Los Angeles County in California. It is considered the first and largest city built within the Antelope Valley.