Roads full of trucks and camels. See the royal palace, the old observatory and the famous Hawa Mahal (Palace of the Winds). Make a day trip to Amber Fort a few miles away. The Shahpura House Hotel gets good reports. Udaipur A fantastic and beautiful place, built around a lake with a...
I spent 20 days Overlanding in and across the central and western Mongolian plains. We travelled in a big clockwise circle from Ulaanbaatar, through the scorching Gobi Desert to beautiful lakes, forests, canyons and waterfalls, all the while passing vast herds of wild horses, camels, goats, yak...
Zeus, king of the Greek gods, was embodied in larger-than-life form in the Temple at Olympia inancient Greece. Olympia was a sacred site and the location of the Olympic games. The temple represented Greek architecture's fascination with proportion. It was 68 feet (20.7 meters) tall with 7...
Camels are not the most dainty of creatures. Dromedaries are on average six feet tall at the shoulder, rendering cattle fencing no particular obstacle to their movement. By some accounts, camels may not even see small fences and consequently walk straight through them. Groups of camels arriving ...
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Crater Lake National Park in Oregon was formed when a volcanic eruption at Mount Mazama triggered the collapse of a tall peak, forming the deepest lake in the United States. The crater, also known as a caldera, is 5 to 6 miles long and 3,900 feet deep, making it the seventh-deepest ...
can grow to over 40 feet tall and live for up to 150 years in conditions that would kill other plants. This tree-like pillar cactus with arms that shoot out at 90-degree angles before growing vertically, and seen in many western movies of yesteryear, survives and thrives in the arid dese...
After dark deserts are very cold.Not many animals and plants can live in a desert because it doesn't rain very often. But one animal likes the desert — the camel. It has big feet to walk on the sand. It can live for a long time without water. Sometimes it doesn't drink anything...
Huge walls of dust are sometimes called a haboob which means “blown” in Arabic. They form when high winds push out of falling thunderstorms. A haboob can reach 1,500 to 3,000 feet tall and 100 miles wide. Why does humidity make people sweat more? Koldunova Anna // Shutterstock Why ...
Monkeys and camels in Central London. Rice paddies in Whitehall. Shantytowns at Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace. The Thames flooded and frozen. These are some of the ways that Graves and Madoc-Jones imagine the potential impacts of rapid climate change on the British capital as t...