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Grenada - Andalucía
Grenada / Alhambra Palace
The beautiful terracotta colours of Grenada city, settled in the hills displays astonishingly elaborated Moorish architecture, with terraces and roofs hang over each other. Stones, marbles and brick create carpets of patterns that are layered over the city. These carpets meander from the palace and the top of the hill, down along the neighbourhoods and small stone bridges, and into the old town quarter, bussing with live in the worm summer evenings.
The Alhambra palace itself is an example of how some of the most beautiful gardens are result of a beautiful architectural design with only hedge painting and and water features that are seemingly flowing in the place.
Queensland Tropical Coast & Rain Forest - Australia
tropical Coast / Australia
The Wet Tropics of Queensland displays the sumptuous colours of orchids, epiphytic ferns, tree ferns and palms all along the cost. The is beaming with wild life, exotic birds and rear native spices as the flying fox bat.
The magnificent ancient rain forest in the hills has trees that continue living today as descendants of the ancient Gondwanan fossil species, which are one of the Eucalypts' fossil ancestors. With the entering of the rain forest the climate changes to cooler and wetter, a much needed escape from the heat. The rain forest has it's own micro climate, and this explains why the grand Eucalyptus trees sustains without deep roots and deep soil. The root system is exposed above the ground, but thrive in the wet climate. The base underneath the soil is gravelly and rocky, and the soil itself thin, but the constantly humite and worm climate all year round, with no frost, cares organic matter quickly, when fallen leaves and twigs decompose.
Rain Forest / Australia
Because of the dense vegetation, the trees grow to a grand length, competing for light.
The Fan Palm Rainforest, at Cape Tribulation.
Fan Palm is native for the Daintree Rainforest, at Cape Tribulation. Exceptionally beautiful tree, that has such tough stem, that it can not be cut by saw and the native population has a technic of burning the root if it has to be removed. Walking in the forest, we can occasionally see droppings from a cassowary. Thea are flightless and the fruits of tropical rainforest plants represent 98% of their diet. Endangered, they can be seen only in the North-Eastern Australia, also Guinea, the Aru Islands. Salt water crocodiles are as well present in the revers estuaries.
One of my favourite experiences in Australia was having this quite creature hanging opposite me all night at dinner, in the stunning town resort of Noosa Heads. The Fling Fox Bat are a fruit bat and have become one of the many exotic urban animals in Australia.
Arizona & the West Coast of America
Arizona
Vistas of blue sky and endless horizon, with the gravel desert reflecting in the sun.
In the American desert of Arizona and Nevada, the feel of vast open spaces is captivating. Rocky and stone formations are the only rising from the ground objects, and look sculptured in appearance.
The West coast / America
The Joshua Tree Forest / Arizona
The Getty Museum Gardens and Roof Gardens
