The Awkward Mud Bath at El Totumo Mud Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2015
El Totumo Mud Volcano is located in northern Colombia in the municipality of Santa Catalina, about 50 km northeast of Cartagena. The volcani...
Lauterbrunnen: The Valley of 72 Waterfalls
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2015
Tucked away in the Bernese Oberland of the Swiss Alps, about 70km southeast of Bern, lies the valley of Lauterbrunnen, regarded as one of th...
Hundred Island National Park Philippines
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2015
The Hundred Islands National Park actually consist of 124 separate islands (123 at high tide) scattered in Lingayen Gulf in northern Philipp...
The Lakes of Ubari Sand Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2015
The Ubari Sand Sea is a vast area of towering sand dunes in the Fezzan region of south-western Libya. But 200,000 years ago, this was a wet ...
Ocean Waves Glass Sculptures
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2015
These beautiful glass sculptures depicting ocean waves were made by Paul DeSomma and Marsha Blaker , a husband and wife team, known internat...
The Les Mées Solar Farm in France
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 3, 2015
The Les Mées solar farm is located in the rolling hills of La Colle des Mées plateau, in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in south...
The Last Surviving Chained Libraries
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 2, 2015
Before the printing press made books cheap and easily available, books in the Middle Ages were incredibly scarce and precious. Without a met...
The National 9/11 Memorial Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2015
The National 9/11 Memorial Museum, located at the former site of the World Trade Center in New York, was opened in May 2014 to honor the nea...
Supai: An Isolated Indian Village Inside the Grand Canyon
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2015
Despite being one of the most visited places in the United States, the Grand Canyon area in Arizona, still holds secrets. One of these is th...
Gravity Train as Energy Storage
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2015
Energy grids running on renewable energy sources need storage. The most common way to store energy on a grid scale is through “pumped” hydro...
