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This Week in Nature
Defensive Structures
European City Breaks
Religious Buildings
Iron Wheels
Inspirations
Most of the posts in this section are part of series. In the following bullet list, the links are to the first post in each series:
- This Week in Nature: The basic four elements of nature
- Defensive Structures: Fortresses and the like
- European City Breaks: 32 cities
- Religious Buildings: Religions all over the world
- Iron Wheels: Trains and other vehicles on rails
If you are looking for regular travelogues, head for the Destinations page. If you want to learn more about the world around us, and how Sandalsand deals with it, look into the other pages in the Specials menu: Writing and publishing and Travelling. Did you know that Sandalsand is on YouTube?
The illustration above is from a flight along the Himalayas.
The world’s documentary heritage
Everyone is familiar with the UNESCO World Heritage List. It has over a thousand places of unprecedented universal cultural or natural value. The...
Intangible cultural heritage, what is it?
It's like a mystery: What part of our cultural heritage is characterised by the representations, the expressions, the knowledge and the skills that...
Nature: Air
This is the last part in my series of photo essays dealing with the classic four elements of nature. The fourth element is Air. It goes without...
Nature: Snow and ice
Snow and ice. This is an article in a series about nature. Water comes in three forms, gas and liquid water are two. This is a look at "stiff"...
Nature: 5 Important Straits
Let us visit 5 important straits. I have been exploring various aspects of nature with regard to the four classic elements. A strait represents a...
Nature: 11 Picturesque Lakes
Let's have a look at 11 picturesque lakes. Lakes come in all sizes and some even contain salt water. This article illustrates and describes some...
Nature: 26 Mighty rivers
Join me and visit 26 mighty rivers This article might be a mistake, because it is going to mention a large number of rivers across almost the entire...
Nature: 9 Fascinating Beaches
I bet you know many beaches. This article is about my selection 9 fascinating beaches. With about 70% percent of the Earth covered by water, there...
Nature: 4 Dramatic waterfalls
Get to know 4 dramatic waterfalls. I am exploring nature in terms of the classic elements of nature. This is a combined water and earth element....
Nature: 7 Active Volcanoes
Here are 7 active volcanoes. Have you seen them? All through the history of mankind fire has fascinated, terrified and calmed us all, and we have...
Nature: 8 Dry Deserts
Have a look at this selection of 8 dry deserts. The Earth's surface is predominantly wet, covered by water. Some areas are on the other hand...
12 more European city breaks
This is a list of 12 more European city breaks. It continues the previous list of 10 European city breaks. The list is purely alphabetical, and you...
Travel quotes
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.