counting not just the destination‚ but also the journey as important. I’ll always remember gazing out from a small propeller plane as I left the Peruvian Amazon behind me on my way to Cuzco. The bark-colored water lay in lazy loops among the lush emerald forest like a monstrous serpent. Ahead‚ the Andes formed a snow-capped wall. I don’t think there will ever be a movie that will make me feel like I did at that moment. Traveling on an airplane never fails to amaze me. Well‚ that is if I manage to get
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metal on metal rings through the soft forest I find myself in. Slime spews out of the centipede and covers my shirt‚ but I power on shoving my sword through its gut. It slowly begins to turn to dust. Out of its eye sockets‚ two slime green orbs fall. Upon touching my sword they glow brightly and begin to melt into my sword. A new large vein of green intertwines with the old fire red veins of my sword. Slowly it begins to shake. A new item composed of a green emerald beset into a silvery red arm guard
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The Western Ghats or the Sahyādri constitute a mountain range along the western side of India. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the eight hottest hotspots of biological diversity in the world. It is sometimes called the Great Escarpment of India. The range runs north to south along the western edge of the Deccan Plateau‚ and separates the plateau from a narrow coastal plain along the Arabian Sea. The range starts near the border of Gujarat and Maharashtra‚ south of the Tapti river
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de Dios River‚ a tributary of the mighty Amazon. It’s a 40 minute boat ride from the busy town of Puerto Maldonado and a great place for watching wildlife. Even on the way there we saw a caiman (a type of crocodile) basking near the shore and an emerald cloud of parakeets clinging to a muddy salt-lick beside the water. There are 35 comfortable wooden cabins (cabañas) with palm roofs and tiled showers‚ set in a clearing beside a central lodge/restaurant. It’s the jungle without discomfort. For many
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included communal consumption chicha‚ singing and dancing. Another practice was they put fences around the chiefs‚ in order to return to the world before they reach the conquerors‚ In addition to used sacred lagoons and forest sacrifices for the burial of offerings of emeralds and gold artifacts. The offerings of the Muiscas community were used as a way to communicate with gods and ask for favors‚ this partly came about through coca as they could
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Cats. The first thing that comes to a person’s mind would be the cute little cuddly furballs that we can cosy up to. Not forgetting How they look at us with their majestic eyes that gleams like emeralds while purring softly and the cuteness overload when their lick their fur to clean themselves. Cats are naturally stereotyped to be domestic pets that one can keep at home and play with. However‚ Not all cats are like that. There is a species of cats known as the jungle cats which are a drastic opposite
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Hence it is God’s own country full of worship places! #3 Nestled between the pristine waters of the Arabian sea on the west and the lush Western Ghat mountains on the east‚ its intense network of rivers and lagoons‚ thick forests‚ exotic wildlife‚ tranquil stretches of emerald backwaters and a long shoreline of serene beaches make it a traveler’s paradise. God’s own country! Paradire Kerala is called ’god’s own country’ not because of some feature or nature as such. It is called so because it is
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STATE SYMBOLS OF TAMILNADU NON-TECHNICAL PRESENTATION GOVERNMENT TAMILNADU SEAL: The emblem of Tamil Nadu contains the tower or gopuram of the popular Srivilliputhur Andal Temple at the center in yellow colour. The base consists of the Indian emblem (Sarnath Lion Capital) at the center in red colour with the Indian flag on both sides.The emblem also has 2 inscriptions in Tamil script‚ one at the top ("Thamizh Naadu Arasu" which translates to Government of Tamil Nadu) and other
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Cuauhtemoc the cat sprinted alongside the Spirit of the forest‚ and his tail flapped behind him like a flag. Occasionally he would stumble--not just because the ground was uneven but because things kept erupting out of it. A fleet of deer‚ a flight of squirrels‚ mounds of loamy soil‚ mazes of dewy grass‚ a kitten crying out at the first light of the sun‚ a lion exulting over a meal. All the while‚ a chorus of golden birds followed them and sang a dizzy tune to the beat of their Mother. The Spirit
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Cordelia Seals look a lot like dogs but why? This tale starts with Cordelia‚ a young water nymph with has coral pink hair and sky blue eyes. Cordelia loved to explore towns and forests that were on the coast of the Aegean Sea. One day she came across a dog and thought that an animal like that would be a nice pet. Soon after Cordelia got a dog and brought it to the beach and discovered that the dog could not live in water. After releasing the animal the nymph traveled through the ocean to find Poseidon
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