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Late afternoon view from the roof terrace of the Asrav Konak. The name oft the village Gzelyurt means

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Farmer court with tuff living space
Brhlovce Village is a popular place for domestic and foreign tourists because of the cliff dwellings, carved into easily processable tuff

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Author: Vincent Cibula

Obec Brhlovce je vyhadvanm miestom domcich a zahraninch turistov kvli skalnm obydliam, vykresanm do ahko spracovatenho tufu a tufitu Cel ulica urda s obytnmi a hospodrskymi priestormi v skale bola v roku 1983 vyhlsen za pamiatkov rezervciu udovej architektry.

Brhlovce Village is a popular place for domestic and foreign tourists because of the cliff dwellings, carved into easily processable tuff

Nevada Rain Storm Photo is a post from: Richard Wong Photography. View our recent Los Angeles pictures and Inland Empire pictures.

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Nevada Rain Storm Photo

The Mirage Volcano is a post from: Richard Wong Photography. View our recent Los Angeles pictures and Inland Empire pictures.

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The Mirage Volcano

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California: Moro Rock, Sequoia National Park, California

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Vista desde el observatorio Top of the Rock en el Rockefeller center manhattan

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Vista norte en el Top of the rock

The Uniqueness of California’s State Parks is a post from: Richard Wong Photography. View our recent Los Angeles pictures and Inland Empire pictures.

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The Uniqueness of Californias State Parks

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The byzantine cave church of Tagar had been cut into the rock in the shape of a cross. The wallpaintings are dated to the 11th century.

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Tagar Cave Church 2, Cappadocia, Turkey

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The byzantine cave church of Tagar had been cut into the rock in the shape of a cross. The wallpaintings are dated to the 11th century.

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Tagar Cave Church, Cappadocia, Turkey

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The Ihlara Valley is a deep canyon, cut into the rock by the small river Melendiz Suyu. Inside the valley is the small river and a lot of greenery. The walls of the valley contain many cave churches, chapels and monastries. Some of them with colourful wallpaintings of different styles. One of the best preserved chapels is the Smbll Kilise (hyzinth church).

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Smbll Kilise, inside, Cappadocia

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The Ihlara Valley is a deep canyon, cut into the rock by the small river Melendiz Suyu. Inside the valley is the small river and a lot of greenery. The walls of the valley contain many cave churches, chapels and monastries. Some of them with colourful wallpaintings of different styles. One of the best preserved chapels is the Smbll Kilise (hyzinth church), which is also a rare example for an architectonic outside.

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Smbll Kilise, outside, Cappadocia

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The Ihlara Valley is a deep canyon, cut into the rock by the small river Melendiz Suyu. Inside the valley is the small river and a lot of greenery. The walls of the valley contain many cave churches, chapels and monastries. Some of them with colourful wallpaintings of different styles. One of the best preserved chapels is the Yilanli Kilise (church with the snake) from the 9th century. The church is named after a heavily damaged painting with snakes sourrounding some sinners.

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Yilanli Kilise – cave church, Ihlara, Cappadocia

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On the stairs down into the Ihlara Valley. This is a deep canyon, cut into the rock by the small river Melendiz Suyu. Inside the valley is the small river and a lot of greenery. The walls of the valley contain many cave churches, chapels and monastries, built from the 10th to the 13th century. Some of them with colourful wallpaintings of different styles.

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Ihlara Valley, Cappadocia

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The Ihlara Valley is a deep canyon, cut into the rock by the small river Melendiz Suyu. Inside the valley is the small river and a lot of greenery. The walls of the valley contain many cave churches, chapels and monastries. Some of them with colourful wallpaintings of different styles. One of the best preserved chapels is the Agacalti Kilisesi (church under the tree) with paintings in the local Cappadocian style.

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Agacalti Church, Ihlara Valley, Cappadocia

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From Trang on mainland to boat excursion, there many bats on the rock and a nice spot for snorkeling…

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Island – Andaman Sea – Thailand

Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia. It lies 335 km (208 mi) south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs; 450 km (280 mi) by road. Kata Tjuta and Uluru are the two major features of the Uluu-Kata Tjua National Park. Uluru is sacred to the Aagu, the Aboriginal people of the area. It has many springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed as a World Heritage Site.

Guest Photographer feature: Discover Uluru – Ayers Rock through Aaron Spence’s Eyes.

“Quality 360panoramas located with online mapping is a match made in heaven.“

Buying an SLR camera in highschool during the late 80s kicked off Aaron’s love for and career in photography. His plummeting grades from a straight A student to a B minus student are testament to the all consuming passion he soon gained for photography. He entered the digital age of photography in 1996 with Photoshop 3.0.5 and a Nikon Coolscan II film scanner. In 2000 after years of computer based design, web, cd-rom, audio, video & photography he finally found the perfect blend of photography & computer imaging..the 360 degree panoramic virtual tour. Since that time, he’s continued working across many fields of digital multimedia while specializing in the shooting and production of panoramic virtual tours. Over the past few years Aaron has done extensive research and development into panoramic photography workflows & systems for batch processing extremely high quality geo-referenced panoramic imagery. The fruit of these years of labor is his Panedia project, containing thousands of panoramas from all over Australia.

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Uluru Sunset Viewing Area

The local Pitjantjatjara people call the landmark Uluu (Aboriginal pronunciation: [uluu]). This word has no further particular meaning in their language, also known as Pitjantjatjara, but it is also used as a local family name by the senior Traditional Owners of Uluru. On 19 July 1873, the surveyor William Gosse sighted the landmark and named it Ayers Rock in honour of the then Chief Secretary of South Australia, Sir Henry Ayers. Since then, both names have been used, although Ayers Rock was the name used by most people. In 1993, a dual naming policy was adopted that allowed official names that consist of both the traditional Aboriginal name and the English name.

On 15 December 1993, it was renamed “Ayers Rock / Uluru” and became the first officially dual-named feature in the Northern Territory. The order of the dual names was officially reversed to “Uluru / Ayers Rock” on 6 November 2002 following a request from the Regional Tourism Association in Alice Springs.

Uluru – Ayers Rock

Uluru is one of Australia’s most recognisable natural icons. The world-renowned sandstone formation stands 348 m (1,142 ft) high (863 m/2,831 ft above sea level) with most of its bulk below the ground, and measures 9.4 km (5.8 mi) in circumference. Both Uluru and Kata Tjuta have great cultural significance for the Aangu Traditional landowners, who led walking tours to inform visitors about the local flora and fauna, bush foods and the Aboriginal dreamtime stories of the area. Uluru is notable for appearing to change colour as the different light strikes it at different times of the day and year, with sunset a particularly remarkable sight when it briefly glows red. Although rainfall is uncommon in this semiarid area, during wet periods the rock acquires a silvery-grey colour, with streaks of black algae forming on the areas that serve as channels for water flow. Kata Tjuta, also called Mount Olga or The Olgas, is another rock formation about 25 km (16 mi) west of Uluru. Special viewing areas with road access and parking have been constructed to give tourists the best views of both sites at dawn and dusk.

Uluru Mutitjulu Waterhole

Uluru is an inselberg, literally “island mountain”, an isolated remnant left after the slow erosion of an original mountain range. Uluru is also often referred to as a monolith, although this is a somewhat ambiguous term that is generally avoided by geologists.

Uluru, Southern Face

The remarkable feature of Uluru is its homogeneity and lack of jointing and parting at bedding surfaces, leading to the lack of development of scree slopes and soil. These characteristics led to its survival, while the surrounding rocks were eroded. For the purpose of mapping and describing the geological history of the area, geologists refer to the rock strata making up Uluru as the Mutitjulu Arkose, and it is one of many sedimentary formations filling the Amadeus Basin.

More panoramas by Aaron Spence of Uluru – Ayers Rock can be seen in Arounder Uluru.

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Uluru Ayers Rock by Guest Photographer Aaron Spence

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Author: Heiner Straesser

The Kizil Kilise (= red Church) had been built in the 6th century. It is the best preserved church in Cappadocia which had not been carved into the rock. It has its modern name from the red stone it’s made of. – You can see the outside in the 360-image “Kizil Kilise – outside”

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Kizil Kilise – inside, Cappadocia, Turkey

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The Kizil Kilise (= red Church) had been built in the 6th century. It is the best preserved church in Cappadocia which had not been carved into the rock. It has its modern name from the red stone it’s made of. – Compare it with “Kizil Kilise – inside”

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Kizil Kilise – outside, Cappadocia, Turkey

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Entrance to the rock-valley of Hasankeyf and stairs up to the citadel.

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Vertikales Panorama einer Felsformation an den ‘Roaches’ im Peak District National Park in der N

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Bet Gabriel-Rufael (The House Of Gabriel And Raphael Or The House Of The Archangels). This church is more difficult to describe in character and situation than the others. Its disorientation and unusual plan suggest that it was originally not intended to serve as a church. Instead, the floor plan is labyrinthine: three angular halls with pillars and pilasters are squeezed between two courtyards. The most impressive part of the church is the monumental facade.
The church is usually entered from the top of the rock near Bet Emanuel in the east, by a small bridge of logs leading over the central trench.
You may also approach from the east by a series of small tunnels, a gallery like passage and another log bridge 10 m, above the courtyard.
The triangular floor of the northern courtyard is enclosed by walls whence, high up, the facade of the church and the gallery opposite can be seen. Down in the courtyard there is a well and an underground cistern. Steps lead down to a subterranean hall of pillars, where the water sinks or rises, according to the dry and rainy seasons.

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Bet Gabriel Rufael, Lalibela, Ethiopia.

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Approaching the most eastern church of this group, Bet Medhane Alem (House of the Redeemer of the World) , you first catch a glimpse of the roof, decorated with relief crosses connected by blind arcades, and the upper part of the solemn colonnade surrounding the church: The roof still shows traces of the plaster remains of the restoration efforts of the early 1930′s. The tuff, from which the church is carved, glows a typical deep pink colour in striking contrast to the brownish-yellow earth and green-leaved trees of the landscape. Standing in the courtyard you face the largest of the rock-hewn churches.
It has been cut free from a block of stone 33.7 m. in length, 23.7 m. in width and 11.5 m. in height. It is a noble structure, standing on its plinth with its pitched roof and surrounding external columns, somewhat reminiscent of ancient Greek temple architecture.

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Interior of Bet Medhane Alem Church, Lalibela, Ethiopia.

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