Category: Photos
Snap de la semaine: Pantai Cenang, Langkawi
Pantai Cenang is one of Langkawi’s most popular beaches among tourists and locals. It’s well known not for delightful sunsets and a long soft sand beach great for swimming.
Snap de la semaine: Grand Palace, Bangkok
Kathryn and Daniel will post a ‘Snap de la semaine’ irregulary, but at a rate of one per week. It is an original photo not otherwise on the site—it might be fresh from our camera, a new scan of some old film, a product of our fooling around with Photoshop, or a file from the [...]
Snap de la semaine: Ordination Hall, Bangkok
Built between 1783 and 1785, the Ordination Hall is just one of the many temples within the Grand Palace complex.
Snap de la semaine: The Taj Mahal
Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore once described the Taj Mahal as ‘a teardrop in the face of eternity.’ The principal mausoleum was completed in 1648 and the surrounding buildings and garden were finished five years later.
Snap de la semaine: Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
Ha Long Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a popular travel destination, located in Northern Vietnam, not too far from Hanoi.
Snap de la semaine: Trinity Bight, Newfoundland
An overturned boat in the region of Trinity Bight, Newfoundland. These communities are beautiful—colonial culture brightened by the simple yet buoyant palette of Atlantic colours: the grey sea, the blue sky, the emerald hills.
Snap de la semaine: Street food, Gwangju
In South Korea, food is generally available from street carts during the day, where customers eat standing beside the cart or have their food wrapped up to take home. At night, streets are filled with small tents that sell inexpensive food, drinks and alcohol.
Snap de la semaine: Gros Morne National Park
Gros Morne Park—the long cobble beach, small ponds, and coastal tuckamore provide a pleasant variety of habitats.
Snap de la semaine: Riviera Maya
The Azul Sensatori is situated on more than 1,000 feet of white sand beach that makes up Bahia Petempich, just outside of Puerto Morelos in the Mayan Riviera.
Snap de la semaine: Chichen Itza, Yucatan
A shot of El Castillo, the most famous of the ruins of Chichen Itza—a site, built by the Maya civilization and located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in present-day Mexico.
Snap de la semaine: Insadong, Seoul
In the market on Insadong-gil, a street which is connected to a multitude of alleys that lead deeper into the district. At one time it was the largest market for antiques and artworks in Korea.
Snap de la semaine: City Palace, Jaipur
The City Palace in Jaipur was built in the early 18th century. The different Mahals of the palace are decorated with pillars, arches, Mehrabs and grills which feature beautiful inlay works.
Snap de la semaine: Thai Buddha, Bangkok
An interpretation of a Thai Buddha from the Sukhothai period. Interpretations during this period depict a Buddha that is elegant, with a sinuous body and a slender, oval face, emphasizing the spiritual aspect of the Buddha by omitting anatomical details.
Snap de la semaine: Temple of the Reclining Buddha
Wat Pho (The Temple of the Reclining Buddha) is one of the largest and oldest wat in Bangkok and is home to more than one thousand Buddha images, as well as one of the largest single Buddha statues in Thailand: the Reclining Buddha!
Snap de la semaine: Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons, Ontario
Herbs drying in a reconstructed longhouse at Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons, a French Jesuit settlement that existed from 1639 to 1649 near modern Midland, Ontario.
Snap de la semaine: Namdaemun Market, Seoul
Ginseng root at Namdaemun Market in Seoul, South Korea. Namdaemun means ‘Great South Gate,’ and was the main southern gate to the old city. The market is one of the oldest continually running markets in South Korea.
Snap de la semaine: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Water taxi driver nearby Varanasi’s ‘Old City’—a quarter full of crowded narrow winding lanes that are flanked on other side by by roadside shops and an immeasurable number of temples.
Snap de la semaine: Broom Point, Newfoundland
This week’s ‘Snap de la semaine’ is of the Mudge family boathouse in Broom Point, Newfoundland. The three Mudge brothers and their families fished from the site from 1941 until 1975, when they sold the property to Gros Morne National Park.
Snap de la semaine: July 11, 2009
A longboat at anchor rests in the sand at low tide in Loh Dalum Bay, Koh Phi Phi, Thailand. This picture was taken just a few months before the tsunami in 2004. We’ve forgetten the name of the resort in back.
