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The Mesmerizing Moraine Lake
On a bright summer day, the gleaming lake offers the mirror image of the majestic Canadian Rockies surrounding it. Just beyond the fringe of the Lake Louise Village in Alberta, Canada, this glacially-fed lake in Banff National Park of the Valley of the Ten Peaks is a hiking enthusiast’s delight.
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Snapshot: The enchanting Blue Lagoon
The icy blue vastness stretches into a distant mist, a vision of calm and quiet. Setting foot on the premises feels like you’ve stepped onto a foreign planet- strange and fascinating. The Blue Lagoon Spa in Iceland is a geothermal spa nestled in a lava field where its steamy waters are part of a lava formation.
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Snapshot: the colorful Caño Cristales
For most part of the year, it looks just like other rivers, a bed of rocks beneath a blanket of dull mosses under a steady, clear current. But for a fleeting period every year, the river explodes into vivid shades of yellow, blue, green, black and especially red, earning it the label of “the world’s most beautiful river”.
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Snapshot: A Heavenly Lake
It’s like you've died and gone to heaven. I guess that’s why they call it the Heavenly Lake. Tian Chi, as it’s known in Chinese, is a sprawling crescent-shaped lake with glistening crystal clear waters that reflect the mood of the skies above.
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Snapshot: Mesmerizing Mostar
It’s a picture of spellbinding serenity that will send photographers into a trigger-happy frenzy. This vision of the perfectly preserved medieval old town in Mostar today belies years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina following the breakup of then-Yugoslavia.
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Snapshot: Garden of Abundance
Just like how you’d protect your precious crown jewel, this garden is concealed from all sides, as though to keep from prying eyes. While the other gardens are stunning in their own right with deftly pruned fauna and flora, what makes this Orchard doubly unique is its leaf-shaped design.
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Snapshot: The Lion Monument- a visual feast
From far, the majestic creature looks like it’s resting under the afternoon sun, except that its forlorn expression betrays its state of mind
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Snapshot: Dining Under the Sea
Even if you were served plain bread with just butter, you’d still it a surrealistic dining experience. While you’re stuffing your face with food, marine creatures of all shapes and species would wander by you, and all around you is a nice cool blue with faint sun rays shining through.
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Snapshot: The Great White Sea
When you keep absolutely still, it’s like you’re standing on top of a gigantic mirror, fanning out in all directions to a faint line in the horizon, where it meets the sky. Welcome to Salar de Uyuni, the largest Salt Plains in the world.
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Snapshot: Enter the Lavender paradise
The mesmerising purplish sea of swaying lavender blooms across an endless field creates a hypnotic sight. And this is commonplace in Provence, France.
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Snapshot: reading has never been more fascinating
Resembling a magical, whimsical ancient library, the Livraria Lello & Irmão (Lello Bookstore) is arguably one of the most gorgeous bookstores in the world.
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Snapshot: Be with nature, with all the comforts
It’s one of the more unusual structures I’ve seen. At 13 feet wide and 10 feet high, it looks like it could burst in front of you. This bubble room is actually part of a hotel, a family of bubble rooms belonging to The Attrap’ Reves in Allauch, Montagnac- Monpezat, Puget Ville and at La Bouilladisse, all in France.
