Acadia: Bay Of Fundy

In Canada’s Acadia, the beautiful rock-studded Bay of Fundy boasts the world’s highest tides, averaging heights of 47 to 54 feet. I photographed it at low tide, when people were walking around the rocks, but at high tide I would have seen them kayaking around them. Unfortunately my schedule did not allow me this.

Though the sun still shone brightly on the surrounding park when I got there, the bay, at the bottom of steep cliffs, was already bathing in the purple light of dusk. The sea looked reddish from the sediments it was dragging back and forth.

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Bolivia: Another Example Of Stone Forest

Following my yesterday’s post, here is another example of standing eroded rocks,  among hundreds more in Bolivia’s southern Altiplano, that are known locally as the stone forest.

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Bolivia: Altiplano Stone Forest

In Bolivia’s southern Altiplano, an often beautiful if bitter cold 10,000 feet-high plateau between two Andean cordilleras, hundreds of rocks sculptured like these by erosion form what the locals call bosque de piedras, or stone forest.

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Brazil: Two-Toed Sloth For Sale

Boy trying to sell me this two-toed sloth near Manaus, in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest.

The animal's inviting expression would make you think he was pushing the sale as well.

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Madagascar: Herding Zebus To Market

Along a puddle-strewn dirt road near Feonarivo, in Madagascar, a boy holding a sign warning drivers to stop is walking ahead of a herd of zebus on its way to a market several days march away. The boy and the men carry on their backs all their travel needs.

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Madagascar: Traditional African Village

Evrata Village, reachable after a strenuous canoe trip from Taolagnaro, previously Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, on the Evrata River. Coconut trees and breadfruit trees shade it.  To view more Madagascar photos on this blog, write the word in the search box.

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Kenya: Lake Logipi

 Just south of Kenya’s Lake Turkana, Lake Logipi, stretching in the Suguta River Valley, itself part of the Great Rift Valley, is being visited by flamingoes, crowding the waters near and far.  

    Though this blog is about humanity's cultures, people everywhere are so defined by their environments that I must also, once in a while, show some of them. 

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Sahel:Tuareg Watering Flocks At Water Holes

Tuareg nomads water their flocks at several water holes dug out of a dry river bed in Niger’s Sahel region.

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Sahara: Unveiling A Tuareg Man's Face

In 1965, accepting me as a member of his family, a noble Kel Rela Tuareg took off his veil and let me photograph him without it under his tent. This surprised even his grandsons, who had never seen his full face. Their surprise made his younger sister behind them laugh. It surprised me too, of course. And the man may have been smiling over his audacity.

     Like Tuareg men often do, he had shaved the front part of his long hair to mitigate the heat generated by his tagilmust, or turban veil. His hands were blue from the heavy indigo dye of his robe, which comes off like that of carbon paper and has earned the Tuareg the name of Blue People.

     The Kel Rela are originally from the Sahara’s Ahaggar Mountains in southern Algeria. However, dwindling pastures there had pushed them south to txhe Sahara’s Tamesna region of Niger.

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Benin: Somba Dinner Preparation

As the sun nears the horizon in Benin’s Atakora Mountains, two Somba siblings pound carob pods outside their adobe dwelling. Others behind are cooking the evening meal.
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