Flamingo Oasis

... on the bus. Then down across salt flats where wer learned about the effect of nearby nitrate mining before taking lunch at the oasis village of Peine. Saw cave paintings here that were over 6000 years old. Then off across to national park to see sunset ...

... out for lunch and shopped for quite a while. soraya had to leave, so then we had five :(.  our hostel organized a tapas and flamingo night for free!!! they were going to the same tapas place we did the night before, so we did our own thing for ...

... great weekend traveling around and judging good barbeque. The glasses made limited appearances in Springfield as the chief flamingo photographer is still nursing a bum leg. ...

... . Começamos pelo lado esquerdo da trilha. Visibilidade boa e muitos peixes. Encontramos em uma "fan" várias cowries Cabeça de Flamingo. Tiramos várias fotos. Contornamos a rocha no final e voltamos à praia pelo lado direito. Água mais fria, um pouco ...

... however – shithouse signs meant it took 5 hours and we were glad to have a plate of protein (MEAT) with a few cerveza (beers).  Three day trek complete and bus ride back to Granada meant I could leave now and onto Seville, the home of ...

... in is a small salt flat and has crazy rock formations.  I'm not much of a bird watcher but have to admint the flamingo's are pretty amazing animal's and I go crazy snapping pictures of them.  They are especially graceful when they fly from one ...

... an old man, who is possibly recovering from a stroke, running it. He has reasonable English, but is hard to understand. They have a Flamingo catalogue full of braces and supports, but no heat pads. He makes a few phone calls. Soon after a boy goes out ...

... back-burner (sorry) as we finally catch sight of Lake Natron; a simmering central obsidian, set within a heat-distorted fringe of flamingo-pink and salt-bleached shore. Before definition can coalesce we turn off our elevated track and coast down under the ...

... the time of year you visit could be populated with between none and 200,000 flamingoes. Guess which end of the flamingo scale we landed on. Still mightily impressive area though and fortunately the couple from the previous days excursion, Rosia and ...

... go and back to the airport at the end in a tight timescale. Ideal! We started off with a drive and a visit to the Flamingo Reserve at Laguna Chaxa. We spent quite a while there and got some really good photos of the flamingos. Then we ...

... sky is a total blanket of twinkling lights and constenations are extremely clear and visable. We saw many Llama's and Alpaca's and flamingo's but not much of anything else. Other animals indigenous to this region are giant rabbits (which we did see one ...

... crystal structures.  In another lake were flamingos with startling pink bodies.   In the video, you can see the Chilean flamingo doing a strange dance which stirs up the lake-bed to expose the brown shrimp that it eats (this gives it the pink ...

... These include Fruit Pigeon, Houbara Bustard, White-cheeked Bulbul, Rüppel's Weavers, Tristram's Grackle, Philby's Partridges, Lesser Flamingo, Namaqua Dove, Stilts, Red-wattled Lapwings, Laughing Doves, Collared Doves and more. It could really be ...

... park veteran like me! After a chicken burger and chips, we queued up for Wipeout, which was the same as the Rip Saw at Flamingo Land. Maybe it wasn't the best idea to go on it after eating, as illustrated later in the day when someone was sick! We ...

... of lakes and rivers and the occasional oasis of vibrant green, roll endlessly on. Wildlife abounds, particularly guanaco, rhea, flamingo, grey foxes, geese, ducks, eagles and the occasional condor. It's amazing, but the isolation ensures that we ...

... and Tai Chi despite its central location in noisy Tsim Sha Tsui (the central business area of Kowloon). There are duck and flamingo ponds for the kiddies, sculpture, old cannon that once looked over the waterways, a rich array of flora and always ...

... on the gorgeous Wynn patio (they do have the best Mojitos in Vegas after all - thanks Patti!).  After quick stops at the Flamingo, Caesars, and the Mirage, we headed back to take a break.  Once we entered our room we were greeted by a lovely ...

... can see from the photo, the doorways were made for the little people. Our little house overlooked a small lake where a group of Flamingo's lived. How they survived on salt water we don't know. Once the sun went down over the volcano it got really really ...

... mother earth for the gift of the llama. The final tour from San Pedro took me to Laguna Chaxa, where 3 species of flamingo come to reproduce, and to the Altiplano which is another collection of lakes again at an altitude of about 4300masl. The ...