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Ayres Rock, Kata Tjuta and Kings Canyon
A Travel Blog entry by whereiscliffy from Alice Springs, Australia
... two-thirds of the Rock lies beneath the sand!!. If your first sight of the Rock is during the afternoon it appears as an ochre-brown colour, scored and pitted by dark shadows. As the sun sets, it illuminates the Rock in burnishing orange, then a series ...
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Sapphire Waters of Esperance to The Big Red Centre
A Travel Blog entry by waynenwendy from Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
... . The next morning we were up early to travel to Uluru (Ayers Rock). As we drove along the road we could see the ochre-brown coloured Uluru (Ayers Rock) towering in the distance. It is 3.6km long and rises 348 metres from the surrounding desert. We drove ...
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New Delhi and the Pantom Crapper
A Travel Blog entry by geoffsutton from New Delhi, India
... my research before we left…I knew what had happened and without looking, called out to Hugo and pointed down at the large, hot, ochre-brown poo sat on the top of my shoe. Hugo’s jaw dropped as the man who presumably ‘shat’ on me ...
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Provence
A Travel Blog entry by chalmersfamily from Simiane la Rotonde, France
... various vendors in preparation for a nice picnic lunch and then drove off to the Colorado valley. We found ourselves in a spectacular ochre gully, with its bright red clay and sand contrasting beautifully with the azure sky and green pine trees. A very ...
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Day 19 - Debre Zeit
A Travel Blog entry by charlesaclark from Debre Zeit, Ethiopia
... (much to the bemusement of my waiter: "but...we have very nice eggs...and cornflakes..."). As dusk arrived the brown turned into an incredible ochre. Or it may have done if I actually knew for sure what ochre was but as I'm not an interior ...
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A desert full of wonders
A Travel Blog entry by velvetescape from San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
... . What makes these geysers special I guess is the altitude and the surroundings. The geysers are in a volcanic crater surrounded by rocky brown-ochre peaks that are at least 6,000m high. At this altitude, when the sun rose, the colours were just awesome. ...
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A Classic American Road Trip
A Travel Blog entry by fintan from El Paso, Texas, United States
... I passed a couple of cyclists heading south, their bikes fully loaded. At the little town of Cambria I turned inland, crossing bare brown hills dotted with cattle. East of Pasa Pobles, on Highway 41, is James Dean Memorial Junction. I took my foot ...
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The spectacular trip to Salta and some lazy days
A Travel Blog entry by velvetescape from Salta, Northern Argentina, Argentina
... . While the earth on the previous plateau was ochre, here it was a reddish-pink colour with occasional traces of yellow, ochre and brown. As we cleared the mountains, the first of a series of stunning lagoons came into view. They were all in ...
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Alice Springs
A Travel Blog entry by delwyn.ian from Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
... Standley Chasm which when the sun shone showed up the bright red rock which looked amazing. The Ochre Pits are basically different coloured (reddish, yellowish, brown and white) seams of soft rock that form one huge very colourful rock. The ...
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The migration
A Travel Blog entry by hdh from Masai Mara, Kenya
... one of the ladies might overpower him as he opened the door. Inside the park the ground sloped gently away, covered by rustling brown grass. Coppery termite mounds and cobalt ladies, who'd broken through the gate cordon, rose up from the roadsides. Low ...
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Trekking and treachery
A Travel Blog entry by lyncraven from Hsipaw, Myanmar
... old. She eagerly showed us photographs of the individual sons, each standing by a temple or paya and wearing their ochre and saffron robes. I wondered whether these roles were enforced by parents or personal choice and I learned that all male ...
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The most gorgeous gorges!!
A Travel Blog entry by lyncraven from Tinerhir, Morocco
... and springs and 4 kms further on, the most incredible gargantuan red rock formations appeared. They looked like a dark brown crenulated brain, spilling out, around and down the mountain sides and into the palmeraies! Just everywhere you ...
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Good looking camels...........!
A Travel Blog entry by lyncraven from Merzouga, Morocco
... landscape was changing again with haphazard appearances of orange sand, followed by a more crazed filtering of colours, including a darker ochre. There were small, flat, table-top mountains in sandstone – perfectly flat, with evergreens in the ...
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The Shifta Road South
A Travel Blog entry by reef from Isiolo, Kenya
... as their Abyssinian neighbours have. Later in the day we rose a little higher again and the vegetation became denser, with grey-brown bush covering the gently rolling land. Later again small mountains rose out of the land, green-brown with giant grey ...
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The Real Jungle
A Travel Blog entry by joegoldston from Puerto Viejo, Province of Limon, Costa Rica
... Cheeked Woodpecker Wedge Billed Woodcreeper Plain Brown Woodcreeper Ochre Bellied Flycatcher Rufous ...
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Western MacDonnell Ranges
A Travel Blog entry by petermaryanne from Western MacDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory, Australia
... Gorge was closed due to the threat of fire being high summer so we were not able to have a look. Next stop was the Ochre pits which were a real surprise visually. The ochre cliffs are made up of lots of different coloured rocks sitting side by side and ...
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Devils Marbles, Alice Springs, Macdonnell Ranges
A Travel Blog entry by bexnkizzasblog from Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
... a dry creek bed. The ochre was a source of paint for aboriginal people and came in various colours- mainly yellow, white and red/brown. Orminston Gorge was personally my favourite stop of this little tour. It's the most impressive chasm of the West ...
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More fun in the outback! Sun 20th April
A Travel Blog entry by becky_stalley from Alice Springs, Australia
... of the amazing multi colours, which ran through the rocks. It was like a rainbow with white, yellow, orange, red and brown...Different sedimentary rocks had been pushed out of the ground vertically. Aborigines used to trade or exchange the ochre. It was ...
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City Of Canals
A Travel Blog entry by jl_bigtrip from Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
... what Amsterdam has instead of pubs. Named “Brown” after the typical brown stonework and wood used in their construction , the Brown Cafes are snug little venues, with a small bar and lots of little tables that you sit at while imbibing small ...
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Shop houses and Feng Shui
A Travel Blog entry by francesandrew from Georgetown, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
... /kilo (£120/kilo). He uses the ground sap of a Malay tree, mixed with some sandalwood and water to make a putty that looks like brown clay. This he then molds onto a wooden satay stick and dries in the heat of the day. His longest ones will burn for an ...
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