The Trans-Amazonian Highway: An Ecological Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2014
The Trans-Amazonian highway is a 5,000 kilometre road which cuts across the heart of the Amazon forest, spanning Brazil from the coastal cit...
Hay-on-Wye: The Town of Books
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2014
Hay-on-Wye is a small market town and community on the banks of the river Wye in Powys, Wales, adjacent to the English border. Often describ...
Survival Condo Project: A Luxurious Underground Doomsday Bunker
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 22, 2014
The Survival Condo Project is a luxury condo complex housed in a former underground missile silo near Concordia, in Kansas, in the US. Locat...
The Stone Towers Of Svaneti, Georgia
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 22, 2014
The ancient province of Svaneti in Georgia, is located on the southern slopes of the Caucasus mountain range, on the north-western part of t...
The Pigeon Towers of Iran
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 21, 2014
During the 16th and 17th century, particularly around the time of the Safavid reign, the Iranian folks built a large number of towers to hou...
The Historical Village of Abyaneh
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 20, 2014
When the Arabs invaded Persia in the 7th century, some followers of the Zoroastrian religion fled to the surrounding mountains and deserts t...
Laguna Colorada: The Red Lagoon of Bolivia
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 19, 2014
Laguna Colorada, or the Red Lagoon, is a shallow salt lake located at an altitude of 14,000 feet in the southwest of the altiplano of Bolivi...
Kungur Ice Cave
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 18, 2014
Kungur Ice Cave is a karst cave located in the Urals, near the town Kungur in Perm Krai, Russia, on the banks of the Sylva River. With a len...
The Sardine Run, South Africa
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2014
Every year, between the months of May and July, massive schools of sardines travel north from the cold southern oceans off South Africa'...
Sultan The Pit Pony
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2014
Sultan the Pit Pony is a massive 200 metre raised-earth sculpture in Caerphilly, in South Wales. The sculpture is affectionately named “Sult...
