Category Archives: Nature Rishikesh. Heat enveloping like a wet blanket, the smell of incense and mud, and memories of the late sixties … Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the White Album … (Click for: Within You Without You from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band) Rishikesh is a city of yoga, meditation, and religious philosophy. It […]  The Daintree National Park is just magic! The Daintree Tropical Rainforest, which the Park protects, is Australia’s largest remaining rainforest. Part of the UNESCO-listed “Wet Tropics of Queensland”, it covers over 1,200 square kilometres (463 square miles), and is home to a unique and complex ecosystem, housing many plants and animals not found anywhere else […]  The words “Jasper, Alberta” never fail to start the songs of John Denver playing in my head: “Up in a meadow in Jasper Alberta Two men and four ponies on a long lonesome ride To see the high country and learn of her people The ways that they lived there the ways that they died.” […]  The informative signposting captures it: What a Colour! – Quelle couleur! Peyto Lake deserves its reputation as a highlight along the magnificent Icefields Parkway through Canada’s UNESCO-listed Rocky Mountains. But the whole road is a joy. Highway 93 runs 233 kilometers (143 miles) north-south between Jasper in the Jasper National Park and Lake Louise in Banff National Park. In theory, it […]  Alberta’s Icefields Parkway has been called one of the most scenic drives in the entire world. Highway 93, which runs the 233 kilometers (143 miles) between the little hamlet of Lake Louise in Banff National Park and the alpine town of Jasper in the Jasper National Park, runs parallel with North America’s Continental Divide through […] |
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