Chile - Unesco whs Churches of Chiloé

Sender: Monica

Chile - Andean region of South America

Sender: Monica 

The Andean region of Chile spans the length of the country's eastern border, forming a massive mountain barrier that defines its climate, wildlife, and geography.

Chile - The Selknam (Onas) people in Tierra del Fuego, Magallanes and the Chilean Antarctica Region

The Selknam people in the southern tip of South America, by the Magellan strait.  They had harsh winters and sailed around on their canoes carrying their fire from one place to the next as one of these stamps shows.

Selknam women at work weaving a basket using dried wild reeds which grew in the sub-antarctic clima of Tierra del Fuego (The land of Fire). These baskets were incredibly durable and they used them to gather food such as wild berries, edible roots, shellfish and small fish or even birds eggs. 

She is wrapped in a Guanaco skin cloak worn with the fur facing inward for insulation against the brutal Patagonian cold. She is also wearing a shell necklace. 

A Selknam male decorated his body for the Hain - the ceremony through which boys became men. He is wearing a mask. They enjoyed scaring women pretending to be a bad spirit. 

Sender: Monica

 

Germamy - Hofgeismar

 

Sender: Sabine

Chile - Atacama

Moon Valley

Laguna Chaxa

Altiplano Atacameno

Sender: Monica

Pakistan - Dhamaka Lake in Swat

Dhamaka lake in Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Sender: Imran M. 

 

Pakistan - Karimbad in Hunza valley

Karimbad in Hunza valley is part of Unesco tentative Balit Fort

Sender: Imran M. 

 

Azores - Sperm Whale

 

Sender: Gian and Raffaella

Sint Maarten and Saint Martin

Philipsburg and Marigot - Sender: Denise 

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Green Vervet Monkey - Sender: Denise 

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Mount Liamuiga in the background.

The railway was originally built between 1912 and 1926 to transport sugar cane.

This is a tropical volcanic landscape, characterized by lush rainforests and dramatic rock formations.  Mount Liamuiga in the background is a dormant stratovolcano and the highest point on the  island of Saint Kitts, with an elevation of 1156 meters above sea level. 

The area the train travels through in the lowlands were originally covered by large sugarcane plantations. 

Sender: Denise 

 

India - Unesco whs Moidams – the Mound-Burial System of the Ahom Dynasty

Sender: Amar Deep Anand

 

Czech Republic - Unesco ZERA MOUNTAINS BEECH FORESTS - Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe

 

Sender: Hana