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The most incredible things on Earth, every day 🌍✨ Travel • Adventure • Culture * Nature

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During the early hours of Wednesday, January 31, 2018, for the first time in more than 150 years, there will be a full moon, a total lunar eclipse, a blue moon and a supermoon – all at the same time. #SuperBlueBloodMoon
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Autumn in the Dolomites hits different 🍂 Golden larches, a tiny church, and the jagged Odle peaks. October is prime season up here. #Dolomites #Italy #Autumn 📸: Moroder via Wikimedia Commons
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Together. For life 🦢💙🦢 Mute swans usually pick one partner and keep them — for years, often for life. Two swans, one lake, no rush. Grace on top. A 23-vertebra neck, a 2.4 m wingspan and serious attitude underneath 😄 #Swans #Birds #Nature
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That famous neck holds 23 vertebrae — a giraffe gets by with just 7 🦒 And "mute" is a lie: they hiss, they grunt, and their wings whistle in flight loud enough to hear from half a mile away 🔊
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Is Moraine Lake on your ultimate travel bucket list? 🏔️🇨🇦 #TravelTheWorld #Banff #MoraineLake #Wanderlust #Explore
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Golden hour across the savanna. 🌅🌍 #Africa #Safari #Wanderlust
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Salt Lick Safari Lodge, Kenya.🐘 96 round rooms raised above a waterhole in the Taita Hills. Would you sleep here? 👇 #Kenya #Safari #Travel 📸: HobsonM via Wikimedia Commons
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Wild horses — Camargue, France Born black. Turned white. 🐎🤍 The white horses of the Camargue — one of the oldest breeds on Earth. Every foal is born dark and turns white by about age 4. #Camargue #France #Horses 📸: Benjamin Smith via Wikimedia Commons
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Even the boats clock out in THAILAND 🚤🌅 Work's done. Parked, unplugged, watching the sky do its thing. Goodnight from Koh Samui 💤🇹🇭 #KohSamui #Thailand #Sunset #Travel
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Every corner of the globe has its own rhythm. 🌍🎶 Experiencing the timeless art and tradition of street performers in India. Quick Travel Trivia: Does anyone know the traditional name of this gourd flute instrument being played? 👇 📍 India #Travel #IncredibleIndia #Culture #Wanderlust
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The instrument is a Pungi (pronounced POON-gee) — also called a Been in Hindi. It’s made from a dried gourd with bamboo pipes.
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Sacred traditions preserved through music and heritage. A mesmerizing moment listening to a Kayan woman play music in her village. 🎶✨ Quick Travel Trivia: Do you know which region of Southeast Asia is famous for the long-neck brass coils worn as part of their cultural tradition? 👇 #Travel #Culture #Wanderlust #ExploreTheWorld #SoutheastAsia #Thailand
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Passionflower 💜 This flower has a whole story in its face 💜 Spanish missionaries in the 1600s named it for the Passion of Christ — they said the fringed crown was the crown of thorns, the 3 stigmas the nails, the 5 anthers the wounds. Each bloom lives just one day. She doesn't waste it ✨ #Flowers #Nature #Passionflower
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And she's not just beautiful — she's a nursery 🦋 Passion vines are the ONLY food Gulf fritillary caterpillars will eat. Plant the flower, get the butterflies.
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SAGUARO: The ONE NIGHT FLOWER 🌵🌙 Each spring, the giant saguaro's white blooms open after sunset — and wilt by the next afternoon. Less than 24 hours for a bat, a moth or a bee to find them. The desert doesn't do encores. #Saguaro #Cactus #Nature 📸: SaguaroNPS via Wikimedia Commons
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Night shift first: lesser long-nosed bats and moths do the pollinating in the dark 🦇 Then bees and white-winged doves take the morning shift before the blooms close for good.
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This butterfly is not blue 🦋💙 There's zero blue pigment in a blue morpho's wings. Microscopic scales bend the light until only blue bounces back — grind the wing to powder and it's just… brown. Nature's greatest magic trick? 👇 #Butterfly #Nature #Science 📸: Alias 0591 via Wikimedia Commons
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Flip it over and the show disappears — the underside is dull brown with eyespots, like a dead leaf 🍂 In flight it flashes blue-brown-blue, so predators keep losing it mid-chase
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MONT SAINT-MICHEL, Normandy, France 🇫🇷
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the Gothic abbey on a tidal island. Europe's biggest tides (up to 15 m) surround it twice a day. Victor Hugo said the sea rushes in 'at the speed of a galloping horse' 🐎
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He MEANT to do that 😱🪂 Not an accident — this is a planned BASE jump into Majlis al-Jinn, Oman, one of the largest cave chambers on Earth. He leaps through a hole in the roof and freefalls into the dark… on purpose. Would YOU jump? 👇 #ExtremeSports #BASEjump #Oman 🎥: Quest Films via Wikimedia Commons
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The chamber is 310 metres long with a ceiling 120 metres high — and the name means "meeting place of the spirits" 👀
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