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A Site Where Colors meet

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"Victoria Falls and Rainbow" Zambia by  Dietmar Temps. A place where rainbows meet! Victoria Falls is a large waterfall located in the middle of the Zambezi River, which flows through the southeastern part of the African continent.  Located on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, it is also a World Heritage Site alongside the Iguazu Falls in South America and is a World Heritage Site.

Rio Mundo— A Timeless Journey

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Source of the Mundo River, Sierra de Alcaraz, Albacete. The birth of the Rio Mundo is a show that you should not miss.  This tributary of the Segura sprouts hidden in the Albacete mountain range of Alcaraz thanks to an underground aquifer of karst origin that emerges abruptly and is then torn up by a cliff of almost 300 meters.  This is what we show you today in our photograph and it is between the towns of Vianos and Riopar, in the natural park of the Calares del Mundo and Sima.  If you want to go see it, you should know that in the nearest car park there is only room for 100 cars and on weekends it is usually crowded, so early in the morning if you do not want to queue. The River Mundo is not named for the noun "world" of the Latin "mundus", but for the adjective of the same language that means "clean", as opposed to "unclean."  Its groundwater flows from a cave that is still to be explored, since to date only 30 kilometers of the 60...

Abiqua Falls

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Ice sticking to the columnar basalt walls surrounding Abiqua Falls, Oregon, USA

Frozen Maligne Canyon

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Majestic view of a frozen waterfall at Maligne Canyon, Jasper, Alta.

Partnach Gorge

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Icicles in the Partnachklamm, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany

Burns Night At The Falls Of Bruar

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The Falls of Bruar, Perthshire