Travel Digest #179

Introduction

Heya, @martibis here with another edition of #traveldigest, coming from a little coffee place in Berlin!

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Travel Digest

For our first featured post of the day, @planetus takes us to Vinicunca in Peru. Setting out from Cusco, it takes @planetus 3 hours by Peruvian bus to reach Vinicunca - also called the Rainbow Mountain. On arrival the landscape didn't seem like anything special, mainly because @planetus was spoiled by visiting Machu Picchu a few days earlier! For the trek, there is the possibility to do it on horseback -, sharing the same road with the hikers. There is just a small problem with that, the place is so touristic, and horses, well they tend to drop their dung wherever... so you're hiking through mud - as it may look like at first -, but through horse dung, with the smell to match. With the hike progressing more and more, it starts to become clear why they call it the Rainbow Mountain, with the rock changing to all sorts of colors around you, turquoise, purple, yellow, green and more. This strange natural phenomenon exists through the erosion on multiple layers of the minerals.

For our second featured post @travelling-two takes us to Harenna Forest, Ethiopia. In order to reach the place, you first need to drive through the Sanetti Plateau, an open, wild and very windy landscape. In between the vegetation you'll be able to spot big rodents jump from burrow to burrow. But it's not only rodents, you can find here. @travelling-two was lucky to have a rare encounter with four Ethiopian Wolves. With only 400 of the species left in the wild, they're considered the rarest canine species in the world! After passing the Sanetti Plateau, we arrive at our destination: Harenna Forest. The forest is lingered with Giant Heather Trees, covered in moss. In this kind of vegetation, there is of course an abundance of wildlife as well, from lions to warthogs to different types of monkeys and more!

For our last post @ammonite takes us to Blockus, Denmark, where there was an international sand sculpture competition going on. Whilst often we don't feature @ammonite works (as they can no longer be visited being sand sculptures), we were thoroughly impressed by this piece and the story behind it. This specific sculpture is the first one on a bunch of sculptures about relationships, with @ammonite giving us more insight in how the sculpture came into existence. While it's often great to be able to ponder what an artist was thinking, it can be equally pleasing to know the exact thought process that went into creating a piece of art.

Honorable Mentions

• Dubai, UAE by @travelman
• Brewery, South Florida, USA by @negativer
• Huis Ten Bosch Theme Park, Japan by @seanytan
• Cartagena, Colombia by @k-a-s-i-a
• Titwangsa Park, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by @itsben
• Sumiyoshi Shrine, Fukuoka, Japan by @joythewanderer
• Nene Park, Peterborough, England by @oen
• Student Church of Odessa, Ukraine by @lil4a
• Street art, Lisbon, Portugal by @for91days
• Beach, NSW, Australia by @quochuy
• Samar, Philippines by @julietravel
• Coron, Philippines by @spurnedwanderer
• Ruins, Pisaq, Peru by @livinguktaiwan

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