the cyber traveller: July 2008

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Dance-blends can bring the World Closer !

Brits perform on a Indian Blockbuster movie Song !

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Kjeragbolten, Norway

Kjeragbolten is a boulder wedged in a mountain crevice in the Kjerag mountains in Norway. The name means Kjerag Boulder or Bolt. Below the boulder is a sheer drop of about 3200 feet (1000 meters) to Lysefjorden, below.
The nearby cliffs are a popular destination for BASE Jumpers.
Kjeragbolten lies at the end of a strenuous 3-5 hour hike on often muddy terrain. The trailhead is several hours drive from Stavanger.

Dancing Matt across the world - A man called Matt Harding !

Year 2008 - it took 14 months to shoot and 40 countries were covered.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

When it started in 2006

Favs on Google Maps

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

wiki says.
Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa) is the world's largest salt flat[1] at 10,582 km² (4,085 square miles).[2] It is located in the Potosí and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes, 3,650 meters high. The major minerals found in the salar are halite and gypsum.[1]

Some 40,000 years ago, the area was part of Lake Minchin, a giant prehistoric lake. When the lake dried, it left behind two modern lakes, Poopó Lake and Uru Uru Lake, and two major salt deserts, Salar de Coipasa and the larger Uyuni. Uyuni is roughly 25 times the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats in the United States.

Salar de Uyuni is estimated to contain 10 billion tons of salt, of which less than 25,000 tons is extracted annually. All miners working in the Salar belong to Colchani's cooperative. Every November, Salar de Uyuni is also the breeding grounds for three species of South American flamingos: the Chilean, James's and Andean flamingos. It is also a significant tourist destination; highlights include a salt hotel and several so-called islands. As it is so flat it serves as a major transport route across the Bolivian Altiplano.[1]