@ai6yr I sailed to the Antarctic Peninsula a half-dozen times with a scientist I was working for as a project engineer a while back. Almost every time there was some kind of medical emergency that required us to detour to a nearby outpost for a medical evacuation flight. One time, the fog was so thick everywhere that we had to transport the patient all the way back to South America. It is incredibly difficult to get back to civilization from most parts of Antarctica. #Antarctica
This region in central Turan is filled with unearthly rock towers carved by nature and the hand of man into dwellings, temples, and monasteries. An entire subterranean city was built, hidden from invaders. #travel#historyhttps://cromwell-intl.com/travel/turkey/goreme/?s=mc
“When I go to a tourist spot in Kyoto or a shopping center in Tokyo to check it out, the ones getting drunk and tossing garbage are mostly Japanese people. Foreigners see that and gladly drink or smoke on the street."
Are foreign tourists the only ones to blame for bad behavior in Japan's tourist hotspots? Some in Japan beg to differ:
@arkadiusz
Nice picture Porto Moniz.
Complete different area then Pico do Arieiro.
More wet and green.
At the westcoast more ruggend area with lava rocks at sea.
I was there Wednesday 15th May 2024.
It's been a dramatic few days for commercial aviation with passengers on three airlines suffering terrifying ordeals involving severe inflight turbulence. Nadine Itani, Programme Leader and Lecturer in Air Transport Management at the University of Surrey tells FRANCE24's Tom Burges Watson that for every 1% increase in average temperature there's an estimated 10% increase in the frequency of clear-air turbulence. #Travel#Aviation#Turbulence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tzKHTXcW4A
Some people say lions sleep 22 out of every 24 hours. It's true we often see them lying in the grass, sometimes yawning. But it doesn't mean they sleep when we're not there. “Lions lying sleeping in the shade on a hot day are […] conserving energy during the least energetically efficient time of the day. […] If the energy costs involved in an activity aren’t outweighed by its potential benefits, they simply won’t do it.” Clever.
ICYMI: Thanks to a rush of tourists, Mt. Fuji is now another destination tourists cannot go without planning ahead. A new online reservation system opened this week for climbers on the popular Yoshida trail between July and September.