a moment of beauty

[anotheranon]

A cenote - a sacrificial underground lake used by the Mayans. The photographer was lucky enough to be there the one day of the year where a tiny beam of light from the surface aligns perfectly with the tip of one of the stalactites - amazing :)

Taken from the Mysterious Places website, which also includes photo essays of Easter Island and Stonehenge.

Anyone have any favorite "mysterious" places, or ones they'd like to visit? I'd like to see Stonehenge one day, along with Oak Island (It IS in Canada, jlsjlsjls!) and Rosslyn Chapel (warning, site has music with no "off" button).

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[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

One species of dodo was found on Mauritius, one of the Mascarene Islands located east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean (another variety, the less-well-known white dodo lived on the neighbouring island of Réunion) ... actually I'd love to visit the Mascarenes as well ... pink pigeons and fruit bats and kinky kestrels! (readers of Douglas Adams' wonderful Last Chance To See ... will know what that last one is about ***grin***)

Madagascar is the last stronghold of lemurs, aye-ayes and several other ancient plant and animal species that died out on mainland Africa long ago.