Referred photos

Photos of the various countries

Classified alphabetically by countries’ name, we will try to illustrate a pallet of the areas which my friends or myself, had the chance to appreciate, contemplate the beauties of the landscapes, to see this poetry that each day the nature murmurs us...

A scenic literature of our past, present, until the premises of our future...

Take time to read these small descriptions, contrary to appearances they are not as tiresome as that...
Come on the Lazy ones ! The culture is awaiting you...

Canada
Montreal

Montreal is the second-largest city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec. Originally called Ville-Marie ('City of Mary'), some historians think the city takes its present name from the Mont Réal (as it was pronounced in Middle French, or Mont Royal / Mount Royal in present French), the three-head hill at the heart of the city, whose name was also initially given to the island on which the city is located.
The official language of Montreal is French as defined by the city's charter. It is among the five largest French-speaking cities in the world. As of the 2006 Canadian Census, 1,620,693 people resided in the city of Montreal proper. The population of the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (also known as Greater Montreal Area) was 3,635,571 at the same 2006 census. In the census metropolitan area, French is the language most spoken at home by 70.5% of the population (as of 2006 census). In 2007, Montreal was ranked as the 10th cleanest city in the world.

Egypte
Cairo

Le Caire Cairo (transliteration: Al-Qahirah), which means 'The Vanquisher' or 'The Triumphant', is the capital city of Egypt. While Al-Qahirah is the official name of the city, in Egyptian Arabic it commonly shares the dialect's name for the country, transliteration: Masr. It has a metropolitan area population of about 17.285 million people. Cairo is the sixteenth most populous metropolitan area in the world. It is also the most populous metropolitan area in Africa.
The city was founded in 969 AD as the royal enclosure for the Fatimid caliphs, while the actual economic and administrative capital was in nearby Fustat. After Fustat was destroyed in 1168/1169 to prevent its capture by the Crusaders, the administrative capital of Egypt moved to Cairo, where it has remained ever since.

France
Annecy

Annecy is located at the lake that bears his name, in the north of French Alps, between Geneva and Chambery. The city is located on an axis 'Sillon Alpine' with the largest agglomerations of Rhone-Alpes: Valencia, Grenoble, Chambery, Annecy and Geneva.

France
Chamonix

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a town in the Haute-Savoie département, at the foot of Mont Blanc. At the census of 1999 it had a population of 9,830 inhabitants and a land area of 116.53 km² (44.99 sq mi). The town lies at an altitude of 1,035 metres.
The Mer de Glace (Sea of Ice) is a glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the Alps. At 7 kilometres long and 200 metres deep, it is the longest glacier in France.
The Aiguille du Midi (3,842 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps. The cable car to the summit, the Téléphérique de l'Aiguille du Midi, was built in 1955 and held the title of the world's highest cable car for about two decades. It still holds the record as the highest vertical ascent cable car in the world, from 1035m to 3842m. It travels from Chamonix to the top of the Aiguille du Midi – an altitude gain of over 2,800 m – in 20 minutes.

France
Orlu

The reserve of Orlu is located in the Pyrenees, close to Ax Thermes. It covers 4.150 hectares of high mountain from 930 to 2.765 meters of altitude.
This fauna was created in 1947, on the initiative of a private owner, it became in 1981 reserves national of hunting. Its patrimonial interest justified its classification in May 1998 in national reserve of hunting and wild fauna.

The reserve is a whole ground of experimentation in protected medium where researchers and technicians make studies on fauna. It is also used as place of capture for the actions of repopulation to carry out in all the chain of the Pyrenees.

France
Paris

Let’s begin with one of the headlight monuments of Paris, one of the most visited: The Eiffel Tower, built by Gustave Eiffel for the World Fair of 1889. Its construction started in January 1887 and finished in March 1889. (Composed with 18 038 metal parts, 2 500 000 rivets, 1665 Steps , Height with antenna: 324 m)
Let us not omit to refer to Palais de Chaillot built for the international exhibition of arts and techniques of 1937

On the most beautiful avenue of the world you can admire the obelisk of Concorde, coming from the temple of Louxor, offered in 1831 by Muhammad Ali, Egypt’s Viceroy and Pasha, after a trip of four years it will be set up on its current site under Louis Philippe in 1836

In top of the avenue of the Champs-Élysées, you can also contemplate the Arc de Triomphe. It started to be built by order of Napoleon I in 1806 for the glory of the Large Army...
The place of Star forms a roundabout giving access to twelve avenues : Champs-Élysées, Marceau, Iéna, Kléber, Victor Hugo, Foch, Grande Armée, Carnot, Mac-Mahon, Wagram, Hoche, Friedland. Mainly names of Napoleon’s victories or Generals of the Empire.

The president of the republic François Mitterrand, decided to build the Grande Arche in 1983. Completed in July 1989, this almost perfect hollowed out cube (108*110*112 m), slightly placed skew compared to the axis Louvre, Etoile, Défense. It is surmounted by a roof terrace of more than one hectare weighing more than 30 000 tons.
It rests on two lines of six piles which each one support three times the weight of the Eiffel Tower (Total weight : 10 100 tonnes). The 87 000 m² of offices can accomodate 2000 employees.

India
Goa

Goa is India's smallest state in terms of area and the fourth smallest in terms of population. Located on the west coast of India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its western coast.
Panaji (Panjim) is the state's capital. Vasco da Gama (Vasco) is the largest city. The historic city of Margao still exhibits the influence of Portuguese culture. Portuguese merchants first landed in Goa in the early 16th century, and annexed it soon after. The Portuguese colony existed for about 450 years (one of the longest held colonial possessions in the world), until it was taken over by India in 1961.

Pakistan
Kaghan

Between Kaghan and Naran, a distance of 25 km separate them. Naran serves as the base-camp for excursions to other valleys, lakes and peaks. The various greenish blue lakes offer occasions of fishing and excursion.
The landscapes are still preserved from any form of civilization, a still primitive and intact nature far from MacDo and other industrials companies, of the inopportune noise of the wild stocks which we are.
This place is called the Virtual paradise, as much Kaghan exposes us all his sumptuousness and its splendour as much a desire of adventure and exploration invades us...

Saiful-Muluk, accessible approximately in 40 minutes by Jeep since Naran, is the most beautiful lake that it was given to me to contemplate. Located at 8.05 km of Naran at an altitude of 3.200,40 meters to the top of the sea level, all this in the shade of Malika Parbat (queen of the mountains) culminating at 5.291 meters.

Pakistan
Nathiagali

At 2500m (8200ft) and thickly forested with pine, walnut, oak and maple, Nathiagali is is one of the mountain resort towns of the Galyat, a area in Pakistan centered on the hill station of Murree.
Murree is a very popular Hill station and a city of Pakistan in the province of Punjab. Many of the towns in the area have the word gali (valley) as part of their names (Ghora Gali, Dongagali...).
A Hill station is a high-altitude town used especially by European colonialists, as a place of refuge from the summer heat.
Nathiagali was created by the English colonists in 1850; the colonial atmosphere is still well preserved there.

Peru
Machu Picchu

Peru is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
The earliest traces of settlement are dated from 20 000 BC. Many pre-Columbian cultures succeeded on the present territory of Peru to the Inca civilization, which had established its capital in Cusco.
After the arrival of the Spaniards, Francisco Pizarro conquered the region and a vice-royalty was established. Independence was declared in July 1821 and became effective in December 1824. Peru, along with Bolivia, conducted between 1879 and 1883 a war for 4 years against Chile known as the Pacific war.
The bright colors and varied Peruvian clothes may be an echo of an old proverbial advice: Do not dress in black because life is not a misfortune or white because the joy is not there every day in others’ hearts.
Peru covers an area of 1 285 220 km ² and has 2 414 km of coastline. In the Andes (mountain range) the climate is temperate to cold depending on altitude. The Huascarán, amounting to 6 768 meters, is the culmination of the country in the Western Cordillera.
Among the natural resources are copper, silver, gold, oil, iron ore, coal and phosphates. Fishing is also an important natural resource as well as fruit trees.

Portugal
Lisbon

Lisbon is the capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the district of Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipality, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in 84.8 km², while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inhabitants, and 3.34 million people live in the broader agglomeration of Lisbon Metropolitan Region (includes cities ranging from Leiria to Setúbal). Due to its economic output, standard of living, and market size, the Grande Lisboa (Greater Lisbon) subregion is considered the second most important financial and economic center of the Iberian Peninsula.
The Serra da Estrela (Mountain of the Star) is the culmination of mainland Portugal with 1993 metres. It has the second highest peak in the territory of the Republic of Portugal after Pico in the Azores. The Mondego, Portuguese largest river, through the Serra da Estrela.
Obidos Oppidum comes from the Latin word meaning walled city not far away are the ruins of Roman Eburobrittium Of Roman origin, occupied by the Moors until in 1148. Fortified in 1527, the city occupies the same area that now ie 14.5 ha.
Viana Do Castelo bore the name of Viana Lima da Foz do until 1848, when a decree of the Queen Mary II gave him the name and the same time, it was recognized at the level of city. The city has witnessed a glorious past, with its strong maritime tradition, including the existence of shipyards.

Maroco
Casablanca

Casablanca (in Arabic: ad-Dar al-Bayda; Spanish for white (blanca) house (casa) ; nicknamed by locals: Casa. Antique name in Amazigh: Anfa) is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Greater Casablanca region. With a population of 3.1 million (3.85 million in the 'greater Casablanca' (September 2005 census),
Casablanca is Morocco's largest city as well as its chief port. It's also the biggest city in the Maghreb and the sixth biggest city in the entire continent of Africa. Casablanca is considered the economic capital of Morocco because it is the heart of Moroccan business; the political capital is Rabat. It is also the primary naval base for the Royal Moroccan Navy.
Casablanca is the leading city hosting headquarters and main industrial facilities for the leading Moroccan and international companies based in Morocco. Industrial statistics show Casablanca retains its historic position as the main industrialzone of the country. The Port of Casablanca is considered as Morocco's chief port and as one of the largest artificial ports in the world. It is also the largest port of the Maghreb and North Africa.

Sweden
Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the parliament, and the official residence of the Swedish monarch.
It has been the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden since the 13th century. Its strategic location on fourteen islands on the south-central east coast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago, has been historically important. Since the city is built on islands and known for its beauty, tourist interests have tried to popularize the appellation 'Venice of the North'. The city is known for its beauty, its buildings, its water and parksAcording to Euromonitor, Stockholm is the most visited city of the Nordic Countries, with over 1 million international tourists every year.
The city itself stretches over fourteen islands are all part of the archipelago Stockholm, making the water a ubiquitous element. Fifty-three bridges to link different neighborhoods. The city was founded on the small island of Stadsholmen (Gamla stan: the old city), she then developed in the North where there are now Norrmalm, and Östermalm and south towards Södermalm.

Switzerland
Geneva

Geneva is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandie (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). Situated where the Rhône River exits Lake Geneva (in France known as Lac Léman), it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. The city proper had a population of 186,825 in June 2008, and the metropolitan area had 812,000 residents, according to a 2007 census. IT is a worldwide centre for diplomacy and international cooperation, and is widely regarded as a global city, mainly because of the presence of numerous international organisations, including the headquarters of many of the agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross.
It is also the place where the Geneva Conventions were signed, which chiefly concern the treatment of wartime non-combatants and prisoners of war.
Geneva has been described as the world's sixth most important financial centre by the Global Financial Centres Index, ahead of Tokyo, Chicago, Frankfurt and Sydney, and a 2007 survey by Mercer Consulting found Geneva to have the second-highest quality of life in the world (narrowly outranked by Zürich). The city has been referred to as the world's most compact metropolis and the 'Peace Capital'.

USA
New York

New York is the most populous city in the United States, with its metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world. It has been the largest city in the United States since 1790. For more than a century, it has been one of the world's major centers of commerce and finance.
New York City is rated as an alpha world city for its global influences in media, politics, education, entertainment, arts and fashion. The city is also a major center for foreign affairs, hosting the headquarters of the United Nations.
The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at Ellis Island, a small part of which lies within the city. Wall Street, in Lower Manhattan, has been a dominant global financial center since World War II and is home to the New York Stock Exchange.