Bardenas Reales is a place in the north of Spain. A desert with odd shaped structures. I, Tio, saw these structures in a documentary with Brian Cox called Solar System - you can watch it here videoneat.com/documentaries/26… - so I looked for the place only to find out it is in Spain.
It is one of those unique places that you may never forged 😃.
Azagra - a nice little town where we found freacking Carl Sagan:). So impressed to see that they make these astronomical observation points in some parts of Spain and how they add these info panels about the stars, Moon, cosmos and in this case Carl Sagan. Instead of a flag, we should put a telescope, like Sasha said 😃.
Instead of celebrating nonsense nationalistic events, we should celebrate our real story of evolution, the place in the universe, and so on.
San Salvador de Cantamuda: We found a fossil forest and the weather was cold and rainy. Nothing very eventful. Just a few more days of our motorhome adventures. But super cool to see these imprints that are many millions of years old. A book of earth 😃
Fuente De, Picos de Europa. We took a cable cart to see the top of the mountains. What amazing views! Looked like a volcanic mountain with ice tops 😃. We also hit our motorhome again 😦.
But overall our experience in Picos de Europa was fantastic!
We've joined Plastic Cup in Tisza river in Hungary. 15 teams on a boats made out of trash for 5 days going down the river. But it's not about speed, it's about collecting trash. Team which collects the most trash wins the race. In this video we share our experience of joining this competition first time, our struggles and accomplishments.
We've joined Plastic Cup in Tisza river in Hungary. 15 teams on a boats made out of trash for 5 days going down the river. But it's not about speed, it's about collecting trash. Team which collects the most trash wins the race. In this video we share our experience of joining this competition first time, our struggles and accomplishments.
We've joined Plastic Cup in Tisza river in Hungary. 15 teams on a boats made out of trash for 5 days going down the river. But it's not about speed, it's about collecting trash. Team which collects the most trash wins the race. In this video we share our experience of joining this competition first time, our struggles and accomplishments.
La Picota - we paid 8 Euros a night to park here. And we stayed for 3 nights. Trust us, we are very cheap people, so this must have been a fantastic place if we were keen to pay for it. Close to the parking was a "mythological" forest and at the end of it the most amazing view of Picos de Europa. Down the other way there were a bunch of beautiful waterfalls.
Can you believe this is not Switzerland? We went for a day to this beautiful place just to see how it is. Sasha also found an abandoned villagge and some cute cows. Picos de Europa is now on fire, and it is such a shame because it is a wonderful natural place.
If there is one place that we liked the most, it was the Cares Trail in Picos de Europa. Amazing trail between huge mountains. You feel so small, yet contaminated with awe. We found goats, little waterfalls, and saw snowy peaks. This is a place we must go again to!
Acebedo - close to the Picos de Europa, beautiful parking place, great hiking, so relaxing and wonderful. This is the number 1 best motorhome parking spot for us. We also got to experience how it is to be fully offgrid when half of Spain was without electricity we did not notice a thing, having solar panels and satellite internet. We could probably survive a zombie apocalypse 😃.
Almendra Reservoir - a very big and dark place. Dark in terms of the light pollution. We sometimes chase these dark sky places to look up at the night sky with the telescope. We met 2 nice humans from Germany who were parked with their van at the same place. They gave us their kayak for a ride and we showed them the night sky through our telescope. We had very interesting discussions about the universe and our society.
This cave looks so out of this world. The white of the calcium combined with the "rust" of the rock make up for a unique landscape. Very memorable! We paid 11 Euros each for the tour and it was well worth it.
@Dima and Mara continue to do their great work of showcasing these amazing projects and people who do a lot of good work for animals, plants, nature, and us eventually.
@Dima and Mara continue to do their great work of showcasing these amazing projects and people who do a lot of good work for animals, plants, nature, and us eventually.
We Built This Wall for Birds — Here’s What Happened
In April, we joined a group of volunteers on a small island in the Drava River, Slovenia — and built a sand wall by hand. Why? Because Sand Martins, a small migratory bird, had lost their natural nesting sites. Dams and hydropower reduced the river’s flow so much, sandbanks stopped forming naturally.
So we decided to act.
In this video, we return two months later to see if our effort worked — and what we found left us speechless.
If you want to volunteer with DOPPS - ptice.si/en/
How beautiful it is to find these secluded places in nature. We parked so close to a lake....mountains in the distance. Super quiet. Just the 2 of us basically camping for several days. Nothing eventful, just an example of how this motorhoming life can be at times: relaxing. Nothing more, nothing less.
Very important documentary. Very well made. But still no criticism of this trade based society...their solutions work IF we calm down with consumerism.
Attenborough explores the planet’s undersea habitats, revealing the greatest age of ocean discovery and emphasizing the ocean’s vital importance while exposing its problems and highlighting opportunities for marine life recovery.
The stunning documentary, Ocean with David Attenborough, shines a light on both the beauty of the sea and the ways in which humans are depleting its riches.
The Nerja cave in Spain is perhaps one of the most amazing caves in Spain. It is huge and people used to live there thousands of years ago. Scientists found cave paintings, human bones, and even evidence that around the same time cave hyenas lived there too. In the cave it is the largest formation of stalactites in the world measuring around 32 meters.
This was such a mindblowing experience for us, it is hard to showcase the immensity of it and uniqueness in a video or photos. We were also able to get in there for free.
Sasha went for a hike above the Caminito del Rey to see how it compares with the main, and paid for, Caminito del Rey hiking that we both did. She got to see some cool eagles, nice high peaks, and beautiful views. And put her life at risk a little bit 😄.
We went to the famous Caminito Del Rey in the South of Spain. But before we had to do the hike, we stopped for a few days in some near-by beautiful places. One particular was very nice, but almost impossible to get out of. This was the most challenging for our Tortuga (motorhome) so far. We also did the laundry again, bought some food, and went for a nice walk around the area.
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