Tag: travel

malformalady:

A summer park becomes a lake each spring complete with underwater trees —the Gruener See, or Green Lake as it is called in English is located in the southern Austrian province of Styria. Trees have adapted to being underwater for upwards of a month every year at a time, with the water typically around 40 feet deep through most of the spring.

Photo credit: Gerald Kapfer/Europics

wxrldahead:

Ha Long Bay, Vietnam 

The name Hạ Long is derived from the Sino-Vietnamese 下 龍, meaning “descending dragon”.
According to local legend, when Vietnam had just started to develop into a country, they had to fight against invaders. To assist the Vietnamese in defending their country, the gods sent a family of dragons as protectors. This family of dragons began spitting out jewels and jade. These jewels turned into the islands and islets dotting the bay, linking together to form a great wall against the invaders. Under magics, numerous rock mountains abruptly appeared on the sea, ahead of invaders’ ships; the forward ships struck the rocks and each other. After winning the battle, the dragons were interested in peaceful sightseeing of the Earth, and then decided to live in this bay. (x)