Nohkalikai Falls India

The tallest plunge waterfall is Nohkalikai in India, with a height of 1115 feet.  Nohkalikai falls is located near Cherrapunji, which is one of the wettest places on Earth. This waterfall is fed by the rainwater collected on the summit of somewhat small plateau and decrease in power during the dry season in December till February. The waterfall has formed a plunge pool with rare green colored water. In Khasi language it is called Jump of Ka Likai, which is actually connected to a legend about local women Likai who jumped off the cliff next to the fall. Nohkalikai Falls made a dramatic free leap from a fairly well-forested drainage into a rocky base accompanied by a pretty blue pool. The most of the waterfalls in the Cherrapunjee area had really lost their luster outside of the monsoon season; this waterfall seemed to have maintained its performance. 

Nohkalikai Falls plays the part of a dramatic legend even if you haven’t yet heard the terrible tale that led to its christening. It thunders down and crashing almost brutally on to the rocks below. Nohkalikai is one of the five tallest waterfalls in the country, it roars, swollen with water, so that you can hear it right at the viewing gallery, a fair distance away. You can’t make a spontaneous visit to the bottom of the falls either. It involves a difficult trek over a number of days through the forest. Moreover the weather adds to the drama, making it almost difficult to see the falls without a layer of fog clinging to the cliff or floating protectively around the drop.

 The village nearby Nohkalikai Falls is name “Rangjyrteh” the women Ka Likai resided but had to remarry after her husband died.  She was in deep financial crisis with her infant girl with no means of income. Then she decided to become a porter herself. When she had to go out for work, then her work required leaving her daughter unattended for long intervals, but when she’d be at home, she has spent most of her time with her daughter by taking care of her. Therefore, when she married second time, she couldn’t pay much attention to her second husband. Her husband could not bear her ignorance, and feel jealous of infant and one day he decide to kill her and cooked her meat after throwing away her head and bones. 

Thus, when she returned home, and she saw nobody in the house but except for a meal that had been prepared. She wanted to go look for her daughter but she ate the meat as she was tired from work. Ka Likai generally had a betel leaf after her meals but she found a detached finger near the place where she normally cut betel nuts and betel leaves. She immediately realized what had happened in her absence and went furious and got mad with anger and grief and started running as she swung a hatchet in her hand. She ran off the edge of the plateau and the waterfall where she jumped from was named Nohkalikai Falls after her.Source: Charismatic Planet

Roma, Italia - 4K Rome Timelapse

Timelapse film produced in Rome, Italy from 12/31/2014 to 01/04/2015. More than 17.250 RAW-Pictures were taken with the Canon EOS 5D MK II and MK III with the Canon EOS 24-70mm 2,8, Canon EOS 24-70mm 2,8 II, Samyang 14mm and Canon EOS 70-200mm 2,8 II. Postproduction with Adobe Lightroom and LR Timelapse. Music by krizmental / homecookin.de. Produced in Spring 2015.

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Melbourne 2015 - Travel Timelapse

A travel timelapse / hyperlapse video (holiday in Melbourne) - visited 23 to 31 March 2015

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Queen Victoria Market, Yarra River, Flinders Street and Train Station, Federation Square, Bourke Street, Docklands, Southbank, Eureka Skydeck, St Kilda, Luna Park
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An Abandoned Fishing Village in Gouqi Island Slowly Taken Over by Nature

Human beings are used to developing the natural world into settlements but here's what happens when nature adopts to take it back. An abandoned fishing Gouqi Island belongs to a group of approximately 400 islands recognized as Shengsi Islands, and forms a part of the Zhoushan Archipelago. It is located outside of Hangzhou Bay, and it is the largest archipelago of China. The seaside village now lies empty since it was more economical for the fishermen to move and work on the mainland where they can catch easily be transported and sold. 

Thus, traditionally Zhoushan had been dependent on heavily on its main industry, which is fishing, given Zhoushan is the largest fishery in China. These days the secondary and tertiary industries have been developed, which Zhoushan's economic base has been mostly varied? Ship building and repairing, shipping, light industry, tourism and service industry grow to be the major contributors of local economic output. Therefore, several fishing villages have nowadays become abandoned, and some of the best preserved villages are located in Gouqi Island. Moreover, with the magnificent lush greenery and plant creepers crawling all over the buildings and houses, it looks for the entire world like nature has reclaimed what was once part of the manmade world now it's no longer required. 

The Shengsi Islands are a famous tourist destination, and have been described as a paradise for seafood lover; it is still an important fishery area that entices over 100,000 fishermen every winter. These beautiful photographs have taken by Jane Qing, a creative photographer based in Shanghai; take us into this lost village on the stunning archipelago.Source: Charismatic Planet

The Saar Loop at Mettlach

The natural beautiful Saar River rises in the Vosges mountains on the border of Alsace and Lorraine, in France, then river flows northward through western Germany to its confluence with Mosel river, near Trier. Thus, inside Germany the Saar River pursues a winding course until it reaches a barrier in the form of Hunsrück, a low mountain range made of hard quartzite rock. Quartzite is a hard, metamorphic rock which was originally sandstone. Moreover, sandstone is converted into quartzite through heating and pressure frequently related to tectonic compression. The river, impotent to carve a way through the rocks, creates a full 180-degree turn and cuts a deep U-shaped gorge through the densely wooded mountains. Furthermore, this astonishing hairpin bend situated above Mettlach is called the Saar Loop or Saarschleife in German, and is one of the most famous sights of Saarland. The river flows comparable for a long stretch in the opposite direction before turning left and ongoing its northward journey towards Mosel River. The superlative views of Saarschleife are to be had from Cloef, a rocky viewpoint at the apex of the Saar loop about 180 meters above the river. An eye-catching panoramic viewpoint has been built here for the sake of sightseers.

Therefore, on the wooded ridge within the Saar loop, lie the Church of St. Gangolf and the ruins of the 12th century Montclair Castle. The castle is located about 290 metres above sea level on the high ridge of the Saar loop, the so-called Castle Hill. Hence it can be reached by boat. Both on the inside as well as on the outside loop, runs a continuous walking and bike path. The Saar Loop is also recognized as the Great Saar loop at Mettlach, for further downstream in the municipality of Taben-Rodt, the Saar river makes another loop called the Small Saar loop, though not as remarkable as it’s bigger brethren.

The Ghostly Shipwreck of the Yacht “Mar Sem Fim”

Mar Sem Fim is also called Endless Sea is a Brazilian yacht that was sunk and afterward got frozen in ice in Maxwell Bay of Ardley Cove, Antarctica, about 1,200 kilometers south of tip of South America, in April 7, 2012. The yacht that belonged to the famous Brazilian journalist and entrepreneur João Lara Mesquita, was crewed by four peoples who were filming a documentary off the Antarctic coast when the boat overturned. Strong winds in excess of 100-kilometer per hour had tossed the boat from one side to the other “like a bucking bronco in a rodeo,” according to one crew member.

With their vessel trapped in ice, the crew radioed for assistance and was received by the Chilean navy in the base in Bahia Fildes, in Antarctica. All four investigators were finally rescued but bad weather delayed the process by couple of days. João Lara Mesquita says who was also in the yacht then with strong winds and high waves, the boat Frei came to us. Our evacuation was extremely ambitious waves of more than 1.5 meters and winds over 40 knots made the boat jump from one side to another, just like a bucking bronco. When it got close, each of us threw ourselves into the arms of three Chilean crew members. Fortunately all went safely. Mar Sem Fim, however, couldn’t be rescued. The nearby freezing water that had been tossed over the ship was later frozen and then split the hull when it expanded. This phenomenon is called complete compression, and is what was later determined to have been the final blow to the hull of the Mar Sem Fim, sending her to the bottom of the shallow bay.

The boat lay in about 30 feet of water, preserved and can be seen from above, for almost a year, until rescue in early 2013. Owner João Lara Mesquita managed to return to the site and when the weather fully cooperated sent divers who wrapped strong lines under the hull and attached them to inflated buoys on either side. The buoys were incessantly inflated, gradually raising the vessel that had been underwater for almost a year. Once the vessel was surfaced, and then it was towed back to the shore where the researchers recovered their equipment and the Mar Sem Fim will most likely head for salvage. The ship was though insured for $700,000, nevertheless, the breached hull and damage from being submerged for ten months would seem to indicate the vessel is beyond repair.

Source: Amusing Planet