Today, I'll take you to a nice small community, called Wasdale Head in the charming Lake District. It's nothing more than a pub, an hotel, some houses and a small touristic shop at the foot of Scafell

Today's image is coming from the Ethiopian highlands. In the valleys you can see thousands of small farms in a so called 'upland permanent farming' system. It is the final stage in the expanding usage

Today we find ourselves in the Utah dessert near a town called Moab. It's quite a place, during the summer the temperatures can exceed 40 °C (100 °F) while in the winter months the thermometer can sink

It's so Miami... If you ever have the chance to fly to Miami or just transfer there, look outside your tiny airplane window when flying over this Florida's gem. America's cleanest and richest city might

Welcome in China! As a geographer, I carry some interest in agriculture, the über form of interaction between the physical earth and us, human beings. Today's pearl shows the magnificent Chinese rice terraces.

Today's post features a big avalanche, called 'The West Salt Creek landslide'. In 2014, a massive mass of ground start sliding down until it stopped 4.5 km further. The enormous avalanche moved almost

What you can see on today's picture is a bend in the famous Nile river, 100 km north of the Aswan dam. Some of you may remember from history lessons in high school that the seasonally flooding of the Nile

Welcome in Alaska, more specifically: welcome at the Kaskawulsh glacier. Glaciers are always quite spectacular from the air, whether it is from an airplane or on Google Earth. I am, however, not showing

Welcome in the Champagne region in France. What you can see in the middle, are the grape ranks which are the first step to the famous champagne whine. The other fields are regular Western European cropland

No rivers or mountains for today, but dunes. A lot of dunes. The image of the day is a satellite image from the Arabic peninsula. What you can see are a thousand of so called barchan dunes. Barchan dunes

The picture of today shows two worlds: the border between Russia and China. The Russian city, on the northern bank of the river, is not that chaotic but compared to the Southern urban centre, it is inferior

My favorite Google Earth Image of the day is one from the Ganges Delta in Bangladesh. It shows the enormous impact of environmental policies on land use and the complex consequences and trade-offs of

This pearl is an areal image of the Moroccan Sahara dessert. It shows what happens when a rain shower hits once or twice a year but when it happens, it rains dogs and cats. There is no vegetation and erosion

Not even everyone know they exist, the so called '-stan' countries. This sattelite picture comes from a mountain ridge on the border between Kazachstan and Kyrgyzstan. The central-Asian mountains are one

I love Google Earth! It's not only the perfect travel planner or an infinite source of information but it's also stunning. I'll try to share my favourite google earth imagery with you! Today I've found

Everyone is starting to become used to the doom scenario of climate change. Even more, we all know it has something to do with carbon and most of us understand that a cold day doesn't make climate change

Hi! My Name is Ignace and I am a Belgian, food-loving student geography with a rather creative mind and a interest of what's happening in sandy countries. I love to travel as slow as possible and I strongly