If there’s one thing in nature that scares the beejezus out of us, water has got to be it. Calm and serene one minute. Furious, lashing, and roaring the next! Water has got to be the most intense primal force in nature. What you’re seeing is the aftermath of a river flooding after a rainstorm and simply washing away a section of the roadway.
Yes, there was once a road where a gaping hole and giant puddles now lie. If concrete can give way to water’s fury so easily, what chance do mere mortals have? Thankfully, we hear there were no people on that section of road just then.
A Living Breathing Hotel
When you’re looking for a breath of fresh air (quite literally) in downtown Singapore, the Oasia hotel is ‘the’ place to be. Among other things, this hotel is famous for lush greenery surrounding its exteriors. It’s the oasis every concrete jungle needs! This aerial view brilliantly captures the contrast in surroundings.
We have a pop of bright green, brick, and blue in between imposing concrete. Safe to say that everything else blends into the background. Singapore is a famously vibrant city, and sites like Oasia are undoubtedly at its heart. The hotel exemplifies how human ingenuity and the natural world can and should meet. They don’t have to be at odds.
A Retreat In The Desert
It would take a lifetime to cover all the jaw-dropping places one can stay at on this planet! Thanks to drones, we can eliminate expensive travel for now and be content with living vicariously. This picture is of a remote retreat in the United Arab Emirates, only accessible by trekking across the desert.
So, you want an offbeat retreat? You’ll have to work for it, of course! This oasis is well worth the effort. It has everything you need and more – trees, water, and a swimming pool too. The aerial drone view really puts into perspective what “oasis in the desert” means. Imagine getting lost in the endless expanse of sand and not knowing where to go.
Swimming With Sharks
We give up. we will never understand some people. You are SWIMMING. With SHARKS. Here’s a revolutionary idea: how about you not do that maybe? Perhaps we're just made of different stuff, but we would much prefer looking at sharks from a safe distance.
Swimming with them seems highly unnecessary, don’t you think? What are the chances of getting bitten? We know, we know. Probably slim. But you wanna know the best answer? The chances of getting bitten are about a gazillion times less if you DON’T SWIM WITH SHARKS. We don’t want to be those people, but we wonder what the next few photos in this series showed.
Giant Bird's Nest
Seems like this is a giant nest of little birds* that they build atop a utility pole. We understand that such little birds building such enormous nests is somewhat unusual, so we consider ourselves lucky for having gotten to see this photo. But admit it: looks kinda sinister at first until you know what it is, right?
It’s not something you want to see on a casual stroll through the woods, that’s for sure. We was about to call it a giant birds’ nest, but we realized that could be misunderstood to mean that they were giant birds. So we fixed it! Clarity is your friend.