I initially watched it and thought it was great! the dancing, catchy music, colours and people. loved it and thought it was a twist to previous Petronas adverts that usually tweak our emotions if not bring tears to our eyes.

It is noted for its floating market, rice paper making village, and picturesque rural canals.

So this is where the tar sands live, under one of the last magnificent Boreal forests.

This road movie takes viewers from the turbulent urban environment of Caracas to the rural landscapes of the Venezuelan state of Bolivar, all the way to the top of Mount Roraima.

In the case of Neuchatel, this includes the canton as well as the picturesque lakeside city.

And built this civilization, this wonderful picture, that turned the darkness into light, and you can see the civilization from space.

The vast, 832 square mile body of water is Ethiopia's largest lake, and is packed with ecological, cultural and historical charm.

A moving short film by Gnarly Bay Productions follows a couple travelling through Chile and Patagonia, showing the beautiful landscapes found in this corner of South America.

ANSHUN, GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA The Huangguoshu Waterfall in China s southwestern Guizhou Province is a magnificent sight, when there is water.

But some Yemenis are trying to change that. Using film, photography, blogging, and social media, they want the world to see Yemen for its rich art, unique architecture, and the breath taking landscapes and scenery that the country has to offer.

And images of junkies and Muslim women in headscarves are contrasted in a promotional movie with idyllic pictures of Alpine scenery and efficient banks the People s Party s Switzerland.

On February 25, 2008, the Bertha Benz Memorial Route was officially approved as a Tourist or Scenic Route by the German authorities, a dynamic monument of 194 km of German industrial culture.

This pigeon does something that most homing pigeons do not do it takes the scenic route, which was a device that I felt was necessary to actually extend this book beyond about four pages.

Many identify the African continent with idyllic postcards of safaris on its great prairies or with the much repeated images of the ills afflicting that continent, as if nothing else was worth mentioning and as if its men and women did not exist.

But now the world is undergoing a second home boom an increasing number of people are buying vacation homes in beautiful and fun places that are within a few hours flying time from their first homes and jobs.

Marwan, one of the youths who paused to swim while his family were making the trek to Molyvos, gestures to the crowds of exhausted, patience worn thin fellow travelers around them at the port and says wryly, If I knew we were hurrying only to get stuck here I would have stayed in the sea for longer and stopped to admire the views along the way .

In every one of these rides I always end up standing in one of these incredible locations, taking in this incredible landscape around me, and I feel blessed and fortunate that I'm alive, and that I sense every fiber in my aching body.

And I am reminded that throughout the world there are cultures with vast sums of knowledge in them, as potent as the Micronesian navigators, that are going dismissed, that this is a testament to brilliant, brilliant technology and science and wisdom that is vanishing rapidly.

In the East, a large number of Chinese troops have entered Pakistani held territory high in the mountain fastness of the Kashmir Karakorams, in the picturesque Gilgit Baltistan region, not far from the glacial battlefield of Siachen, where India and Pakistan confront each other.

When he was 22 he left England for South Africa aboard the Olivia (captained by a family friend William Roome) and worked for a while in Cape Town as a scenic and portrait artist, and as official war artist during the so called Eighth Frontier War for the British Army.

ANSHUN, GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA The Huangguoshu Waterfall in China s southwestern Guizhou Province is a magnificent sight, when there is water. The largest waterfall in Asia, it plunges over a sheer cliff more than 200 feet high in a thundering display of foam, mist, and rainbows.