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North and Central America travel stories: wildlife, road trips and wild landscapes
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Southern USAFeel like a child again!
If you don’t want to become an adult, just don’t grow up. Peter Pan succeeded in Neverland surrounded by his lost boys and the fairy Tinkerbell 🙂 . Let’s face it, it is tempting to rediscover a carefree childhood… even for a single day ? So, direction Orlando, a giant playground where the theme parks…
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Southern USAThe Laws of Nature…
The Everglades is a must-see for any traveler to Florida (a State of Southern USA) ! The Everglades National Park at the southern tip of continental Florida is a wetland preserve made up of lush mangroves, sawgrass marshes that are home to alligators and birds. This national park was established in 1947, and was declared…
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Southern USAAll Quiet on the Key West Front
The first thing that comes to my mind when talking about Florida, “The Sunshine State” and the Land of Flowers in Spanish, is, I confess, Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs in the TV series Miami Vice: a warm climate, streets lined with Palm trees, the long white sandy beaches of Miami, the upscale South Beach…
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CubaWith Time, Everything goes away…
Havana, a last dive into Cuban culture… The colonial capital is a movie set lying somewhere between decay and sparkling beauty! With time… / With time everything goes its way / Even the dearest of memories…, sung by French singer Léo Ferré. Who would not dream of shooting a movie in the streets of Havana,…
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CubaThe Old Good Days
“Muchos recuerdan los viejos tiempos…” (Let’s recall the old good days) Trinidad is a town full of history, not revolutionary history but architectural. It is located in the province of Sanctis Spiritus in central Cuba from about 225 miles from Havana and was founded in 1514 by Spanish conquistadors ! Trinidad is renowned for its…
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CubaTake the Time
Bienvenidos in the Ciénaga de Zapata reserve (Ciénaga meaning swamps), the largest and most important wetland in the Caribbean located about 100 miles Southeast of Havana in the province of Matanzas. The Zapata Peninsula includes the Ciénaga de Zapata Biosphere Reserve established in 2000 as a UNESCO site and the Ciénaga de Zapata National Park.…
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CubaGive it some Time
You have surely heard of the famous Bermuda triangle where everything disappears ? Well, in Cuba there is the tabacco triangle where everything disappears into smoke… ” Ne me contar la Historia del tabaco”, which may be translated as “Do not tell me nonsense”. In the region of Vuelta Abajo, in the westernmost corner of…
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CubaO Time! Pause in your flight
When we talk about Cuba, the first images that come to mind make our head spin and fill us with desire: Salsa, cigar and mojitos, a Cadillac from another time, colonial architecture, lobsters, white sandy beaches, and colorful fish. However, Cuba is much more than all this… The country has a strong and unique identity,…
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Western USAI visited Joshua Tree, U2
Enough of the city, cars and crowds! We head East. The city disappears slowly and gradually, houses become sparser and the land bare before giving way to vast stretches of sand and Rocky Mountains. Finally, the first wind turbines announce that Palm Springs is near. These are hundreds, even thousands, of wind turbines that all…
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Western USAElla, LA / I don’t know what this is / That others do not have
Beverly Hills (even without Brandon & Branda), Santa Monica, Venice, Malibu (I am sure you already have a mental image of Pamela in a red swimming suit running along the beach to give mouth-to-mouth to a careless surfer)… are evocative names glittering on the other side of the world! A symbol of the American dream,…
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Western USAThe Pacific Coast
It is time to leave San Francisco (another well know city of Western USA) and its mists behind and head towards the Pacific Ocean and the 17-mile Drive. The 17-mile Drive is a scenic coastal road running from Pebble Beach to Pacific Grove on the Monterey peninsula and connecting Monterey Bay in the North with…
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Western USAThe Streets of San Francisco
San Francisco in Northern California, commonly abbreviated SF or more colloquially Frisco, is one of the most beautiful cities on the West Coast of the United States. Go, relax, close your eyes and imagine yourself for ten minutes at the wheel of a Ford Mustang Fastback…Or rather for exactly 10 minutes and 53 seconds, the…
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Western USAN… as New Start
Lake Powell has many more treasures, some of them easily accessible. Horseshoe Bend is a beautiful horseshoe-shaped meander of the Colorado River. The contrast between the emerald green of the Colorado River, which flows 340 meters below, and orange cliffs above is magnificent. The site is accessible from U.S. Route 89 via a 1.5-mile hike…
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Western USAN as… No man’s land
We cannot leave this charming corner of Utah without a visit to Bryce Canyon National Park in Southwestern Utah (a State of Western USA). Bryce Canyon was named for Ebenezer Bryce, who settled below the Bryce Canyon Antitheater. He built a road to the plateau in the pink cliffs in order to carry firewood and…
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Western USAN as in… Nuances
Yà’àt’héé, After watching the changing shapes of clouds reflected in the water at Vermillon Cliffs National Monument in Arizona (a State of Western USA), just south of the Utah state line, we decided to maintain this contemplative pace and observe the various shades of color, changing minute to minute inside the slot canyon… Besides in…
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Western USAN as in… Nowhere else
In this article we offer a “rendez-vous” for Nowhere else, a real treat. Let’s start with a miniature Sahara, the Coral Sand Dunes State Park, which presents a nice specter of pink and orange hued sand dunes, surrounded by red sandstone cliffs. Coral Sand Dunes State Park is located near the South state line of Utah…
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Western USAN as in… Nature
Lolma … uh, hello Mrs. Hopi Coyote Um hinhinta ?… We are doing well, thank you (Pi nu ‘qahinta) Here we go again… “We dreamed about another land/ that remains a mystery” (Téléphone – Je rêvais d’un autre monde, again)… this time, I think we landed in the right place! As Albert Einstein said, “Look…
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Western USAN as in… Navajo
Here, I do not thank Quinn Mallory who did not respect the time limits.. Now, we are in a parallel world where language and culture are totally foreign to us… Yá’át’ééh … hello, how are you. Háadish nits’éé’ łee’ Sita?… Where are you from? we are from France! Nizhónígo ałhééhosiilzįįd… Nice to meet you. Haash…
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Western USAN as in… New Age
Good morning, Arizona! Welcome to “The Grand Canyon State” or Hooo Hahoodzo in Navajo! Arizona is located in the Southwestern United States. Along with Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado it is one of the Four Corners states. Arizona is home to the Grand Canyon, but there is much more to discover. The state features a…
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North and Central America have taught me to embrace the unexpected. Few places offer such a diversity of landscapes and experiences: one day may begin in a tropical rainforest, continue along a volcanic trail and end beneath the lights of a bustling city or the colours of a sunset over the ocean.
What fascinates me most is this constant sense of surprise. Some of my favourite travel memories come from unplanned moments: a sloth high in the canopy, a colourful street coming to life at dusk or a landscape revealing itself in a way I never expected. Photography has taught me to welcome these surprises; often, the most meaningful images are the ones I never set out to capture.
With camera in hand, I invite you to explore the varied landscapes, vibrant cultures and spontaneous moments that continue to inspire my travels throughout North and Central America.
Every journey is far more than a destination. It is a collection of encounters, light and emotions that I am delighted to share through my photographs and travel stories.
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