Khaosan Road, Bangkok, Thailand
Khaosan Road or Khao Sarn Road (Thai: ถนนข้าวสาร) is a short street in central Bangkok, Thailand. It is located in the Banglamphu area of (Phra Nakhon district) about 1 km north of the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew.
“Khaosan” translates as “milled rice”, a reminder that in former times the street was a major Bangkok [...]
Sydney Opera House, Australia
The Sydney Opera House is a modern expressionist design,with a series of large precast concrete ’shells’, each composed of sections of a hemisphere of the same radius, forming the roofs of the structure, set on a monumental podium. The building covers 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) of land, and is 183 metres (605 ft) long and [...]
Hassleholm, Sweden
Hässleholm was gradually developed from 1860 in connection with the construction of the main Stockholm to Malmö railway line. There was no settlement on the spot before the arrival of the railway. The station got its name from a manor situated in the vicintity of a planned railway junction. It gained the city title in [...]
Painted Forest, Arizona
The desert is composed of stratified layers of easily erodable siltstones, mudstones and shales of the Triassic Chinle Formation. These fine grained rock layers contain abundant iron and manganese compounds which provide the pigments for the various colors of the region. Thin resistant lacustrine limestone layers and volcanic flows cap the mesas. Numerous layers of [...]
Grand Canyon, Arizona
The Grand Canyon is a massive rift in the Colorado Plateau that exposes uplifted Proterozoic and Paleozoic strata, and is also one of the six distinct physio graphic sections of the Colorado Plateau province. The Grand Canyon is unmatched throughout the world for the vistas it offers to visitors on the rim. It is not [...]
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Richard Dennis is a freelance photographer with a strong interest in international travel. He is originally from the United States currently making his home in Malmo, Sweden.
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Khaosan Road, Bangkok, Thailand
Khaosan Road or Khao Sarn Road (Thai: ถนนข้าวสาร) is a short street in central Bangkok, Thailand. It is located in the Banglamphu area of (Phra Nakhon district) about 1 km north of the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew. “Khaosan” translates as “milled rice”, a reminder that in former times the street was a major Bangkok [...]
