Happy Star Wars Day! To celebrate, we’re at the Tunisian salt pan called Chott el Djerid. Nearby is a town called Matmata, where the residents still live and work in below-ground cave dwellings as a way to beat the heat. In the 1970s, when George Lucas needed a desert landscape to stand in for the distant home planet of Luke Skywalker, Chott el Djerid was chosen. Some of the film props—seen in this photo—are still standing, and continue to draw tourists into the region.
May the Fourth be with you…
Today in History
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Christmas Eve
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Kendwa village, Zanzibar, Tanzania
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When an ideal microclimate gives you lemons…
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Yosemite National Park turns 132
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Penguin Awareness Day
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The circular castle of Cornwall
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A day for the oceans
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Travel Sunday: Liverpool
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Via Krupp, Capri, Italy
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Waiting for the perfect shot
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Tree of many colors
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Mont-Saint-Michel
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Observing a squirrelly day
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Coming home to roost
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Pups of the prairie
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Who created the Easter Bunny?
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A holiday beacon of light
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Across the great plains of Africa
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The buzz about bees
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Illuminations on the Gulf of Poets
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Till the cows come home
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Almond trees in full bloom, California
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Great horned owl near Lake Tohopekaliga, Florida
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Inside the Oculus
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Taking the forest to the cloud
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American robin
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World Bamboo Day
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Splashes of color for Watercolor Month
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Turning darkness into light
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Kirkilai lakes, Biržai Regional Park, Lithuania