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.
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Pantaleu
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The parenting of a piping plover
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The desert blooms
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Here’s looking at you, teachers
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A whale of a picture
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Happy Mothers Day!
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Cheese! We ll go somewhere where there s cheese!
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Wanderin Wawayanda
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Asteroid Day
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Spire Cove in Kenai Fjords National Park, Seward, Alaska
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The Aomori Nebuta Festival parade, Japan
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Great Backyard Bird Count
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Fibonacci Day
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Reflecting on Black History Month
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Wandering Watkins Glen
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Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
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Australian baobab tree, Kimberley region, Western Australia
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Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
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Happy International Zebra Day!
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Hemakuta Hill, Hampi, India
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A circular celebration
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The ‘Night of Nights’
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Happy Halloween!
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World Giraffe Day
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National Park Week: Yosemite National Park, California
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Glen Brittle, Isle of Skye, Scotland
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Megalong Valley, Blue Mountains National Park, Australia
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Celebrating Charles Darwin
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Celebrating World Water Day
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Arctic fox in Norway