If you’re looking for a piece of paradise that’s off the beaten path, consider Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, a destination in the Cerrado, a vast tropical savannah in central Brazil. Located on a towering plateau that’s estimated to be 1.8 billion years old, it’s home to many rare and beautiful species, including these delicate flowers, paepalanthus. Waterfalls are plentiful here. Ranging from 250 to nearly 400 feet tall, they cascade down among some of the oldest rock formations on the planet. Quartz crystals dot the landscape, and their reflections reportedly make the region shine when viewed from space.
Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park shines
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Snow aglow in central Japan
-
National Trails Day
-
It’s Art Deco Weekend in Miami
-
Glacial spires in the fog
-
Black grouses lekking
-
Meandering through Patagonia
-
In the Himalayas for International Mountain Day
-
Happy Mother’s Day
-
A crush in Lavaux
-
FOR FOREST by Klaus Littmann
-
In praise of the old…the very old
-
The Bahamas as seen from the ISS
-
Belgium celebrates its independence
-
White Desert National Park, Egypt
-
One for the books
-
Horseshoe Bend, Arizona
-
World of WearableArt Awards
-
A shell of many colors
-
It s Computer Science Education Week
-
Keep calm and drive on (slowly)
-
Atlantic puffin, Iceland
-
Bridge to infinity
-
World Reef Awareness Day
-
75 years of the United Nations
-
Over the boardwalk
-
Cosplay strongly encouraged
-
Wildcat in a winter wonderland
-
It s harvest time on World Food Day
-
Birds of a feather
-
Riding the bore tide at Turnagain Arm, Cook Inlet, Alaska