!!!The best panoramas made by AirPano in 2017

By
members of the [AirPano Team|Geography/About/Consortium/AirPano,_Team] that is a member of the [global-geography Consortium|Geography/About/Consortium]. \\

10 January 2018

with kind permission of [AirPano|http://www.AirPano.com]

The best panoramas made by AirPano in 2017

AirPano team creates 360°-panoramas and videos of different corners of
the world. It is the demonstration of the beauty and diversity of
nature; in addition, by creating architectural masterpieces the human
also makes a contribution to the changing image of the planet. Looking
back over the past year we have chosen a number of very different
places: fascinating, incomparable and captured from unique perspectives.

You can have a tour not only over the famous Angel's Falls, the highest
waterfall in the world but also over other Venezuelan waterfall named
Acha. It is not so famous but no less fascinating. The colour of water
changes depending on the thickness of the waterfall: its right side is
almost transparent with the sun breaking through it and its thick left
side is pulsing with shades of orange. In order to fully assess this
marvellous phenomenon, AirPano team has created a panorama from inside
this waterfall.

[{Image src='01_2017.jpg' caption='Canaima Lagoon, Hacha Waterfall, Venezuela\\© [AirPano|https://www.AirPano.com]' alt='' width='900' popup='false'}]

Another picturesque waterfall is Veliki Prštavac in Croatia, located on
the territory of Plitvice Lakes National Park. The process of
photographing took place in winter, which is not the usual time of
visiting these waterfalls, making it possible to see them from a new
perspective.

[{Image src='02_2017.jpg' caption='Plitvice Lakes National Park in Winter, Croatia\\© [AirPano|https://www.AirPano.com]' alt='' width='900' popup='false'}]

When winter covers the land with a white blanket, it compensates the
colourlessness with the bright lights of aurora borealis appearing in
the sky of Norway. Another stunning miracle that can be witnessed in the
sky is the phenomenon of a "green ray". Before hiding behind the
horizon, the solar rays are refracted in a special way in the atmosphere
and a green flash can be visible and this phenomenon can be witnessed
only in a few places in the world. The best one is Huahine Island
located in French Polynesia.

[{Image src='03_2017.jpg' caption='Northern Lights in Norway\\© [AirPano|https://www.AirPano.com]' alt='' width='900' popup='false'}]

You can observe the beautiful underwater world with its inhabitants in
the panoramas captured near Fotteyo in the Maldives and Jardines de la
Reina in Cuba. To fulfil this "sea mosaic" we have included the
above-water panorama of the famous resort of Saint-Tropez located on the
French Riviera.

[{Image src='04_2017.jpg' caption='Saint-Tropez, France\\© [AirPano|https://www.AirPano.com]' alt='' width='900' popup='false'}]

Let's move to the Far East! This part of the world is represented by the
fantastic landscapes of Uzon caldera in Kamchatka and an unusual corner
of China: Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu. In the first
case, you can see with your own eyes different geological processes
occurring on the Western thermal field; in the second case, a meeting
with charming bamboo bears is waiting for us.

[{Image src='05_2017.jpg' caption='Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, China\\© [AirPano|https://www.AirPano.com]' alt='' width='900' popup='false'}]

Some panoramas allow us to become better acquainted with interesting
historical places. Among them, for example, the ghost-town of Kolmanskop
in Namibia: it had lived for only several years in the beginning of the
20th century and now it is an enfilade of abandoned rooms filled with
sand. In Bhutan, the photographers of AirPano captured a birds-eye view
of Druk Wangyal Chortens (memorial Buddhist stupas), in Russia they took
pictures of Targim towers, the magnificent examples of the medieval
Ingush architecture.

[{Image src='06_2017.jpg' caption='Old Watch Towers, Ingushetia, Russia\\© [AirPano|https://www.AirPano.com]' alt='' width='900' popup='false'}]

One more place on the territory of Russia does not need an additional
introduction: the Moscow Kremlin. The new panorama will show the
neighbouring Manezhnaya Square and the Corner Arsenalnaya Tower.

[{Image src='07_2017.jpg' caption='Moscow Kremlin, Russia\\© [AirPano|https://www.AirPano.com]' alt='' width='900' popup='false'}]

The tour dedicated to the rehearsal the Russian Navy parade was captured
in July 2017: more than 50 vessels and submarines, including the heavy
nuclear missile cruiser "Peter the Great", gathered in the waters of the
Neva River and the Kronshtadt sea road. This kind of events rarely can
be witnessed alive, especially from above!

And, finally, no one would stay indifferent by meeting Venezuelan
children living in the Orinoco Delta. The closeness of the water
determines their life: they learn how to manage boats perhaps earlier
than they learn walking. The benefits of civilization haven't come to
this remote area, but it doesn't prevent them from being friendly and
happy.

[{Image src='08_2017.jpg' caption='Delta of Orinoco River, Venezuela\\© [AirPano|https://www.AirPano.com]' alt='' width='900' popup='false'}]

We hope that tours to these different corners of our planet will give
you a positive spirit for the new year!

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