A VOLCANIC PAST
LANYU (Orchid Island), is one of Taiwan's most fascinating places. It is a wild and beautiful volcanic island. The humid, rainy climate has cloaked the mountainous interior of the island with a thick rain-forest cover, and has provided it with a great variety of plant and animal life.
Lanyu is the only area of Taiwan's purest aboriginal tribe: the seafaring Yamis or "Dawu". Thanks to their isolation they have managed to preserve much of their traditional heritage.
The coastline is most amazing with the shapes created by volcanic activities on the ocean floor.
Photo taken in mid-January 2009 (f16 1/40th sec zoom at 17mm spot metering)
ORCHID ISLAND, LANYU, COASTLINE, VOLCANIC HISTORY, TAIWAN, REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Claudio Micheli 17. März 2009, 8:18
...a very nice view...and good colors.Ciao
maiauge 16. März 2009, 21:13
Wunderbare Perspektive eines grandiosen Küstenabschnitts!VG Renate
JURAFR 16. März 2009, 13:36
Un superbe panorama , le paradis , voila qui sent bon les vacances, encore un peu loin !!Amitiés
Paolo Fuso 16. März 2009, 13:15
grande scatto, complimenti, ciao paolo