This video looks at West Madeira. The subtropical, mountainous island of Madeira is an autonomous region of Portugal. Madeira Island, 57km in length, is in the Atlantic, west of Morocco. In the 16th century the Portuguese started building levadas to carry water to the agricultural regions. Tourists can take walks along the levadas.
This video shows the Cape Town waterfront, a drive through the countryside, old colonial buildings, and Camps Bay. Cape Town "combines the coastline of Rio de Janeiro, the epicurean spirit of Provence, and the crime rate of inner-city Detroit." The Cape Flats district has drug-related gang warfare. In Cape Town, the murder rate is among the highest in the world.
Camara de Lobos is the traditional fishing village where Sir Winston Churchill used to paint. It is five kilometres from Funchal, the capital of Madeira. This video is a family effort.
The Gross Glockner,or Großglockner, 3798 m above sea level, is Austria's highest mountain. The Pasterze, Austria's biggest glacier, lies at the Großglockner's foot.
Heiligenblut is a mountain village in Austria.It lies at the foot of the Grossglockner, Austria´s highest mountain, right in the heart of the Hohe Tauern National Park. From there we visit the Malta Valley Dam, the town of Gmund, Bricciuskapelle, Lienz, and Schareck.
The Dolomites (Italian: Dolomiti; German: Dolomiten) are a part of the Alps. The rock, Dolomite, is a kind of limestone which is responsible for the jagged shapes of the mountains. The limestone was pushed up from an ancient seabed!
