I made my first 360 panorama!!! It is so incredibly cool that even though I have seen this view with my own eyes, I spent 15 minutes looking at it again in this panorama viewer! If you can't see it below, follow the this link.



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Another touristy thing that every visitor of the Yosemite National Park absolutely must do is drive up to the Glacier Point. From this vantage point one would be able to get absolutely incredible views of the entire Yosemite Valley, with the comfort of only having to make a couple of steps out of one's car:

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"Oh! Well... Hello there, Human!"

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There is no feeling quite like discovering a new place, all by yourself.

Our last trip to Yosemite to see Vernal and Nevada Falls has left us with a slight feeling of unbalance as due to a huge number of tourists on the trail with us at all times the most enjoyable part of the hike was crossing through the forest between the bus stops ( Read more... )

"Third time is a charm!" - they say. Well, it was my third time walking up the most touristy of Yosemite's trails - Mist trail by the Vernal Fall. Last time I hiked this trail was back in 2008, almost 8 years ago, and I can absolutely say: "Nothing has changed since!"

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Ever since N has purchased a zoom lens for me, it has been my dream to take a picture of a bear. I carry the zoom lens with me everywhere on the off chance that I'll get a lucky encounter. The most popular trail of the Yosemite National Park would probably be the last place I would have expected to see a bear, but here I was, standing among dozens ( Read more... )

Today I got to attend the Women TechMakers event, hosted at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.

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If you were to rank the mountains, forest, and ocean - what would the order be? For me, undoubtedly, the top of the list is occupied by the mountains. And it is the experience such as our visit of Mont Blanc that confirms it again and again for me ( Read more... )

Moeraki Boulders is another "must-see" attraction of the South Island of New Zealand. Those are large boulders of unusual, close to spherical shape. They say that the shape is completely natural and caused simply by the waves of the ocean. Well, shouldn't there be more of them around the world or in New Zealand itself then?..

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On the same day that we hid in trenches to view the Yellow-Eyed penguins, we huddled on a special platform on the beach to see the Blue Penguins come out of the water at the end of the day and walk towards their nests. The light that you can see in the video is in such a range that is not visible to the penguins, so does not disturb them, but ( Read more... )