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In Vietnam, during a trip to the resort town of Dalat, we gladly visited the "madhouse".
I can not but share his experience.

"Crazy House" was built by Mrs. Dang Viet Nga. The locals did not immediately fall in love with him. Moreover, Communist Vietnam did not welcome such a strange construction, but in this case helped her connection - her father was a civil servant.
The house consists of several buildings, half of which are not completed. It set of numbers, and for little money you can spend the night in an unusual place.

It is interesting to investigate the hut - all that unusual. Mazes.
Rooms are also unusual. Everyone is different. Sine qua non of the hotel is that the guest can not completely close the door to the room. It certainly made ​​for tourists, but still not very nice to know that your number will be someone to look.
Our rooms have a fireplace
This stairway leads nowhere - it is not yet completed.


Devil's kangaroo-eyed










Egegey! These are the hats can be bought there:)

A spider spins a web


Unusual place.I do not think that staying there is a good idea, but to explore its possible to be happy:)








They may look like a monster from another planet, but these strange creatures have been photographed Rundstedt Rovillosom in the Philippines. His macro show the finest details of every kind. The collection of photographs includes pictures wasps, caterpillars and beetles, which seem to be quite different from the ones you can find in a typical British garden.

1. Osa evharitida, demonstrates his "feathered" headdress.
2. Woody grasshopper (a member of the family Membracidae, groups of insects, is a subspecies of cicadas and leafhoppers).
3. This track is more like a dragon than an insect - which won her the horn. The photograph - a horned caterpillar.
4. And this caterpillar's head like a cherry. In the photograph: the typical red-caterpillar, one of the local varieties.
5. Ant, played bowling raindrops.
6. Mr. Rovillos loves insects since childhood, but to photograph them began only five years ago. The photograph - a kind of weevil.
7. Forty photographer who lives in Quezon City in the Philippines, much of his free time devoted to his hobby ... The photos - land surveyor.
8. "It takes a lot of patience, attentiveness and ability to photograph an insect, " he says. In the photo - Grasshopper with ice cream.
9. "I've never unoshu insect from its natural habitat, " says the photographer. In the photograph: a species of wasp Shrike.
10. "Some insects normally react to the photographs, some do not. " In the photo: looking out of the leaf grasshopper.

 

Marine Creatures With Camouflage Ability

Marine camouflage: these colourful underwater creatures are masters of disguise
These underwater creatures are masters of deception so cleverly adapted to their environment that many would never be found without expert knowledge. Brandon Cole, a photographer from Washington state on the west coast of the US, uses his expertise as a marine biologist to hunt for the almost invisible animals.


A Coleman's shrimp camouflaged among spines of a poisonous fire sea urchin in Indonesia
"My pictures show hidden marine life blending into the background of the reef or seabed," said Brandon. "They're hard to find - you don't see them straight away. Sometimes you happen upon them - but many of them require a search pattern. For example when hunting a cowrie snail on a soft coral you have to know it lives in association with that particular coral. So you look for the host and then look for a needle in a hay stack - but you have to know which hay stacks to look for first."

A ridged egg cowrie snail hidden among soft coral in Indonesia
Brandon explains why these creatures take such trouble to remain hidden. "It has to do with survival," he said. "They adapt to their environment through natural selection. Most of these animals are camouflaged against the background of their natural habitat. This increases their odds of survival so they are less likely to be found by predators. Many are small and defenceless so rely on this trick to survive."

A leafy sea dragon in South Australia
The double-ended pipe fish not only looks like the sea grass it lives within but also mimics the swaying motion of the grass as it is moved by sea currents.

A double-ended pipefish among sea grasses in Indonesia
Brandon has travelled the world to capture his pictures, and says: "I think a great place to go to see mimicry in action is Lembeh Strait in Sulawesi, Indonesia. It's an especially critter rich habitat where lots of camouflage is present."

A bearded scorpionfish hides in a coral garden in Indonesia
Another bearded scorpionfish camouflaged against a reef in Thailand
A harlequin crab on a sea cucumber in Indonesia
A peacock flounder camouflaged on sand in Dominica
A hairy frogfish in Indonesia
An octopus camouflaged against sand near a sea grass bed in a shallow bay in Australia
A devil scorpionfish well camouflaged in Hawaii
A speckled sanddab in California
A crocodilefish in Indonesia
A crinoid squat lobster which matches the colour of its host crinoid (feather star) in Thailand
Golden Wentletrap snails laying eggs on cup corals in the Pacific Ocean in Baja, Mexico
A sea star shrimp living on underside of a blue sea star in Indonesia
An ornate ghost pipefish well camouflaged next to a crinoid (a feather star) in Indonesia
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