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Traveler Photo Contest 2011. 2013 Winners For our 25th annual photo contest, National Geographic Traveler magazine received more than 15,500 entries from skilled photographers from around the globe.

Taken in locations ranging from Brazil to Kenya, the winning pictures show everything from quiet landscapes to surprising moments. Did your favorites make the cut? Top 10 Castles of the World That Are Worth Visiting. Sistine Chapel. Crystal River - The most beautiful river on earth [Pics] Cano Cristales - Crystal River.

River of five colors, as the locals call it, originates in the south of the mountain chain Macarena, Colombia, and flows eastward to its confluence with the Guayabero river. In the Cano Cristales found five colors: yellow, blue, green, black and red. All of them are waste product of many algae and, depending on time of year, color saturation, or weakened or strengthened. Photograph, Library, These, University, United. Moldova National Library - Photograph by Daniel Zollinger These pillars of higher learning are also home to some of the world’s most incredible architecture.

Below is a small collection of stunning libraries around the globe. From the historical to the modern, these centres of knowledge and learning also preserve the history and culture of their respective periods. Hang-en-cave-vietnam_32754.