Featherdale Wildlife Park

From Featherdale Wildlife Park, a zoo located in Doonside, Sydney. The park contains various species native to Australia, and is known to be one of the world's largest collections of Australian fauna.

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Date: Feb 27

Plzeň

Plzeň is a city in the western Czech Republic. It’s known for the Pilsner Urquell Brewery, specializing in bottom-fermented beer since 1842, with brewing cellars and a bottling plant. Ringed by parks, the old center has the 19th-century Great Synagogue, which also hosts concerts. The Cathedral of St. Bartholomew, completed in the 16th century, has Renaissance paintings and a tall spire with a viewing gallery.

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Date: Feb 28

Stuttgart

Stuttgart is world-famous as the cradle of the automobile and home to the headquarters and museums of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. Located in a valley surrounded by vineyards, it is also renowned for its green spaces, the Wilhelma zoo/botanical garden, and a strong culture of ballet, opera, and wine.

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Date: Feb 28

Valentine's meeting

A souvenir from the valentine's day meeting in Leuven.
Date: Feb 27

Daugavpils

Daugavpils is the second-largest city in Latvia, located in the southeastern region of Latgale along the banks of the Daugava River. Church Hill is a unique place in Daugavpils. Churches of all four main religious denominations in Latgale exist within a relatively small area. This complex creates a unique panorama of Daugavpils. The churches became not only the religious centre of the Jaunbuve neighbourhood but also its architectonic dominant.The complex of buildings contributes to the city panorama with its diversity of architectural styles, from Baroque and Neo-gothic to Byzantine.

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Date: Feb 17

The Food Museum

The Food Museum, formerly the Museum of East Anglian Life, is a museum in Stowmarket, Suffolk,  focused on the farming and food production industries. It consists of an 84-acre estate and 17 historic buildings.

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Date: March 1

Kalkalpen National Park

With its valuable old forests and primeval beech forests, Kalkalpen National Park is the most important national forest park in the Alps. More than 10,000 species of animals, plants and fungi can be found in these mixed deciduous forests dominated by beech trees. With an area of 5,252 hectares, Kalkalpen National Park is not only the largest beech forest reserve in the Alps, it is also home to the oldest beech tree with a proud age of over 550 years. Around half of the forest in Kalkalpen National Park is made up of deciduous forests. In addition to small-scale alluvial forests, swamp forests and ravine forests, these are mainly made up of beech forests.

Unesco: Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe
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Date: Feb 27

Mersch

The Dragon of Mersch is a prominent bronze fountain located at Place Saint-Michel in the town square of Mersch, Luxembourg. The 3 water-basins personify the rivers Alzette, Mamer and Eich. It stands near the Old Tower, which is topped with a statue of Saint Michael, the archangel known for slaying a dragon.

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Date: March 8 

Niška Banja

Niška Banja is a popular spa town and municipality in southeastern Serbia, located approximately 10km from the city of Niš. Nestled at the foot of Mount Koritnik, it is one of the oldest and most famous health resorts in the country, known for its radioactive radon-rich thermal waters. The spa features five thermal springs with temperatures ranging from 19°C to 39°C, used to treat cardiovascular diseases, rheumatism, and rehabilitation after surgery.

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Date: Feb 23

Valley of Flowers National Park

Nestled high in West Himalaya, India’s Valley of Flowers National Park is renowned for its meadows of endemic alpine flowers and outstanding natural beauty. This richly diverse area is also home to rare and endangered animals, including the Asiatic black bear, snow leopard, brown bear and blue sheep. The gentle landscape of the Valley of Flowers National Park complements the rugged mountain wilderness of Nanda Devi National Park. Together they encompass a unique transition zone between the mountain ranges of the Zanskar and Great Himalaya, praised by mountaineers and botanists for over a century and in Hindu mythology for much longer.

Unesco: Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks
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Date: Feb 12

Jiuzhaigou Valley

Stretching over 72,000 ha in the northern part of Sichuan Province, the jagged Jiuzhaigou valley reaches a height of more than 4,800 m, thus comprising a series of diverse forest ecosystems. Its superb landscapes are particularly interesting for their series of narrow conic karst land forms and spectacular waterfalls. Some 140 bird species also inhabit the valley, as well as a number of endangered plant and animal species, including the giant panda and the Sichuan takin. The Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area is a reserve of exceptional natural beauty with spectacular jagged alpine mountains soaring above coniferous forest around a fairyland landscape of crystal clear, strange-coloured blue, green and purplish pools, lakes, waterfalls, limestone terraces, caves and other beautiful features. 

Unesco: Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area
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Date: Feb 10

The Historic Centre of Sibiu

Sibiu is a city in Transylvania, central Romania. It’s known for Germanic architecture in its old town, the legacy of 12th-century Saxon settlers. Around the city are the remains of medieval walls and towers, including the 13th-century Council Tower. In the upper town, Brukenthal Palace now houses the Brukenthal National Museum, with European paintings. The nearby Evangelical Cathedral has gravestones in its walls. In 2004, the historical center of Sibiu was added to Romania's tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, but has not yet been officially inscribed.

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Date: Feb 23