341 - 21st - Facing the ocean

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 21st Nov'08

Staring at the sea usually invokes two opposite emotions inside me - on one side the ocean inspires me to grow so big that everyone who looks at me can't help from doing anything but become spellbound while on the other side it makes me feel so nonexistent that it melts away each and every trace of proud or feeling of grandeur inside me.

I just love to sit in front of the sea and spend some time in peace. This was one such place in Cancun where I spent some time alone with my favorite landscape – a vast stretch of ocean.

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339 - 19th - Xcaret

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 19th Nov'08

Xcaret is a beach resort cum sea-activity place some twenty miles from Playa del Carmen. Almost everyone who visits Cancun visits the place. It offers you a day full of fun water activities like scuba diving, snorkeling & swimming with the dolfins to name a few. Also, it offers some authentic "Maya styled" acitivites like Temascal (an ancient Mayan purifying bath). People usually spend the whole weekend at the place enjoying the fabulous natural setting and a huge sprawling campus.

I took this photo late in the evening when the place was almost empty. It gave me a nice open view with no one peeping inside the scene.

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328 - 8th - At the horizon

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 8th Nov'08

After a long day of roaming around I was exhausted to the core and thus decided to have a break and rest for some time at a deserted beach. As I was searching for an empty place to lie down, it was already getting dark and the beautiful coconut trees on the beach had started to turn into silhouettes. The sun had gone to bed leaving behind a dim trail of light. The ship at the horizon seemed to be sailing back home.

I lay down on en empty chair and closed my eyes. The sound of splashing water and a cool breeze hitting my face soon led me into deep slumbers.

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327 - 7th - Point no 34

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 7th Nov'08

This photo is from Xcaret - Playa del carmen. Xcaret is a beach-side fun-cum-water activity resort. I visited there a couple of weeks back and decided to jump in for snorkeling. Snorkeling has always been something which thrilled me and I always wanted to do. So I booked for the trip and was asked by the ticket counter to go to "Point no 34" and pick up my towel, locker and equipment.

When I reached point 34, this is what I saw. A big building beautifully structured in the form of a spiral with numerous windows all around it's face and giving a combined look of Greek architecture and ancient Maya stone constructions.

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321 - 1st - Orchids

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 1st Nov'08

Orchids is one of the most famous species of flowering plants. I got a chance to shoot some of them at the orchid nursery in Xcaret. There were so many different kinds of Orchids there & each one of them so was beautiful that I can dedicate one post to all of them. These brownish-yellow ones were my favorites among them all.

Did you know that the "Vanilla" flavor comes from a famous orchid called Vanilla Planifolia

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