Travel: The Places

A local pair pass by a church on San Andres Island, Columbia. (© 2005 Michael A. Mariant)

Hikers rest on a viewpoint underneath the Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park, near Seward, Alaska. (© 2003 Michael A. Mariant)

25 February 2004 - Palm Springs, California - Illuminated by a electrical substation, a line of wind turbines spin as a powerful winter storm blows through the desert and the Palm Springs wind farm east of Los Angeles. (Photo Credit: Michael A. Mariant/Sipa Press)

A worker carries a supply bag to a steam train awaiting departure in Udagamandalam (Ooty), India. The Nilgiri Mountain Railway, the only steam engine rack - or cog - railway in India, connects the town of Mettupalayam with the hill station of Ooty over a windy and steep 46 km (28 miles) route. The railway, opened by the British in 1899, was designated as a World Heritage Site in 2005.(© 2003 Michael A. Mariant)

Train passengers rush through the Shinkansen high-speed bullet train platforms in the train station in Tokyo, Japan. (© 2003 Michael A. Mariant)

A worker feeds dried eucalyptus leaves into a fire used to generate steam to extract the oils from fresh eucalyptus leafs at the Doddabetta Medicinal Plant Farm near Udagamandalam (Ooty), in Tamil Nadu, India. (© 2003 Michael A. Mariant)

With the fishing fleet anchored in the background, women stay warm by a barrel fire before the sunrise opening of the fish market in Busan, South Korea. (© 2003 Michael A. Mariant)