Best Photos of the Week (April 11 - 17) by National Geographic

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By tradition - the best photos for April 11 - 17 from photographers from National Geographic … Once again, we admire the beauties of nature, looking into the most different parts of our planet.

April 11th

Not the highest, but the most picturesque and impressive mountain in the Alps is called the Matterhorn. Located on the border between Switzerland, the resort of Zermatt, and Italy, a resort called Breuil-Cervinia. In the photo, Verena Popp-Hackner is the same mountain in the rays of the dawn sun, reflected in the waters of Lake Riffel.

12th of April

Traveling around India, photographer Mark Vincent Mueller managed to photograph a monkey called Hanuman Langur. In addition to the fact that this animal is very beautiful, in India, Sri Lanka and a number of other countries, Hanuman Langur is considered sacred. According to the epic Ramayana, Langur Hanuman saved the pious Rama and his wife. Almost every Indian temple is home to one, or even several langurs.

13 april

In one of the weekly collections of photographs, we have already seen such pictures: a boiling lake of lava from the Nyiragongo volcano, which is located in the Congo. The author of the photo is Carston Peter, one of the explorers who managed to get as close as possible to the volcano and was the first to photograph the huge lake of lava so close.

14th of April

And I don't even want to say anything about this stunningly gorgeous photograph of a spring field. Just look with bated breath and ask yourself - is it really all real? No trick in the form of digital shenanigans with the image, no outside interference? It looks like the image is embroidered on the fabric - but no, it's just a photograph. The genius of the camera who became the author of this picture is Giuliano Mangani.

April 15

Lightning over the city of Scottsdale, Arizona. As for me, such photos can be considered masterpieces by default - there is something fascinating, delightful, otherworldly in them … By Richard T. Cole.

16 april

Kemeri National Park in Lanvia is one of the main attractions for tourists. So, from the end of the 19th century until 1995, the town of Kemeri was a famous resort, because on its territory there is the famous Big Kemeri bog, which played a key role in the formation of sources of sulfuric mineral water, thanks to which Kemeri became a resort town. Nowadays, these lands are protected by law, many plants and animals that are on the territory of the reserve are included in the Red Book.

17 april

One of the many national parks in the United States is the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Park, South Dakota. Sioux is one of the Indian tribes, the indigenous population of the United States, and today the natives of this tribe are making desperate attempts to reclaim lands that have belonged to them for centuries.