Beyond the gray plains of pebble, in northwestern South Africa, land is slightly inclined to lay open one of the timeless masterpieces of nature: a large  old sand appearing as a baked apricot, which stretches like forever. This is the Kalahari, a vast territory on the African plateau. Surreal beautiful in its immensity, prehistoric culture and structure, the Kalahari Desert covers almost the whole Bostwana, continuing to the west in Namibia and north in Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe. People who live here call it Kgalagadi, meaning “wilderness” – a region so vast, so impenetrable, as it hides secrets of ancient civilizations that disappeared a long time ago. Its sands are home and hunting territory of the oldest populations in the world, the tribes of Bushmen or San, who live today as they did 25,000 years ago. Their amazing adaptations in scorching heat, to the lack of the water and insufficient food, allowed people to survive where others would surely not. Although there is currently no longer than a few thousand bushmen in the Kalahari , their ancestors have left behind them numerous paintings in caves and on rocks in the region. For example in caves and on cliffs of the Tsodilo Hills, in the north-western desert, there are no fewer than 2750 pictures in 200 sites. These subjects vary from simple geometric designs to various groups of people and animals.
Even today, large groups can be seen as marching along the dried  rivers of Auob and Nossob, throwing gold dust in the air. Here, lions are often hidden under the foliage of trees, waiting for night to start hunting.

Innumerable tributaries feed the Congo river along the arc of a circle which is being crossed from its sources, to the border between Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo, until flowing into the Atlantic. On the road or 4700 km, the river winds through dense jungle and mangrove forests accumulating so much power that flows into the sea 41,700 tons of water per second, its  debit being exceeded only by the Amazon’s one.
When the river estuary was discovered, in 1482, by the portuguese explorer Diogo Cao, he could not cross the cataracts upstream of the river mouth, today named Livingstone Falls, so the river has remained unexplored for nearly 400 years. For Europeans of the nineteenth century, this area was known as the “darkest Africa”.
The upper Congo River is partially navigable. Initially, it flows to the north through a narrow, steep and rocky gorge, then winds through swamps covered by reeds and flowing into Lake Kisa, a paradise of egrets and seagulls, but the fishermen in the area. Further, navigable portions alternates with thresholds before Nyangwe, where the river enters into the dark jungle which frightened Livingstone in 1871, preventing him from going forward to the north. The river crosses 7 waterfalls along the 90 km, with the largest flow of water in the world, approximately 166,850 tonnes per second.

Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the sovereign United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and was first opened to the general public in 1993. The entrance to the Buckingham Palace is through the Court Street Ambassadors of Buckingham Palace. The Great Hall of the Palace is the place where the old reception room is situated. This room is dominated by the imposing stairs and railings in bronze floral ornaments. In the Guard Room visitors can admire on the walls the upholstery and decorations. Colored green silk on the walls of the room shows perfectly the beauty of the molding ceiling. This is the place where the room of Queen Charlotte is situated.The Bal Room is almost 40 meters long and was inaugurated during the reign of Queen Victoria in 1856 to celebrate the end of the war in Crimea. Among the collection of paintings at Buckingham Palace you can find artistic treasures by Rubens, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Vermeer and many others. This selection of paintings from the Art Gallery of Buckingham Palace is found in entrusting the Queen for her successors and for the nation and it is part of the national heritage of Great Britain. The History of Buckingham Palace began in 1702 when the Duke of Buckingham built it as his residence in London. Son Duke sold the Palace in 1761 to George III and was renamed the “Queen’s House” in 1744 because Queen Charlotte lived there. When the Palace has passed into the possession of George IV in 1820, Nash was hired to redecorate the Palace. The main part was kept but a new wing of flats was built in the west, garden. Since 1837, when Queen Victoria was established at the residence in Buckingham Palace, a lot of changes took place. One of the most important changes was the removal of huge portions of marble which today is found in the area called Tyburn. Nowadays, the Buckingham Palace is used not only as a residence for the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh but also for the administrative affairs of the monarchical institution.