Golden Mountains of Altai is the name of an UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of the Altai and Katun Natural Reserves, Lake Teletskoye, Belukha Mountain, and the Ukok Plateau. As stated in the UNESCO description of the site, "the region represents the most complete sequence of altitudinal vegetation zones in central Siberia, from steppe, forest-steppe, mixed forest, subalpine vegetation to alpine vegetation".

Volcanoes of Kamchatka are a large group of volcanoes situated on Kamchatka peninsula. About thirty of them are active.

Wilson Peak is a 4,272 m mountain peak in the U.S. state of Colorado. It is located in the Lizard Head Wilderness of the Uncompahgre National Forest, in the southern San Juan Mountains. It is the highest point in San Miguel County.

Temple of Venus in the Linderhof Palace Grounds.

A Lynx - of the four Lynx genus species of medium-sized wildcats.

National Concert Hall in Taipei.

Another postcard of Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area, Switzerland. It's beautiful, isn't it?

The Jungfrau is one of the main summits in the Bernese Alps, situated between the cantons of Valais and Bern in Switzerland. Together with the Eiger and Mönch, the Jungfrau forms a massive wall overlooking the Bernese Oberland and considered one of the most emblematic sights of the Swiss Alps. 

Along with the Aletsch Glacier lying on the south, the Jungfrau is part of the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area which was declared a World Heritage site in 2001.

The Shoebill is a very large stork-like bird. It derives its name from its massive shoe-shaped bill.

The adult bird is 115–150 cm tall, 100–140 cm long, 230–260 cm across the wings and weighs 4 to 7 kg Adult is mainly grey while the juveniles are browner. It lives in tropical east Africa in large swamps from Sudan to Zambia.

Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is UNESCO World Heritage-listed in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located 1431 kilometres south of Darwin by road and 440 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs along the Stuart and Lasseter Highways. The park covers 2010 square kilometres and includes the features it is named after - Uluru / Ayers Rock and, 40 kilometres to its west, Kata Tjuta / Mount Olga and is serviced by flights from most Australian capital cities.

Official postcard from the Netherlands.

Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 154 km south of Seattle, Washington and 80 km northeast of Portland, Oregon. Mount St. 

The bluebonnet became the Texas state flower in 1901. Part of the legume family, it blooms from March through May.

Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica. Located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, its size was calculated in 1988 as about 30 m high, 291 m long including the access ramp at the southern end, and 236 m wide. This makes Monks Mound roughly the same size at its base as the Great Pyramid of Giza. Its base circumference is larger than the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan.

Nine Creeks is located in Misty Forest, on the south of Longjing (Dragon Well) and 10 kilometers away from the West Lake. It's a beautiful and quiet scene of waters in mountains with creeks as the theme and mountains and trees as the background.

Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge is world famous for its birds, and home to a mix of wildlife only found here.

This's a postcard from my favs :) Thank you Angee!

Colorado became a state on August 1, 1876 and was the 38th state. Colorado is known as the 'Centennial State' and the actual meaning of the word Colorado is 'colored red'.

The Thousand Islands is the name of an archipelago of islands that straddle the Canada-USA border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. They stretch for about 80 km downstream from Kingston, Ontario. The Canadian islands are in the province of Ontario. The U.S. islands are in the state of New York. The islands, which number 1,793 in all, range in size from over 40 square miles (100 km²) to smaller islands occupied by a single residence, to even smaller uninhabited outcroppings of rocks that are home to migratory waterfowl.

 On the postcard we can see Boldt Castle which is located on Heart Island (New York).

This postcard doesn't show Ukraine but I love a quote Margarita wrote on the postcard. 'Love is when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is better than dream'. Like it because it's so true. I wish I could be able to say that...