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Face of Jesus Found In Sand Dune

Tuesday, 5th July 2005 by

Well it’s gotta be Jesus, right? I mean that dude’s forever popping up in toast/paint/fungus etc. so why should sand dunes be any different? Many thanks to Mick D and Greg Day.

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We previously featured the fascinating Atacama Desert in 2008′s desert week, but to round off this year’s Desert Week we’ve…

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Nearby to the previously posted Machu Picchu, Peru, is a very unusual archaeological site – the strangely beautiful Inca ruins…

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