Best Travels from The Guardian in January

And although there are many photo contests dedicated to traveling the world and the beauties of our planet, we try to acquaint you with particularly interesting and prestigious ones. That is why it is impossible to ignore the competition, the organizer of which is the famous English newspaper The Guardian, founded back in 1821.

The largest and most famous square of Marrakesh is Jemaa al-Fna (Morocco). It is considered one of the key attractions of the city and is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Children in Calcutta play a rare game in the West.

Merry Illumination Business District - Canary Wharf, London.

Sunlight breaks through the clouds.

Trinity Church at an altitude of 2 170 meters. The wonderful construction is in Gergeti, right at the foot of Kazbek along the Georgian Military Highway.

Beijing is the capital and political center of China, generously built up with skyscrapers and covered with a dense network of highways. It is hard to believe that such beautiful islands of nature have been preserved here.

An outside hairdresser in Calcutta serves the client.

And finally, we present to you the main winner of January - a snapshot of the “dancing” Falkland Islands penguins, who are actually fighting a strong wind.

Taking this opportunity, we cannot but mention our compatriot - photographer Mikhail Potapov, who not so long ago became the winner of the annual 1x photo awards 2016 photo contest, taking the prize in the nomination "Jury. People." For all six years of the existence of the contest, only two Russian photographers reached the finals, and one of them was Mikhail Potapov. Our congratulations!

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