21st Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
Oasis

Lencois Maranhenses is probably the most beautiful place most people have never heard. This national park in the north of Brazil is a desert of powdery white sand dotted by natural pools of azure water that form after rainfall and dry up towards the end of the dry season until the cycle is repeated.

Photo Detail
Date Uploaded: 11.2023
Photo Location: Brazil
Camera: ILCE-7RM5
Copyright: © Dmytro Geshengorin