Underwater Forests / Takashi Amano/ Lisbon Oceanario/Let's travel again @ladysnowhite

Last week I posted small video https://steemit.com/nature/@jungwatercolor/h7liydj5 I filmed at this amazing exhibition I witnessed in 2015 during my Lisbon visit.
And what's funny, i almost missed this masterpiece since my visit to Oceanario was planed to see permanent staff, not knowing about this temporary part.
Lady at ticket office asked me if I would like to pay full ticket, that was just few euros higher than one for permanent part. And ok, said yes, it's not first time I payed more to see some bullshit..sorry my experience mostly was that with those parts.
So I climbed upstairs and entered this magnificent hall taking visitors into magic land..

Moment you enter this hallway you got spelled with atmosphere and massages written on walls..

Beautiful ambiental music is following you on this journey, and moment you enter large room with this amazing aquarium you are already floating in dream.

Light was coming from tanks and rest of the room was mostly in dark giving whole atmosphere even deeper sense..not to mention music..I was going step by step feeling like massages silently are coming into my head..

• look what we have, look what was given to us and we are destroying it
• all this beauty needs protection, needs to be preserved and we are taking it for granted..
  Those were the thoughts just rushing trough my head.

At one part of room was huge artificial sort of hill made with cascades for visitors to sit and enjoy whole place from higher level. So I set there, watching and listening ..and started crying at one moment..it just came out of me, I couldn't hold it..
Al that beauty was exploding in me with knowledge of it's destruction..it was overwhelming..

This unexpected exhibition for sure is something I will remember for the rest of my life. Never felt and saw something similar or even close to this idea.
Hope you enjoyed this too.

1954 – 2015
A landscape photographer, Takashi Amano traveled all over the world’s forests, capturing the nature of intact landscapes. He became the international master of freshwater aquariums with his planted aquariums, better known as “nature aquariums”. He gathered Japanese gardening techniques with the wabi sabi concept. Takashi Amano believed that observing nature closely would enable us to understand better our world and learn how to preserve wealth we have in it.