COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society. Known as sadhus, they shun all home comforts for a life spent inside caves, forests and temples and can be found across India and Nepal. German banker and photographer Mario Gerth decided to find and photograph the sadhu people. The 38-year-old of Erfurt, Germany, says: “I have been obsessed with the sadhus for many years and set off in 2013 to look for them.
DINING under the stars, this restaurant takes you back in time - inside an ancient cave .
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
WELCOME to the pretty 122-inch-tall red dwelling that lays claim to the title of the UK's smallest house .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
A host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .