Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Today I wandered around the city of San Miguel de Tucuman. Usually a city name is shortened to Tucuman. This capital of the province of Tucumán and the largest city of northern Argentina. The city was founded in 1565. In 1812, after defeating the troops of Manuel Belgrano in a battle near the city of Tucumán, the patroness of the city and the army was called the Virgin of La Merced. Beautiful blog with excellent photos. While viewing a blog you can listen to beautiful music group Los Tucu Tucu. Be sure to buy their CD. Photo of Tucumán:







See more photos and listen to the wonderful Argentine music you can here: esencia Tucumana.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Outside the window is winter, but I have eternal summer. I am in India. Travels from south to north. Author of the blog and my conductor Mee. The first stop of Madurai. Madurai is the oldest of those surviving to the present day city on the Indian subcontinent. This temple town, there are a lot of temples. The most famous of them Meenakshi. It is the abode of goddess Meenakshi (Parvati). Meenakshi also means the fish eye.




We drive further north and get into the town of Mahabalipuram. This city has emerged in the VII century BC as the main port of the Pallava kingdom. In this coastal city is always very hot and humid, and always a lot of people. Mahabalipuram is known, thanks to a gigantic rock temples and gigantic reliefs depicting scenes of penance of Arjuna and the descent of Ganga from the heavens.



And finally we got to the north of India. Haridwar - is one of the seven sacred cities of Hinduism, on the banks of the sacred river Ganges. The word "Hari" means God in Hindi and the word "Dvar" - gate. Haridwar - gateway to God.

Mee wrote that one of the most memorable impressions of this city of the priests - it smells of various foods. "Heavenly food" is sold on every corner. This aloo poori and hot samosas-channa, aloo paranthas, kheer-maal pooa dipped in sugar syrup-look, not to stomach ache from such diversity.




Let me remind you that the author of this excellent blog about India is Mee. On the pages of her blog you will see lots of great photos and descriptions. Be sure to go to visit Mee Travelbytes.

And now all go skiing. Where? In the Alps. This time I skidded in Tirol, Austria. We see photos of Belgian skiers from Zugspitzeclub. We are in the ski area Grubigstein in Lermoos. Around - only fresh, frosty air, clean snow. Above us the winter sun. And everywhere there is visible is the highest mountain in Germany - the Zugspitze . I think so, be sure to visit these places.

Zugspitze
Zugspitze-2
Zugspitze-3

Nearby is the lovely German town of Rothenburg .

Rothenburg

Well, that ended my next adventure. Sigh, turn on Office and start working.

Snow heart

And you can see many more photos and video in blog Zugspitzarena.

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Sunday, January 23, 2011

And here is a nice photoblog from Japan. Author Jonathan from Kobe, Japan. Blog with photos tells the story of the Japanese city of Kobe.

Kobe, 16th anniversary of the earthquake
Kobe, 16th anniversary of the earthquake

Ignition of thousands of candles at the memorial, created in memory of the earthquake in 1995 that destroyed the city:

Sannomiya Memorial
Sannomiya Memorial
Nagata Memorial
Nagata Memorial
Lighting Candles in Memorial
Lighting Candles in Memorial

Bonfire, kindled in honor of the kami (spirit) Toshitokudjin (the goddess with responsibility for auspicious directions and happenings for the coming year), bringing the New Year:

Dondo-Yaki
Dondo-Yaki

New Year is celebrated in Japan for a month. A holiday in late December before the house, temple or business structure are put in pairs traditional decoration kadomatsu:

Himeji Shrine
Himeji Shrine
Minatogawa shrine 
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Minatogawa shrine

Dragon dance:

Dragon dance
Dragon dance-2

And a lot more interesting photos in the blog of Jonathan DEKOBOKO .
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Wow... What I dream (to travel around the world), for someone is a normal working point. Well there you go today in Amsterdam, and from there to jump in Paris, and then pass them something in Prague, and home.I can not believe that there is such a wonderful job. But I remembered one of my friend, who constantly travels all over Ukraine. He told me once said: "I saw many interesting places, but it would be better if I sat at home ".

Great blog, beautiful pictures, interesting stories - all in a blog post by Terry Robinson. Moments of life in Amsterdam, Bangkok, Dallas, Buenos Aires and many other cities. Go, look, you will not regret.

Granada
Granada
Venice
Venice
Venice
Venice-2
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Bridget Bardot
Bridget Bardot
Bogota
Bogota
Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam-2

All photos are taken from here:

Terry's Travel and Thoughts

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Today I was stuck on the blog Maxmalnie. I never thought that graffiti such a beautiful art form. Well, you know, house walls, scribbled unintelligible words, crap bus stops, empty cans of beer - I had associations with the word graffiti. Now view graffiti as a phenomenon has changed. Perhaps this is all over. There are filthy invaders, soiling the walls of houses in deserted streets, and there are artists working in this technique. Although, you never know with what these artists have started. Here are a couple of pictures from this blog:

Shark
Man on the wall
Flying man

Pictures taken with a blog Maxmalnie .

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

And now I have recovered in his first trip. Immediately luck. Very interesting blog. Author - Dominic lives in Montevideo, Uruguay, occupation - Freelance (writer and photographer). What blog? Of Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia, Sri Lanka. There is no politics, gangsters and drug There is a festival in Montevideo, lost in the jungles of Colombia the ancient city Teyuan, walks and conversations with street vendors in Montevideo, the picture of life in Sri Lanka, the dishes from Mexico, sea, sun, beaches and football. The blog has links to published articles and photo albums.

Here are a couple of photos from this blog :

Sri-Lanka
Sri-Lanka
Fish
Fish

And best photos of the author you can see in blog:
Movingmontevideo

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