Calendar images of busy past decade -7- 2017: Europe, Central America & Hong Kong
Today's first part of the calendar pictures will show us glimpses of Paris, Italy and Switzerland, with a bit more terrain given to Central America, and ends in Hong Kong with the start of our fall trip to Asia.
More pictures from the selection process for this calendar can be seen at my website under the chronological tab in the "2017 Trips - Interim Selection" album at
www.weberwest.weebly.com Notes
TRIP INTRODUCTON: Set # 1 provides an introduction. Please use the link below if you would like to review it::
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-682502-1.htmlEARLIER POSTS of this series: To view, access my profile via the link below, then click on the figure behind "# of topics created" for the list of posts:
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1 - France/Paris 18 - Sacré-Coeur Basilica on the top of the Montmartre hill, the highest point in the city, built from 1875 to 1914, consecrated at the end of WWI in 1919
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2 - Italy/Apulia/Alberobello - The famous trulli structures of Alberobello: whitewashed walls with conical stone roofs, embellished with decorative pinnacles and sometimes with Christian or geometric symbols
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3 - Italy/Liguria/Lerici - Colorful town south of the famous Cinque Terre, with pastel-colored houses at the small harbor, topped with a massive castle that since its first founding in 1152 was used to control the entrance to the Gulf of La Spezia
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4 - Switzerland/LU/Flühli - View from the Brienzer Rothorn over the village of Brienz at Lake Brienz and into the Bernese Alps
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5 - Guatemala/Flores - Tikal/Mundo Perdido: Temple 1 aka Temple of the Great Jaguar
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6 - Guatemala/Flores - Boat pier at the private lagoon adjacent to the grounds of the Hotel Villa Maya, photographed in late afternoon
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7 - Belize/Lamanai Archaeological Reserve - Cruise on New River from the town of Orange Walk: Mood during a near-shore portion of the cruise (not in calendar)
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8 - Belize/Lamanai Archaeological Reserve - The High Temple of Lamanai: This ancient Mayan temple is 108 ft high and is believed to date back over 2000 years, it was used as a religious platform for the local tribes to gather
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9 - Nicaragua/Managua -The Old Cathedral of Managua, aka Catedral de Santiago, designed by Belgian architects, inspired by the design of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, constructed from 1928 to 1938, substantially damaged during the 1972 Nicaragua earthquake
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10 - Hong Kong/Central - Buildings in Central District of Hong Kong Island seen from the approaching ferry boat
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Love numbers five and four.
Wonderful, Joe. Keep them coming. Great variety.
#'s 5 and 6 really are great, Joe. Wonderful set.
Joe, I have come to the conclusion that you have been everywhere and have the t-shirts to prove it!
Thank you Bill - good choices, glad you like these. The view from the "Brienzer Rothorn" in Switzerland into the mountains in the "Berner Oberland" is really quite spectacular.
Did you notice the train chugging up on the mountain track at the bottom right of the picture - it is really tiny. Go access this mountain, you can take a gondola cable car up from the village of Flühli which we did or you can take this train up from the village of Brienz which you can see at the foot of the mountain on this picture - which of course enables you to use both when you build it into a round-trip excursion. Since we came by car, we did have to go back down the same way.
NMGal wrote:
Wonderful, Joe. Keep them coming. Great variety.
Thank you Barbara, I am happy you like these sets.
kpmac wrote:
#'s 5 and 6 really are great, Joe. Wonderful set.
Thanks Ken, I see that you are intrigued by the Central America pictures, that Temple of the Great Jaguar was just beautiful, to take that picture I climbed one of the adjacent temples and shot it from the top.
UTMike wrote:
Joe, I have come to the conclusion that you have been everywhere and have the t-shirts to prove it!
Thank you Ken, you got that partly right - "everywhere" is a BIG word, so no, I haven't been and yes, I used to get t-shirts wherever we went, but gave up on that a long time ago, not enough drawers left in the house and the shirts had the uncanny ability to shrink and not fit anymore (maybe it wasn't exactly the shirts fault to be honest ...)
Another fantastic series. Thanks for sharing.
Longshadow wrote:
Wow, Found it!
Great - it is really quite an experience chugging up the mountains on these trains - Switzerland is full of them, one of the big differences to the great mountains we have here - in Switzerland the mountains are inhabited, at least to a good extent, and there are plenty of trails and trains and gondolas and wherever you hike to, you can find a mountain chalet with a restaurant to have a very decent to excellent meal, a good glass of whatever strikes your fancy and an unforgettable view - way to live!
Ourspolair wrote:
Another fantastic series. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Ours, it makes me happy to hear that you like this set also. Joe
Love your picture of Temple 1. Would love to see more of your pictures of Tikal.
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