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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Radio Museum of Bellingham

This museum is one of the best of such kind nearby.  Though it's thematic it's interesting both for adults and kids.
The museum is full of interesting exhibits beginning with electrostatic machines generating scary snapping sparks...
... Hundreds of radiosets
How modern ones may compare to such masterpieces?
Radio receiver dated 1941
Radio sets
Edison sound reproducing machine that still works.
Children like experiments with Tesla Coil.
Edison artifact bulb - that very Edison bulb! How aren't they afraid of burning it?
One of the first X-ray machines.

Cyprus Carnival 2011


Carnival of Cyprus will never be better than Brazililian Carnival with its posh Venetian masks, but here, in Cyprus, it's a huge event that is worth seeing.


Night Climbing The Volcano of Bali


  Those who professionally shoot sunrises probably know that it's like biathlon - you should run fast and shoot straight, separately it doesn't work. But if you manage to do that, you'll get truly wonderful photos.
Splendid golden mist
And in such shades green grass acquires an intersting color.
A little cute rainbow - look better - it's a double rainbow!
Black ground hardened after eruption of the volcano in 1947. Tiny white spots are big trucks that take away natural construction material from there. 
Monkeys everywhere...

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Lost In the African Mountains


Today we are back in Africa, climbing picturesque mountains in a foggy day.
Mackinder Valley.
Landscapes change nearly every minute.
A straight path from Old Moses
A local guide
Snowy tops of the mountains slowly appear out of the turn. Very very beautiful.
Here is a hut that has operating personnel, but has no electricity, only huge storage batteries and solar batteries. The price - 1500 shillings per one a day. The camping is a bit higher, 300 shillings per one. 
Pay attention to the size of vegetation against the tent... The height - 4200m. 
An inventive way to dry socks.

Captive of the Beauty: Ancient Egypt

These exhibits are not from some museum of Egypt, they are a part of the State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.
The history of Ancient Egypt, its beauty canons, are preserved here, in Russia.

Emerald Buddha Temple In Bangkok


This is a temple complex Vat Prateo in Bangkok. Probably it's main value is Emerald Buddha Temple, it attracts buddhist pilgrims from all over the world. It should be noticed that this temple is a place where prays the current Thai king Rama IX. It's strictly forbidden to photograph inside so the buddha itself may only be described in words: 66 cm tall and 48 cm wide together with a pedestal, portrayed in a traditional pose - sitting his legs crossed. And in fact, he's not emerald, but made of green jade. Probably something like this:

The Berlin Wall: Reminder Of Past Times


The Berlin Wall (Ger.: Berliner Mauer) is a state reinforced barrier between the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and West Berlin. It was constructed from 1961 till 1989 and its total length is 155km.
At midnight, the police and units of the East German army began to close the border and, by Sunday morning, 13 August, the border with West Berlin was closed. East German troops and workers had begun to tear up streets running alongside the border to make them impassable to most vehicles and to install barbed wire entanglements and fences for 156 km around the three western sectors, and the 43 km that divided West and East Berlin. During the construction some underground railway stations were closed. Many soldiers watched by the Wall all day long with orders to shoot anyone who attempted
to defect.