Saying Cheese - Mean Holland, Saying Mills - Mean Holland ...

Near Amsterdam in a little village Zaanse Schans there is an ethnographic museum where we can know more about traditional Dutch symbols: mills, cheese and klomps that we have already written about. In a good weather it's especially pleasant to walk here.  

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...

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: