Amazing building sites - Page 2

amor de cosmos · #21 12-19-2008, 04:27 AM

Kye Monastery (aka Ki Monastery, Kee Monastery) in the Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh, India:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaumevp/2476740406/

muppet · #22 12-19-2008, 08:58 PM

the worlds most spectacular sited city, Wadi Duzan:

• Video Link

also in Yemen, Shibam and its 600 year old skyscrapers

• Video Link

muppet · #23 12-19-2008, 09:10 PM

the Tiger Leaping Gorge, 11,000ft deep (more than twice the Grand Canyon), so called because due to legend a tiger once leapt across it - its 25m wide at its narrowest point:

The Dragons Backbone rice terraces, thousands of years in the making, also harbour many steep sided villages

muppet · #24 12-19-2008, 09:15 PM

Swallow's Nest Castle, Ukraine

muppet · #25 12-19-2008, 09:20 PM

Constantine, Algeria, built on a mountaintop, with a ravine bisecting the city

www.yannarthusbertrand.org,

www.imageenvision.com and http://lexicorient.com,

www.wikimedia.org, www.africatravelling.net

www.africatravelling.net, http://wikitravel.org

http://upload.wikimedia.org

www.twip.org

www.old-picture.com

muppet · #26 12-19-2008, 09:42 PM

Male, Maldives, the worlds flattest country hundreds of miles from mainland India, highest point 8 feet above sea level.

When the 2007 tsunami struck the entire country became part of the sea. The island was so low lying and flat the water swept directly through the streets and straight out the other side (thus lessening any damage).

http://upload.wikimedia.org

www.billseye.ca

http://cache.virtualtourist.com

ttp://shaheeilyas.com

www.travelindiapictures.ne

joelpiecowye · #27 12-20-2008, 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by muppet

the worlds most spectacular sited city, Wadi Duzan:

• Video Link

also in Yemen, Shibam and its 600 year old skyscrapers

• Video Link

where is Wadi Duzan? i cant find it anywhere and it is not on google

muppet · #28 12-20-2008, 08:46 PM

try Wadi Dawan maybe?

TANGELD_SLC · #29 12-25-2008, 10:56 PM

Salt Lake City, Utah USA
Ski resorts, national parks and monuments, the world's largest super-salty lake, the biggest man-made excavation on the planet and rugged mountains are all within close proximity of this booming Rocky Mountain metropolis sandwiched between the Wasatch and Oquirrh mountain ranges.

Sugarhouse Park

Flickr: Kris247

View from Ensign Peak

Flickr: da_burger

Ensign Peak view

Flickr: da_burger

Downtown view looking west

Flickr: summitcheese

Salt Lake City looking southwest

amor de cosmos · #30 12-26-2008, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by TANGELD_SLC

Salt Lake City, Utah USA
Ski resorts, national parks and monuments, the world's largest super-salty lake, the biggest man-made excavation on the planet and rugged mountains are all within close proximity of this booming Rocky Mountain metropolis sandwiched between the Wasatch and Oquirrh mountain ranges.

how... exotic

mainstreet · #31 12-26-2008, 05:05 AM

Hey, it's easy to say that Salt Lake City's exotic for someone who probably doesn't even know Africa's not a country...

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Seriously, about something we can all be fascinated in. Then, of course, there's the cities built on Islands like Venice and Amsterdam - Amsterdam's canals were pretty much man-built, but it's nevertheless amazing what's been done to the city, and Venice of course, is truly a city built on islands, I had the pleasure of going there two years ago, and it was, of course, amazing. The way the city is practically carved out of the lagoon, out of the water, and of course the Venetian architecture... Just their satellite photos can't cease to amaze me:

Amsterdam:

Venice: