Totallyme (still very busy with workload...)
Be careful in Witches' bog!
There are many places in Latvia with really expressive and imaginative names. I don't know toponymy of other countries so well, but Latvians have plenty of such locations. For example, there is a Cake village and district (Kūkas), villages Small Fools and Big Fools (Mazie Muļķi un Lielie Muļķi), ravine of Wolf's Socks (Vilkzeķu grava), and Witches' bog (Raganu purvs).
I visited the last one of the list above in the end of November. Not that I would have anything common with the creatures that gave the name to the bog. :-) It was just my nature explorer's curiosity to check out another boardwalk that led through the bog around sulphur ponds. It was beautiful sunset time, air and ground was crispy, and just before sudden evening snowstorm we picked up few frozen and tasty cranberries.
The trip might have been a bit of a test for one's nostrils, because sulphur wells and ponds could have a strong smell of rotten eggs. Though, due to frozen ground (it is my guess!) we missed this exotic, and only at the very beginning of the path a slight sulphury breeze greeted us. Afterwards we were able to enjoy the scenery, colorful evening sky and clouds in a fresh air. This scene was taken just a short while before it started to snow.
Be careful in Witches' bog!
There are many places in Latvia with really expressive and imaginative names. I don't know toponymy of other countries so well, but Latvians have plenty of such locations. For example, there is a Cake village and district (Kūkas), villages Small Fools and Big Fools (Mazie Muļķi un Lielie Muļķi), ravine of Wolf's Socks (Vilkzeķu grava), and Witches' bog (Raganu purvs).
I visited the last one of the list above in the end of November. Not that I would have anything common with the creatures that gave the name to the bog. :-) It was just my nature explorer's curiosity to check out another boardwalk that led through the bog around sulphur ponds. It was beautiful sunset time, air and ground was crispy, and just before sudden evening snowstorm we picked up few frozen and tasty cranberries.
The trip might have been a bit of a test for one's nostrils, because sulphur wells and ponds could have a strong smell of rotten eggs. Though, due to frozen ground (it is my guess!) we missed this exotic, and only at the very beginning of the path a slight sulphury breeze greeted us. Afterwards we were able to enjoy the scenery, colorful evening sky and clouds in a fresh air. This scene was taken just a short while before it started to snow.