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Plaza Murillo in La Paz was a beautiful square, with an architectural unity around nice colonial buildings of the 19th century: presidential palace, congress palace, cathedral ..
Then our local guide showed us what she called "the Sauron building". It made us laugh with this epithet which designated the current president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, to whom we owe this great program of works, in the same way as the new cable car network of La Paz.
This huge 29-storey building, 120 meters high, is to house the new Bolivian government headquarters and the new presidential palace. It unfortunately crushes and disfigures Plaza Murillo.
It also seems that there has been a big local contreversy about the cost of these pharaonic works!
In all fairness, seeing it again on the picture, the building in itself is not ugly. But it should not have been put there!
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Un immeuble pharaonique
La place Murillo à La Paz était une belle place, avec une unité architecturale autours de beaux bâtiments coloniaux du 19ème siècle : palais présidentiel, palais du congrès, cathédrale..
Puis notre guide local nous a montré ce qu'elle a appelé "l'immeuble de Sauron". Elle nous a bien fait rire avec cet épithète qui désignait le président actuel de la Bolivie, Evo Morales, à qui l'on doit ce grand programme de travaux, au même titre que le nouveau réseau de téléphérique de la Paz.
Cet immeuble énorme de 29 étages , 120 m de haut , doit abriter le nouveau siège du gouvernement bolivien, et le nouveau palais présidentiel. Il écrase et défigure malheureusement la place Murillo.
Il parait aussi qu'il y a eu une grosse contreverse en local sur le coût de ces travaux pharaoniques !
En toute justice, en le revoyant sur la photo, l'immeuble en lui même a une certaine allure. Il n'aurait cependant pas du être mis à cet endroit là !
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La Paz - Bolivie / La Paz - Bolivia
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Yucatan, MX May 2021
I recently returned from a brief trip to Mexico. I took a one day birding tour with a local guide and managed to get 46 new species on my life list, which now totals 1,202. I carried my camera but photography was difficult and most shots were from a great distance and kept for documentation. I will post a few each day. Just great to be traveling again!!
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This Amphitheater is carved right out of the mountain rock. It's a little different from the other ancient theaters in Jordan because of its (grand) setting and the pinkish-red color. Surrounded by a lot of small Nabataean tombs, affirming that it's a part of Petra. The panoramic views from this place, along the trek to the Treasury viewpoint, are also spectacular.
Description influenced by (Ankur Panchbudhe, a Google Maps local guide)
[In Explore 27 February 2022]
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Early morning over Ramsey's Victorian pier. The structure is slowly being restored, section at a time, with the first few 10 of metres already open to the public. Queen Victoria's yacht once docked at the end of the pier on her visit. Prince Albert climbed a nearby hill with local guides and a stone tower was erected to commemorate the occasion. This is still known as 'The Albert Tower'. Ramsey was a big tourist destination in the 19th century and there is still plenty of evidence in the architecture.
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Lautern Rd. surrounded by mist, seen from Scheuelberg (Mt. Scheuel, 717 m) on the Swabian Alps, Albtrauf. Great thanks to my close friend, photographer-buddy and local guide Nicky: It was a great tour, which I enjoyed very much!! :-)
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#Hiking
#Wanderlust
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Female Jaguar (Panthera onca) emerges from the dense jungle of the Pantanal wetland in Brazil, and walks into the open. This cat, nicknamed "Patricia" by local guides, patrolled the river bank for a few moments before melting back into the forest.
The Jaguar is the largest cat in the Western Hemisphere (only the Tiger and Lion are larger). Big males are approximately the size of an African Lioness. Jaguars are listed as "Near Threatened" and their future is clouded by habitat loss, habitat fragmentation and poaching. This imposing cat is known for killing its prey with a single bite that pierces the skull, delivering a fatal blow to its victim's brain. The Jaguar has been revered by many indigenous cultures, including the Maya and Aztec, whose mythologies featured the cat as a prominent figure.
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Ecuador
This species lives in thickly wooded areas with dense undergrowth and is normally difficult to see. It is also uncommon and is designated as Vulnerable Status. In this case a family group has learned to trust a local guide who tempts them out with a daily feed of Bananas. They were, at times, so close I couldn't focus on them but they were still very wary and slight movements or noises made by the assembled photographers would send them scuttling off into the bushes.
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We were lucky to see and photograph three tawny frogmouth. A pair and this one that was sitting by itself. Thank you very much to our local guide.
The old British gravestone dated 1704 at the Fort Marlborough entrance make poignant reading. Read more about Fort Marlborough at my blog virtualadrian.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-impressive-fort-ma...
Location: Bengkulu, Indonesia
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Yucatan, MX May 2021
I recently returned from a brief trip to Mexico. I took a one day birding tour with a local guide and managed to get 46 new species on my life list, which now totals 1,202. I carried my camera but photography was difficult and most shots were from a great distance and kept for documentation. I will post a few each day. Just great to be traveling again!!
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PINK WILD DESERT FLOWERS growing in PETRA.
In the background appears the beautiful Nabateaen Amphitheater carved right from the mountain rock. It's a little different from the other ancient theaters in Jordan because of its (grand) setting and the pinkish-red color. It was surrounded by many small Nabataean tombs, affirming that it was a part of Petra. The panoramic views of this place from the trek to the Treasury viewpoint are also spectacular.
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A squacco heron ( Ardeola ralloides, üstökösgém) hunting for small fishes .
@Tiszafüred, Tisza-tó, Hungary.
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The story behind the image:
On vacation today! Decided to travel to the Great Plains of Hungary (less than 1.5h to drive) for birding. Spent 3 hours on a boat ride with a local guide in a protected area of the lake called Tisza-tó. A real paradise for birds, different heron species, seagulls, terns everywhere. I was very happy that we could approach birds within 10 metres...and unlike whole July, thunderstorms did not evolve, either.