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Saihanba is a vast forest area at the border between Hebei Province and Inner Mongolia in Northern China. Highly recommended for hiking and cycling and for getting away from it all, but quite remote and difficult to reach (you'll need time). I stayed there in summer 2011 and explored the area on my road bike.
There is only one permanent settlement and this consists mainly of shops, restaurants and hotels for the few tourists who come here. This part of the world is sparsely populated by humans. It's easy to travel for 50 km without seeing a village. Some settlements just have numbers instead of names.
The best map of Saihanba that I could find was this big signboard at the only intersection. Print it out if you ever go to visit.
I entered from the remotest part, through the West Gate (西門). The road there is unpaved and just about manageable on a road bike (picture here).
The West Gate as well as the Noth Gate (北門) lead to Inner Mongolia. I was not allowed to pass though the North Gate, probably because horses are bred for the People's Liberation Army on the Mongolian side and military people don't like to have tourists around. I don't know if Chinese citizens are allowed to enter.
The East Gate (東門) is a beautiful mountain pass in deep forest (picture here). The road beyond leads to other interesting landscapes, mainly grassland. From there you can continue further east or north to a secret crossing into Inner Mongolia without grumpy guards holding you back.
Then there is the Main Gate (正門) in the south-east. This is where most people come through. I didn't go there and only rode half way down in that direction. The road is pavé and you need to be tough if you want to do that on road bike tyres. Next time, maybe.
After 2 days I left Saihanba through the South Gate (南門) to Yudaokou and, ultumately, back to civilisation.
1934 Louisiana Road map, put out by Pan Am Gasoline, using maps by The H.M. Gousha Company.
This Western United States map was on the back side of the Louisiana Map.
Great book cover on Peter Gould and Rodney White's Mental Maps (Pelican 1974) by geographer Gerald Fremlin, then of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa.
A figure used in a lecture from JR James at the Department of Town and Regional Planning at The University of Sheffield between 1967 and 1978.
I made this Prayer/Wish flag for Angie for an SMA swapbot swap. I got a great map quilt book for Christmas and was inspired. My wish for Angie for 2014 is "Adventure".
Assorted fabrics, ribbon, paint and yarn.
Flame Tree Publishing
FTJP070
card
1,000 pieces
735 x 510 mm
29 x 20 in
From the box base:
Pieter van den Keere (c. 1571-c. 1645) was a Flemish engraver, publisher and globe maker who came to England as a Protestant refugee. Settling in Amsterdam in 1593, he continued to work and began engraving a series of miniature county maps for the British Isles Atlas in 1599. His works also include a map of Ireland, urban panoramas of Utrecht, Cologne, Amsterdam and Paris, as well as a collection of world maps Van den Keere's work here was actually based on a1594 world map by Petrus Plancius (1552-1622). Plancius was a notable figure of the Netherlandish school of cartography and geography in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
After the fiasco of the 2K Jumbo puzzle with missing pieces, this made a pleasant remedy. Edges and top and bottom colourful scenes were completed first, followed by the yellow circular lines. That left the two maps themselves to assemble. Finished yesterday evening.
After completion I did a double-check to make sure we'd not done this one before (they all look the same to me!). Sure enough, we've made this image although not this particular version. In my wooden puzzle stash I have a Nautilus purchased last year through eBay...
Here's a map showing the geographic distribution of visitors to Cyclelicious. This map is generated by Google Analytics and shows data from 7/5/2006 to 7/11/2006 (or 5/7 to 11/7 for my European readers).
For some reason when I look at this map I hear "Would you like to play a game, Professor Falken? It is called Thermonuclear War."
Pretty much the last major version of this map I expect to do. Hopefully have all the major features on here now.
Early guidebooks were full of useful, hands-on information like city street maps. From Paris and Its Environs by Karl Baedeker
This sample shows the MTA Subway Map in New York City. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a largest public benefit corporation which is responsible for public transportation in12 counties in southeastern New York and 2 counties in southwestern Connecticut.
MTA Subway Map in New York City
Zoom into this map at maps.bpl.org.
Author: Kirkwood, Robert
Publisher: Blackwood, William
Date: 1816
Location: Scotland
Dimension: 69x57cm
Scale: ca. 1:700,000
Call Number: G5770 1816 .K57x
Map from Brasil in 1822. Contributors Henry Charles Carey, .
Dates 1822. Created and Published in London, 1822.
The areas that are inhabited by parrots are indicated in red on the map. This map of the world shows that parrots live in tropical parts of the world and mostly in the southern hemisphere. They can be found in Australia, South America, Central America, and parts of Asia and Africa.
Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom Park in Walt Disney World Resort.
See more details about this attraction on DisneyParksBlog.com: disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2021/09/walt-disney-world-...
Map created by Frank Harrison, c.1930s
Shows the original 1812 Kendal plat boundaries with detailed tax information, ownership, and building information.
Collection Massillon Museum
Army Intel map, Vietnam
The time is 1966, the place is Phước Tuy Province
"The Battle of Xa Cam My was fought over two days from April 11–12, 1966, 10 miles (16 km) south of the village of Cam My in Phuoc Tuy Province, during the Vietnam War. Originally planned as a U.S. search and destroy mission intended to lure out the "crack" Viet Cong D800 Battalion, Charlie Company, US 2/16th Infantry Battalion soon found itself fighting for survival in the rubber plantations of Cam My village, approximately 42 miles (68 km) east of Saigon. During this battle 134 men of Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division were ambushed by the Viet Cong and 80 percent became casualties."
A map of the Cityrail transit system, Sydney.
CityRail is an operating division of RailCorp, a state-owned corporation of the government of the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is responsible for providing commuter, 'intercity' and regional rail services, and some coach services, in and around Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong, the three largest cities of New South Wales. It is also known as the name of the network on which the services run.
The illegal trade in wildlife excluding timber and fisheries has been estimated by different sources to be worth 7–23 billion dollars annually, involving a wide range of species including insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish and mammals. It concerns both live and dead specimens or products thereof. Illegal harvest and trade further includes a range of species from iconic ones like gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans, elephants, tigers, rhinos, Chiru antelopes and bears to corals, birds, pangolins,reptiles and sturgeon for black caviar. Approximately 94% of rhino poaching takes place in Zimbabwe and South Africa, which have by far the largest remaining populations, and has increased dramatically from possibly less than 50 in 2007 to over 1,000 rhinos poached in 2013, involving organized crime. Population size of black and white rhinos was ca. 4,800 and 20,000 in 2010 respectively, with Asian one-horned rhinos numbering ca. 3,600 individuals. Rhinos have disappeared entirely from several Asian and African countries in recent years, although overall numbers of rhino in Africa have been increasing.
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