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SCHIPOL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT : AMSTERDAM
Schiphol started out on Sep 16, 1916, as a military airbase, consisting only of a few barracks and a mudpool serving as platform/runways. When civil aircraft started to make use of the field (Dec 17, 1920), it was often called Schiphol-les-bains. The Fokker aircraft manufacturer started a factory near Schiphol airport in 1951.
Schiphol's name is derived from a former fortification named Fort Schiphol which was part of the Stelling van Amsterdam defence works.Before 1852, the Haarlemmermeer polder in which the airport lies was a large lake, in the shallow waters of which sudden violent storms could claim many ships. This indeed was the main reason for reclaiming it. In English, Schipol translates to 'Ship Hole', a reference to the amount of ships lost in the area.
Schiphol has won more than 120 prizes over the years. In 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990 and 2003, it was voted the best airport in the world. It was honoured with the title of 'Best European Airport' during 15 consecutive years (1988-2003) and has won a lot more prizes, including 'Best Business Travel Airport'. This is not only because of its usually perfectly organized operations, but also because of its high number of international and intercontinental flights.
*** A night stolen from Schipol.
A closer view of some of the rooster figurines described in the preceding caption. The rooster is the symbol of the western part of Denizli. We are about to leave the site not, so I thought I'd have a cup of Turkish tea here. While it was being prepared, I was aghast to see a kid, no more than 14-15 years old puffing away at a cigarette. As a positive hater of cigarettes, I was aghast that a kid of 13-14 should do it. I gave him a severe dressing down, fortunately supported by my new found Filipino friend who was part of our group. (Karayahit, Denizli/ Pamukkale, Turkey, Nov. 2014)
Hverir
Hverir is a geothermal area with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles. Hverir´s pools of boiling mud, hot springs and hissing chimneys give life to a desolate Mars-like scenery. It is beneath Námafjall, a mountain, which itself is south of the Krafla area.
(sources± en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krafla and www.diamondcircle.is/hverir/)
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Krafla walk
Krafla is a caldera of about 10 km in diameter with a 90 km long fissure zone, in the north of Iceland in the Mývatn region. Its highest peak reaches up to 818 m and it is 2 km in depth. There have been 29 reported eruptions in recorded history.
Krafla includes one of the two best-known Víti craters of Iceland (the other is in Askja). The Icelandic word "víti" means "hell". In former times, people often believed hell to be under volcanoes. The crater Víti has a green lake inside of it.
South of the Krafla area, but not actually within the caldera is Námafjall, a mountain, beneath which is Hverir, a geothermal area with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles.
(source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krafla)
Black River Gorge, Mauritius, stunning views, dramatic waterfalls, and psychopathic monkeys are common in this National Park.
A mudpot, or mud pool, sort of acidic hot spring, or fumarole, with limited water. It usually takes the form of a pool of bubbling mud. The acid and microorganisms decompose surrounding rock into clay and mud.
Camwhoring on the healing mud pools of Karayahit. I had made friends with the lovely Filipino couple, and while the lady was snapping away to glory with her GoPro, she and her hubby obliged me several times during the tour by snapping photos of me for me. (it's difficult to do selfies with a dSLR!). (Karayahit, Denizli/ Pamukkale, Turkey, Nov. 2014)
The floor of the roof of the garage.
I took some dirty pictures of mudpools with hardly any contrast at all and fiddled around with the known filtercombination. I saturated and upped the contrast.
One of the many hot mudpools in Rotorua. I needed a bit of patience but I found the result quite interesting. (New Zealand, North Island) best viewed large!!
Solfatara shallow volcanic crater at Pozzuoli, near Naples.
From a set of lantern slides found in a skip.
A Filipino couple from Dubai and I were the only passengers on the tour (no, the aircraft was quite full but I mean for the Pamukkale tour), so our pick up had been waiting for an hour holding up our name cards. He drove like a lunatic (thank goodness the roads were empty!) and deposited us nearly an hour later in a hotel at Karayahit, near Denizli. A brief 20 min. halt later, we were on our way to the Karayahit mud pools. We have just reached the site, while another car pulls in with more tourists. (Karayahit, Denizli/ Pamukkale, Turkey, Nov. 2014)
Hacienda Guachipelin, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Parque Nacional Rincon de la Vieja.
Solfatara shallow volcanic crater at Pozzuoli, near Naples.
From a set of lantern slides found in a skip.
- This is the mud pot in the Fountain Paint Pot of Yellowstone. Basically, it's a hot spring with too little water so it's a cooking pot of mud instead. It sounds like a stew cooking actually. To the right is a mud bubble about to burst (full of holes now) and at centre top is an intact mud bubble. These bubbles normally form and break with in a second.
This was was in one of the last bars where they actually had a mudpool! So mudwrestling was definently on!
Tubing in Laos in a phenomenon and the place where it started is Vang Vieng. Tubing consists of taking a taxi up north of Vang Vieng to the first of many bars that dots the riverside all the way down again to Vang Vieng. It’s literally a circus.
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Angry birds at Karayahit? Here is a tray full of rooster figurines on sale at the mud pools of Karayahit. The rooster is the symbol of the western part of Denizli, so you find several rooster figures all over the countryside in that area. This apart, much of the other stuff on sale was the usual tourist kitsch. (Karayahit, Denizli/ Pamukkale, Turkey, Nov. 2014)
The Reykjadalur-valley, a high temperature region in the south-west of Iceland, exhibits an enormous variety of colours and landscape structures. Mud pools and hot springs break through the thin surface of the earth and leave behind a very colourful sediment. It is not quite without danger to walk around here.
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