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In April 2006, the Israeli Authorities confirmed the plan to encircle Al Walaja with the separation wall making it a Palestinian enclave inside Gush Etzion (settlement), connected to Beit Jala and Bethlehem through an underground tunnel and confiscating 1,600 du of Al Walaja land (notice the nice limestone on the settler's side of the separation wall...)
From the autumn 2016 trip to Vietnam:
Wednesday morning, October 5, the second day in Hoi An. The previous night, we arranged to tag along with a half day bus tour to My Son. (For any Chinese reading this, “My Son” comes from the Chinese…”meishan/美山”…which translates to “beautiful mountain for any English speakers reading this…which I’ll guess is everyone since I primarily write in English.)
I forget how much we paid, but I think it was 400,000 VND (~$20)/person for a small, private bus/van with a guide to come pick us up at our hotel at 8:30 – after a wonderful breakfast on the balcony – and we made our way the hour or so to My Son.
It’s not too far from Hoi An; I think I remember reading that it’s around 60 km away, so I’m not quite sure why it took an hour to get there. We stopped at 3-4 other hotels to pick up others – mostly Chinese tourists – before heading out of town. Even with that, it seemed to take a little longer than justified by the stated distance, since the roads are in great condition, in addition to having very little traffic. Really, though, this isn’t a complaint. I enjoyed seeing the countryside on the way out to My Son.
If you’ve seen my other collection from Siem Reap, you’ll know how much I love these thousand-plus year-old temples, so when I read about My Son – the capital of the Champa kingdom which ruled southern Vietnam roughly from Danang down to the southern tip of Indochina, I had to include this side trip.
Now, you absolutely cannot (or should not) compare this with the Angkor complex, and I won’t mention why here. If you can avoid comparisons, you’ll find a wonderful, small complex here. From the parking lot, you go to the very nice and informative Visitors’ Center to learn about the temples (what’s left of them) and a little of the Champa history.
After a few minutes orienting yourself to the surroundings, you walk to a bus stop and take an open bus two kilometers up the hill to the ruins. From there, you can take a loop trail – probably about a kilometer in total, if not a little farther – to see all of the ruins.
The temples aren’t named. They’re simply called “Group A, Group A1, Group B, Group C,” and so on. Group A, for example, would have a central temple and a handful of smaller ruins surrounding it. The groups are so small/condensed that it’s actually hard to know where one ends and another begins – especially with Groups A, B, and C. After a 10-15 minute walk from the bus stop, and immediately before arriving at the ruins, you pass a pavilion where they have cultural shows – which we saw – with singing and dancing, and also a concession stand/souvenir shop.
I really loved the little show and, hopefully, some of the pictures turned out well enough. It also wasn’t terribly long; about 30 minutes or so. After that, our guide finally took us through the various temples, or what’s left of them.
Sadly, many of these were destroyed – almost beyond repair – during the Vietnam War by the U.S. bombers. Sometimes, after bombing, they would follow up with Hueys and really finish things off. A French archaeologist apparently had to write a letter to President Nixon to beg him to stop destroying this particular area.
With those sad thoughts in mind, you wander around and see some rather demolished ruins, but also some renovations – almost all renovated with very, very little of the original left – but, you don’t get the feeling that this is a bad thing.
We finished at My Son and were on the bus back to Hoi An sometime around 1:00. We arrived no later than 2:00 and went straight out to get a wonderful local lunch that, for me, included a White Rose.
After lunch, we spent the rest of the day exactly as we did the day before, wandering around the exceptionally photogenic Old Town just to relax, shoot pictures, and have dinner. The weather was gorgeous for the entire day, so things turned out rather well.
That’s all for the two days in Hoi An. I would gladly come back to this town. However, the following morning, we would have another (identical) breakfast to today before bidding farewell to Madame An, Jean, and the rest of the fantastic staff at the Hoang Trinh Hotel. The Easy Riders – Mr. Trung and Mr. Trong’s nephew – would show up at exactly 8:30, as punctual as they promised – and we’d begin a new day wandering around central Vietnam on our way to Hue.
As always, thanks for dropping by and viewing these pictures. Please feel free to leave any questions or comments and I’ll answer as I have time.
Here you can see the nice tight fit start top open up toward the right of the frame.
There is some discussion about MacBook gaposis. I thought I'd document mine. The machine has performed perfectly for me for about ten days, so I'm reluctant to take my chances on repair/replacement, but it has noticable gaps in three places: The left and right edges of the keyboard platform, and the top of the screen bezel above the iSight. And I figure that if this is a manufacturing defect, it's better to get in on it early rather than late, before it worsens. So it's shipping back to get checked out.
Polaroid 450 Land Camera
669 film, expired in 2000
sap of the word and the world is flowing
across separation, through wisdom's bestowing,
and in that persuasion choices are made:
- from "Improvisation on Lines by Isaac the Blind" by Peter Cole
My brother and Malo on the bridge at Joe's Creek Greenway Neighborhood Park in the city of St. Petersburg, Fl. It is interesting that both dog and boy/man are looking in separate directions, but like in the excerpt from the poem, choices are made and they end up going in the same direction together.
This is for kaleakte who both challenges and inspires me. He also suggested I do more portraits and take more pictures of people. So here you go Salvo, this one's for you! <3
Pentax K-7 • Pentax DA 12-24mm f:4 ED AL (IF)
HDR 3 photos (-2, 0, +2 EV) with Photomatix 3.2.6
Sortie Aficionados-Zinzins du 15 janvier 2010 avec João.
another 'separated' photo. left to right: malcolm, leah, eric [back], ilana, moi. christmas party... last year's christmas party.
On the left was the property we were staying on and on the right were some of the neighbouring islands.
Early works during April 2019 to remove the level crossing at Reservoir in Melbourne's northern suburbs where the rail line passes through the middle of a major intersection of High Street, Cheddar Road East and West, Broadway and Edwardes Street in the centre of the Reservoir shopping area.
The proposal at this site is to raise the line above the intersection using the 'Skyrail' design used by the Andrews Government in other locations around Melbourne - notably between Caulfield and Dandenong and for the South Morang to Mernda extension. A new station will be built on the viaduct but the tangled intersection of roads will remain beneath, albeit with an additional direct east-west connection between Broadway and Edwardes Street.
The line opened in 1889 as part of a longer line to Whittlesea with initial access to the city via the former Inner Circle line prior to a direct connection via Jolimont opening in 1901 and a direct link past the Inner Circle junction in 1904 which remains today as a sharp curve in the line near Rushall.
Electrification reached Reservoir in 1921 which was extended to Thomastown with the latter extension originally using wooden poles. Post War urban growth led to short extensions of the electric service to Lalor in 1959 and Epping in 1964. By then the railmotor service to Whittlesea had ceased with the line closed in November 1959 although the corridor remained intact. This has been used in more recent years to rebuilt the line as an electric service to South Morang in 2011 and Mernda in 2018 as urban sprawl heads north. Today the line is within 9km of the original Whittlesea terminus.
It's night already and Saturday is about to end. Tomorrow is Sunday the-day-before-Monday.
Took this without looking and frankly, the amount of shake is surprising to me because the place is dark.
Leitz Summicron-C 40mm f/2.0 @ f/2.0 (IIRC, else it should be f/2.8, but the DoF looks thicker than that)
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