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Where am I - Travel Game II.

 
 
Dutchy
 
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Reply Fri 11 Apr, 2008 04:29 pm
Mount Blanc between France and Italy.
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dagmaraka
 
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Reply Fri 11 Apr, 2008 06:10 pm
nope, neither France nor Italy.
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dagmaraka
 
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Reply Fri 11 Apr, 2008 06:25 pm
There are many folk tales about this mountain. One is that when God finished creating Earth, he sent one of his angels to do some extra work in the part of the world he loved the most.... Angel flew above this mountain, admiring it, but touched it with his wing and the mountain bent down forever.
Other has to do with the gold that was mined there in the past. Villagers were arguing about where to put boundaries of their villages.. They agreed on a contest: if one village can push this mountain, they can set boundaries as they like. One village truly managed to push the mountain. As people from other villages saw that, they tied a rope at the top of the mountain and pushed it back....until it broke....

My favorite one is a love story, of course. I don't remember the details, but it had to do with a young woman looking for her man, they had a secret meeting on the mountain as they were forbidden to marry.... Needless to say they both died. When the mountain saw that, its heart broke of sadness and streams of tears are falling from the top ever since then.
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Fri 11 Apr, 2008 06:29 pm
Gerlach, Carpathian Mountains in Eastern Europe.

(May have to explore your story next and search further if above is wrong).
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dagmaraka
 
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Reply Fri 11 Apr, 2008 06:35 pm
Vey very close! You got the right mountains, the High Tatras, which are a part of the Carpathian range. This mountain is a little smaller than Gerlach, though not by much.
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Fri 11 Apr, 2008 06:43 pm
I must be looking at the Lomnicky Peak in Slovakia near the Polish border?
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dagmaraka
 
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Reply Fri 11 Apr, 2008 06:53 pm
again, close. This one is just above Strbske Pleso. I think you're legitimately close enough to get the next round.

http://www.borovasihot.sk/pictures/krivan.jpg

It is Krivan (meaning bent), and I spent every summer and every winter gazing up at it from our mountain lodge. One of the most beautiful spots on this planet for sure, in fact for me The #1 place.
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Fri 11 Apr, 2008 06:56 pm
Looks magnificient dagmaraka, had Krivao Peak jotted down as my next submission. Will post new one in a tick.
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Fri 11 Apr, 2008 07:08 pm
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/7827/juderi9.jpg
Where am I? Had to keep the picture large to appreciate the beautiful scenery.
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dagmaraka
 
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Reply Fri 11 Apr, 2008 10:26 pm
reminds me either of yugoslavia (croatia) or greece....
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Fri 11 Apr, 2008 10:49 pm
A long way from Europe......
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Francis
 
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Reply Sat 12 Apr, 2008 03:43 am
More like Milford Sound, New Zealand.
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Sat 12 Apr, 2008 09:15 am
Francis got the answer. Smile Your turn.
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Francis
 
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Reply Sat 12 Apr, 2008 10:58 am
The quest:

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/gismonda/id.jpg
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 12 Apr, 2008 11:20 am
Amazingly ugly light standards, hmmm, where could they be from....
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Francis
 
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Reply Sat 12 Apr, 2008 11:29 am
Good question, Osso.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 12 Apr, 2008 11:35 am
It looks like a takeoff on Bramante's design for St. Peter's.


http://intranet.arc.miami.edu/rjohn/images/New_Folder/St.%20Peters%20coin.jpg
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Francis
 
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Reply Sat 12 Apr, 2008 11:38 am
There's some idea, Osso.

But Italians didn't do that..
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 12 Apr, 2008 11:52 am
(I figured they didn't...)

Right now I'm looking around Russia (something about the cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky, but that's not it), have been to Armenia and Finland... in the last few minutes.


Well, we'll see. Someone else may get it before I do, as I'll be going out fairly soon.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 12 Apr, 2008 12:02 pm
I could imagine that's a church in a German speaking country.
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