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[OT] I must go to this place
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008...-on-earth.html
Scroll down a bit once you get to the site, because there are a few ads and links at the top. This place has the most amazing vegetation I've ever seen, plus beautiful buildings on a cliffside, weird and forbidding rock formations, and other fascinating stuff. Has anyone been there? -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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I must go to this place
hopitus wrote:
I looked at all the pics; the deserted city cliffside is not on that island; it's on mainland Yemen; You're right, I saw that too. Just didn't want to believe it. Why would they put that photo on a site for the island?? Probably confused other people as well. I would love to see that, but as much as I would like to go to the Middle East/North Africa, you're probably right that it's not all that safe for Americans, not to mention American Jews. There are people who live on the island, though. Machu Picchu, anothe walled deserted mysterious city, yeah, much safer. Sure, as long as I have an oxygen tank. I start to feel funky at 5000 ft! -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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[OT] I must go to this place
wrote in message ... http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008...-on-earth.html Scroll down a bit once you get to the site, because there are a few ads and links at the top. This place has the most amazing vegetation I've ever seen, plus beautiful buildings on a cliffside, weird and forbidding rock formations, and other fascinating stuff. Has anyone been there? -- Joyce ^..^ No never been there, but I've been some places that would give it competition, mostly in Australia. There I saw a jungle with giant ferns as big as a man, and an arid area that was so full of alkali, it was killing the trees, and everything looked coated with a layer of salt. Not man-made pollution, mind you, a strange natural phenomenon. Critters there can be strange, too. The Giant Otway Snail, for example (shudder). -- Theresa and Dante drtmuirATearthlink.net Stinky Forever: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh |
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[OT] I must go to this place
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... http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008...-on-earth.html Scroll down a bit once you get to the site, because there are a few ads and links at the top. This place has the most amazing vegetation I've ever seen, plus beautiful buildings on a cliffside, weird and forbidding rock formations, and other fascinating stuff. Has anyone been there? -- Joyce ^..^ Looks like someplace in Middle Earth (Tolkien) to me I don't think I want to go there, though. Jill |
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I must go to this place
[Socotra]
Our local botanical garden (the Royal Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh) has had a long-term interest in the place, and have produced a GIGANTIC full-colour book on the ethno-flora of Socotra. It must cost a fortune, I just flipped through it at their reception desk. I particularly liked the idea of grazing camels on a plant related to lemon grass so you get flavoured milk. In Google Earth it looks like Mars. but as much as I would like to go to the Middle East/North Africa, you're probably right that it's not all that safe for Americans, not to mention American Jews. Yemen is a significant tourist destination, though not cheap to get to, so trouble must be very rare. Socotra must be a lot harder to reach. ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts |
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I must go to this place
"hopitus" wrote in message ... On Dec 17, 6:08 am, "Kreisleriana" wrote: wrote in message ... http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008...ing-place-on-e... Scroll down a bit once you get to the site, because there are a few ads and links at the top. This place has the most amazing vegetation I've ever seen, plus beautiful buildings on a cliffside, weird and forbidding rock formations, and other fascinating stuff. Has anyone been there? -- Joyce ^..^ No never been there, but I've been some places that would give it competition, mostly in Australia. There I saw a jungle with giant ferns as big as a man, and an arid area that was so full of alkali, it was killing the trees, and everything looked coated with a layer of salt. Not man-made pollution, mind you, a strange natural phenomenon. Critters there can be strange, too. The Giant Otway Snail, for example (shudder). -- Theresa and Dante drtmuirATearthlink.net Stinky Forever:http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Okay, scratch Socotra! Ditto Yemen. Lead me to the Giant Otway Snail; always did have odd tourist tastes. Would the Snail, standing, come higher than my knees? No. Not THAT giant. Giant compared to the usual little garden snails. More like the size of a fist. They're quite creepy enough, since they're carnivorous (gulp). And they come out, silently, in the early evening . . . so you're sitting out on the beach on a cool evening and you go "Hmm, there's one of those snails." And you go back to talking and five or ten minutes later, you look around, and you're surrounded by dozens of the buggers. Sort of Hitckcock-like. And you say, "Well, I think I'll go inside now." :-O -- Theresa and Dante drtmuirATearthlink.net Stinky Forever: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh |
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I must go to this place
hopitus wrote:
On Dec 17, 7:40 pm, "Kreisleriana" wrote: No. Not THAT giant. Giant compared to the usual little garden snails. More like the size of a fist. They're quite creepy enough, since they're carnivorous (gulp). And they come out, silently, in the early evening . . . so you're sitting out on the beach on a cool evening and you go "Hmm, there's one of those snails." And you go back to talking and five or ten minutes later, you look around, and you're surrounded by dozens of the buggers. Sort of Hitckcock-like. And you say, "Well, I think I'll go inside now." :-O ROFL. Meat-eating snails? They - as you suspected - were probably considering how you'd taste for dinner, let's say a large banquet for them. I did google with not much success; all i could get outa that was "African" giant snails, which looked what little I could see maybe size of footballs, LOL on some hoomin arm. Like this? http://exoticpets.about.com/od/gener...and-Snails.htm As cool as they look, they are actually a health hazard because they carry a parasite that can be easily picked up by humans (such as the human who is hold them in the above photo). -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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