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CIRQUE DE SOLEIL

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Learn to play the harp -- specifically this song.

39: EDC

With it snowing here, all I can think of is the fun summer time...

Some year when I have the time and money I want to go to the ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL -- the biggest electronic festival outside Europe!

Venice

I know I was really going to try to continue posting my dream vacations in one picture daily for the month of November but I've been working so late and now my car is crapping out on me so I haven't had much of the spare time. But it's times when nothing seems to be going right when the magnificent daydreams grow and the yearning to be somewhere thousands of miles away grows too.

The romantic in me, hidden as far down as she is, would love to go to Venice just for the mere romanticism in it. I can just close my eyes and imagine the old beautiful buildings and sitting next to my loved one being paddled around VENICE...what the New York Times describes as "undoubtedly the most beautiful city built by man". Stretched across 117 small islands, Venice boasts 455 bridges, hundreds of canals where romantic gondolas wind their way through the city

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My dream home -- a Chaga hut near Kilimanjaro. Plan B -- La Sebastiana.

"A traditional Chaga hut in Kilimanjaro. The hut is surrounded by pineapple plants which are thorny, preventing snakes and other animals from entering the hut. The pineapples are also used as food. Two boulders mark the entrance to the hut, with a long Masele plant near one of the boulders. The Masele plant has symbolic meanings to the chaga. Leaves can be plucked and arranged in different fashions and hung on the door, enabling a fellow villager to know what the hut owner is doing at a particular time. They can also be used to re-establish peace between quarreling villagers. A pot on the top of the hut prevents rain water to seep into the hut whilst acting as a chimney to allow smoke out. Banana plants seen in the background are the main diet of the people. A chaga man is outside his hut." *wikipedia

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I did a presentation on the catacombs in my french class in high school and always thought it was super fascinating. Because I had a long day at work and it's late I'm just going to post the wiki link to the catacombs in Paris. In fact, the whole concept of death and funerals in France is interesting. Many of their most beautiful parks are cemeteries and families and friends gather there for picnics whereas in the states cemeteries are made to be eerie and creepy.

Taj Mahal

"Should guilty seek asylum here,Like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin.
Should a sinner make his way to this mansion,
All his past sins are to be washed away.
The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs;
And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes.
In this world this edifice has been made;
To display thereby the creator's glory."

-Emperor Shah Jahan




Built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. It is widely considered as one of the most beautiful buildings in the world and stands as a symbol of eternal love. It was also the first Mughal structure (consisting of India, Persian and Islam architecture).

34: witness the northern lights

This video makes me wanna travel to Norway just to be witness of this breathtaking view.



In The Land Of The Northern Lights from Ole Christian Salomonsen on Vimeo.

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I'd like to start off this new week by continuing my daily wish-i-could-visit-here-today pictures because I have been busy lately with work and such. As it rains hard here, I wish I could be somewhere a little warmer and a little less gloomy outside.


 


DJOUDJI NATIONAL BIRD SANCTUARY

 

The Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary provides a range of wetland habitats which prove very popular with migrating birds, many of which have just crossed the Sahara. Of almost 400 species of birds, the most visible are pelicans and flamingos.

UNESCO World Heritage website entry

Machu Picchu

Great Pyramids

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Kingda Ka



Fastest roller coaster in the USA at 128 mph.
Located at Six Flags Adventures in Jackson, NJ.
Tallest steel roller coaster at 456 feet tall.

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So I've been kinda busy lately and haven't posted in over a month. I haven't really had the energy to plan my travels as in depth as I would like so I thought I'd try to post more this month, even if it's just in the form of a lovely picture which serves as pleasant distractions from the Pacific Northwest's lugubrious gray days.



Sydney Opera House