"Been There" Virtual Travel Quiz? Round #34
See Round #20 for info about and rules for the contest.
Round #26 won by MCD
Submitted by BKMD. Photo of a suspended orange tree in Old Jaffa, an area at the south end of the Tel Aviv, Israel. Jaffa is thought to be the oldest port in the world, with its history going back 4000 years! This is a work of art by artist Ran Morin, who created the statue in 1993 can be found in the Lion alleyway.
Round #27 won by TravelGuy
Submitted by AlanS. The Sun Gate at Machu Picchu, Peru. 1.2 mi. and 1000' of climb on a rough, rocky, steep, trail from the entrance to the main archaeological site. Peru & the Galapagos Islands.
Round #28 won by AlanS and Portolan.
Submitted by JohnS. Sadhus in Kathmandu, Nepal in front of Pashupatinath Temple (cremation site). The Sadhu's are frequent users of cannabus- smoke it and drink a beverage infused with it. The pictures were taken on the Tauck Northern India and Nepal tour.
Round #29 won by JohnS
Submitted by KathyM. The (formerly McDonald-Randolf) Randolph Hotel in Oxfordshire, England. Episodes of the British TV show inspector Morse were filmed here in the "Morse" Bar and throughout Oxfordshire.
Round #30 won by Claudia Sails
Submitted by Sealord. Peacock Clock at the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Tauck’s small ship cruise to the Baltic and St. Petersburg.
Round #31 won by Smiling Sam (again!!)
Submitted by ClaudiaSails. Statues of Vikings(?) on the right bank of the Seine River at the Boieledieu bridge in Rouen.
Round #32 won by JohnS with assist from Sealord
Submitted by Smiling Sam. This is Mumbai India. These people in the white suites are lunch delivery people. They are called Dabbawala and part of a lunchbox delivery and return system that delivers hot lunches from homes and restaurants to people at work in India, especially in Mumbai.
Round #33 won by Smiling Sam and AlanS
Submitted by SueMS. Le Cordon Bleu cooking school, Paris, learning to make Macaroons under the guidance of Pastry chef instructor Éric Verger. It was at the beginning of the Savoring France Rhone River cruise, which started in Paris. Then we boarded the TGV train to Lyon for embarkation. Oh. and we got to keep the aprons and hats.
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I'll give it a shot. What is this, where is it, and what is inside?
Memorial at the killing fields in Cambodia. Full of the skulls and bones retrieved from the mass graves.
Wow! That was fast. rwilso15 is correct.
Yip was there a couple of years back on the Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos tour. Very moving place. I think what got me was not the formal memorial with the thousands of skulls in it, but walking around the edges of the mass graves and still seeing remnants of clothing protruding from the earth. Made it all the more real!
We could not bring ourselves to do this optional day on that tour, the guide at the prison was so emotional in the morNing having lost most of his family, we spoke to him and apologized that we could not emotionally go with him. We praised him for his own courage.He understood. We had been to Auschwitz several months before And that left us drained. Others did not go either, but those who did go never told the rest of us anything about it.
Thank you for posting this MCD
It was very moving. Especially the "killing tree" against which the Khmer Rouge banged children's heads to kill them. I haven't yet been to Auschwitz, but it's on my list. We have to remind ourselves, "Never again."