"Been There" Virtual Travel Quiz? Round #40
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.
Round #34 won by rwilso15
Submitted by MCD. The memorial at the killing fields in Cambodia. Full of the skulls and bones retrieved from the mass graves. Seen on the Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos tour.
Round #35 shared by AlanS and Smiling Sam
Sumitted by BKMD. Tesla Supercharger charging stations at the Al Manaseer gas station along Hwy 15/45 (Desert Hwy) between Petra and Amman, Jordan. Jordan is one of only two, UAE being the other, middle east countries that has Tesla infrastructure. Seen on Tauck's Israel and Jordan trip.
Round #36 won (tie) by Smiling Sam and TravelGuy
Submitted by JohnS. This is Athabasca Glacier on the Columbia Icefield in Alberta, Canada. The pictures were taken last year on the Tauck Canadian Rockies and Glacier National Park Tour.
Round #37 won by JohnS
Submitted by AlanS. La Fenice (“The Phoenix”) Opera House in Venice. The history of the theatre (and Venice society, etc.), the 1996 fire that destroyed it, and its reconstruction were chronicled in John Berendt’s best selling non-fiction book “City of Falling Angels.” A metaphore for sure, but the falling angels referred to the sculptures that fell from the structure of the theater and nearby buildings during the fire.
Round #38 won by JohnS
Submitted by Smiling Sam. The Cisterna Bazilika/Basilica Cistern, Istanbul, Turkey - 1963 James Bond film "From Russia With Love"
Round #39 won by Smiling Sam with a big assist from BKMD
Submitted by AlanS. Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence Italy. As noted in the responses, numerous Renaissance luminaries designed, decorated, are buried or memorialized there, probably the most notable being the master himself, Michelangelo Buonarrati. The small piazza in front is the site of the annual Calcio Storico Fiorentino. For three weekends in June the city celebrates its Renaissance heritage through a “sports” competition (a mix of soccer, rugby and big time wrestling) between four teams- Santa Croce, Santo Spirito, Santa Maria Novella, and San Giovanni. Like the Palio in Siena, it appears that the main rule is that there are no rules!! Visited during a Segway tour of the historic district in our free time while on Classic Italy, Small Groups.
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Thought I'd take another stab.
Where are we?
What is the significance of the clothing?
Oberammergau
The clothing is what the disciples are wearing at the Last Supper. See picture below the table.
Yep. I guess I made this one to easy...
These are all part of the costumes and props for the once-a-decade "Passion Play" that the town puts on.
There you go. I went for take out and missed the whole round.
I love you guys!
An interesting fact about the Passion Play that relates to the current pandemic.
In 1633, the residents of Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany, vowed that if God spared them from the bubonic plague ravaging the region, they would produce a play thereafter for all time every 10 years depicting the life and death of Jesus. The death rate among adults had risen from one person per 1000 per year in October 1632 to twenty in the month of March 1633. After their vow, the adult death rate slowly subsided to one in the month of July 1633. The villagers believed they had been spared and thus kept their part of the vow when the play was first performed in 1634.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberammergau_Passion_Play
I found this to be a good time to re-read "Year of Wonders" by Geraldine Brooks about a self-quarantined English village during the 1666 bubonic plague.
We were there for the Passion Play ten years ago and had a most impressive experience. If you've been in the theater, the stage is open but has a retractable roof. The first part of the play was in the afternoon and then we had a break for dinner before the crucifixion and resurrection. We began on a beautiful sunny day which soon became dark and overcast. During the Last Supper hail came pounding down. It hit the stage and bounced into the audience. The actors (Jesus and the apostles) just looked around and didn't know what to do. They stopped the play, took the actors off the stage and waited until the storm was over. During that time the chorus was in the wings taking pictures of the bouncing hail and the first few rows of the audience were cleared and EMTs come to treat people who had been hit with the hail. They used brooms to clear the stage before restarting the play.
We broke for dinner and came back with the roof in place (they were not able to close it while people were in the building). The storm returned and reintensified with big winds. Imagine the crucifixion with trees blowing in the wind and lightning in the sky!
It was a once in a lifetime experience.
Now, the question is when will the next performance be after 2022? 2030 or 2032?