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(1) (2) (3) 相倉民俗館 Ainokura folklore museum     

(1) Depuis le chemin de ronde, vue depuis le château de Malbrouck. / From the walkway, view from the Malbrouck castle. (2) Au village des vieux métiers. / In the village of old trades. (3) Les remparts édifiés par Vauban sont classés au patrimoine historique de l'Unesco. / The ramparts built by Vauban are classified as UNESCO historical heritage.     

(3) This overpath marks the southern border of the nofly zone in Taipei City. (4) 蘭陽博物館 / Lanyang Museum     

(1) Tuol Sleng (3) Angkor Tree     

(2) Zeus on a shield (6) Ring of Minos     

(1) The river Austari Jökulsá (Easternmore Glacial River) runs through a canyon for part of its course. The river has fostered a river rafting industry, with the rafting reputed to be among the best in Europe. The water is glacial melt, greyish to milky white. The cliffs are old basalt lava flows, with a vertical dyke bisecting the horizontal layers at one place. (2) The farm Merkigil in the remote Austurdalur (Eastern Valley) in Skagafjörður in North Iceland. Below the farm houses is a canyon carved by a glacial river, which runs the entire valley. Despite this perilous setting, the valley was once populated with up to 20 farms. Merkigil was the last one to be abandoned, after the last inhabitant died in an accident in a nearby canyon in 1997. (3) The inlet of Staðarbjargavík (Town Cliffs' Inlet), by the village of Hofsós in Skagafjörður in N-Iceland, well known for crops of well-formed columnar basalt. (4) The old turf farm and museum at Glaumbær in N-Iceland. Turf housing was the universal vernacular type of architecture in Iceland for most of its history, resulting from the fact that the country has little wood and usable building stone, but in most places plenty of turf and peat. When abandoned, the houses would almost naturally melt into the countryside. This lack of durability, and the fact that turf houses became a symbol of poverty and backwardness for Icelanders in the 20th Century, has resulted in a limited number of well preserved turf houses today.     

(1) Gryphon fresco Knossos palace throne room (2) cattle sculptures (3) Cretan women fresco, Knossos (4) male siren sculpture     

(1) El Bahia Courtyard (2) Marrakech Museum     

(1) (2) Hareem. (4) Shutters of the Crown Princes' quarters.     

www.annajanephoto.com (1) (2) Half-Timbered House Front     

(1) (2) (3) Patan Museum (4) Street of Patan (5) Boudhanath Stupa, World Heritage Site