Travel Highlights
Edited by Slava Sakhnenko – facebook, slava(at)planeteye.com
With contributions by Katrina Verweel & Katherine Spiers
Toronto, Canada
Pushmar Mela by Kevin Frayer
“Camel herders sit with their animals at the Pushkar Mela (annual, 5-day camel & livestock fair) on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009.”
Pushkar, Rajasthan, India
Via iindia:unfamiliar - From The Big Picture
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Village on the Rocks by Emma Smart
Lofoten, Norway
Via constantwanderlust:
You post some great pictures - it would nice if you credited them though! I’d like to see more from the artists.
Use TinEye! It’s perfect for finding where the photos are from…
One Sunday morning … I waded into the Mediterranean and looked into it through Fernez goggles…. I was astonished by what I saw in the shallow shingle at Le Mourillon, rocks covered with green, brown and silver forests of algae and fishes unknown to me, swimming in crystalline water.
Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course. It happened to me at Mourillon on that summer’s day, when my eyes were opened to the sea.
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“If The Brakeman Turns My Way” by Bright Eyes
When panic grips your body
And your heart’s a hummingbird
Raven thoughts blacken your mind
‘Til you’re breathing in reverse
All your friends and sedatives mean well
But make it worse
Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt
Better find yourself a place to level out
…
Mixed-up signals
Bullet train
Cars are switched out in the crazy rain
I could meet you any place
If the brakeman turns my way
…
Are your brothels full, oh Babylon
With merry middlemen?
Never peer out of their periscopes
From those deep opium dens
All this death must need a counterweight
Always someone born again
First a mother bathes her child
Then the other way around
The scales always find a way to level out
Newcastle Gateshead Millennium Bridge
You need to check out this amazing tilting bridge.
Newcastle, UK
Via The Awl
Cambodia Town by Christina House
Los Angeles County is home to the only official Cambodia Town in the U.S. It’s an interesting glimpse into a culture that doesn’t get a lot of attention in this country.
-Katherine
All Saints Day kites in Guatemala by Johan Ordonez
Residents of Sumpango, Guatemala make these gorgeous, enormous kites to honor the dead for All Saints celebrations this week.
Saint-Petersburg Tourism is on top of the bear beat with their new ad campaign.
From our man in Russia:
“These two pictures were designed by the city’s committee for tourism to promote St. Petersburg as an attractive destination in 2006. You could see them on billboards in Tokyo, Paris, London and other cities. In the picture above the Ekaterininskiy Palace is shown (Pushkin, a district of the city), and a bear — the animal that can never be seen here!”
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
