Sunrise

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Daybake over over Haleakala volcano

Haleakalā or the East Maui Volcano, is a massive, active shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian Island of Maui.

Sent by Jessfrom Ohio, U.S.A.

 

This and that Tuesday

Greek grandma

Photo Georges Meis

Plataniera y El Teide

Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain 

Jerusalem, Israel

Olavinlinna Castle, Finland 

 

Volcanoes

Puebla, Mexico

The Popocatepetl volcanoe in eruption on December 18, 2000

Photo Raul Gil

Sent by Carlos on 10 Aug, 2014 from El Paso

Mt Fuji crater, Japan 

Sent by Mana on 22 Oct, 2015 from Tokyo

 

Snowy Peaks

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Lawren S. Harris ( Canadian 1885- 1970) Eclipse  Sound and  Bylot Island. 1930

Sent by Jules on / Sep, 2022  from Ontario Canada 

El Teide, Tenerife, Spain

My travels

 

Canary Islands

Maspalomas Beach, Gran Canaria

Sand Card

Sent by my granddaughter on December 2021

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Roqu Nublo, Gran Canaria

Sent by Stephan on 7 Jul, 2014 from Cologne, Germany

Gran Canaria, Puerto Rico

Sent by my brother on 12 Nov, 2014

Gran Canaria

Presa de La Sorrueda, Agaeta, Barranco de La Mina

On our wedding anniversary 31 Jan, 2018 :)

 

North Coast and Snowy Teide

Sent be me to my mother on 11 Feb 2022

Teide, Tenerife 

My travels

Tenerife,  Teide, Valle dela Orotava, Playa El Medano y Drago Milenario

My travels

Masca is little and beautiful village on Tenerife

Sent by my sister-in-law on 10 Mar, 1997 

Lanzarote , Cueva de los Verrdes 

Sent by my sister with her son on 20 Feb 2001

Winter in Russia

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Belukha Mount. The Karaturek Pass, Altai 

Belukha Mountain, located in the Katun Mountains, is the highest peak of the Altai Mountains in Russia and the highest of the system of the South Siberian Mountains. It is part of the World Heritage Site entitled Golden Mountains of Altai.

Received on 11 May, 2015

Sent by Anastasia ( Novosibirsk, Russia) 

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Road to Viluchinsky Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia 

UNESCO World Heritage

Received on 22 Sep, 2021

Dent by  Maryosha ( Fryzino, Russsia) 

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Winter in the USSR. 1935

Received on 2 Jul, 2014

Sent by Marina ( Moscow, Russia)

 

Philippines

Eruption of Mayon Volcano

Sent by Ani in Manila

 on 8 Oct, 2014

travel time 17 days

distance travelled 8,998 km

Mayon, the most famous of the active volcanoes of the Philippines, is a perfect stratovolcano rising to 2462 m on Luzon Island. It erupts very frequently.

Boracay Island, Philippines

Sent by Magnolia in Davao City

on 25 Jul, 2019

travel time 19 days

distance travelled 9,994 km

Boracay is a small island in the Philippines located approximately 315 kilometres south of Manila in Western Visayas region of the Philippines. 

Scenic Sunday

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Roaring Fork River

travel time 15 days

distance travelled 7,086 km

sent by Tessa, Kentucky, U.S.

Roaring Fork is a stream in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, located in the Southeastern United States. Like many mountain streams, Roaring Fork is volatile. While the stream presents as a peaceful trickle on any given day, it quickly becomes a raging whitewater rapid after a mild rain shower. The "roar" of the water is amplified by its echo on surrounding mountain ridges.

Peaks of Mt. Grosser Geiger and  Mt. Maurerkeeskopf. Austria, Salzburg

travel time 12 days

distance travelled 1,625 km

 sent by Karl, Germany

Waimangu Volcanic Valley, Rotorua, New Zealand
swap sent by Raelyn, New Zealand

Some Volcanoes

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Poas Volcano, crater and lake, National Park

travel time 20 days

distance travelled 6,310 km

sent by Ramona from Toronto visiting Costa Rica

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Haleakala National Park, Hawaii, U.S.A.
Haleakala Crater
travel time 9 days
distance travelled 7,585 km
sent by Duncan, Portland, Oregon

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Mount Rainier, National Park, Washington, U.S.A.
travel time 9 days
distance travelled 7,362 km
sent by Jessie, Bremerton, Washington

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Central Oregon
Mount Bachelor
travel time 182 days!!
distance travelled 7,680 km
sent by Cassandra, Redmond, Oregon

Kamchatka - Land of Fire and Ice
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Klyuchevskaya Sopka, Kamchatka, Russia
travel time 33 days
distance travelled 3,463 km
sent by Anfisa, Novosibirsk

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Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia
travel time 11 days
distance travelled 538 km
sent by Lana, Saint Petersburg

Volcanoes of Kamchatka
20 June 2002, Russia
sent by Nikolay, Saint Petersburg

Japanese nature

Mountains

Colorado. Longs Peak

Received from Debra. Nebraska U.S.A.

Distance: 7,449 km

Travel time: 11 days

Longs Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.  Longs Peak is the northernmost fourteener in the Rocky Mountains and the highest point in Boulder County and Rocky Mountain National Park. ( fourteener is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet) 

Vysoké Tatry, High Tatras Slovakia

From Otto in Kosice, Slovakia

Distance: 1,553 km

Travel time: 12 days

National Park High Tatras (Vysoke Tatry) is situated in the north of Slovakia, shared partly with Poland. The only mountains of Alpine type in the whole Carpathian Mountain range are often called "the smallest alpine mountains in Europe".

New Zealand. Sunset over Mount Taranaki

Direct swap from Lyn in Wellingron, New Zealand

Mount Taranaki, or Mount Egmont, is an active but quiescent stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island.  The 2518-metre-high mountain is one of the most symmetrical volcanic cones in the world.

Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Tänään lähdemme katsomaan onkoTeidellä jo lunta ja vieläkö pelargoniat kukkivat Orotavassa.

Today we are going to see if there is snow on the top of Teide and if the geraniums still bloom in Orotava.

Mount Merapi, Indonesia

Received on: 17 Jul, 2013

Distance: 10,441 km (6,488 miles)

Travel time: 24 days

I received this card from Anggara who lives in Bandung, Indonesia. 

The card is showing a dangerous volcano in Central-Java. 

Literally "Mountain of Fire", Mount Merapi is the most active volcano in all Indonesia and it has erupted at least 68 times since 1548. Thousands of people live on the flanks of the volcano, with villages as high as 1,700 meters (5,600 ft) above sea level. Smoke can be seen emerging from the mountaintop at least 300 days a year, and several eruptions have caused fatalities. Its last major eruption in 2010 killed 347 people. 

The volcano is part of the Pacific 'Ring of Fire,' an area of the Pacific known for the deadly underground forces responsible for natural disasters such as volcanoes and tsunamis.

Mt. Fuji - Fujisan

Received on: 18 Jun, 2013

Distance: 7,995 km (4,968 miles)

Travel time: 17 days

This beautiful card comes from Naoko. Naoko lives in Taiwan however she is from Japan and the card shows her home town Fuji and Mount Fuji.  She writes that Fuji is famous for paper manufacturing, but perhaps even more famous for it's magnificent Mt. Fuji.

Mt. Fuji is Japan's most iconic volcano and highest mountain. It has been worshiped as sacred mountain for centuries and has immeasurable impact on Japanese culture, while it is recognized as a symbol of Japan across the world. Mount Fuji was officially recognized as a World Heritage Site at the annual UNESCO conference being held in Cambodia on June 22, 2013.

C is for Chile

 These cards are from our godchild whose father disapeared during Augusto Pinochet's regime. 

Santiago 13. 3. 1991
Arpillera " La Ronda"

Talleres Solidarios
Arzobispado de Santiago -Vicaria de la Solidaridad



Arpilleras are colorfully enchanting patchwork images telling stories of daily life.  This one is so  bright and cheerful, children playing and doing homeworks and the sun is shining.The history of these beautiful arpilleras is however quite dark.  More information about Arpillera Movement and Vicaria de la Solidaridad you find here



Arpillera Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos "Larga es la Ausencia"  La Cueca Sola - They Dance Alone

Cueca Solo is a protest song composed by English musician Sting and published first on the 1987 album Nothing Like the Sun. The song is a metaphor referring to mourning Chilean women (arpilleristas) who dance the Cueca, the national dance of  Chile, alone with photographs of their disappeared loved ones in their hands. Sting explained his song as a symbolic gesture of protest against the Chilean dictator Augusto Pnochet whose regime killed thousands of people between 1973 and 1990.

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Wonderful view of the Osorno volcano

Birthday greetings for our daughter on July 1990

 Santiago de Chile: Vista de la ciudad desde el cerro San Cristobal.

City View from San Cristobal hill.

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There is a time for everything,

God's love lasts forever.

Love is a smile.