March 9, 2008

disappearing world

i was blown away with this book! just so wonderful to see all these photos and little maps of the earth's most extraordinary and endangered UNESCO heritage places compiled in one book.
leaving through the most incredible places on our earth. traveling without polluting or damaging what history has given us. of course i would like to go and experience the ancient city of petra in jordan. or feel the water of lake baikal in irkusk, the deepest freshwater lake and there are even freshwater seals! an other place i have been wanting to visit, but i do know i will never go, is the kathmandu valley in nepal. this place must be magic, surrounded with all its high mountain peaks. and then there is the historic town of zabid in yemen. what a piece of art with its stucco decoration built in AD 820. this for my sunday afternoon musings, with a cup of mate and a lemon poppy seed muffin at my side.

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