Travel Pictures
 

'Ello all...
Well, I've finally gotten round to getting Photobucket and uploading all my pictures from my trip to South Africa at Christmas. And me being the avid photographer I am, I decided to send out some of my wildlife/scenery pictures. So here are a few links:

A beautiful lady giraffe
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...in/Giraffe.jpg

A lovely elephant close up
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x.../Elephant2.jpg

The same elephant, on a bigger scale
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x.../Elephant1.jpg

Two cheetah cubs (about 5 months) in a drier part of the reserve (vlei)
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x.../Cheetahs2.jpg

The above cubs' mother, stalking her little ones to show them that Mamma is always watching! ;)

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...n/Cheetah4.jpg
One of the cubs alone

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...n/Cheetah3.jpg
The two cubs together again

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...n/Cheetah1.jpg
Just a pretty scenery picture

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...wavesrocks.jpg

Well...that's all for now. It was fun putting these pictures up. Perhaps someone else will put up theirs? *looks hopeful*

Ps. This is not a thread to rival the Picture thread above. This is for pictures of exotic places/travel etc. (And yes, those exotic places can be an Ipso Facto store if you really want...)

the pictures you have sent are beautiful.
i guess you went to see the animals in the natural habitat. weren't you afraid?

There's no need to be afraid of wild animals - leave them be and they'll just ignore you. And generally on African safaris you stay inside a vehicle and the animals barely notice you're there.

Beautiful pictures, Dancing_in_rain. It's good to see someone who appreciates travel, and Africa truly is a magical place... there's no better way to see wildlife since it's just so abundant. I'll try to post my pictures from Kenya if I can find the damn things (taken in 1999, so they're not digital).

In the meantime here are some photos of my more recent travels:

A roadside slaughterhouse in Azerbaijan, Jan 2007

Myself in Baku, Azerbaijan

The village of Arabba, Italy (where I spent last Christmas)

My sister and I in Verona, Italy

And some wildlife photos from my visit to Alaska last year...

Seals
A squirrel
Bald eagles
A sea otter
A breaching humpback
And a bear.

Oh my God, each and every one of them are absolutely stunning!

These are gorgeous pics.

Big Island of Hawaii
 

HumanePain is the only goth in the Four Seasons resort:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007032.jpg

...the only Goth on the beach...
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007017.jpg

and of course I am the only tourist...hell, the only PERSON in the cemetery North of Hilo:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007043.jpg

I like the way they use a lot of black in Hawaiian tombstones:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007045.jpg

The obligatory fresh grave:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007048.jpg

OK, now for something more typical: A repaved street, but repaved by Mother Nature!
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007066.jpg

Steam vents in Volcano National Park (these suckers will instantly cook your hand Al Dente):
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007051.jpg

Mrs. Humane walking down the trail into the Fern Forest:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007075.jpg

Everything is so green and awesome! This tree was HUGE:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007092.jpg

Walking into a lava tube underground:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007083.jpg

Ah! The proverbial light at the end of the tunnel!
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007084.jpg

And ending with just one of the many sunsets we enjoyed in Kona:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007117.jpg

All in all, 153 photos, way too many to post here on Gnet. Muhalo and Aloha!
:)

Sounds like you had fun. Awesome pictures, by the way.

Aww Humane you look so cute. You look like you could be Hawaiian, minus the hugeness.

Haha! Hawaiian? That is the first time I have heard THAT! :D
Usually people pick up that I am mostly Mexican or even Vietnamese, or Filipino.
(I am half Mexican, one quarter French and one quarter German. Oh, and one fifteenth Lesbian as disorder and Pyre will attest.)

I've always wanted to go to Hawaii! Great pictures, Humane.

Lesbian? So, I guess that means you're from Romania, huh? HA!

Chicago!
 

OK, these are a little boring for some of you who are used to metropolitan living, but it may be interesting for some:

The Hilton Hotel in downtown Chicago where I stayed for three days:

http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r...28-2007015.jpg

The hotel lobby. Everything in Chicago is artsy-fartsy:

http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r...28-2007010.jpg

Typical scene walking down the sidewalk, the trains are everywhere!

http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r...28-2007004.jpg

Typical scene driving:

http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r...28-2007003.jpg

Beautiful statue in Grant Park across the street from my hotel:

http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r...28-2007012.jpg

As I am walking towards the Chicago Art Institute I came across public chess games:

http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r...28-2007026.jpg
http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r...28-2007027.jpg

Finally I arrive at the institute:

http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r...28-2007038.jpg
http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r...28-2007035.jpg

Gigantic lion outside the museum:

http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r...28-2007029.jpg

The original Vincent van Gogh self portrait:

http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r...28-2007032.jpg

An amazing portrait of Jesus, he actually looks happy! I really like it:

http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r...28-2007034.jpg

There are just way too many photos; original Serauts, Degas, Picassos, Chinese statues from 700 B.C., just too many for me to post here. An amazing three hours I spent there!

Oh you lucky, lucky man! The Chicago Art Institute is a wonderful place. I saw the Monet exhibit there. His paintings are HUGE! I was surprised since all you get to see in everyday life are poster and wall art size.

Was three hours enough or was there still more you would have liked to have seen?

i sure wish I had the money for traveling. I hardly get around lately... it even makes me wonder whether the rest of the world exists at all.....

Here are a few photos of Halle, Germany from last summer. I'll be going there this summer too.

I called the place "Halloween Town". All the houses there are completely fucked up but still beautiful and have this atmosphere of Halloween that you see in all the movies...

house

The central place is gorgeous. I've found only one pic of it where there is some strange fat guy in an orange shirt in the middle....
center
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...e/DSC00139.jpg

Then I was in a town near by....it was absolutely disturbing. There was this HUGE HUGE jail looking building looming up from below. The rest of the village consisted of cute little cottages. Surreal kindof.
here

But I got over the surprise:
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...e/101_0305.jpg http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...e/101_0314.jpg

o.O

I want to see that first town in the moonlight!

Wow, nice! I want to go to Chicago now. I didn't realize it would look so New York-y.

These are pretty, too.

If you meant Halle, then YES you most certainly DO. It is gorgeous. Whole quarters of the town are full of run down houses where no one lives. And in the midst of these quarters they have free open air concerts and parades and whatnot.....AT NIGHT. I loved it there so much.

Only problem with Germans is that they SIT at rock conserts. You have 2 head bangers, one drunk wierdo and the rest JUST SITTING THERE. That freaked me out more than any run down house could.

I would love to buy that place and fix it up! We could make it the Gnet mansion!
It looks big enough for all of us!

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Wow! This is the first time I have seen your beautifully feminine self! You are very pretty, and the most romantic looking goth girl in that dress! :)

That would rock. No need to fix it up though...I like it just as fucked up as it is. And mind you, that place is almost right in the center of the town. We could all just move to Halle, each take a run down mansion and turn the place into Goth Town. It's got great potential :D


Thank you dear.

I always love seeing photos from other people's travels, as it inspires me for my future trips.

I haven't been to these places yet, but I once went on a Kilimanjaro tour ( https://altezza.travel/en/park/serengeti )
Thank you for sharing your photos with us, and I hope that others will follow your lead and share their own travel pictures as well. It's a great way to connect with fellow travelers and share our experiences and memories.

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