I regularly walk or run along this creek. Those who follow my blog have seen images from this place representing different seasons… this one would be the final sign of the autumn 2012.
Änggårdsbergen, Gothenburg.
By the way, be careful with your compact camera in humid places. Mine gave up completely a week ago perhaps for being a bit over ambitious along this creek.
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A bachata performed with lots of feeling at the Scandinavian Salsa Congress 2012
Something caught her attention at the wedding party..
The photographers results getting a good old analog approval, even by the dog. Havana. January 1 2005
New York from a tourists perspective. To the right Chrysler building.
The world is focusing on The United States these days… We don´t need another cowboy in power, don´t waste your vote on MR
He made the kite with his own hands. Now it´s time for take off. Santiago de Cuba, Christmas eve 2004.
One interesting phenomena in the Seychelles fauna is the Fruitbat or Flying Fox. Pteropus Seychellensis.
An important species for the ecosystems in the islands. The bat is big as a seagull, and you see them flying around all over also at day time. They are hunted for their meat by some of the locals.
About the catchy Halloween title…no worries, they only eat fruit and flower nectar. The pic is taken in Praslin island in February 2012 and turned upside down
One of those trips to remember for sure, not only because of the heavily armed escort of peruvian soldiers (this was in the eighties when “Sendero luminoso” guerilla movement were active in the country. In 1992 the line had to close down for several years when bomb attacks killed 20 persons in the crew) but also because it happens to be the highest passenger railroad track in the world.
The route starts in Desamparados station in Lima at sea level. After an hour it reaches the town of Chosica. This is where the climb begins and we are not talking a simple uphill here we are talking the steep vertical mighty Andes.
Initially the train is zigzagging itself backwards and forwards gaining hight and edging its way between the mountain sides
The train totally passes 59 bridges and 66 tunnels on its dramatic and winding 12 hour journey through the cordillera to Huancayo.
The quick climb to altitudes close to 5000 meters is a brutal shock for the human body so the train company has a special service for the passengers who suffers from mountain sickness. Extra oxygen delivered by a man dressed in white. (see photo)
More or less half way on the track the train pulls in to “La Galera” station. At 4,781m it is the world’s highest train station. Compared to the dry pacific desert around Lima this is a completely different scenery and climate.
After climbing a few meters more the “Tren de la Sierra” starts to descend down towards the peruvian highland and the final destination of Huancayo.
In Baracoa, eastern Cuba 2004.
The driver was going to take me 30 kilometers out-of-town.
In Cuba the penalties for driving a non authorized taxi are severe, so the drivers basic mood was twin turbo paranoia. There was a lot of careful and elaborate planning before I could enter his four-wheel drive jeep in a back alley
Now If you look at the center of the scene just between the orange cyclist and the brownish jeep (and a cyclist with backpack) there is a policeman stepping out of his vehicle ready to impose the law without mercy.
Get down.. get down! my driver screamed when he suddenly spotted his own nightmare live in uniform. He turned pale and was desperately trying to look relaxed. He failed completely.
I hid downstairs for a while beside a live grunting pig in a sack. Trying to change direction at that point could have drawn attention so he just drew on towards the catastrophe… but like a miracle we did not get stopped.
Breaking the law in Cuba can be an exciting adventure for a tourist but a serious blow for the Cuban person who gets nicked.
Come on grandmother…
Last Thursday the hurricane Sandy hit Santiago de Cuba. The storm caused a lot of destruction in the area and 9 people were killed.
The photo is taken 2004
Håkan Rönnblad 