The "Where Am I?" Game

[2Stupid2Duck]

Wow Thomas. Those pix are great- well dunno if the pix are so great (not that they are bad, don't get the wrong idea) its that the subject is fantastic. Kewl as s**t! Mate, if you got more like that then guess your own place and go again (LOL)

 

[thomasjfletcher]

thanks mate-
and to Lafoto, you're very close with your Indochinese guesses......just pick one, somebody!!!!
cheers
t

 

[LaFoto]

Somehow those skulls made me think of a documentary I had seen on TV a while ago and I thought it was one about Cambodia. So I googled things up a bit, putting in "Skulls Cambodia" and was presented this image:

With the help of this one I think I have the solution to the question "Where am I?":

Thomas, you've not only been to Europe (Hamburg in Germany, to mention just one place) but also to CAMBODIA!

Right?

The Duck said, it is not necessary to put up photos of one's own. If your wife or some other family member has been to other places than yourself and has taken photos, you can put up those. I'll soon have to revert to photos that my husband took on one or the other of his business travels. I'm gradually running out of pics myself, too. But I might then - should this game go on - also ask my sister or my dad for contributions (I hope). Then we could all "travel even further" together.

 

[thomasjfletcher]

Lafoto wins again!!!!

Yep, they're from Cambodia. I went there in 1996 during some general travels around asia. The sculls are quite common. They're remains from the late 70s, early 80's Khmer Rouge Pol Pot regime. They established "year zero" and wanted to start a socialist society from the beginning. Anyone with education, etc, was said to be killed. There is a lot of evidence still.
The ruins are from an earlier Khmer civilization at Angkor (similar Khmer ruins can indeed be found in Vietnam). Built around 1300 AD it was a massive city of over a million (the second such after Rome). It was Buddhist (as Cambodia is today) and only the temples and royal buildings were of stone and survive today. The civilisation completely collapsed and was lost to the rapacious jungle, only to be found in the 19th century by a French explorer.
I was there for a week just after the civil war and had the place completely to myself. It's really awesome.
So there you go.

 

[LaFoto]

Wow. Erm... again.
Well, where do I take you this time - let's make it more difficult than Edinburgh was. That was quite easy - I chose all the most touristy views for that.

Oh. Well, this is where my husband once (or twice or indeed three times) was for work reasons, and I can only choose from HIS photos, and so this is VERY difficult. Very!

Try, will you?
So: Where was LaFoto's husband?

 

[thomasjfletcher]

that's a luvverly looking place!!

 

[thomasjfletcher]

I'm guessing one of the ex-Soviet central asian republics????

 

[LaFoto]

Well...............
No more guessers?

 

[mad_malteaser]

That's a tough one. Ukraine?

 

[LaFoto]

You're both nearing the place from the right angles...

No one else in the game any more?

 

[2Stupid2Duck]

I'm here but I haven't got a darn clue (and my geogrpahy sux).

 

[mad_malteaser]

Err.. Romania??

 

[thomasjfletcher]

Russia??

 

[LaFoto]

Your first guess was more accurate, Tom, though the geographical place wasn't quite that right...
I knew this one would be tough. But in the second of the three, you actually see the Presidential Palace of the place. Maybe that might help you in your research (you do some research, don't you????)

 

[centrerugger]

hungary