Manarak3

Carcassonne is famous for its walls

Hmmmmmm Brick castle... meaning there isn't much stone around. So probably a flat landscape. Architecture looks Germanic - middle to late middle age - fast construction with use of bricks, the Teutonic Order built a lot of similar looking castles on the southern Baltic coast around Königsberg. Name a country.. Poland?

World cup I think... aren't there several large screens on the beach?

I think that's correct

we are game :)

Malaysia

Amos sounds Greek.

I was thinking kwai, 555

ah, it's not the river "Kwai"

architecture looks Italian - Italy ?

555 ... no, not cambodia. Hefe also suggested that. Funny how the file name can influence people.

no takers for my mystery pic ?

Only to find mystery pictures to post :-)

wouldn't that be too easy, 555 no, neither India nor Cambodia.

ok, I vow to bring to this thread only strange, amazing and surprising pix from all over the world that are not what they seem - the locations will be totally unexpected. Here is the first - name the country