Manarak3

Saab 1 has the country, extra points for the town 

Carcassonne is famous for its walls

How about this one? Lovely spot in a paddle boat, come summer time

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?

Is this the beach on Rio during one of those big events like the World Cup or The Stones concert?

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

Bruges in Belgium?

I think that's correct

Manarak and Wildrover, are right. Palau Perhentian Kecil.

 

I've got a few shots I've taken across the world, if people are game.

we are game :)

Malaysia

How about this one? a monk has lived on the top of the rock for 20 years on his own

Amos sounds Greek.

Were you thinking Rochester as well?

I was thinking kwai, 555

This city is in New York State

ah, it's not the river "Kwai"

architecture looks Italian  - Italy ?

Cambodia?  

555 ... no, not cambodia.

Hefe also suggested that.

Funny how the file name can influence people.

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 countrycambodia.jpg

no takers for my mystery pic ?

It pretty much is. 

 

You're not doing image searches anymore are you?

Only to find mystery pictures to post :-)

Well I would guess a Jain temple in India, but your filename says Cambodia.

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

looks pretty much like Thailand

i didnt google,i guessed.....anyway,its kinda against the spirit of the thread to be googling file names isn't  it?......

I didn't want to insinuate that you googled it - just to point out that filenames should be changed.

 well, yeah, same as in the Trivia thread.

 

   But manarak has just come back after a long absence so we can cut him a bit of slack

 

  And yes, it is  Norway.

thank you... I just wanted to point out that it's easy to find out using the filename!

Norway?

that's correct - easy to google the filename t68tt4m.jpg

Kinda looking for a city, Manarak ..... what does the file name 'dofymrj.jpg' have to do with Australia?

Brisbane :-)

This one came across my newsfeed today, from the southern hemisphere; anyone?

you should really change the filenames :-)

Australia

I was able to cross over into East Berlin 1971 via Checkpoint Charlie, it was a real trip walking down that narrow corridor with armed soldiers in high watchtowers checking us out through binoculars which were used constantly. What I still remember, besides the no mans land besides the wall & the  empty adjacent buildings with bulletholes, I remember how peaceful, leafy & quiet E Berlin was, lots of folks on bikes & walking, & then the obvious hit me - nobody owned any cars except a few taxis & the odd car here & there. The only other thing I can remember is the fantastic museum there & the city elevated rail that somehow ran around the eastern sector without stopping at the stations there.

 

I thought Berlin, east & west, was very cool & I'm disappointed I have never gone back yet.

it did change a lot, there aren't much leftovers from the DDR regime, Berlin looks like a big modern city now.

me too jaidee...i think its growing up in the cold war when all those countries and cities were off limit to us westerners.....i had the same yearning to go to prague and budapest,and i did so in the 90's.....theres still a few places left that i'd love to visit....lvov in Poland.....Minsk in belarus...Odessa,.and Romania,especiallly transylvania......

I was in Prague in 1980 ...  trenchcoat and hats galore !

Whereever we went, conversations instantly died when our "escort" entered the shop about a minute after us, 555

Same country - Romania

 

   Been wanting to go there for a while, looks like a super-cool place and I think Transylvania would be a good place to check out.

 

   When I tell this to my Viennese buddy Mike, he always has a chuckle and jokingly ridicules me, as in "why the hell would anyone wanna go to Romania?"  I guess it would be the same to an Austrian as an American saying they want to take a vacation in Jersey; or a Canadian wanting to spend time in Newfoundland.

 

   He also said the same thing when I wanted to see [and did go see!] Bratislava.......curiousity is all, for some reason all those former eastern-bloc countries have intrigued me since childhood.

Romania is actually pretty cool.

They got very scary looking castles and I love their meat products - simply excellent, maybe even better than German meat products.

Sighisoara... reminds me of Timisoara