Showing posts with label c. Show all posts
Showing posts with label c. Show all posts

Sunday, July 20, 2008

20 - Chofu, Japan



Outer district of Tokyo, on the bank of Tama-gawa.

Chōfu (調布) is a western suburb of Tokyo, and the main draws are Jindaiji Temple and Jindai Botanical gardens. These twin attractions are next to each other, making a reasonable day trip from central Tokyo. Beyond these two, Chōfu feels like the suburb that it is, particularly on the the weekends when the train platform is crowded with parents and their children.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

109 - Chama, New Mexico



In the San Juan Mountains, just S of the Colorado line.

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Annual Reports By United States American Ethnology Bureau, Maritime Lumber Bureau

Thursday, May 29, 2008

83 - Çorovodë, Albania


On the Osumi river.
Çorovodë, also written as Çorovoda is the main city of Skrapar, Albania with a population of around 7,000. The city name Çorovoda comes from the Bulgarian: Черна вода (Cherna voda) and means "black water". The Çorovoda river passes through the city and it is also home to a canyon, known as "Pirogosh". Allegedly, two kings, Piro and Goshi, named the cavern.
Osumi river passes through the city too and forms wonderful canyons and caves which are the highest and the longest in Abania. Çorovoda offers many other attractions to everyone who would like to spend some unforgettable holidays. Çorovoda is only 3 hours away from Tirana (the capital).
Some archaeologists believe Çorovoda might be the oldest city in Albania. They have found ruins of some churches and a buried castle in Rovica which might be more ancient than the castle of Berat.

Saturday, May 3, 2008

57 - Colne, Lancashire, England, UK



25mi N of Manchester. The River Colme at Linthwaite:

Friday, April 4, 2008

30 - Chilwaria, Uttar Pradesh, India

80mi. NE of Lucknow.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

120 - Cerro de Pasco, Peru

In the Andes NE of Lima. Here's a great tidbit from the wikipage of the Peruvian soccer team Deportivo Wanka:
The team aroused controversy in 2004 when it moved its base to Cerro de Pasco, the highest city in the world and almost certainly the world's highest venue for professional football, at an altitude of 4,380 m (13,973 ft) above sea level, well above the point where altitude sickness becomes a problem. Its opponents criticised the move as an attempt to stave off relegation [to a lower league] by playing in conditions that no other team could tolerate, including hail, rain, near-freezing temperatures and a lack of oxygen from the high altitude. The club was relegated that season anyway.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

94 - Chamais Bay, Namibia

60mi. N of the Orange River's mouth. It's in a huge restricted district called Diamond Area 1, which I at first took for a relic from the not-so-distant days when this was South-West Africa, a South African colony—it certainly has a military-codename ring to it. But now I think it might just be because ... there are diamonds there. Or might be.

Here's a sketch based on a flickr photo of the gost-pump-station at one of the road entrances to Diamond Area 1:

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Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

Thursday, January 17, 2008

68 - Chennevières-sur-Marne, France

An eastern suburb of Paris. Here's a video-house listing for an art-deco-looking place in C-s-M: