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Happy Christmas. & Happy new year

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:41:00 +0000

Wishes for a bright and cheerful Christmas.

NAVIGATION ON IVAÍ RIVER

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:56:00 +0000

Here it is my last image of this serie. You can see the boat taking visitors to the river and, in the background, you can see the ferry-boat coming from jardim Alegre Municipality to Grandes Rios Municipality. You aren't able to see the little boat that push the ferry because it is in the other side of the ferry-boat. How I told you before, a drunk guy died at this place few time after this shot.

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Aqui temos a minha última imagem desta série. Em primeiro plano aparece o barco levando os visitantes para dar um passeio e, ao fundo, aparece a balsa fazendo a travessia entre Jardim Alegre e Grandes Rios. Vocês não podem ver o rebocador que impulsiona a balsa pois ele está atrás da balsa. Como já mencionei antes, um rapaz embriagado morreu afogado nestas águas pouco tempo depois que tirei esta foto.

saucer museum at Rio de Janeiro

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:52:00 +0000

Built in a place where I used to have a beer with my girl friend.

Bay Veiw of Rio de Janeiro

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:43:00 +0000

On the other side of the bay.,there is the famous sugarloaf.On this side used to be good and quiet.,not any more.

HOBBITON

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:30:00 +0000

The Hobbiton movie set of The Lord of the Rings is on the North Island of New Zealand

Black Water Rafting.

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:22:00 +0000

black water rafting is an experience that is unique to New Zealand. It involves the use of an inflated rubber inner tube, as a flotation device to take you down subterranean rivers. This ripper of a trip combines the best elements of black-water rafting with walking, swimming and climbing through dry sections of the spectacular Ruakuri Cave

Waitomo Cave Entrance

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:16:00 +0000

A cave entrance in the area.

Waitomo caves

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:10:00 +0000

The Waitomo Caves are a village and cave system forming a major tourist attraction in the southern Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand, 12 kilometres northwest of Te Kuiti. The community of Waitomo Caves itself is very small, though the village has many temporary service workers living there as well. The word Waitomo comes from the Māori language wai meaning water and tomo meaning a doline or sinkhole; it can thus be translated to be water passing through a hole.^[1] These Caves are believed to be over two million years old.

Bay of Tunis and the harbour at Sidi Bou Said

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:01:00 +0000

View from the top at late evening

Sahara desert ~ Tunisia,

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:53:00 +0000

Around forty percent of the country is composed of the Sahara desert, with much of the remainder consisting of particularly fertile soil and a 1300 km coastline.

Al-Zaytuna Mosque

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:49:00 +0000

The mosque is the oldest in the Capital of Tunisia and covers an area of 5,000 square metres with nine entrances. It has 160 authentic columns brought originally from the ruins of the old city of Carthage. The mosque is known to host one of the first and greatest University in the history of Islam

Matmata house

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:42:00 +0000

Hotel Sidi Driss

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:34:00 +0000

The Hotel Sidi Driss, a traditional Berber troglodyte underground building in the village of Matmata, Tunisia. The hotel served as the home of Luke Skywalker on the planet Tatooine in the Star Wars movies. Note the remaining set pieces incorporated into the walls.

Well at Pali, Rajasthan

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:09:00 +0000

Lake Palace and City palace, Udaipur, Rajasthan

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:07:00 +0000

Phosphorus transformation plant, East of Udaipur, Rajasthan

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:06:00 +0000

Cotton drying with the sun at Jaipur, Rajasthan

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:05:00 +0000

Dyer’s vats in Sanganer, Rajasthan

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:04:00 +0000

Brickyard, Agra east, Uttar Pradesh

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:02:00 +0000

Waste from marble factory near Kishangarh, Rajasthan

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:57:00 +0000

Dungs drying with the sun, near Agra, Uttar Pradesh

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:54:00 +0000

Agricultural work, Jaisalmer south, Rajasthan

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:53:00 +0000

Cotton fabrics drying in the sun, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:50:00 +0000

The state of Rajasthan in northeastern India is an important center of textile production, renowned for centuries for the crafts of dyeing and printing on cotton and silk fabrics. This work is highly prized by tourists and is carried out by women. Indian women bear the brunt of the extreme poverty that affects 25 percent of the population, and traditionally Indians have a B preference for boys, who represent the future of the name and the family, no matter how humble. They look after their parents in old age, and see to it that when they die the religious rites of cremation are properly performed. By contrast, girls leave their family when they get married and the parents have to provide a dowry, so they are often regarded as a burden. The abortion of female foetuses (now illegal but still widespread), the sudden death of baby girls, and saris that catch fire (rarely by accident) occur at all levels of society. It has been established that in certain states there are now less than 800 women to every 1,000 men, and the increase in such incidents is a source of concern for the government, which is trying to implement new legislation.

agon's Blood trees

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:31:00 +0000

Dragon's Blood tree known locally as Dam-al Akhawain, or blood of the two brothers, are seen on Socotra island,Yeman.

Strand by strand

noreply@blogger.com (Smart Urban) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:28:00 +0000

An Indian worker hangs strands of vermicelli to dry at a factory in Allahabad, India, on Aug. 26. Vermicelli is in demand among Muslims when they break their daylong fast during the holy month of Ramadan