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Awoostan retrieved it from Lake Cliff TB Chalet
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Colorado
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Ceolmhor placed it in Lake Cliff TB Chalet
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Colorado
- 8,423.25 miles
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Well, thanks for the company, but it's time for me to cut back. Happy travels!
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Ceolmhor took it to Jewel H2O @ Little Red Dot
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Singapore
- 707.65 miles
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We made Singapore the intermediate stop on our way back home from Siem Reap to Denver. And what a fascinating place the Changi Jewel is! It includes the world's largest indoor waterfall (120 feet) surrounded by a huge botannical garden. It's really a large shopping center, with over 300 stores, restaurants, etc., but even that is unusual. It has lots of play places for kids, and we saw many families playing there. A great place for people-watching. Who knew an airport could be so much fun! 🙂
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Ceolmhor took it to A River Flows Backward
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Cambodia
- 5,249.55 miles
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This earthcache teaches about a truly remarkable geological/geographical phenomenon that occurs here and defines, to a large extent, the life of the Cambodian people. The cache is located where the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers merge. Tonle Sap lake lies upstream on that river. During the dry season (6 months of each year), water from the lake flows down the river to this point, draining from the lake until it has an area of "only" about 1000 square miles. but during the wet season, so much flood water flows down the Mekong that the flow reverses in the Tonle Sap, filling the lake to around 10,000 square miles. In most of its area, the filled lake is shallow, and the result is a huge area suitable for rice cultivation. My wife and I were visiting on a trip with iDE, an international charity we support. Later, on their tour, we had a chance to visit one of the floating villages on Tonle Sap Lake, and see how the people live there. Sorry about the poor focus in some photos.
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Ceolmhor took it to Victoria Falls, Zambia
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Zambia
- .28 miles
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Our trip to Africa this time was mostly tourism, with two of our grandchildren, but we also spent a day each with three of the charities we support in Zambia. Aside from the safari we did on each of the trips, Victoria Falls was the main tourist attraction of the trip, and we enjoyed seeing it again. As usual, I brought along some fellow travelers in my geo-bag, so they could enjoy it, too. We actually saw it from both the Zimbabwe and Zambia sides, and visited a geocache in each country there.
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Ceolmhor took it to Mosi-oa-Tunya
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Zimbabwe
- 181.74 miles
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Our trip to Africa this time was mostly tourism, with two of our grandchildren, but we also spent a day each with three of the charities we support in Zambia. Aside from the safari we did on each of the trips, Victoria Falls was the main tourist attraction of the trip, and we enjoyed seeing it again. As usual, I brought along some fellow travelers in my geo-bag, so they could enjoy it, too. We actually saw it from both the Zimbabwe and Zambia sides, and visited a geocache in each country there.
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Ceolmhor took it to Hippo Cache
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Botswana
- 4,511.57 miles
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I was really lucky here. I try to find a cache in each country I visit, but there aren't many in the safari portion of Botswana, and we spent no time in the cities. However, I was lucky enough to find a cache just 2-3 miles from our third safari camp, and our driver/guide was kind enough to stop for it. There was a bit of a danger of snakes here (earlier, at this camp, a black mumba several feet long seemed to try to jump into our safari vehicle through the open doorway next to me, though perhaps it was just trying to get away; they can stand with their heads several feet in the air and are very poisonous), but the guide helped me verify that it was safe. I think this was my country #56. Some of the travelers I carry have seen quite a few countries with me. 🙂
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Ceolmhor took it to Segovia Oculta - Virtual Reward 3.0
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Castilla y León, Spain
- 1,492.1 miles
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The City of Segovia, Spain is known especially for its Roman Aquaduct and its medieval castle. The entire city center is a World Heritage Site. One of the geocaches we visited here was a particularly interesting one based on the aquaduct, which has both above-ground and underground sections. The route of the underground aquaduct is marked by a series of bronze plaques, which we had to follow in order to claim the cache. Near the end is, to my eye, the most beautiful castle I've ever seen. My fellow travelers and I had a good time here. 🙂
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Ceolmhor took it to Fonte Aretusa
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Sicilia, Italy
- 466 miles
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Fonte Aretusa is a really interesting earthcache on the island of Sicily. It sits on a peninsula that forms one side of a bay. This "fount" is actually a freshwater spring. The question is, where does the water come from? There's nothing but saltwater nearby, and no higher land that the water might come down from. The water is actually transported from the mountains across the bay, running between two rock layers underneath the bay to reach an exit point on one corner of this freshwater pool. I haven't seen anything like it before. I like to think the fellow travelers I bring with me in my geo-bag enjoyed it, too.
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Ceolmhor took it to Acropolis
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Greece
- 116.53 miles
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We were able to visit the Acropolis in Athens, and the most special of the special places there, the Parthenon. This is an amazing structure, and I thought that my fellow travelers might enjoy having their pictures taken here. I apologize that some of the photos I took have the TBs out of focus, but it was a very bright, sunny day, and I couldn't actually see the image through the camera very well. IAC, they all seemed to enjoy the visit. 😉
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