Some doors from Malta

The big EYE

This is one of my favorites add cards and is about Greece  www.visitgreece.gr. I couldn't find the site in fact, but I found some videos in YouTube. EXPLORE your senses!

Last postcard for today - Argentina

I forgot I have aranged a private swap with a girl from Argentina, it was so long ago! But in this way the surprise was full :) I even aranged private swap with anouther girl from Argentina (which I'm happy I've done because I'll have two cards from Argentina this way and I'm expecting the othe one with a lot of impatience!) I like the picture so much and especialy I'm happy that there is an explanation on its back about each picture . 

So these are the places (in order of appearence):

1. Hotel Llao Llao - Bariloche - Rio Negro

2. Mar del Plata - Buenos Aires Province

3. A field with sunflawers in la Pampa 

4. Bandera Rosario's monument - Santa Fe

5. Iguazu Waterfalls - Misiones

6. Perito Moreno glacier- Santa Cruz

7. Los Cardones National Park- Salta

8. Ushuaia - Tierra del Fuego (The land of fire - I'm not exactly sure how is the name in english)

9. El Palmar National Park- Entre Rios

The girl is from Trelew, so I'll check Trelew in the map.

A unique card from Singapore

The picture is wanderfull and I like also the little pictures on the back and the stamp. I'm always happy about different cards and new things :)

The Capital Brasilia

I'm so happy that I finaly received this card. The guy who sent it asked me if I received it but I wasn't. We used to study about the buildings in Brasilia in our history of modern architecture class, so I'm happy that I have a postcard with these famous buildings now. :)

The buildings are:

The National Congress

The Temple of Legiao da Boa Vontade

The Itamaraty Palace

The National Theatre

P.s.: I can't point Brasilia in the Where I've Been application - it's impossible - after all this is the capital!

Nagoya Castle in Aichi

I haven't received any cards for around two weeks, which made so unhappy, but luckily I've received four cards today. This is the first one. This is the Nagoya Castle in Aichi. It has been home of the Owari Tokugawa clan of the Tokugawa family. Tokugawa is among the few things I know about Japan history in fact. May be because I've read some books for this period. Anyway, the castle looks so strange with the two skyscapers in the back. And I'm still curious how the textfield in the postcard is on the right. Looks so different! Thank you, Yukari!

A skyview of the island of Malta

The St. Paul's Catacombs in Rabat

The Hagar Qim temple

Alanya

This is anouther skyview. They know my preferences ;) 

Also this is the first postcard I have with the new logo of Turkey. 

Alanya, Turkey

My sister and her boyfriend were in Turkey for a week and they brought me these two cards from the city they were in. I love skyviews!. The city is called Alanya and is somewhere near Antalya. They are so happy they were in a worm place this week - here is raining all day long the hole week. 

Minsk, Belarus

I finally have a card from an eastern-european country. I think it's because Bulgaria is in East Europe, that's why I don't receive postcards from there. But viva the private swap :) I've received a lovely photograph from Minsk, the capital of Belarus. It shows the town hall and the cathedral Virgin Mary. It's few I know about Belarus, altough I had a classmate from Belarus. As it can be seen in the article, they have the same microraions (микрорайони) like ours (Prytytski Square). Ours don't have lightnings in fact. These are the same panel buildings, made dirung the communist period, which americans show in their movies as a symbol of poverty in the Eastern Europe, which is a bit stupid, i think. It was curius for me to know that there is Russo-Belarusian pidgin language, called trasianka. 

Ратуша is a new word I've learned from russian - it means town hall. I'm not good in speaking russian, but I usualy don't have problems with understanding it - it's so close to bulgarian, and also I used to study it in school, so I'm happy when people write me in russian (even when I reply in english, I find it easier to speak english at the moment, maybe because of all movies and books and internet sites). The photograph is of the husband of Nargiza, and this is his site - http://zimani.net/eng/, where you can find a lot of nice photoes. 

And anouther interesting thing about Belarus - there is a residention of Ded Moroz (its Diado Mraz in bulgarian) - the eastern version of Santa Claus:  http://www.streamphoto.ru

When we were children in Bulgaria, we were expecting Дядо Мраз (Diado Mraz) on New Year's Eve. Now children are axpecting Дядо Коледа (Diado Koleda, or Grandpa Cristmass, or Pere Noel :) on the night before Xmas. Things are changing. 

The Megalitic Malta

Ggantija, Gozo - left

Mnajdra, Malta - top right

Hagar Qim, Malta - bottom right

The Hypogeum

The Hal-Saflieni Hypogeum is one of the most interesting places in Malta. There a lot of interesting and aslo some funny theories about it, because it's so fantastic that everybody fiction his own explanation about the its functions. The scientist think this is a prehistoric necropolis. Some people say they saw alliens inside :). For me it was a fasctinating experience to go there. I didn't know that have to register for the visit (the visits are limited because of the climatic regime of the monument) so I just went there one sunday without any preliminary registration. After I found it (it wasn't easy) they said I can't go inaside because I don't have registration. But I had the chance that I was alone, I'm a girl ;), I wasn't speaking english very well but was asking a lot of questions and was so unhappy because I was leaving Malta next day, and also there weren't namy tourists at that day, so the guides let me in even on a reduce price (a student price or something like that) and were explaning a lot of things only for me (the others of the group weren't so interested by the wall-paintings and some other things). I thinks this was one of my luckyest days :)

The Sleeping Lady

The Sleeping lady was discovered in the Tarxien Hypogeum and is the best-known Maltese artefact. It was probably a cult figure and can be seen now in the Archeological museum in Valletta. (The hystoric city of Valletta is also an UNESCO site). There's no way to see it on the postcard but the statue is very small in opposite of the huge megalitic monuments know from Malta. 

Tarxien

Malta is most famous with its prehistoric megalithic temles. The most famous of them you can see on this postcard -The Tarxien Hypogeum, located in the village Tarxien and is also an UNESCO site. Here is the plan of the site with prononciation of the name (maltese people pronounce a bit different - even Malta sounds more like Moolta), also here is a list of the maltese temples.

The Mlatese buses

Tal-Linja start and end in the round place in Valetta, you can go where you want from Valetta if you not in a hurry :) Together with the maltese boats that look exactly like finicitian boat with their eyes, the buses are one of the atractions of the islands.

The Cathedral of Malta outside

This one looks the oldest one of the pictures I bought from this man.

The Cathedral of Malta inside

I realy like this view. It looks so abstract.

The Dome Cathedral

The inside of the cathedral. These few postcards are in fact some oll photographs which a man in front of the cathedral was selling. They looked much more interesting that the convinient postcards in fact.

The cathedral of Malta

This is the Dome Cathedral in Mosta, Malta. It has the third lagest unsupported dome in the world. During the Second World War a bomb fell trought the dome but without exploding and maltese believe this was a miracle. 

The Popeye Village

This is made for the movie and can be seen now in Malta.

The royal tomb

Anouther view of the inside chamber of the tomb. This is the last postcard I brought from the information centre. I can't beleive they have only six different postcards there! Here is the official site of the Thracian tomb of Sveshtari - http://getika.com

The Sveshtary royal tomb

An inside view of the Sveshtary tomb with the women figures. The tomb is known mainly by its women figures, which are called caryatids, allthought they are not exactly this. The most curious thing for me starting doing my diploma was that a lot of bulgarians don't know the tomb which is impossible I tought! Most of them don't even know the list of the UNESCO sites in Bulgaria! So tell me, how can we preserve our cultural heratage when we don't even know about it?

The Sboryanovo archeologic preserve

This is one of the bulgarian UNESCO sites and consists of two large tombs nekropolis in one of the biggest of which in 1982 was found the big royal tomb of Sveshtari in the Ginina tumulus. (it's called Ginina, because It was in the ground of grandmother Gina :). This is an unique tracian tomb from the 3th centurary B.C.

Some pictures from inside of Demir Baba teke

You can see here the mural paintings inside the "teke", the grave of the saint and the sacred spring which must be sacred from the tracian times.

Demir Baba teke

I went in Sboryanovo on friday with my boyfriend and a friend of us. We went to see the tracian tombs, which I'll show you after, but they didn't wanted to see the muslim tomb, which was also built on the remains of an old tracian sanctuary.

The "teke" with the rock

This is a muslim tomb of the Iron father - Demir Baba. It's near Isperikh town in NE Bulgaria in the Sboryanovo archeologic preserve.

Berner oberland

The postcode is from Thun, so I'll check in the map Thun.

Regensburg a. d. Donau

For so many years Regensburg was linked only with the puzzles. But I like the view so much!

Dusseldorf -the biggest city of Japanese culture in Europe

Tipical balcony

These balconies are so tipical in Malta. The architekture is a bit boring, but the colors of the balconies makes things different. This is a bit of arabic culture - as I remember the women used to sit there listening to the street gossips without been seen by the poeple on the street.

Three forified towns

Mdina, the capital Valletta (named on the head of the maltese order - La Valletta) and Citadella on the Gozo island. Malta is place of numerous battles.

Mdina, the former capital of Malta

They call it the Silent city, but I don't remember why. I do remember that Mdina is like the arabian sacred city Medina. You know Malta was a crossroad of different cultures. If you listen to their language you'll some english and arabian words, italian intonation, arabian numbers and greek phrases. It's so fastinating.

Hagar Qim

This one of the megalitic temples in Malta. I was there on an english school for two weeks and non of my co-students was interested in these temples. That's why I had to visit them on my own. They are so interesting and so strange-looking to me.

Malta

I'm startimg to post my postcards from the trip I've made few years ago to Malta. I like most of the very much. I didn't have a good camera at that time and thanks to that I have a lot of postcards from there :)

Two doors and a window in Dubrovnik

A night view of the gates of Dubrovnik

I adore nightviews!

The bird on the wall

With the sea

A boat in Dubrovnik

This postcard is one of my favorites. I even tried to draw the same boat ones. The result was awful of coarse :)