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.