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Hiroshima
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not Hiroshima....but like the Hiroshima Memorial site, where I am is also World Heritage Site.
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Kyoto?
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Not Nagasaki.
While I'm sure those two places have historically older associations than WWII, the place I am has a more ancient heritage than the last 1000 years or so. |
Nara?
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You got it, Tul. I'm in Nara.
The "Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara" include 6 temples: Todaiji, Kasuga-Taisha, Kofukuji, Yakushiji, Toshodaiji and Gangouji. Todaiji is a noteworthy example, visited by Japanese students on school trips and tourists from all over the world. This temple was built by order of Emperor Shomu (ruling from 724 to 749) in order to protect the country. The 14.7-meter-high Great Buddha in the Daibutsuden (Great Buddha Hall) symbolizes Nara, and his pose of holding up the palm of his right hand to the front while placing his left hand on his knee with the palm upwards means that he gives strength to the people with his right hand while promising to grant their wishes with his left. The main body of the Buddha has been repaired many times over the years, but the lotus petal part used as the foundation and both legs are as they were when first made. The building, reconstructed in the Edo era, is the largest-scale ancient wooden building in the world. http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ics6/Nara1.jpg http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...6/nara_300.jpg http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...Nara_Japan.jpg |
Very cool.
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southern hemisphere?
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Are you staying in the EH, Tul?
(liked the hat, unka p) |
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EH, yes |
australia?
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Nope. But the area? Oui. |
christchurch, new zealand?
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guadalcanal?
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I think that's in the Solomans (sp?) and I'm little south of there. More French tourists hanging about.
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Malaysia
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I'm south of the Solomons, north of New Zealand and east of Australia. I'm likely soaking up sun on a beach speaking French* to a bunch of other tourists. *No, I can't actually speak French, but I'm also not really at this location, so? |
samoa?
shit, that's probably east... |
/runs GoogleEarth...
digital cartography predicts... you are in Fiji? ...well it was a toss-up between the above or Tahiti... may I choose Tahiti now? I say Tahiti, revoking Fiji. |
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And you could choose Tahiti now, but you'd still be wrong |
my maps are shot...
fiji? |
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You guys are getting so close I can smell the coco butter. |
Port-Vila in Vanuatu? :surprised:
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Draw a line on a map from Brisbane Australia to Fiji. In the middle of that line you'll find me. |
By elimination, and since it seems you are willing to indulge my incessant guessings, I will offer up once again that you are in: New Caledonia
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Oui, oui I'm on the beach at Noumea, New Caledonia. Somewhere I have pics from the beach there and some of their money. Which was, when I was there French Francs. it a French tourist spot and I believe owned by the French. You're up Jetee |
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Here are some visuales: http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/p...dium/96197.jpg http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/p...um/1987512.jpg ______________________________________________________________________ Now give me a second to appropriate my bearings, and then, commencement. ... Oh, yeah... see specifics... ok, go ahead. Divine my destination. |
North hem?
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Let's see... Ah, well... it seems most of the inhabitable world as we know it lies above the blue bisecting belt.
Affirmative then. |
West Hem?
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Negative.
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Europe?
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Nein.
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Asia?
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Ya.
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China
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New Caledonia?
Edit: Hell, you guys did like 10 posts while I was still thinking! |
Tully: The People's Republic of China is more correct, but it is not my current location.
The above is actually a vague hint. |
Are you in India?
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