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Always smiling @allknowing (153530) • India 1 Oct 21

I clicked this image while we were high up at Jung frau where every facility was available for tourists. There was a Mall and from what I assumed the lady in the photo may have been a local who perhaps visited this place for the...

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Tattoos

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222302) • United States 5 Sep 19

Among the various types of human tattoos are decorative, symbolic, pictorial, cosmetic and medical. Livestock can also be tattooed on an ear, for example, as a means of identification. A mummy with 61 tattoos was found in...

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Breathtaking Road

Susan @HazySue (39265) • Gouverneur, New York 14 Apr 19

I can only image how magnificent the scenery would be on this road. It would also be breathtaking for me, I would never be able to travel on this road. It would literally take my breath away. What a shame that I am so afraid of...

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Book Review Paolo Cognetti The Eight Mountains

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 29 Mar 19

2016 Harvill Secker Press – Spoiler alerts A lovely Italian novel, set around the Italian and Swiss Alps, Piero visits the alpine foothills every Summer as his dad obsessively hikes through and up the mountains, usually alone....

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I´m rereading one of my favorite children´s books: Heidi.

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 16 Jan 19

I was talking with my friend @JudyEv about small beds and ended up remembering about a book we both had read when we were small: Heidi. I often read classics online from the Gutenberg Project. They are free and you can even...

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The secret lake

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5216) • Northampton, England 6 Mar 18

This is a picture taken by a diver under the flood waters of a beautiful lagoon in the Austrian Alpine foothills called the Green Lake of Tragoess. During the spring snow melt the lake doubles in size from 2000 sq meters to 4000...

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Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland

Inlemay @Inlemay (17712) • South Africa 2 Jun 16

The Gotthard Tunnel in Switzerland which opened yesterday is the longest Tunnel in the world. "The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) (German: Gotthard-Basistunnel; French: Tunnel de base du Saint-Gothard; Italian: Galleria di base del...

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What Do You Know About France?

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 29 Mar 16

Perhaps you live or have lived in France. Bon Jour! I took one year of French in high school. That’s all they offered at the time. I LOVED that class and I had a wonderful teacher. After the first six weeks, we were not...

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The Edelweiss Are In Bloom

Anna @LadyDuck (502427) • Italy 11 Nov 15

The little white flowers that you can see in my photo are not daisies, they are edelweiss. These little plants mostly grow to an altitude of at least 1800 meters (5900 Feet), in rocky limestone settings. The flowers that grow on...

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My travel experience - Bischofshofen

serginho77 @serginho77 (713) • Slovenia 16 Jun 11

Bischofshofen is a city located in Salzach valley, in Austrian Alps. City has about 10 000 population. In city is an important railway hub and lies at the Tauernautobahn, a highway route trough the Alps. The city is well known for...

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Have you ever been to Alps ?

after80 @after80 (110) • China 15 Mar 08

Hi,friends do you like the view in Alps moutain? would you share your traveling experience there? thank you!

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Some suggestion to travel management bureau of Switzerland

liming @liming (114) • China 7 Mar 07

In small hotel in Alps mountain, there is no portrait sign on the door of toilet. No English. Only German. So for those don't understand German, this is a very big problem. Hope this problem could be solved.

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Has anyone ever been to Davos?

dynaweb @dynaweb (168) • United States 24 Jan 07

I was really lucky and got to go there a couple years ago and went early-season snowboarding there. It was a really neat place. The ski tram comes right to the town so it is very easy for tourists to get on the mountain.

Painting the Alps red

arlerambabu @arlerambabu (1079) • India 31 Dec 06

When none hears your resentment, You resort to new ways of protesting. Marco Evaristti,the "Bad Boy " of Danish art, plans to dye red the peak of one of Europe's highest mountains, France’s Alpine summit of Mont Blanc as an...

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