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   So I presently hve 7,041 photos up on flickr. If I cease paying for a paying account they'll delete 6,041 of those. I could migrate them all to google photos except then they won't be searchable and I'd kind of like most of them to remain in the public sphere. I haven't even uploaded any photos to flickr in the last two years though since facebook photos and livejournal photo hosting have both improved enough to be the more practical way to share on either of those platforms. Anyway I thought I might as well at least continue to make use of it as long as I'm paying for the paid membership, so today I uploaded my best pictures from the last 2 years, totalling I think just shy of 100 pictures. Anyway they all fit on one screen so if you fancy seeing my last two years as seen through the best pictures, click here. (: (that is to say, everything on page 1 there I just uploaded, down to the surfacing whale, which I had uploaded at the time, two years ago)


And here's, for example, a previously unposted photo of Cristina and I (:
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And Pictures up from Nicaragua! Above, boat traffic at the end of Somoto Gorge. In other parts it looked more like this.




There were many quaint tile roofed houses like this in the rural areas! This one I guess is a sort of rough adobe brick and timber? But many were covered in plaster with just a bit of brick peeking out where the plaster had coyly chipped off in places, just like in gosh darn Zorro or something!




This imposing fortification with it's bellicose mural is just beside the central square in Somoto! I suppose it's part of town hall or something, and I guess town hall is meant to possibly serve as a citidel.




An idyllic crossroads on the outskirts of Somoto.


More pictures on Flickr


I've gone back and integrated pictures into the entries as well.

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Okay finally finally went through and sorted through and posted my pictures from Kyrgyzstan! Unfortunately my external hard drive having died made it a little more tedious since I had to re-download them from google photos, and one whole day for some reason had failed to backup and is now lost forever.

In theory I might go back and put pictures in the entries I wrote about Kyrgyzstan. Maybe.



I was staying and primarily working in the valley just behind this rock, known as "broken heart rock," because, yeah. Also you often see those little gypsy cart looking carts, especially by bee yards since people keep them manned 24/7 against theft.



This yurt is a restaurant, but people actually live in yurts that aren't too dissimilar:



"Son, saddle up the donkey I have to go to work"



That's one gosh darn big lake (Lake Issyk-Kul)



Oh hey I hadn't posted this one yet? Gosh darn eagles!!!



Dancers at wedding.

Anyway the rest can be found here, and I might sprinkle some more around when I need a picture for an entry that doesn't lend itself to any particular picture (for every blog entry should always have a picture). Also, coming soon, pictures from Nicaragua!

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   I apologize for interrupting the continuity of my ongoing travelogue here, but I'm going to jump back in time for a moment to earlier in the trip. Before I was in Tanzania (tha mainland) I was in Zanzibar (an island off the Tanzanian mainland. Actually "Tanzania" is a portmanteau of Tanganyika (the mainland) and Zanzibar, but I digress). And when I was in Zanzibar, I was trying to update livejournal in a more or less "live" fashion and as such had no pictures uploaded. Well two months later, I finally have the pictures uploaded, so if you'll humor me for a moment, allow me to present just a few pictures from Zanzidoozle:


There were a great many traditional dhows all around the coast. I really wanted to go sailing on one but everyone at the hotels who booked things kept just brushing me off with "no they're not safe! they're not safe!" do I look like someone who cares if it's safe?? ;D


Nungwi, the village I was in for about three days, is up at the northern tip of the island. It's got a pretty well developed tourist infrastructure with some swanky resort hotels, but it's also a center of traditional boat building.


And there's a turtle sanctuary.
These aren't just small turtles. These are baby giant sea turtles. (:


And when the tide is out it's like a mile out.


This is the boardwalk in the mangrove swamps by the Jozani forest much further south on the island.

Also there were monkeys.


The islands of Zanzibar are also known as the "Spice Islands" (not to be confused with the other "Spice Islands" in Indonesia) due to their important historical role in the production and export of spices. Here we have visited the a spice farm after a spouting of the spice melange.


Sunset in Nungwi!


Sunset in Zanzibar Town!


Anyway, this is only a small sampling of my pictures from Zanzibar, please see the rest on flickr. (:

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