Abhishek's PostCrossing Journey

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Kuda Huraa, Maldives

Maldives-1, originally uploaded by Abhishek's Received Postcards.

JoJo the Dolphin, Turks and Caicos Islands

Turks_and_Caicos_Islands, originally uploaded by Abhishek's Received Postcards.

The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of sub-tropical islands in the West Indies, the larger Caicos Islands and the smaller Turks Islands, known for tourism and as an offshore financial centre.
The Turks and Caicos Islands are situated about 600 miles (970 km) southeast of Miami in the United States, and 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Mayaguana in the Bahamas, and have a total land area of 166 square miles (430 km2). The islands are geographically contiguous to the Bahamas, but are politically a separate entity.

Grenada

Grenada-1, originally uploaded by Abhishek's Received Postcards.

Grenada is an island nation and sovereign state consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. Grenada is located northwest of Trinidad and Tobago, northeast of Venezuela, and southwest of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Its size is 344 km² with an estimated population of 110,000. Its capital is St. George's. The national bird of Grenada is the critically endangered Grenada Dove.

Bhutan

Bhutan-1, originally uploaded by Abhishek's Received Postcards.

The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked nation in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and is bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by People's Republic of China. Bhutan is separated from the nearby state of Nepal to the west by the Indian state of Sikkim, and from Bangladesh to the south by West Bengal. The Bhutanese call their country Druk Yul which means "Land of the Thunder Dragon".

Belém Tower, Portugal

Portugal-26, originally uploaded by Abhishek's Received Postcards.

Belém Tower a fortified tower located in the Belém district of Lisbon, Portugal.

The Belém Tower was built in the early sixteenth century in the Portuguese late-Gothic style, the Manueline, to commemorate Vasco da Gama's expedition. This defensive, yet elegant construction has become one of the symbols of the city, a memorial to Portuguese power as it was during the Age of Discovery. In 1983, it was classified, together with the nearby Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Jerónimos Monastery), as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Luxembourg

Luxembourg-2, originally uploaded by Abhishek's Received Postcards.

The card shows the following 3 cities:

Ville Haute is a quarter in central Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg.

Hollerich s a quarter in south-western Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg.

Saint George Fountain, Trier, Germany

Germany-31, originally uploaded by Abhishek's Received Postcards.

The Saint George Fountain is a fountain in the district of Mitte / Gartenfeld of Trier. He is considered one of the most beautiful rococo fountain Germany.
It is located on the grain market in the Old Town. The Saint George Wells was in the years 1750 to 1751 according to plans by the court Johannes Seiz, the builder of the Electoral Palace, in honor of the sovereign elector Franz Georg von Schönborn with depictions of the seasons and the St. George was built. He was like the Peter Fountain on the main market to the 19th century by the Holy Daufborn today when Mr. Chen announced Brno fed. The tip of the fountain stands approximately eleven meters in height.

Trianon Park, Brasil

Brasil-13, originally uploaded by Abhishek's Received Postcards.

The Parque Tenente Siqueira Campos, known as the Trianon Park or Parque Trianon, was inaugurated in April of 1892 with the opening of the Avenida Paulista in the city of São Paulo. It was designed by landscape French Paul Villon.

Porto Alegre, Brasil

Brasil-14, originally uploaded by Abhishek's Received Postcards.

Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil and the capital city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre is one of the most important cultural, political and economic centers of Southern Brazil. Two Mercosur countries, Argentina and Uruguay, border Rio Grande do Sul. It is also the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area.

**This card was so big that it didn't even fit in my scanner..really big**

Tikal, Guatemala

Guatemala-1, originally uploaded by Abhishek's Received Postcards.

Tikal is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centers of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archaeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now modern-day northern Guatemala. Guatemala's Tikal National Park and in 1979 was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The closest large modern settlements are Flores and Santa Elena, approximately 64 kilometres (40 mi) by road to the southwest.