O Canada! Again.

This nice card - from Tonia. I have seen this card before (don't remember where; maybe, on postcrossing.com?) and wanted this card for my collection. And here we go - I have it:)
I've already told that I'm crazy sport fan, so when I say "Canada" I mean "Vancouver Olympics-2010" (it will be special event for me). Here is an official web-site of Olympic Games-2010. Visit it - maybe you'll find something interesting for you and decide to follow Olympic competitions with me:)
249 to beginning.

Jakarta

Card from Shinta (thank you!).
If you wanna visit Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, you are probably now searching not only for landmarks and interesting places in this city, but also for museums and exhibitions. So, in Jakarta you can visit National Gallery of Indonesia and National Museum of Indonesia.
About National Gallery: Indonesian National Gallery is one of functioning culture institute for protection, development, and exploiting of fine arts asset as supporting facilities for edukation-cultural and recreation and expansion of creativity and appreciation of art. Indonesian National Gallery is government institution, domiciles under and responsible to Director General of Culture Value, Arts and Film, Ministry of Culture and Tourisme of Republik of Indonesia, which is everyday to be executed by Director of Arts. National Gallery of Indonesia has duty to execute gathering, documentation, registration, research, conservancy, treatment, security, presentation, dissemination of educative tuition and information to fine art aspects. National Gallery of Indonesia has modern and contemporer art collection in paintings, drawings, prints, statues, photography and installation art. The collection were 1700 artworks of preminent Indonesia artists and International artists, such as Raden Saleh, Hendra Gunawan, Affandi S. Sudjojono, Basoeki Abdullah, Barli Sasmitawinata, Trubus, Popo Iskandar, Sudjana Kerton, Dede Eri Supria, Ivan Sagito, Lucia Hartini, Iriantine Karnaya, Hendrawan Riyanto, Nyoman Gunarsa, Made Wianta, Ida Bagus Made, I Ketut Soki, Wassily Kandinsky ( Russia), Hans Hartung ( Germany), Victor Vassarely ( Hungarian), Sonia Delauney ( Ukraina), Piere Soulages ( French), Zao Wou Ki ( China). I was surprised to know that there are pictures of Ukrainian painter in this museum. It's interesting:)
Official site
About National Museum - next time with next card;)

Bulgaria

And another similiar Balkan country - Bulgaria. Card from Anastassia.
When we lived in USSR, it was a big happines to visit Bulgaria or Hungary in your vacation. My parents dreamed about it:) (but they didn't do it, unfortunately)

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Macedonia

And one more "first" card. From Anja, from Skopje. I'm always interesting to know something new about Balkan countries. They are very similiar to our country.

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Granada

Great card from Angela. Love such views!
The city of Granada is placed at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, Beiro, Darro and Genil, at an elevation of 738 metres above sea level yet only one hour from the Mediterrean coast, the Costa Tropical.
Granada is also well-known within Spain due to the prestigious University of Granada and, nowadays, vibrant night-life. In fact, it is said that it is one of the three best cities for college students (the other two are Salamanca and Santiago de Compostela).

The pomegranate (in Spanish, granada) is the heraldic device of Granada.



Photozzz

Wildelife in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania

Thank you, Ken!

Raccon, bear, deerm wild birds such as owl and pheasant, and many varieties of colorful wildflowers such as Mountain Laurel, Pennsylvania's state flower, are among the countless number of species of wild fauna and flora that can be seen and enjoyed in the Poconos of northeastern Pennsylvania.

Palanga

This is a card from Anna. Thank you, Anna! It shows famous Lithuanian town Palanga.

The town of Palanga, 29 km from Klaipeda, is located on the coast of the Baltic Sea. The town functioned as Lithuania's main port from the 15th to 17th centuries. By the 19th century Palanga was already a popular resort town that attracted the Lithuanian, Polish, and Jewish intelligentsia and upper classes. The resort particularly grew and became prettier after World War II. Several decades saw construction of the principal part of the town and now-functioning 150 rest houses, as well as 11 large sanatoria, and rehabilitation centres.
The Palanga Botanical Gardens, designed for Count Tiskevicius by the French architect Eduard Andre‚ and the Belgian gardener Buyssen de Coulon, boast over 300 plant species and are considered to be Lithuania's most beautiful and richest botanical gardens. Another attraction of the park is the Tiskevicius Manor House which now houses the Amber Museum. Amber, popularly known as Lithuanian gold, can still be found on the shores of the Baltic Sea. The Amber Museum has a unique collection that illustrates amber's 40-million year-old story.

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