Travel Digest #188

Introduction

Hi everyone it's @livinguktaiwan here today with the latest edition of the Travel Digest. Today's featured posts includes a road trip to Macedonia, visiting the Sexywoman in Peru and touring a cinematography museum in Colombia.

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Travel Digest

Where would you find a city that looks like a crazy mixture of Rome, Athens, Paris and London? Try Skopje in Macedonia. This is @travelshots next stop as he continues with his Balkan roadtrip. After checking into his super comfy hotel for Euro25 per night, he starts to explore the city. A lot of buildings have been built in recent years giving it a mixed odd look but it seems the locals would have preferred the money to be spent on better infrastructure instead. The oriental old town has a very different atmosphere, old cobblestone streets, traditional restaurants and a mosque. Either way, this is a great place for photographers so checkout his photos in the post.

Sexywoman, I mean Sacsayhuamán near Cusco in Peru is our next featured post from @planetus. This is a stunning citadel believed to be built around 900 - 1200 AD and is located 3500 ASL. With the puma being one of the creatures worshipped by the Inca, legend has it that the city of Cusco started here, as the site represents a puma's head while other parts of Cusco represents the rest of the puma's body. No one knows if this is true or not, and neither do we know how the Inca manage to build the site with massive stones that fit together perfectly. These stones were designed to prevent earthquakes, as the Peruvians found out in the 1950's. 90% of Cusco was destroyed in the earthquake, with the remaining 10% pretty much all located at Sacsayhuamán. To top off the trip, @planetus saw the most complete and longest rainbow they've seen so far.

We probably don't normally associate cinematography with Colombia, so it was really interesting to read @nameless-berk post on Caliwood, Colombia's own cinematography museum. Here you can find out how a film is made before it arrives on the big screen, a great range of recording equipment, more than a hundred photographic cameras (including the largest and the smallest in the world), and a lot of vintage posters. During the tour, you also get to see old school black and white films dating back to the 1930s and 1940s, and are given a 24 frame of film which equates to 1 second when you watch it as a gift to take home with you.

Honorable Mentions

• Walking Loo-errn track, Wilsons Prom, Victoria, Australia by @oen
• Borjomi, Georgia by @stepnoysuslik
• Golden Temple, Amritasr, India by @angelro
• Lake, Konigssee, Germany by @floatinglin
• Escaping human traffickers, Thailand/Cambodia by @tinadahmen
• Sarawak National Park, Malaysia by @neeqi
• Bouddi National Park, New South Wales, Australia by @harrynewman
• Cork Convent, Sintra, Portugal by @for91days
• Beaches, Sekotong Peninsula, Indonesia by @marcelgoo
• Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan by @joythewanderer
• Galata Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey by @lil4a
• Eastern Museum, Istanbul, Turkey by @rosy440
• Cafe, Taipei, Taiwan by @catwomanteresa
• Linh Phuoc Pagoda, Dalat City, Vietnam by @inseasia
• Statues, Barcelona, Spain by @juancar347

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