I’m trying to find a spot on the Chalkidiki where we can look over the sea on Pelias and Ossa, but the wheather on Google Maps is too hazy.
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I’m trying to find a spot on the Chalkidiki where we can look over the sea on Pelias and Ossa, but the wheather on Google Maps is too hazy.
Well, you win then 
I am so impressed! 
The place I am standing is not Chalkidiki, but the mountain on the background is, so if you found that place then that is the riddle, since I could have been standing in a wide array of places on the opposite side and there are no features to tell them apart.
So, as weird as it seems, that thing in the picture is the sea and not a misty valley or something. I was standing 100 meters upwards this point:
You cannot get on my exact location on the google maps, because there is a military camp there (hence the fence - and yes it is right beside a town, so it is not a secret or anything). I was serving my mandatory draft and woke up at 6 o’ clock to shave and get ready for the day, and that sunrise was just waiting for us
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I’m really pleased to say I was looking there too.
But I can’t really explain the peak we can see in Jeth’s picture, with extensive land to the right of it.
Is it some miraculously clear view of Athos?
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huh, I was on the wrong side of the sea, then. I assumed a sunset, so I looked for points looking west.
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Me too! That threw me - Athos is so much shaped like the mountain in Jeth’s picture and Halkidiki is listed as a most popular tourist region for Greeks, but what Greek gets up to take photos at dawn!?
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My daughter helped me solve the Taiwanese hot springs (Japanese transation of web hits).
She offered this:
If Sanorius comes up with an easier one for mere mortals, after his Greek victory, let’s have this as a bonus challenge for Vsotvep 
Or anyone else can tackle it of course.
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This one looks like Thailand… I’m searching a challenge on Google, but I’m simultaneously doing a Latin lesson for Buggy and writing my thesis…
Here!
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Never thought of that. Rather a Poeni culus, a Punic’s butt. (Not that the statue here has anything to do with Punics)
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but what Greek gets up to take photos at dawn!?
This is why I added the explanation for the sunrise hehehe 
But I can’t really explain the peak we can see in Jeth’s picture, with extensive land to the right of it.
Maybe it is one of the peaks behind the legs (e.g. Hortiatis or the one beside Polygyros on the following map). I have never been there, so it was just my guess that I was looking at the small Kassandra peak.
Is it some miraculously clear view of Athos?
At best we would be seeing the mountain on the second leg (Itamos). That would have obscured Athos for sure from where I was standing.
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Patuxai (victory gate), Vientiane, Laos. The “sacombank” is a Vietnamese bank, but it’s also active in Laos and Cambodia.
The triumph arch is in celebration of independence from France.
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May I have a go, @Vsotvep?
Of course!
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Will be right back :3
My hint was that these characters are Traditional Chinese (髙 would be written as 高 if it were Japanese; 請 as 请 if it were Simplified Chinese). That means this location had to be either Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macau.
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I wondered about that. I thought “if I knew these languages, I might spot regional differences” But I don’t 
Temple tanks, apparently a thing… Very cool! I like these ones in particular
However, finding your one is not as easy as I thought… I haven’t succeeded yet, but it’s time for bed.
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I guess this is somewhere in Rome. It’s a very weird Stop sign without knowing the road situation
Also haven’t made much progress with this one.
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It’s in the sacred city of Anuradhapura, as I guess you know at this point.
Anuradhapura is probably the top place on my Asian bucket list (with Borobudur, Angkor Wat and various other Buddhist monuments in close trail).
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