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TAR 18 INTRO caps!!
DrRox:
--- Quote from: apskip on February 23, 2011, 03:14:14 PM ---
Dr. Rox,
I have been to Varanasi and Kolkata (back when they were Benares and Calcutta), but I remember Varanasi as fairly flat at the level above the Ganges River. the altitude of Varanasi is listed as 80.71 meters (250 feet) and the Ganges has another 600 km to go before reaching Kokata and near sea level.
However, I expect as you do that the photo in question is somewhere in the greater Kolkata area.
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apskip,
I have never been to Benares/Varanasi. I spent the better part of a summer crossing Southwest and South Asia. As far as the sub-continent, I got on trains (40 years ago this summer) at Landi Kotal in the Kyber Pass in Pakistan and stayed on them on my trip. Except for buses from Lahore, Pk to Amritsar, India with a stop to watch the nightly show at the Wagha Crossing. From there I went to Delhi, Agra, Bombay, Goa, back to Bombay across the Deccan Plateau to Raipur to Calcutta. I had planned to go to Dimapur, Assam but by the time I got to Calcutta, I was pretty sick. I had aquired some naughty little parasites. I had planned to go to Assam to go to Kohima and Imphal then to Myitkyina, Lashio and Rangoon in Burma. I didnt get to see much in Calcutta. I spent about 3 days in hospital in Calcutta to get well enough to fly and then flew home to Cairo for another week in hospital.
Where the Ganges falls out of the Himalayas and transitions from a braided river to a meandering river, the elevation is about 330m (approx 1000 ft.) It travels a long way to drop that 1000 feet. That North India-Ganges plain is a synclinal fold at the base of the Himalayas and has a pretty constant gradient.
Prama:
For me, this one is very similar to Akihabara, Tokyo (Japan). Akihabara is a major shopping area for electronic, computer, anime goods.
kiki:
--- Quote from: Cocoa on February 20, 2011, 11:42:12 PM ---Scenes:
10. The mystery medieval building who is still unsolved since Season 14 (I guess?)
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Couldn't this be Threave castle in Scotland?
Notice the small circular building in the back.
The first picture is from the intro and the second is of Threave castle.
Maybe someone more adept with google earth could make a comparison?
maf:
--- Quote from: kikisak on February 25, 2011, 08:38:05 AM ---Couldn't this be Threave castle in Scotland?
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Maybe someone more adept with google earth could make a comparison?
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Google maps does not have any good aerial images for this area. But form the pictures I can find I would be 90% certain that we have a match.
Slowhatch:
:winner Nice work! We've been looking for that for ages. Now, about that Taiko drum... :lol:
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