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Originally Posted by str (Post 23584804)

… no idea how this will look on a bigger screen.

Halfway decent ;)

Is that the mountain range between Niksiç and Savnik? Great place to spend the night.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...a09a3ab270.jpg

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Originally Posted by CMAW (Post 23587086)

Halfway decent ;)

Is that the mountain range between Niksiç and Savnik? Great place to spend the night.

we have been there on the way up to Dumitor, nice places.the pictures are taken ar the south part of the Dumitor loop.

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Originally Posted by str (Post 23587308)

we have been there on the way up to Dumitor, nice places.the pictures are taken ar the south part of the Dumitor loop.

there are some fun images on flickr …

https://www.flickr.com/gp/42743731@N00/y9JC54EZX1

str, the Mt. Durmitor loop must be one of the most scenic roads one can find in the Balkans, which says something considering how many great places one can simply stumble upon ... The weather can be tricky there and that can affect the overall impression. Mt.Durmitor was part of my cycling tours three straight years 2017-2019 and I really want to go back again (I was lucky with the weather twice and one summer it wasn't fun at all)

Snack break with a symphony of cicadas.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...9020ab114.jpeg

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...ecd1b70f8.jpeg

Trail: George S Mickelson Trail, near Mystic SD in the Black Hills.

Bike: Montague Urban folder

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Originally Posted by indyfabz (Post 23594220)

Snack break with a symphony of cicadas.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...9020ab114.jpeg

What trail is that? Where? Thanks.

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Originally Posted by rv_biker (Post 23595471)

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...ecd1b70f8.jpeg

Trail: George S Mickelson Trail, near Mystic ND in the Black Hills.

Bike: Montague Urban folder

I have that photo. Did Englewood to Edgemont in 2015.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...95f24e450.jpeg

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Originally Posted by rv_biker (Post 23595473)

What trail is that? Where? Thanks.

It’s just a relatively short, dirt road in the Hammonton, NJ area. There a numerous roads like it in certain parts of S. Jersey thanks to the Pinelands National Reserve.

What bird is that on the left?

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Originally Posted by CMAW (Post 23596204)

What bird is that on the left?

It’s a Great Egret. The dark ones are this year’s young that haven’t yet turned completely white.

Every spring they nest on an island beneath the causeway between Sommers Point and Ocean City, NJ. They are joined by ibises, little blue herons, and a couple of other species. It’s an amazing sight to see. If one stands to stretch you can often see the eggs in the nest. After they hatch and an adult returns with food, you can see the chicks crane their necks to get fed. Then the chicks become fledglings and test out their wings. You can easy spend an hour watching all the activity. This was my third time there this year. I have missed my train home from Atlantic City a few times because of hanging out there.

The Great Egret was nearly driven to extinction because its plumes were used in fashion. They have made an amazing recovery.

Really? This is a great egret, at least in Europe:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...d7c8540dea.jpg

Oh I see now, it's a bunch of white ibises in your pic. Spectacular bird, only in the Americas.

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Originally Posted by str (Post 23598306)

Puglia, Italia

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...1d81b8ed0b.jpg

Your pictures are always great and (in the cities) I'm always struck by how what are just ordinary buildings in the countries you visit are so interesting compared to ordinary buildings in America.
But this picture is on another level. I have trouble believing it's a photo and not a painting or some sort of trick photography. So many shades and so few colours. Amazing.

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Originally Posted by Paul_P (Post 23598758)

thank you Paul.
This is Matera, and walking the city leaves one speechless, it is impressive! absolutely impressive! even with all the tourists you have to share it ;)
I guess outside summer month its more quiet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matera

The Sassi consist of approximately twelve levels spanning the height of 380 m, connected by a network of paths, stairways, and courtyards (vicinati).[6] The medieval city clinging on to the edge of the canyon for its defense is invisible from the western approach.[7] The tripartite urban structure of Civita and the two Sassi, relatively isolated from each other,[8] survived until the sixteenth century, when the centre of public life moved outside the walls to the Piazza Sedile in the open plain (the Piano) to the west, followed by the shift of the elite residences to the Piano from the seventeenth century onward.[9] By the end of the eighteenth century, a physical class boundary separated the overcrowded Sassi of the peasants from the new spatial order of their social superiors in the Piano, and geographical elevation came to coincide with status more overtly than before, to the point where the two communities no longer interacted socially.[10]

Matera has gained international fame for its ancient town, the "Sassi di Matera". The Sassi originated in a prehistoric troglodytesettlement, and these dwellings are thought to be among the earliest human settlements in what is now Italy. The Sassi are habitations dug into the calcareous rock, which is characteristic of Basilicata and Apulia. Many of them are really little more than small caverns, and in some parts of the Sassi a street lies on top of another group of dwellings. The ancient town grew up on one slope of the rocky ravine created by a river that is now a small stream, and this ravine is known locally as "la Gravina". In the 1950s, as part of a policy to clear the extreme poverty of the Sassi, the government of Italy used force to relocate most of the population of the Sassi to new public housing in the developing modern city.

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Originally Posted by str (Post 23599736)

Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...3c299ffb6f.jpg

This is Tara canyon?
Great pics, scenery looks nicer than I remember :rolleyes:.
No problems with traffic? Can be gruesome at times in the balkans and you can't always stay on the smaller roads.

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Originally Posted by CMAW (Post 23599746)

This is Tara canyon?
Great pics, scenery looks nicer than I remember :rolleyes:.
No problems with traffic? Can be gruesome at times in the balkans and you can't always stay on the smaller roads.

Yes, this is taken on the Durdevica Tara Bridge. We had no problems with traffic. Yes of course sometimes its not fun ... I tried my best with route planning. Found really nice rural roads. But not always possible as you say. If one stays only on little roads every 100km you have 2000m climbing ;()))))

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