#eurasia

[mirrorinthedistance]

Lower Kolsay Lake, near Almaty, Kazakhstan.

I've been using this photo as my header to represent my username.

[songs-of-the-east]

Russian Girl in Folk Clothing From Poltava, Ukraine

[dream-world-universe]

Rock-cut tombs, Myra, Demre, Turkey: Myra was a Lycian city, then captured by Ancient Greece and lived under their rule, then the Roman Empire and then the Ottoman in Lycia, which became the small Turkish town of Kale, renamed Demre in 2005, in the present-day Antalya Province of Turkey. It was founded on the river Myros, in the fertile alluvial plain between Alaca Dağ, the Massikytos range and the Aegean Sea. Wikipedia

[iranicangel]

[tinyuglyworld]

A Turkish woman gathering rose petals, Turkiye. Photographed by H.H. Kreider, 1984

Scanned from The Golden Book Picture Atlas of the World: Asia (1984)

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Dormouse!

Have you seen a dormouse (Family: Gliridae)?

I have now

Yes, in photos/videos

Yes, irl

I'm not sure

Remaining time: 2 days 4 hours

The first photo is of a European fat dormouse, the second is of two hazel dormice.

[googlemapsgems]

Norilsk, Russia (courtesy of Google Maps via MapCrunch)

[whencyclopedia]

This map illustrates the Silk Road in the late 8th century, a vital network of trade and cultural exchange across Eurasia. In the east, the Tang Dynasty controlled much of the Silk Road, linking China to the trade networks of Central and South Asia. In the west, the Abbasid Caliphate, with Baghdad at its center, integrated Silk Road commerce into the broader Islamic economy, extending connections...