seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from Malaysia
seen from United States

seen from Australia
seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from Australia

seen from Algeria
seen from Australia

seen from Germany
seen from China
seen from Russia
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Japan

seen from Germany
seen from Japan

seen from T1
Photo collage that is way too extensive and is only interesting to me (and maybe @sleepwalkwith-me) but I’m posting it anyway cause I had the best holiday in The Netherlands with my favourite ANWB couple (aka my parents) and my awesome sister.
A lil summary of the week: we saw A LOT of hunebedden (dolmens??), we took a lot of hikes and went on bike rides, we swam, we visited little cities in this part of the netherlands and we played a lot of board games (which Karly hates but we somehow convinced her to take part). The weather was great too. It was awesome.
Beautiful hike in Drenthe today with autumn in full swing. The piles of stones are in fact graves dating back to the Bronze Age called ‘hunebedden’. These rocks, having come all the way from Scandinavia during the last ice age, were used around 3,500 BC by hunter-gatherers to give their dead a worthy burial. The stones haven’t moved since then and these graves are characteristic for the region, and not found anywhere else in the Netherlands. There are also plenty of burial mounds around (as seen in the last photo), dating from the same era, which you can spot further down south in the country as well.
Witte Wieven (which translates more or less to “white women” or “wise women”) are ghost-like feminine creatures from Dutch folklore associated with fog, death, and hunebedden (stone burial structures). They’re somewhere between elves and ghosts, and sometimes they’re actively evil. Anyway, I think they’re fascinating.
Megaliths ("hunebedden") in Drenthe, The Netherlands
DE VLUCHTIGE GESTALTE VAN DE HUNBEDBOUWER VORMGEGEVEN
D27 is het grootste hunebed dat in Nederland gevonden is. Het hunebed staat in Borger in de provincie Drenthe, net als 52 van de 54 andere Nederlandse hunebedden. Hunebedden waren begraafplaatsen uit de steentijd. De meeste hunebedden zijn ongeveer 5000 jaar oud. De naam hunebedden komt van de Drentse naam voor reus; huyne. In vroeger tijden dacht men dat het overblijfselen waren van reuzen die geleefd hadden. —————— In The Dutch province of Drenthe you can find ‘hunebedden’. These stone structures are burial sites dating 5000 years ago. D27 is the largest that remains and can be found in Borger. The name ‘hunebed’ derives from a local dialect in which a huyne is a giant. In earlier times people believed that the ‘hunebedden’ we’re remains of the beds of giants. 52 of the 54 Dutch hunebedden can be found in Drenthe. @hunebedcentrum #drenthe #drenthedoetwatmetje #hunebed #hunebedden #steentijd #stoneage #hunebedhighway #nederlandheeftalles #d27 #ontdeknederland #borger #bestofthenetherlands #opvakantie #eropuit #eropuitmetkinderen #eropuitineigenland #eropuitmetkids #historyforkids #historyfound (bij D27) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSllxxGs0ea/?utm_medium=tumblr
Took this picture during a visit to Drenthe. One of the biggest ‘hunebedden’ there is. These old graves used to be covered by sand, but were digged up in the 19th century by overly enhusiastic archeologists. The state they were in never really returned, especially since ever after parents let their children play on these monuments. They’ve been there for thousands of years - but the last 100 years have done most damage, as with most things.