Photos by bastian birk : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

mitoycloro:

YOU HAVE STOLEN THIS PHOTO FROM ME!!! AND THEN YOU ARE EVEN TOO STUPID TO REMOVE MY URL FROM THE PHOTO, YOU DUMB THIEF!!! PROBABLY YOU'VE STOLEN ALL "YOUR" PHOTOS!!!

Thanks Richard for informing me that a thief had stolen this photo and presented it as his/her own, without even bothering to remove my logo. How stupid can you get?

Hello Edo Foudraine,

Thank you for your kind comment. I worked in Sierra Leone for an UN project, trying to provide Sierra Leoneans with fuelwood from natural forests without destroying these forests.

In my collection I have more photos of Sierra Leone, for example here.

Although it was a bit difficult (no electricity most of the time, the same with water), I have very fond memories of my time there. I have great respect for all Sierra Leoneans, having to live through a terrible civil war.

Regards & happy new year! Bastian

Hi there Arnie, thanks a lot for your comment & vote! Best wishes from Germany, Bastian

Greetings to Captain Egypt, if you happen to read this!

Caspita che foto!!! Complimenti.

Ciao, Stefano

Hello Antonina Cherpak, thank you so much for your visit and vote!

Why this beautiful photo has not been selected by the folks at Panoramio is a mystery to me. But as they say in Sierra Leone: How foh do? Or in Nepali: ke garne?

For the best part of a year I lived in the upstairs appartment of the building on the right, the one with the bright blue walls. Great place, Syangja, but not really. Au contraire! (Even before it became a "Maoist stronghold".)

The name means bridal veil: appropriate! Beautiful & quiet place, as long as no missionaries show up. It also has a resident hammerhead stork, which fishes in the pool below the waterfall.