A postcard from each corner of the World
The San Rafael clinic in Marianao borough in the city of Havana, Cuba provides free medical care to poor children with bone disease, paralysis or scrofulosis; Crippled and deformed children, from 4 to 15 years of age. After extensive restructuring in the 1980s, the Home was reopened as a nursing home.
Rovinj is a city in Croatia. It is a popular tourist resort and one of the last true Mediterranean fishing ports. The old town is contained within an egg-shaped peninsula, as pictured on this postcard: crowded houses, narrow streets and small squares, still untouched by modern urbanism. The town is officially bilingual, Italian and Croatian.
Received this cool postcard from Crimea, my first one from there, and it came via Postcrossing. And just now realized, that Russian postcrossers can send to and receive official postcards from Russia even with “you would like to send and receive postcards to and from your own country” option turned Off 🙂
Russian stamp and Russian Post postmark from Sevastopol, Crimea. UA postcrossing code:
The Tayrona National Natural Park in Colombia was created to preserve the local ecological environment, and is located in the Colombian northern Caribbean region. The foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the highest coastal mountain in the world, plunge into the sea forming beautiful bays and coves, with their sandy white beaches surrounded by mangrove swamps, bushes and forests and bathed in the crystal clear water of the Caribbean sea. The Park offers magnificent beaches, and has archaeological ruins of an ancient city of the Tayrona people. Interesting fact: there is an obligatory environmental education introductory talk when you visit.
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are a remote territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. Its 2 coral atolls comprise 27 tiny islands with white-sand beaches, palm trees and lagoons. Pictured on this postcard is the Prison Island. This now tiny island housed a prison in the early days of settlement, though little remains of this today except the name. In local language, Malay, it is known as Pulu Beras – ‘rice island’. Prison Island is also a place of legend – the Cocos Malay people say that a mermaid lives there and that she calls back home any Cocos-born people who leave the islands’ shores.
China is the world’s most populous country (with a population of over 1.381 billion), and world’s second largest state by land area. It is also one of the world’s earliest civilizations.
I don’t really know what is pictured on this postcard. But it came from China, so I assume it is somewhere in China 🙂
Several sites of prehistoric rock art exist in Chile. The works comprise the three main techniques employed by the pre-Hispanic artists: petroglyphs (engravings), pictographs (paintings) and geoglyphs (markings or designs on the land). The ones pictures on this postcard are the pictographs of Milla: “On one of the panels, two camelids with blank faces, one with an empty womb, are depicted walking, followed by a person wearing a feather plume and preceded by another dressed in a tunic decorated with a zigzag motif and headdress similar to the traditional conical hats of the Tamarugal Pampa.”
Hell is a group of short, black, limestone formations located in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Located in West Bay, it is roughly the size of half a soccer field. It is claimed that the name “Hell” is derived from the fact that if a pebble is thrown out into the formation, it echoes amongst the limestone peaks and valleys and sounds as if the pebble is falling all the way down to “Hell.”
The world’s second largest country, Canada is blessed with a stunning variety of landscapes, seascapes, flora and fauna. Its incredibly spectacular scenery – and the many species that make their homes in its midst – is a source of great pleasure and pride. If you love the outdoors, Canada is a wonderful world of natural delight.
Elephant masks take the form of an important royal icon, the elephant, with its long trunk and large ears. The patterns on the front and back panels suggest another royal icon, the leopard. The display of wearing these richly embellished masks and other regalia at court ceremonies was the best evidence of the wealth of a Bamileke kingdom. The Bamileke people populate western part of the savannahs in Cameroon.
