A postcard from each corner of the World
Punta Cana is a resort town in the Dominican Republic. The area has beaches and resorts which face both the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, and it has been a popular tourist destination since the 1970s. Peak season in Punta Cana tends to run from December to April.
Svendborg is a town on the island of Funen in Denmark. It is built facing the harbor and Svendborgsund – and the harbor front is fused together with the town, where restaurants and cafés stretch all the way down to the quays, with a view of cargo ships, ferries and yachts. Boat builders and wooden vessel shipyards have been located in Svendborgsund for generations, and Svendborg is today the country’s leading modern maritime educational center.
Perched atop its cliff, Děčín Castle in Czech Republic is one of the oldest and largest landmarks in northern Bohemia. In the past several hundred years it has served as a point of control for the Bohemian princes, a military fortress, and noble estate.
Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean. It was settled by Mycenaean Greeks in the 2nd millennium BC. Today Cyprus is a major tourist destination in the Mediterranean. Europe represents the lion’s share of tourist arrivals. Over 80% of visitors come from Northern, Western and Eastern Europe, while British tourists remain the most traditional. Several factors contribute to this, including widely spoken English as well as the traditional links from British colonialism and the presence of British military bases at Akrotiri and Dhekelia.
The Cyprus Republic has de jure sovereignty over the island of Cyprus. However, the Republic of Cyprus is de facto partitioned into two main parts: the area under the effective control of the Republic, located in the south and west, and comprising about 59% of the island’s area; and the north, administered by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, covering about 36% of the island’s area. Another nearly 4% of the island’s area is covered by the UN buffer zone. The international community considers the northern part of the island as territory of the Republic of Cyprus occupied by Turkish forces.
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 🙂
