Game: Where-is-it? (international)

[micmar22]

So what summit am I on? It’s in Europe.

[micmar22]

For those who are puzzled, I have to admit that I was experimenting with AI-generated images. The first one was an image generated in response to the request "Kangaroos around a campfire in front of Ben Nevis". The second one was in response to the request "The summit of Ben Nevis as a stained glass window", and the third was "Bushwalkers at the summit cairn of Ben Nevis".

I was wondering why some of the kangaroos were lacking heads.

[creeping_moses]

Ben Nevis

For those who are puzzled, I have to admit that I was experimenting with AI-generated images. The first one was an image generated in response to the request "Kangaroos around a campfire in front of Ben Nevis". The second one was in response to the request "The summit of Ben Nevis as a stained glass window", and the third was "Bushwalkers at the summit cairn of Ben Nevis".

I was very confused!

I initially thought this was on Inchconnachan, where wallabies run free in Loch Lomond!
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/wal ... dy%20Arran.

But it didn't at all fit with how Ben Lomond or other mountains appear from there...so I had thought about further north but couldn't find any other wallaby/kangaroo populations up that way...The stain glass just confused me more!

[micmar22]

Yeah I spent some time looking for kangaroo and wallaby populations in the UK as well creeping moses. But it was the profile of Ben Nevis in the stained glass that clenched it.

[eggs]

Mt Rosa?

[micmar22]

Monte Rosa is not the right mountain. My mountain is however almost right on the border of the country that Mt Rosa is in.

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[micmar22]

This mountain is also very close to the one I was sitting on.

[eggs]

Zwillinge?
Edit - Punta Castore looking at Punta Polluce?

[micmar22]

I think I will have to give that to you eggs. I was sitting on Pollux. The second photo was of Breithorn which we climbed on the same day. Your turn eggs.

[eggs]

Curious - re your 2nd shot - my analysis of my photos was thinking that the snow was on the northern slopes,
but I suspect you may have been on/near the Klein Matterhorn and the snow was on the southern slopes?

Anyway - next one is staying in Europe

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[micmar22]

I think from memory the photo of Breithorn was looking back at it as we were retuning toward the chairlift.

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[micmar22]

Curious - re your 2nd shot - my analysis of my photos was thinking that the snow was on the northern slopes,
but I suspect you may have been on/near the Klein Matterhorn and the snow was on the southern slopes?

Anyone - next one is staying in Europe

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That skyline looks familiar eggs.

[eggs]

Trying to keep it a little simpler...

[eggs]

by using the same backdrop as micmar22 used...

[eggs]

The town in the valley is quite well known.
We were at the top of a cable car run about to do a walk past a number of lakes.

[micmar22]

I can probably work it out but I'll leave it for someone else cause I'm heading out bush in couple of days and maybe off grid.

[eggs]

Almost a week - so we will say this is from the top of Rothorn overlooking Zermatt
Anyone to post next.

[Last]

try this. Europe

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Myrdal station

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[vagrom]

Somewhere near Lillehammer?

[Last]

Go west

[vagrom]

Somewhere kn the Bergen line or Flam turn-out. Unfamiliar country.

[Last]

You have managed to get the answer. This is Myrdal station where the Flåm line branches from the Bergensbanen.

[vagrom]

Sorry I can't Post at this moment. Please someone do it instead.

[johnw]

To keep moving, what is this urban but isolated national park in the USA:

Alcatraz historic penitentiary, Golden Gate NP via San Francisco, California USA

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[vagrom]

A bird-lover's Paradise.

[johnw]

A bird-lover's Paradise.

Assuming you're referring to a well documented previous "guest" of this establishment, yes.
This is Alcatraz, these days part of the Golden Gate National Parks around San Francisco.
Fascinating place to visit. All yours.

[vagrom]

Lancaster at his best. Apol's but none of my old o/seas photos are scanned.

This is off the web, in south Asia, visited in '77. Always cold and even then a dangerous place for a dip. But also now a National Park.

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Band-e Amir National Park, Afghanistan

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[johnw]

Probably more dangerous these days for other reasons. I think this is one of the Band-e Amir lakes in Afghanistan, possibly Band-e Kambar.

[vagrom]

That's right - Band-e Amir National Park these days. I guess Afghanistan counts as south Asia, one of the seven 'stans'. High into the mountains west of Kabul.

The bath tub effect at Pigsty Ponds reminded me of the same at this place. A French woman was shot while swimming there before we arrived and the news spread along the Hippy trail. There were just two, short Lonely Planet guides back then: South-East Asia on a Shoe String and Across Asia on the Cheap.

Take it away.

[johnw]

A French woman was shot while swimming there before we arrived ...

For some years I worked with a lady who had fled Afghanistan with her family.
She spoke of a physically beautiful country but with many horror stories.

Canada: