http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/tags/outdoor/ Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:27:51 -0700 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:27:51 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7417/buddyicons/36247185@N00.jpg?1369190159#36247185@N00 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/tags/outdoor/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8693269706/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8693269706/" title="Ushuaia_Panorama1"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8539/8693269706_0717559dc1_m.jpg" width="240" height="33" alt="Ushuaia_Panorama1" /></a></p> <p>Ushuaia harbour. On Beagle Channel, surrounded by water, sky and mountains, Ushuaia calls itself the End of the World. As the closest city to Antarctica, the city is a hub for Antartic touring and navigating the Strait of Magellan.</p> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:27:51 -0700 2011-11-17T14:53:53-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8693269706 Ushuaia_Panorama1 <p>Ushuaia harbour. On Beagle Channel, surrounded by water, sky and mountains, Ushuaia calls itself the End of the World. As the closest city to Antarctica, the city is a hub for Antartic touring and navigating the Strait of Magellan.</p> Kelly Cheng travel sea panorama mountain color colour tourism southamerica water argentina horizontal clouds landscape ushuaia daylight colorful day ship cloudy harbour outdoor transport vivid nobody nopeople colourful copyspace seacape traveldestinations http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8693265994/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8693265994/" title="Argentina-111117-053"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8542/8693265994_d0377c6f23_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Argentina-111117-053" /></a></p> <p>Ushuaia harbour. On Beagle Channel, surrounded by water, sky and mountains, Ushuaia calls itself the End of the World. As the closest city to Antarctica, the city is a hub for Antartic touring and navigating the Strait of Magellan.</p> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:26:38 -0700 2011-11-17T14:28:43-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8693265994 Argentina-111117-053 <p>Ushuaia harbour. On Beagle Channel, surrounded by water, sky and mountains, Ushuaia calls itself the End of the World. As the closest city to Antarctica, the city is a hub for Antartic touring and navigating the Strait of Magellan.</p> Kelly Cheng travel nepal sea color colour tourism southamerica water argentina horizontal clouds landscape ushuaia daylight colorful day ship cloudy harbour outdoor transport vivid nobody nopeople colourful copyspace seacape traveldestinations http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8692146253/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8692146253/" title="Argentina-111117-052"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8398/8692146253_5928b75bd0_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Argentina-111117-052" /></a></p> <p>Ushuaia harbour. On Beagle Channel, surrounded by water, sky and mountains, Ushuaia calls itself the End of the World. As the closest city to Antarctica, the city is a hub for Antartic touring and navigating the Strait of Magellan.</p> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:25:40 -0700 2011-11-17T14:27:04-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8692146253 Argentina-111117-052 <p>Ushuaia harbour. On Beagle Channel, surrounded by water, sky and mountains, Ushuaia calls itself the End of the World. As the closest city to Antarctica, the city is a hub for Antartic touring and navigating the Strait of Magellan.</p> Kelly Cheng travel nepal sea color colour tourism southamerica water argentina horizontal clouds landscape ushuaia daylight colorful day ship cloudy harbour outdoor transport vivid nobody nopeople colourful copyspace seacape traveldestinations http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8692151611/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8692151611/" title="Argentina-111117-054"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8118/8692151611_11c182468b_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Argentina-111117-054" /></a></p> <p>Ushuaia harbour. On Beagle Channel, surrounded by water, sky and mountains, Ushuaia calls itself the End of the World. As the closest city to Antarctica, the city is a hub for Antartic touring and navigating the Strait of Magellan.</p> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:27:27 -0700 2011-11-17T14:32:32-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8692151611 Argentina-111117-054 <p>Ushuaia harbour. On Beagle Channel, surrounded by water, sky and mountains, Ushuaia calls itself the End of the World. As the closest city to Antarctica, the city is a hub for Antartic touring and navigating the Strait of Magellan.</p> Kelly Cheng travel nepal sea mountain color colour tourism southamerica water argentina horizontal clouds landscape ushuaia daylight colorful day ship cloudy harbour outdoor transport vivid nobody nopeople colourful copyspace seacape traveldestinations http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8685469397/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8685469397/" title="Antarctica-111123-639"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8401/8685469397_3e43606549_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Antarctica-111123-639" /></a></p> <p>Cruising in Antarctica.</p> Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:12:42 -0700 2011-11-23T15:32:07-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8685469397 Antarctica-111123-639 <p>Cruising in Antarctica.</p> Kelly Cheng travel blue sea white mountain color colour tourism nature water sunshine horizontal landscape daylight colorful day ship outdoor transport vivid sunny antarctica nobody nopeople colourful copyspace seacape traveldestinations antarcticpeninsula http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8686594082/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8686594082/" title="Antarctica-111123-642"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8545/8686594082_0089cb199d_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Antarctica-111123-642" /></a></p> <p>Cruising in Antarctica.</p> Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:15:07 -0700 2011-11-23T15:34:33-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8686594082 Antarctica-111123-642 <p>Cruising in Antarctica.</p> Kelly Cheng travel blue sea white mountain color colour tourism nature water sunshine horizontal landscape daylight colorful day ship outdoor transport vivid sunny antarctica nobody nopeople colourful copyspace seacape traveldestinations antarcticpeninsula http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8685473237/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8685473237/" title="Antarctica-111123-641"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8398/8685473237_8e7a750613_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Antarctica-111123-641" /></a></p> <p>Cruising in Antarctica.</p> Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:14:22 -0700 2011-11-23T15:34:11-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8685473237 Antarctica-111123-641 <p>Cruising in Antarctica.</p> Kelly Cheng travel blue sea white mountain color colour tourism nature water sunshine horizontal landscape daylight colorful day ship outdoor transport vivid sunny antarctica nobody nopeople colourful copyspace seacape traveldestinations antarcticpeninsula http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8685476491/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8685476491/" title="Antarctica-111123-643"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8406/8685476491_1939786c02_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Antarctica-111123-643" /></a></p> <p>Cruising in Antarctica.</p> Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:15:45 -0700 2011-11-23T15:34:58-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8685476491 Antarctica-111123-643 <p>Cruising in Antarctica.</p> Kelly Cheng travel blue sea white mountain color colour tourism nature water sunshine vertical landscape daylight colorful day ship outdoor transport vivid sunny antarctica nobody nopeople colourful copyspace seacape traveldestinations antarcticpeninsula http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8686590634/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8686590634/" title="Antarctica-111123-640"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8117/8686590634_277658325e_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Antarctica-111123-640" /></a></p> <p>Cruising in Antarctica.</p> Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:13:36 -0700 2011-11-23T15:33:47-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8686590634 Antarctica-111123-640 <p>Cruising in Antarctica.</p> Kelly Cheng travel blue sea white mountain color colour tourism nature water sunshine horizontal landscape daylight colorful day ship outdoor transport vivid sunny antarctica nobody nopeople colourful copyspace seacape traveldestinations antarcticpeninsula http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8671437043/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8671437043/" title="Argentina-111116-048"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8254/8671437043_8fc1490c95_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Argentina-111116-048" /></a></p> <p>Palacio Paz, this gorgeous palace, also called the Círculo Militar, was once the private residence of José C Paz, founder of the still-running newspaper La Prensa. Inside are ornate rooms, salons and halls with wood-tiled floors, marble walls and gilded details. Nearly everything was ordered from Europe and assembled here.</p> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:16:48 -0700 2011-11-16T16:27:05-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8671437043 Argentina-111116-048 <p>Palacio Paz, this gorgeous palace, also called the Círculo Militar, was once the private residence of José C Paz, founder of the still-running newspaper La Prensa. Inside are ornate rooms, salons and halls with wood-tiled floors, marble walls and gilded details. Nearly everything was ordered from Europe and assembled here.</p> Kelly Cheng travel nepal windows color colour building heritage tourism southamerica motif argentina sunshine architecture garden design daylight buenosaires colorful day pattern outdoor culture vivid sunny bluesky nobody nopeople palace colourful traveldestinations palaciopaz círculomilitar http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8672532874/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8672532874/" title="Argentina-111116-046"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8385/8672532874_d0dc668d93_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Argentina-111116-046" /></a></p> <p>Palacio Paz, this gorgeous palace, also called the Círculo Militar, was once the private residence of José C Paz, founder of the still-running newspaper La Prensa. Inside are ornate rooms, salons and halls with wood-tiled floors, marble walls and gilded details. Nearly everything was ordered from Europe and assembled here.</p> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:14:56 -0700 2011-11-16T16:23:32-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8672532874 Argentina-111116-046 <p>Palacio Paz, this gorgeous palace, also called the Círculo Militar, was once the private residence of José C Paz, founder of the still-running newspaper La Prensa. Inside are ornate rooms, salons and halls with wood-tiled floors, marble walls and gilded details. Nearly everything was ordered from Europe and assembled here.</p> Kelly Cheng argentina buenosaires círculomilitar palaciopaz southamerica architecture bluesky building color colorful colour colourful culture day daylight design garden heritage motif nopeople nobody outdoor palace pattern sunny sunshine tourism travel traveldestinations vivid windows nepal http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8672535142/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8672535142/" title="Argentina-111116-047"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8261/8672535142_71272c68b5_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Argentina-111116-047" /></a></p> <p>Palacio Paz, this gorgeous palace, also called the Círculo Militar, was once the private residence of José C Paz, founder of the still-running newspaper La Prensa. Inside are ornate rooms, salons and halls with wood-tiled floors, marble walls and gilded details. Nearly everything was ordered from Europe and assembled here.</p> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:15:44 -0700 2011-11-16T16:23:53-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8672535142 Argentina-111116-047 <p>Palacio Paz, this gorgeous palace, also called the Círculo Militar, was once the private residence of José C Paz, founder of the still-running newspaper La Prensa. Inside are ornate rooms, salons and halls with wood-tiled floors, marble walls and gilded details. Nearly everything was ordered from Europe and assembled here.</p> Kelly Cheng travel nepal windows color colour building heritage tourism southamerica motif argentina sunshine architecture garden design daylight buenosaires colorful day pattern outdoor culture vivid sunny bluesky nobody nopeople palace colourful traveldestinations palaciopaz círculomilitar http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8654586269/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8654586269/" title="Argentina-111114-020"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8117/8654586269_63a752a570_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Argentina-111114-020" /></a></p> <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:40:50 -0700 2011-11-14T11:43:56-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8654586269 Argentina-111114-020 <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Kelly Cheng travel nepal sculpture color colour building heritage tourism southamerica motif argentina cemetery sunshine vertical architecture design daylight buenosaires colorful day pattern outdoor culture vivid sunny nobody nopeople colourful traveldestinations larecoletacemetery http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8654587859/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8654587859/" title="Argentina-111114-021"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8105/8654587859_53177b7408_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Argentina-111114-021" /></a></p> <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:41:26 -0700 2011-11-14T11:45:18-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8654587859 Argentina-111114-021 <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Kelly Cheng travel nepal color colour building heritage tourism southamerica motif argentina cemetery sunshine horizontal architecture design daylight buenosaires colorful day pattern outdoor culture vivid sunny nobody nopeople colourful traveldestinations larecoletacemetery http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8654582277/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8654582277/" title="Argentina-111114-018"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8107/8654582277_bc9373c8ac_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Argentina-111114-018" /></a></p> <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:39:11 -0700 2011-11-14T11:42:47-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8654582277 Argentina-111114-018 <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Kelly Cheng travel nepal sculpture color colour building heritage tourism southamerica motif argentina cemetery sunshine vertical architecture design daylight buenosaires colorful day pattern outdoor culture vivid sunny nobody nopeople colourful traveldestinations larecoletacemetery http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8655684422/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8655684422/" title="Argentina-111114-017"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8250/8655684422_d4f8a93f1a_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Argentina-111114-017" /></a></p> <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:38:20 -0700 2011-11-14T11:41:27-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8655684422 Argentina-111114-017 <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Kelly Cheng travel nepal color colour building heritage tourism southamerica motif argentina cemetery sunshine horizontal architecture design daylight buenosaires colorful day pattern outdoor culture vivid sunny nobody nopeople colourful traveldestinations larecoletacemetery http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8654584117/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8654584117/" title="Argentina-111114-019"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8244/8654584117_f980b4d65b_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Argentina-111114-019" /></a></p> <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:39:58 -0700 2011-11-14T11:43:15-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8654584117 Argentina-111114-019 <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Kelly Cheng travel nepal sculpture color colour building heritage tourism southamerica motif argentina cemetery sunshine vertical architecture design daylight buenosaires colorful day pattern outdoor culture vivid sunny nobody nopeople colourful traveldestinations larecoletacemetery http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8652656846/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8652656846/" title="Argentina-111114-015"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8120/8652656846_54f64588a3_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Argentina-111114-015" /></a></p> <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:40:18 -0700 2011-11-14T11:39:44-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8652656846 Argentina-111114-015 <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Kelly Cheng travel nepal sculpture color colour building heritage tourism southamerica motif argentina cemetery sunshine vertical architecture design daylight buenosaires colorful day pattern outdoor culture vivid sunny nobody nopeople colourful traveldestinations larecoletacemetery http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8651558333/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8651558333/" title="Argentina-111114-016"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8521/8651558333_7361433b24_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Argentina-111114-016" /></a></p> <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:40:48 -0700 2011-11-14T11:40:52-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8651558333 Argentina-111114-016 <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Kelly Cheng travel nepal sculpture color colour building heritage tourism southamerica motif argentina cemetery sunshine vertical architecture design daylight buenosaires colorful day pattern outdoor culture vivid sunny nobody nopeople colourful traveldestinations larecoletacemetery http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8651555605/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kellyphotos/">Kelly Cheng</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyphotos/8651555605/" title="Argentina-111114-014"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8526/8651555605_d8160b512b_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Argentina-111114-014" /></a></p> <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:39:43 -0700 2011-11-14T11:38:52-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Kelly Cheng) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8651555605 Argentina-111114-014 <p>A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The entrance to the necropolis is a Doric-columned portico, beyond which the great and powerful of Argentina’s history lay at rest; cast members in a silent theatre.<br /> <br /> Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze crowned by cupolas and crying angels. There are more than 6400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.<br /> <br /> It is great theatre, the city of the dead. Walking its labyrinth, one encounters a silent opera. Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner. Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs. At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication. Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets. This is hushed, thrilling theatre, almost mocking in its silence. Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets. Their blasts go unheard.<br /> <br /> The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition. They are symbols of Buenos Aires’ 1880-1930 golden age, when it was one of the world’s richest cities. Its social elite commissioned Paris’ finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited. They built a city within a city; one that mirrored the opulence of the neighbourhood surrounding it.</p> Kelly Cheng travel nepal sculpture color colour building heritage tourism southamerica motif argentina cemetery sunshine horizontal architecture design daylight buenosaires colorful day pattern outdoor culture vivid sunny nobody nopeople colourful traveldestinations larecoletacemetery