I’ve seen Alena checking out somebody’s blog the other day, and that blog had several images from Goolge Earth. Google Earth is a software package which lets you view the satellite images of any place on Earth and the best part is that it is free.

I’ve spent a lot of time playing with it some time ago, and I found all kinds of places, including the building where we lived back in Tashkent. So I figured I’ll post a very small tour of some places meaningful for us. But before I start a tour, go ahead, and download Google Earth, so you can look around the places that I’m going to send you to on your own.

First stop is Tashkent, Uzbekistan. This is the house where I have lived for the first 15 years of my life. You can see the school that I went to nearby as well. I remember it all pretty well still, even though I haven’t been there since we’ve left almost 11 years ago. My dad has visited it a while ago, and says that a lot has changed since then. The trees that were growing in front of our window are gone, and instead there is a cemented parking spot for a car now. There is some shopping center / restaurant behind our house - a place where we had multiple camp outs with fires - where we used to bake the potatoes. Either way, notice how many trees there are all over the city. A lot of people don’t even realize how green the city is.

Our second stop is going to be our home in Brooklyn, New York. This is our building and you see the mark on the place where our windows our. You can see that we live half a block away from the waters of Atlantic Ocean.

If you go a little bit to the north-west of our house you will see the magnificent Verrazano-Narrows Bridge that connects Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Next stop is Honolulu, Hawaii. We had a vacation in this paradise on earth during the summer of 2005. We stayed at the Hilton Resort, which is a great place. During the day we would swim in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, and when it would get dark we’d move to the jacuzzi in our resort that you can see on the satellite image. You can try turning the buildings on in Google Earth for this location - they all have 3D models.

And for our last stop we’re going to visit Las Vegas. You’re looking at the resort known as the Hilton Grand Vacation Club at the Flamingo. This is one of our most favorite places to stay at.

You can see all the pools that we have numerous pictures of, taken from the windows of the hotel.

If you go a bit to the south-west you can see the huge musical fountains of Belagio. We have multiple shots of that as well. Here is one taken from the Eiffel Tower that you can see on Google Earth as well.

I’m going to wrap this up for this time, and let you explore a bit more around those locations through Google Earth.

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Таня says:
July 22, 2006 @ 06:33

Я тоже жила какое-то время в Узбекистане, только в других городах (в Самарканда, под Карши, а потом 4 года в Чирчике), но в Ташкенте бывала довольно часто. Действительно очень зеленый город. Посмотрела на фотографии, прочитала постинг и появилась даже какая-то ностальгия… : )

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Nena says:
April 5, 2008 @ 10:30

i think Las Vegas its an amazing place you might lose money but that wont matter to you cauze you are losing money but you are having FUN

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