Guess where?

**Gyrosmeister** · January 08, 2023, 05:28 PM

This is in Zanzibar, the Old Arab Fort

**lolIsuck** · January 09, 2023, 04:20 PM

That is correct.

**Gyrosmeister** · January 10, 2023, 05:07 AM

Next one

**Muizer** · January 10, 2023, 01:16 PM

Tawhai Falls aka Gollum's Pond in New Zealand?

**Gyrosmeister** · January 11, 2023, 08:08 AM

Indeed!

Rock in the pool
So nice and cool
So juicy sweet!
Now we wish
to catch a fish
So juicy sweet!

**Muizer** · January 11, 2023, 05:53 PM

FWIW I did not know it had anything to do with LOTR before I found it. If the Northern Hemisphere has those umbrella like trees seen above the waterfall I'm not familiar with it, but I've seen them in pics from Aus and NZ. It makes sense that it's NZ, because it is temperate and maritime. Fact that it's famous from LOTR does mean it actually pops up if you add otherwise quite unspecific terms like "waterfall" "pond" and "blue".

Next one I think is quite difficult, but we'll see how you fare.

**Septentrionalis** · January 12, 2023, 02:18 PM

I haven't had time to get into this yet, but I intend to. Looks very interesting. Just posting as a confirmation that I am playing and at least I won't be needing hints yet. Others may request them if they have exhausted their measures.

**nhytgbvfeco2** · January 13, 2023, 11:16 AM

It looks like it might be in sub-saharan africa, but so far haven't found it

**Muizer** · January 13, 2023, 02:16 PM

I don't think it's a massive spoiler when I say that is correct.

**nhytgbvfeco2** · January 14, 2023, 03:06 PM

Can't quite tell what those are even supposed to be. Some kind of bunker? a vehicle of sorts? In Tanzania maybe?

**Muizer** · January 14, 2023, 05:15 PM

It's not Tanzania, but you're not far off.

Identifying what these contraptions are will reveal an aspect of the location that is not otherwise visible in the picture.

**Septentrionalis** · January 15, 2023, 04:53 AM

I've been trying to locate outdoor war museums or war memorials, but that hasn't worked. I cannot really identify the contraptions, but to me they look like cannons. Now that think of it, they may be naval cannons.

**Muizer** · January 15, 2023, 08:26 AM

Originally Posted by Septentrionalis

I've been trying to locate outdoor war museums or war memorials, but that hasn't worked.

It's neither. Knowing what they are, I think they've just been left there.

Originally Posted by Septentrionalis

I cannot really identify the contraptions, but to me they look like cannons.

Evidently cannons.

Originally Posted by Septentrionalis

Now that think of it, they may be naval cannons.

Not sure how to respond to that. I mean, it's wrong ... and yet...

**sumskilz** · January 15, 2023, 01:11 PM

Originally Posted by Muizer

Evidently cannons.

They seem kind of naked.

I'd expect something more like this:

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But Kalemie (formerly Abertville) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is probably the answer, judging by this:

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Originally, I thought the cannons were from Fort de Shinkakasa, which would be my second guess if I'm wrong, because I think the guns themselves are identical.

**Muizer** · January 15, 2023, 02:26 PM

It is indeed Kalemie, on the western bank of Lake Tanganyika. A base of allied naval operations in WWI.

**sumskilz** · January 15, 2023, 03:12 PM

Alright, there are four semi-well-known landmarks in this one, but it's framed and cropped in a way that makes it not so easy:

**Septentrionalis** · January 16, 2023, 02:29 PM

I have tried now quite a bit cannot find it. As a hint to others, if you look at the larger original image (open to new window and press download original picture), you can see curious markings on the white column.

**sumskilz** · January 19, 2023, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by Septentrionalis

I have tried now quite a bit cannot find it. As a hint to others, if you look at the larger original image (open to new window and press download original picture), you can see curious markings on the white column.

The curious markings are an inscription in English on one side and Hebrew on the other. The content of the inscription is identical in both languages, except that the Hebrew version uses the Jewish calendar while the English version uses the Gregorian calendar.

The column and the ruins it stands upon are for the most part unrelated to each other. They are two of the four semi-well-known landmarks that are at least partially visible in the picture.

**nhytgbvfeco2** · January 21, 2023, 08:44 AM

It's in Tel-Aviv, on the Israel national trail, next to reading park.

**sumskilz** · January 21, 2023, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by nhytgbvfeco2

It's in Tel-Aviv, on the Israel national trail, next to reading park.

Yeah, that’s right.

The four landmarks at least partially visible in the pic are:

The mouth of the Yarkon River where it drains into the Mediterranean
The Reading Lighthouse
Tel Qudadi
The Yarkon Crossing Memorial

Tel Qudadi was a Neo-Assyrian fortress. Most of it was destroyed when the Reading Power Station was built just to the north of the picture, but prior to that, a salvage excavation was carried out.

The column for the memorial is actually ancient, but it was taken from Apollonia-Arsuf, and engraved exactly as follows:

ON THE NIGHT
20th-21st DEC 1917
THE 157th BRIGADE
52nd (LOWLAND)
CROSSED THIS
FORD & CAPTURED
THE TURKISH
POSITIONS
COMMANDING IT

The Hebrew inscription on the other side is the same, except it starts with “On the night of 7 Tevet 5768”

I took that pic with my phone during the height of COVID boredom, but I cropped most of the Reading Lighthouse out before I posted it.

Here’s the uncropped pic and a nicer pic for context:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Q...y_ovedc_02.jpg