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Interesting Links

Heavens

• Photo Gallery of the Universe, pictures from Hubble Space Telescope.
  • The planets, best images from NASA's space exploration program
  • View of the Solar System
• Large collection of worldwide satellite weather images (look for GOES enhanced Infrared)
• Beautiful collection of time-lapse videos recording celestial movements and changes in weather

  Earth

• Virtual reality panoramas around the world at 360cities.net.
• Quang-Tuan Luong Photography: fantastic images of the world's most beautiful places by a French-Vietnamese alpinist.
• Virtualtourist.com: online community of world travelers
• Travel photos from 154 countries in the world by Galen Frysinger
  • Guide to Salvador-da-Bahia, Brazil (English)
  • Guide to notable gardens and landscape around the world at gardenvisit.com.
  • Virtual reality panoramas at Virtualguidebooks.com
• Calphotos and Calflora, UC Berkeley's archive of California plants and natural resources
• Online map collection at UT Austin
• Geographer's Craft: notes and study materials for geography and GIS

  Mountains

• High Asia, extensive trekking itineraries to remote, often unclimbed high mountains in western China and Himalayas.
  • Janne Corax's bicycle adventures, amazing cycling and climbing tours by a Swedish adventurist.
• Volcanoes, photos and scientific information
  • Mountain Light, galleries of Galen Rowell and Barbara Rowell.
  • Magical Moments by Randy Wang
  • Teneiya Gallery by Gary Valle'
  • Yosemite Photographs by Bill Boyd
• Climbing trip reports on Sierra Nevada routes: climber.org (Loma Prieta chapter of Sierra Club)
  • Summitpost.org, member-maintained climbing guides to world mountains
  • Frank Farmer's Sierra Nevada wilderness trips
  • Bay Area Trails by Jeff Nicholson
• Bay Area ski connection
  • Bob Akka's Sierra Ski Tours

  Culture

• Native American Quotes: poignant words spoken by American Indian leaders facing destruction/genocide by western civilization.
• The complete Spengler: in-depth analysis and commentary on current world economic and cultural conflicts.
• My capoeira school: Capoeira Mandinga school in Berkeley, CA.
• SacredSites.com: facinating spiritual places in the world.
• Global Gayz, exploring conditions facing sexual minorities in many of the world's traditional cultures.
• Literary Kicks: read about "Beat Generation" writers - Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder. Kerouac's Dharma Bums is one of my favorites.
• A model of Islamic Rectilinear Interlaced Lattices, featuring best examples of Islamic art from Isfahan, Iran.
• Wikipedia, the web's best encyclopedic information source (example, History of the Byzantine Empire, Sitting Bull/Tatanka Iyotake)
• Altavista's web site translator, featuring all of the world's major languages

Note: Chinese language links are found in my Personal Page.

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