Saturday, June 10, 2006

Stuff from Space

Hotel from space (not quite finished at this time - it looks better on Google earth)

To get to work, we come out of the hotel and turn North.
Turn Right at the major T-junction up ahead.
Carry along this road, over the creek until a big cross roads, and turn Left here.
We go along this road for a fair distance, turning right at the point where you can see the big lake on the north east corner.
At some point along here we turn right again, I think it's at the point just after a blue tarp in the Eastbound lane, where the shadow of a building with 3 sections falls across the road. We turn left at the next junction, then take the 3rd right into the middle of the posh bit (with a roundabout in the middle).
Straight on at the roundabout (going left to right across the screen), to what looks like a dead end but actually there's a right hand turn by the building that looks like a three-spoked wheel and near the go-kart track (hope you're not totally lost by now).
At this point there's the stock-car race over the hill through the shanties, and then we find ourselves on a fairly wide road heading due south, with apartment blocks on the left and shanties on the right.
Then there's quite a green area, with small buildings that look like snowflakes. The road bends round to the South East, and at the T-junction we turn Right. Nearly there!
We go along this road for a shortish distance, past the Presidential Towers (there's a small swimming pool in the back garden, and the office we're working in is on the Left side of the road, is largeish and whitish and has a train right behind it at the point the photo was taken.

You should now be here. Let's have a game and see if my instructions worked. If you played without using the links on the way, where did you get to?!

Other places we've been (from Space!)
Hajiali Mosque (well we've been past it)
The Hanging Gardens (if you look just a bit north you'll see small round white structures in the trees: these are the Towers of Silence where Parsi leave their dead)
Marine Drive (called the "Queen's Necklace" because it lights up beautifully after dark)
Gateway of India & the Taj Hotel (look at all the boats!)
Elephanta Island (well I hope we get there), and I hope this is the right place because I'm just guessing from looking at the map.
Victoria Terminal (you can also see some of the crazy traffic outside)

2 comments:

Janet said...

I'm sure this is very interesting if you can see the piccies! Sadly, I can't.

Livia said...

Can other people see them? Have I given dodgy links or is it just Janet's employer being stingy?