Let's play the Google Earth India game

  • 🔧 At about Midnight EST I am going to completely fuck up the site trying to fix something.
Didn't find trash, debris or shit, but found an actual mud hut

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The eternal smog and poor care for the landscape makes India seem like the movie filters for different countries meme is real.

Anyway, just for funsies, I journeyed to Uganda. I knew going into Kampala would give me India-like results.
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However, my first stop landed on this, which is beautiful.
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I've never been on a tour group myself but everyone I know who has done, anywhere on earth, wanted to die from the minute it started til the end.
I did a Duke University Alumni tour of Rome at age 12 w me and my little sis and Dad and it was OK, did it again as a 22 year old to Athens; I would say research your tour groups ahead of time and read reviews, and take advantage of downtime to go out on your own if you wish. You'll always find something... unique... when you go out on your own, for better or worse. (I say that as someone who decidedly found the *worse* of Athens.)
 
Crazy how even Mongolian nomadic herders are able to clean up at least a little better after themselves. Think that's another point to the above "medieval societies/anything less well off is cleanlier than modern India". I'm too lazy to quote as a newfag, sorry.
However, my first stop landed on this, which is beautiful.
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Legit thought this was somewhere in the outer Indosphere for a minute, like Myanmar or Bhutan. Those places are littered with natural spectacle, and, naturally, are treated better by their residents as a result. Still, cool & unexpected from 'Ganda.
 
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Wow, I knew it wasn't going to be good but this?
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But that's not fair. So I dropped a pin in Algeria.
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This looks like a CS:GO map, it's dated for sure but surprisingly clean. I can't see a single bit of trash lying around.
Looks like there might be a bit of trash next to a pillar in the first image, or it could just be decaying bricks.
 
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