Berlin - Prague

Spent 3Nights in Berlin, 4Nights in Prague.

The main highlight of the trip is the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. One of the few preserved Concentration Camp from WWII Era. This was one of the places that many prisoners who came in and never leave. This particular camp is huge. Took me almost 2 hours to walk around the place.

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp - Entrance
ARBEIT MACHT FREI ironically means "Work Liberates"

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp - Bunk 39
One of the two preserved bunks in this concentration camp. Bunk 39 & Bunk 38.

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp - Execution Trench

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp - Crematory

Sachsenhausen Jail

Berlin - Remains of Berlin Wall
This is an isolated piece of remains of the Berlin Wall. It shows how the structure is constructed. The height of the structure is approximately 3m. Not an easy climb for anyone trying to get across. The funny thing is this is located in the middle of town, not along the stretch of the original wall.

Berlin - Sony Center
This building is built up by Sony, the electronics giant. I guess that's why they constructed this advanced looking building for their offices. Located right beside Potsdamer Platz.

Berlin - Reichstag/Bundestag
If you've taken history and studied the part on Third Reich, Reichstag should have appeared some where in the notes. It's where the parliamentary sessions are held. Another piece of art I would say.

Berlin River
This was shot at a bridge in between Hautbanhof and the Reichstag.

Prague - View for Prague Castle
The sky was misty, cloudy. I guessed that the view wouldn't appear fantastic on picture. But I like this picture. Taken from where Prague Castle is situated. The entrance to the Castle was not free. Well, I am not a fan of paid entrance to Castle/Museums unless there's a strong attraction to it. So I walked around and took photos around the Castle instead.

One tradition still prevails: Guard of Honour. Every hour, there's a change of guard duty. I overheard a tour guide declaring to her group that these are professional soldiers!

Prague - View of Karlovy Vary from Diana
Diana is the name of a hill in Karlovy Vary. Karlovy Vary itself is a small town famous for hot springs. At the turn of most corners, you can find water flowing out from ground taps, safe to drink, BUT, the taste differs from tap to tap.

Prague - Kutna Hora
At this ossuary, there was once someone who brought small quantity of earth from the Holy Land and laid it here. For that reason, many people wanted to be buried here upon death. The request was high. Eventually someone came along and rearranged the bones into chandeliers, towers, shield of arms. Mind you, these are real human bones.

Figueras

I went to Figueras on Saturday. The main highlight of the trip is to visit Dali Museum. A family was planning to go and was kind enough to invite me along. =) This post, unlike previous posts, is not to showcase photography, but more of to showcase the incredible works seen from the visit to Figueras!

Figueras is located north of Barcelona; beyond Girona, and approximately 60km from French border. Spain has several prominent artist: Picasso, Dali, Miro, Gaudi...

Dali was particular famous for his 'melted' arts, or so I thought. But the museum did not showcase much of that aspect, but his arts are really masterpieces! I am not a particular fan of museum, but this trip was really really a fruitful trip.

The highlight was a large Lincoln picture I would say. At first, I couldn't see how attractive the picture was, until I took a picture with my DSLR and review it on the cam! I guess human eyes are too perfect to notice certain stuff. Several images overlapped onto one.

This is not exactly the best picture among the lot to represent the actual picture. But it gives an idea.

This, for one, looks very 3D. On the other hand, this was painted on the ceiling!

In the museum there was a separate exhibition on a different artist whose name sadly I can't remember. The theme then was about rocks painting featuring human shape succintly.

Another highlight of Dali's works is this living room setting. There's another door which looks like hair, however, the queue for the best view was waaaaay too long.

The entrance ticket to Dali Museum entitles us to another museum entrance. I guess the best work here is this. Nothing special looking at it this way, just that it is drawn on a single piece of canvas/paper. Basically 2D surface.

Plaza Espanya

The magical/musical fountain at Plaza Espanya.
In Summer, between 2100-2330, at every 30min, there would be musical performances, by the fountain of course.

Facing a different direction, you can see Tibidabo in the picture. It looks like Glowing Gold in the dark