Over the Hill and Faraway

This week Donna from Windkisses is hosting Lens-Artists Challenge with the theme “Over the Hill”. This phrase is most used for people getting on in life but it can also mean what is over the hill. Is the climb worth it you think standing at the bottom, and so you start to climb and often when you reach the top there is another hill, tantalising you to keep on climbing.

I searched my archives for hills climbed and for hills driven up, the views are incredible and worth every step from my aching legs.

Castle of Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece

Heimaey Island, Iceland
Coalseam Conservation Park, Western Australia
Phousi Hill, Luang Prabang, Laos
Hai Van Pass, Hue, Vietnam
Loch Lomand and The Trossachs National Park, Scotland

The view is always better at the top, but I think I’m over the hill for getting over the hill!

Lens Artist Photo Challenge #164 – Looking Up and Looking Down

This week for the Lens Artist Photo Challenge – Sofia from Photographias is hosting and the theme is Looking Up/Down.

“Knowledge comes from looking around, Wisdom comes from looking up” – Adrian Rogers

Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Spain
Osmania Women’s College, Hyderabad, India
The Scotsman Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland
Outside/Inside Escalators, Hong Kong Bank Building, Hong Kong

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There is something absolutely nerve racking about being inside a cable car in the elements with only the floor between you and the depths below. It is quite eerie sitting there in the deathly quiet except for the clanking of the machinery.

From the cable car on top of Lantau Island, Hong Kong
The lego style apartment blocks, Tung Chung, Hong Kong
Looking out over Da Nang, Vietnam
Bana Hills Cable Car

Riding in a cable car is definitely the best way to see the world below.