Pretty much wrecked in the various wars of the last 30 years, the building in the distance was once a magnificent palace. Now there's not even enough left to be restored, even if they wanted to.
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You're probably right that nobody's going to restore this palace.
But I can't resist pointing out that some of the Russian royal palaces, such as Tsarkoe Selo and Peterhof outside St. Petersburg, looked just as bad when Hitler's troops were finished with them. After decades of restoration, they look better today than they did in the seventeenth century.
So there's still hope for Darul Aman Palace. Where there's a will, there's a way.
This journal once chronicled the experience of a low-level American diplomat living in Guatemala. Then he went to Latvia, and Afghanistan, and then back "home" to Washington, DC for a bit. He is now serving in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. If you are one of the few people of no blood relation to the authors who has come here in search of Guatemalan content, here are a few choices from the archives that we like:
In Afghanistan, the photographic opportunities were often limited to what we could sneak with a point-and-shoot camera out the bulletproof window of a speeding SUV. But sometimes we got out and about. A few favorites from that tour:
We've also vacationed aggressively in each region we've been posted in, and taken some epic home leave trips, usually leading to better photos than those where we were posted. Those photos are included in the blog, but somehow holiday snaps seem beneath this sidebar.
2 comments:
You're probably right that nobody's going to restore this palace.
But I can't resist pointing out that some of the Russian royal palaces, such as Tsarkoe Selo and Peterhof outside St. Petersburg, looked just as bad when Hitler's troops were finished with them. After decades of restoration, they look better today than they did in the seventeenth century.
So there's still hope for Darul Aman Palace. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Hey, thanks, anonymous. I only had the words of my traveling companions to rely on. Now I know "Darul Aman." Learned something new today.
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