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Berlin, Germany. March 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859295-WLHCCD0BE9SJOWZZIBMN/DSC_9360.jpg Photography - Soviet War Memorial. Berlin, Germany. March 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859284-NBDAY5AC38ZXO72BV6TK/DSC_9498.jpg Photography - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Berlin, Germany. March 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859279-TBV5DY7Q8DHDZBLXPFVK/DSC_9851.jpg Photography - Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial. Berlin, Germany. March 2017. Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial has preserved a former Stasi political prison.There was a green light system to ensure that as guards walked prisoners to and from interrogation rooms and other locations, they would not run into other prisoners. Solitude was key. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859274-W3SYINMMSUDV7UDHYTHO/DSC_9944.jpg Photography - Point Alpha Memorial. Rasdorf, Germany. March 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859310-K99XVEWZOPYOC0YTW2SM/DSC_0118.jpg Photography - Regierungsbunker. Bonn, Germany. March 2017. Our penultimate stop was in Bonn, the location of one of the West German government's nuclear bunkers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859305-FWZDI0SIZV2FVZ78LMM0/DSC_0301.jpg Photography - Brussels, Belgium. March 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859300-5NYUBHUQGNSPX6X3MEXV/DSC_0415.jpg Photography - Ghent, Belgium. March 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859257-VP5JCUU0O6SAZPR7KSRF/DSC_3390.jpg Photography - Jaffa. Tel Aviv, Israel. June 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859249-5ILN84P11EBD78LAN8X0/DSC_3415.jpg Photography - Jaffa. Tel Aviv, Israel. June 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859243-63VO4CS37R2590DSB6QU/DSC_3498.jpg Photography - Tel Fah'er, Israel. June 2017. Tel Fah'er is a former Syrian outpost in the Golan Heights that has since the Six-Day War been under Israeli sovereignty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859239-58MTBPF7VYK9N3WTB3BT/DSC_3520.jpg Photography - Mount Avital, Israel. June 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859234-NO0LJFJHY32GZKAL3Q5X/DSC_3540.jpg Photography - Mount Avital, Israel. June 2017. On Mount Avital, we were able to converse with two UN Peacekeepers there with UNDOF, an observation force that has been in place since the Yom Kippur War to monitor peace between Syria and Israel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859229-6I1FLQYYQHW360EW81DT/DSC_3599.jpg Photography - Castel National Park, Israel. June 2017. Castel National Park is the location of fierce battles to control the site during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The hill overlooks the main highway connecting Jerusalem with Tel Aviv and the north. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859223-MD4Q4BOKV1JLPCS1BYZF/DSC_3630.jpg Photography - Jerusalem, Israel. June 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859212-K59192QY55BOYRYJDKRU/DSC_3685.jpg Photography - Jerusalem, Israel. June 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859217-SUWI513UWD1CB4LQHGFH/DSC_3783.jpg Photography - Jerusalem, Israel. June 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859207-5FKKM2MPFR6Z1GVBKZ3Y/DSC_3828.jpg Photography - Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Jerusalem, Israel. June 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859135-5N6PE4CZS19G235G9ZQ6/DSC_3880.jpg Photography - Jerusalem, Israel. June 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859377-USBH4C8B2QS86EPKZPB5/DSC_4471.jpg Photography - Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. June 2016. Behind the National Museum in Bishkek stands the last standing major statue of Lenin – just one remnant of the country's Soviet history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859372-EQS47IGRFTTLZN3F62H6/DSC_4495.jpg Photography - Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. June 2016. Ala-Too Square is the main square in the capital city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859366-8LSVXNC3D4KU2ORHJWJF/DSC_4648.jpg Photography - Bel-Tam Yurt Camp. Bokonbayevo, Kyrgyzstan. June 2016. Lake Issyk-Kul is the second largest saline lake (by volume) in the world and the tenth largest lake of any kind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859360-GZH9K7Z8VA6KHYFLIE6U/DSC_4706.jpg Photography - Bel-Tam Yurt Camp. Bokonbayevo, Kyrgyzstan. June 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859355-DZGVDT1K27XTERUI298H/DSC_4776.jpg Photography - Bel-Tam Yurt Camp. Bokonbayevo, Kyrgyzstan. June 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859349-JRAT5ZEDZ24Z8C10HLEL/DSC_4871.jpg Photography - Bel-Tam Yurt Camp. Bokonbayevo, Kyrgyzstan. June 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859344-0E8TKOWUQ6AV57JJAXD1/DSC_5099.jpg Photography - Bel-Tam Yurt Camp. Bokonbayevo, Kyrgyzstan. June 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859339-QEL1H093BXB5EN9DXSY5/DSC_5141.jpg Photography - Burana Tower. Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan. June 2016. On the way back from Bokonbayevo, we stopped at Burana Tower, the remains of a minaret from the town of Balasagun. Founded in the ninth century, the town was an important marker along the Silk Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859335-YADZH4XI03O6W6ZLCZB5/DSC_5165.jpg Photography - Osh Bazaar. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. June 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672c2b0f0c985d73526d0d97/1730947859330-0Z4I06S7DDN0CCLF8LWD/DSC_5169.jpg Photography - Osh Bazaar. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. 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