The View From Above: Chand Baori - An Amazing Indian Stepwell

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Chand Baori - An Amazing Indian Stepwell

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27° 0'25.90"N 76°36'25.96"E

In the village of Abhaneri, near Jaipur, Rajastan (India) there is a stepwell called Chand Baori. It is one of the oldest, largest, and deepest stepwells in India. It was built in the 9th century and has 3500 narrow steps and 13 stories and is 100 feet deep. The architecture reminds one of an M.C. Escher lithograph.

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I have an unquenchable thirst for exploration and mysteries. But that isn't the only reason for "View From Above." This blog exists primarily thanks to the despicable ignorance and laziness of the many, many people who will post a picture of some anomaly and simply make guesses about it, rather than do five minutes worth of research. I can't count the many times I've seen aerial pictures of "UFOs parked in a row on the beach" (They're beach umbrellas, you dork!) or questions like, "What's this aircraft doing sitting in the middle of the desert?" (It's a military firing range. They use junk aircraft as targets. Duh!) The unwillingness on the part of most people to do even a minimal amount of research just boggles the mind.

Another pet peeve of mine is the practice of posting an interesting site without a precise location. I don't know if it's laziness, oversight, or a desire to hoard information, but it's irritating as hell to me. That's why mosts of my posts will always include coordinates to the site.

I hope you'll enjoy perusing the sites I've listed. I can't take credit for being the first to "find" most of them, but I will do my best to let you know what I find out about them!

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