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There is a huge diorama in the city of Hamburg, and Google built a cute toy version of their "street view vehicle" to explore it: (the actual photos were taken by a less cute rolling mini camera). If you want to check out the photos, go here: https://www.google.com/streetview/#miniatur-wunderland There is even a rock concert, and airport (sort of working airport!) and the Grand Canyon, and Las Vegas. Told you it was big. :D

After my trip to Malasia via Google Street View, I went to Peru, found Lima and the aeropuerto without too much trouble, (though traffic to the airport is awful), and then decided to just wander around Peru for a while, since I was tired of being lost in Finland. The woven fences you see up there in Las Tunas are original with the Incas--they are flexible and sturdy and stop the wind and are very suitable for an earthquake zone. Peru has a lot of dramatically different landscapes, this is the moonscape near the coast south of Lima; and after poking around there for a while I went and looked at some of the interior cities. So far my least favorite was Iquitos, and my favorite Pucallpa . You will have to go look at it to see why, it's just really cute to me for some reason. I also peeked at San Ignacio , and look what they have: No, not the toy store, the OTHER store--the fabric store! I wish there was a way to poke the Google driver and say Stop! I want to look at the fabric! But...