Telaga Warna or Color Lake at Dieng in Indonesia

Telaga Warna or Color Lake at Dieng in Central Java, Indonesia

On May 9, 1983 we both were here and Pieter captured this photo with the two white swans 🦢🦢and a duck to the far right.

This is at a level of over 2,000 m! (6,662 ft)

It is actually a volcanic sulphur lake... 

Our guide was an older Dutchman who already lived for years in Indonesia.

Nowadays the lake is cleaned up and has walkways around and you can even climb to a certain height for overlooking the lake entirely.

Short video from overlook: Telaga Warna Lake, Dieng from Batu Pandang

Holding our video camera...

Back then Telaga Warna Lake looked rather overgrown...

Don't recall what the Dutchman was pointing at...

On November 19, 1996 we went back again with an Australian visitor...

Always a different view

The clouds are pulling in already and that happened most times around 11:00 AM so you had to really be an early bird.

When we drove up to work at 6:00 AM was the best time but most tourist buses came a lot later and thus far too late for the spectacular views.

Stay tuned for more from my very 1st trip to Indonesia...

Related link with short video: Telaga Warna (Sulphur lake), Dieng plateau

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{Dieng Plateau Indonesia - Where We Worked} 

Our Visit to Gibbs Gardens at Ball Ground, North Georgia

 Having seen lovely spring bulb photos on FB from a local friend, I started exploring this special Botanical Garden in North Georgia: Gibbs Gardens

Avoiding the Easter weekend due to the crowds on the road as well as here at the Gardens, we booked a ticket on line for April 8.

Very easy, having our Senior Admission on our iPhone... we were in!

At the welcome center we were greeted by the friendly resident kitty Spot and he was easy to cuddle with.

Fed and cared for by the workers and during winter when they close, he moves downstairs inside the welcome center and is being fed daily by workers that need to tend the 220 acres of garden...

We started out walking around. 

Lovely setting and plenty of Japanese maples to admire

However cloudy all day, we had NO rain!

18℃ or 64.4℉

There were PLENTY of benches for resting and taking in the beauty of the gardens!

Plenty of tulips were still blooming

In the Japanese Garden, don't know what the sign above reads...

Lovely Cherry Blossoms!

This cherry tree is budding out...

We just leisurely walked our 4.3 km or 2.67 mi

The elevation ranked from 400 m or 1,312 ft to 550 m or 1,804 ft

Rolling hills with views from different heights!

Last year they ranked 2nd amongst 'BEST AMERICAN BOTANICAL GARDENS'

This all began in 1980 as a private estate of 300 acres or 121.4 ha and after 30 years it became a world-class public garden!

Back to our Hyatt Regency Suites Atlanta Northwest... We enjoyed two free award nights; one of the perks when staying with one good line of hotels!

Hyatt Regency Suites Atlanta Northwest | previous post

Pieter Picking up his Campbell Colleagues and showing them TULIPS in The Netherlands | massive tulip display

Pieter Picking up his Campbell Colleagues and showing them TULIPS in The Netherlands

 We had been in The Netherlands since April 21, 1984. After a business trip to Switzerland and also to Ireland, on May 6, Pieter drove back in our rental car to the Schiphol/Amsterdam airport.

Picking up his Campbell Soup colleagues and treating them on the way south to Limburg by stopping by some real tulip fields.

These tulips are NOT grown for their flowers but for the BULBS only!

got this info from 'bollenstreek.nl'

Quite a sight these rows of tulip by color!

Pieter's Campbell Soup colleagues were quite impressed and had to capture this sight...

Pieter in return captured them.

That was a perfect welcome to The Netherlands!

Amazing Tulip Fields short 3 min. YouTube video