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Maralinga Nuclear Test Site

Maralinga was a dark-tourism highlight of my recent long trip to Australia, so much so that it deserves a separate longer post of its own. So here we go:
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There are two ways of visiting Maralinga, a) overland, with overnight camping or accommodation in Maralinga Village, and b) day return trips by small plane. Since driving all the way to Maralinga through the remote Outback is both demanding and time-consuming I opted for investing in a fly-in tour. For this

Mitsero mines

A couple of readers have expressed an interest in seeing more from those mines near Mitsero that were briefly mentioned in the previous Blog post about Cyprus in general. So as a first single-topic Cyprus post I picked this. It’s primarily a photo essay, but also with a bit of a story and some background info.

It’s actually about two locations and comprises three types of mines, all not far from the village of Mitsero (ca. 18 miles/30 km south-west of Nicosia), so they are subsumed under that short name here, for simplicity’s sake. They are “ghost mines”, i.e.