Travel Geeks love postcards. It is a simple, cheap, and fun way to make your friends and family back home jealous about how much fun you’re having on your saucy travel experiences.
Recently, Sosauce hosted its first ever postcard contest, “Decorate Our New Digs!” We asked contestants to mail us their favorite photos of people, architecture, and landscapes in postcard form along with quirky facts or anecdotes about the destination in the photograph. We received some pretty neat submissions, but travel writers Dave and Diane took him the winning prizes.
As promised, we’d like to show off the winning postcards and the stories behind their photographs:
Postcards by Diane
Landscape – Maine, USA
Sabbathday Lake (Left): Unbeknownst to many, this is the site where the last Shakers live, a Sabbath community descendant of the pilgrims.
The Shakers are often thought to be a religious sect of the Quakers, but were actually originated by Methodists. Maine has been home to this American Pilgrim community since the 19th century.
Architecture – Beiteddine, Lebanon
Beiteddine Palace (Right): It took 25 years to build this palace! Emir Bechir, Beiteddine Palace architect, was later exiled by the Ottoman rulers. Bechir was also the last ruling Prince of Lebanon.
Today, Beiteddine, with its museums and gardens, is one of Lebanon’s major tourist attractions.
Postcards by Dave
People – Darjeeling, India
Tea Plantation (Right): Darjeeling has the world’s highest zoo, approximately 7,000 feet in elevation!
The Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park is the only zoo in the world to breed the Tibetan Wolf in captivity and the first South Asian Zoo to breed Snow Leopards and Siberian Tigers.
Landscape – Mt. Macchapucchre, Nepal
Mt. Macchapucchre (Top): The mountain, nicknamed “fishtail” has never been summited because the top is too steep.
Did you know the Macchapucchre is also revered from the locals as sacred to the god Shiva, thus off limits to climbers?
Architecture – Agra, India
Taj Mahal (Left): The building has a lot of detailed inlays of precious stones sourced from around the world.
The Taj Mahal is also considered the finest example of Mughal architecture, which combines elements from Persian, Indian, and Islamic architectural styles.
Congrats again to Dave and Diane for sharing their travel postcards with Sosauce!
Stop by the Sosauce office to see what other postcards are plastered on our walls.
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