Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[InspectorJon]

Right continent

 

[cmac62]

Namibia?

 

[InspectorJon]

Wrong country, it’s a different desert

 

[bracconiere]

why does it have a somewhat modern looking city in the background, and a park bench around the tourist looking thing....

 

[bracconiere]

KwaZulu-Natal​

something zulu?

 

[pvtpublic]

Tunisia

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Just in case we're still doing the World Cup thing - Morocco?

Feels more southerly though.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Sahara East Africa, Somalia, Ethopia maybe to narrow it down?

 

[cmac62]

I did see some Somali huts that looked similar.

 

[cmac62]

These are all the same with what looks like streets and electricity. Hmm

 

[InspectorJon]

Sahara desert is correct. Not Morocco but that is the closest country guessed so far. Yes to south of that.

 

[InspectorJon]

These are all the same with what looks like streets and electricity. Hmm

Nomads settling on the periphery of more permanent architecture.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

You need somewhere handy for the shops.

Fringes of the Sahara - Mali? In which case Timbuktu as the only place in Mali that anyone's heard of?

 

[pvtpublic]

It's definitely on Tatooine

 

[InspectorJon]

Some folks have heard of Bamako, the capital of Mali but the picture is indeed Timbuktu. @Northern_Brewer is up.

 

[bracconiere]

tim-buck-two...? i hope we get a nursey ryhme play next!

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Timbuktu is a fascinating place, it became known in the West as it was a great trading centre between the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa and on the back of that became a centre of learning, with huge numbers of medieval manuscripts surviving:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu_Manuscripts
Anyway, let's go back to the mountain theme, I've cropped this a bit :

 

[bracconiere]

wild guess...

Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Right continent, not very warm though.

 

[bracconiere]

Lake Taymyr?

 

[pvtpublic]

Mongolia

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Not quite as far north as Taymyr, but more north than Mongolia.

And thinking about it (which I wasn't earlier) - it's kinda debatable which continent Sochi is in but I guess it's in Asia and the photo isn't.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

So do we need a hint or is everyone just distracted with other things right now? It certainly should be busy on this mountain at the moment.

 

[InspectorJon]

So, European winter sport location? Not Alpen. Is it in Scandinavia?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Yes to Scandinavia, no to winter sport.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Trolltunga in Norway?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Pretty cold still

 

[bracconiere]

you did say russia was the right continent right? so eastern middle russia? (or what used to be)

edit: would i be on to something being a tourist, and googling most breath taking mountains to climb in russia?

edit 2: some where in the ural mountains?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

you did say russia was the right continent right? so eastern middle russia? (or what used to be)

Well Russia and continents gets complicated, some people say that Russia west of the Urals is European, others take the dividing line between Europe and Asia as through the Bosphorus and up the Dnipro. And then I didn't help by double-guessing myself.

So ignore that. But in any case, I've said it's Scandinavia, and that Trolltunga is cold.

 

[tracer bullet]

It certainly should be busy on this mountain at the moment.

Scandinavia, and Norway is cold.

Finland?

Busy place, but not for sports. Hmmmmmm.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Now we're approaching the Finnish...

 

[bracconiere]

Now we're approaching the Finnish...

so now there is a line drawn.....

 

[beermanpete]

Glittertind, Norway?​

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I can see why you went there, but still pretty cold, and ignored the hint about the Finnish...

 

[beermanpete]

Korvatunturi?

 

[tracer bullet]

Korvatunturi?

Ahhhh, nice one. "Santa Secret Home" when I looked it up. Now the thing about it being busy this time of year makes sense!

 

[bracconiere]

ahh 'busy' because it's xmas time!

edit: simul post!

 

[govner1]

Tree Mountain Ylojarvi

 

[Northern_Brewer]

It is indeed Korvatunturi on the Finland/Russia border, allegedly the home of Father Christmas/Santa Claus, a long way from Turkey which is where St Nicholas was from. It's an interesting story of how he came to be associated with Lapland - although there seems to be some vague connection with a similar figure (pre-Christian?) in that area, it was Markus Rautio a presenter on Finnish children's radio in 1927 who claimed that he specifically lived on Korvatunturi aka Ear Mountain, as the ear-shape helped him hear all the requests from children around the world.

But it was only in 1984 that they decided to market Lapland as the home of Santa, but moved it 150 miles southwest to the regional capital of Rovaniemi in a completely cynical move to make it more convenient for tourists. It's since become a really popular trip for Brits in particular, as our maritime climate means that we get little if any snow in England in December, but we still get the Bing Crosby brainwashing that makes us think a white Christmas is somehow expected.

https://qz.com/317611/how-rovaniemi-finland-became-the-official-hometown-of-santa-claus
@beermanpete, you're up

 

[beermanpete]

Ok! A wag works once again.
Another nondescript mountain to perplex you geographic puzzle solvers.