Jumat, 01 Februari 2013

Sabtu, 26 Januari 2013

NEGERI DONGENG DI DUNIA NYATA

COLMAR, PERANCIS

By Fr AntunesDaerah

Colmar di Perancis telah dinyatakan sebagai kota yang paling indah di Eropa, seakan baru keluar dari negeri dongeng. Kota Kecil di Alsace ini terkenal bukan hanya karena arsitektur kota tuanya yang berwarna warni. Colmar, terletak di jalur Wine (anggur) Alsatian, disebut sebagai “Pusat Alsatian Wine”. Kota ini mempunyai iklim yang hangat dan kota terkering kedua di Perancis tentu saja merupakan kota ideal untuk perkebunan anggur.
Seolah-olah sebagai Ibu Kota Anggur tidak cukup sebagai sebutannya, Colmar, dengan bangunan, taman, air mancur dan kanal-kanal-nya disebut sebagai “Venesia Kecil” (La Petite Venise). Kota ini juga merupakan kota kelahiran dari Frédéric Bartholdi yang merupakain desainer Patung Liberty yang terkenal di New York juga kota dari pelukis Martin Schongauer.

Colmar, France. By Nikkodem

Pulau Faroe

Faroe Islands. By webax.it

Ga ada yang akan nyalahin agan kalau agan mengira dari pertama kali melihat bahwa pulau ini memang dihuni para Hobits dan Elves dari “The Lord Of The Rings”. Pulau ini berlokasi di antara Iceland dan Norwegia, di tengah-tengah Gulf Stream pada Samudra Atlantik Utara. Terdiri dari 18 pulau, Pulau Faroe benar-benar adalah sebuah rumah dari pemandangan indah dan dramatic dari puncak Volkanik serta ombak samudra yang menghantam garis pantainya yang berbatu-batu. Pulau ini benar-benar sangat magis serta misterius dengan pemandangannya yang membuat kita terbawa jauh ke dalam dunia fantasi daripada dunia nyata.

KASTIL NEUSCHWANSTEIN, JERMAN

Dramatic look of Neuschwanstein. By Nataraj Metz

Kalau agan berpikir bahwa ini adalah Istana Disneyland, Agan super salah meskipun ane gak bisa nyalahin agan karena memang istana ini terlihat seperti dihuni Putri-putri cantik berambut emas. Pada kenyataannya adalah Neuschwanstein Castle ini lebih nyata daripada yang Agan pikirkan. Dikontruksi pada sebuah bukit pada abad ke 19 untuk Ludwig II, namun isi dari kastil sangatlah revolutioner pada waktu itu: bangunan ini mempunyai air yang mengalir terus menerus dengan toilet yang otomatis flushing di setiap lantainya serta system penghangat (yang di jaman itu sudah sangat MEWAH banget, gan). Saat ini, Neuschwanstein terletak di perhentian utama perjalanan romantic, menyusuri sejarah Bavaria dengan kota-kota dan kastil-kastilnya yang melegenda.

CAPPADOCIA, TURKI

Jika memang ada sebuah dongeng tentang negeri magis yang berdasar dari tanah liat, dan pasti tempatnya berasal dari Cappadocia. Daerah yang terkenal ini terlenak di tengah Turki dan sangat terkenal untuk kerajinan pot serta formasi batu yang unik dimana para rakyat zaman dahulu mengukir rumah mereka dan gereja di batu-batu tersebut. Daerah ini juga terkenal untuk batu aneh dengan formasi yang disebut “Cerobong Peri” yang bisa ditemukan dalam berbagai bentuk seperti Cone, jamur, kolom dan batu lancpi. Tradisi tanah liat dan keramik di Turki merupakan kerajinan paling tua di dunia yang bermula dari abad ke 8.

HOI AN, VIETNAM]

Hoi An. By jmhullot

Jika anda sudah pernah ke Vietnam, ane rasa Agan ga akan melewatkan Hoi An. Kota kecil yang sangat penuh warna, magis serta luar biasa indah ini adalah lebih seperti rumah bagi lentera sutra. Terletak di pantai Laut Cina Selatan, kota ini pada dulunya merupakan pelabuhan penting dan pusat perdagangan. Saat ini, banyak traveler dan backpacker menemukan negeri dongeng pada kota ini dan tidak bisa mengalihkan diri dari pesonanya. Atmosfir Hoi An merupakan sebuah gabunganyang indah dari keramahan para penduduknya serta arsitektur-nya yang seperti keluar dari Negeri dongeng, dan tidak heran kalau kota ini menjadi salah satu kota tujuan paling diincar di Asia Tenggara.

GREENLAND

Tasiilaq Greenland. By chrissy575

Tidak tersentuh, terpencil dan sulit dijangkau, Greenland adalah sebuah alam liar dimana banyak jalan yang belum ada, pemandangan yang belum terjamah dan tentu saja membuat agan menganga. Dengan tidak adanya pohon, jalan dan serta hampir tidak ada orang, pulau ini tentu saja membuat agan berpikir lebih banyak diisi oleh Dwarf daripada manusia. Meskipun dingin, Greenland adalah sebuah tempat yang tidak terlupakan dengan auroranya yang magis dan rumah-rumahnya yang berwarna-warni.

VENICE, ITALY

Venice. By MorBCN

Venesia sangat sulit ditandingi. Arsitektur yang membuat kita menganga, kanal-kanal yang unik serta percampuran dari pemandangan fantastis dan atmosfir luar biasa adalah sesuatu yang tidak dimiliki oleh sembarang tempat. Venesia seperti diimpor dari dimensi lain meskipun Koran New York Time mendeskripsikannya sebagai “Tidak diragukan sebagai kota paling indah yang dibangun oleh manusia.” Terletak sepanjang 117 pulau kecil, Venesia mempunyai 455 jembatan, ratusan kanal dimana gondola romantic mengayuh perahu mereka melalui kota. Tentu saja ini adalah rumah dari Karnival venesia yang terkenal, Venice Biennale dan the Venice Film Festival. Gimana gan? Siap-siap bawa calon-nya kesini, langsung ane jamin diterima lamarannya

KATHMANDU, NEPAL

Indah dan Spiritual, ibukota Nepal, Kathmandu, benar-benar sebuah tempat magis bagi Agan. Dikelilingi oleh gunung-gunung besar, kota ini diisi dengan atmosfir indah, suara dan wangi eksotis dan kuil-kuil yang membuat agan terkagum-kagum. Meskipun Kathmandu adalah kota terbesar di Negara tersebut, kota ini memelihara aura fantasi dari kuil-kuil kuno, altar serta arsitektur tradisitonal. Nampaknya tidak sia-sia Katmandu dipanggi “Tanah Para Dewa”dikarenakan Kathmandu tidak terlihat seperti berada di dunia.

HUTAN BAMBU, JEPANG

Kyoto's Bamboo Forest. By Stuck in Customs

Meskipun berlokasi di Kyoto, Jepang dan tidak berhubungan dengan film, pemandangan Hutan Bambu menyerupai latar di film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or House of Flying Daggers. Tidak heran kalau agan-agan membayangkan jadi Samurai dan berkelana di hutan ini dengan pedang agan. Hutan ini adalah sebuah contoh dari beratus-ratus hutan yang mengagumkan di Asia Tenggara. Bambu memang memainkan sebuah peran penting dalam budaya asia- sebagai lambang dari umur panjang di Cina, symbol persahabatan di India dan di Jepang, banyak kuil Shinto dikelilingi oleh hutan Bambu – dianggap sebagai penghalang suci untuk menghalau roh jahat.

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SINTRA, PORTUGAL

Palacio de Sintra. By szeke

Portugal mungkin terkenal dengan sepak bolanya untuk agan. Tapi siapa sangka Portugal mempunyai puteri-puteri yang berkeliaran di kota Sintra. Semua orang yang mengunjungi kota magis ini, terletak tidak terlalu jauh dari Lisbon, dapat melihat keindahannya. Istana Perrna, the Castelo dos Mouros (Kastil The Mouro), dan Palácio Nacional de Sintra (Istana Nasional Sintra) adalah tiga istana di kota itu yang sangat menakjubkan. Juga jangan lupa perhitungkan bahwa Pergunungan Sintra merupakan taman yang paling besar di Lisbon juga menambahkan pesona misterius kota ini

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Rapunzel

Grimm's Fairy Tale version - translated by Margaret Hunt - language modernized a bit by Leanne Guenther
Note: Rapunzel is an old nickname for a herb with leaves like lettuce and roots like a radish -- it is also called rampion.
There once lived a man and a woman who always wished for a child, but could not have one. These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen. The garden was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an witch, who had great power and was feared by all the world.
One day the woman was standing by the window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most tasty rapunzel. It looked so fresh and green that she longed for it and had the greatest desire to eat some. This desire increased every day. The woman knew that she could not get any of it and grew more pale and miserable each day.
Her husband was worried about her and asked "What is wrong my dear?"
"Ah," she replied, "if I can't eat some of the rapunzel from the garden behind our house I think I shall die."
The man, who loved her, thought, "Sooner than let my lovely wife die, I will bring her some of the rapunzel myself, no matter what the cost."
In the twilight of the evening, he climbed over the wall into the garden of the witch, hastily grabbed a handful of rapunzel and took it to his wife. She at once made herself a salad and ate it happily. She, however, liked it so much -- so very much, that the next day she longed for it three times as much as before. If he was to have any rest, her husband must once more descend into the garden. In the gloom of evening, therefore, he set out again; but when he had climbed over the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the witch standing before him.
"How dare you," she said with angry look, "sneak into my garden and steal my rapunzel like a thief? You shall suffer for this!"
"Ah," the frightened husband answered, "please have mercy, I had to have the rapunzel. My wife saw it from the window and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat."
Then the witch allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him, "If this is true, I will allow you to take as much as you like, only I make one condition. You must give me the baby daughter your wife will bring into the world; she shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother." The man in his fear consented and when the baby was born the witch appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel and took the baby away with her.
Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child beneath the sun. When she was twelve years old, the witch shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest. The tower had no stairs or doors, but only a little window at the very top. When the witch wanted to go in, she stood beneath the window and cried,

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair."

Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the witch she wound her braids round one of the hooks of the window, and then the hair fell down the side of the tower and the witch climbed up by it.
After a year or two, it came to pass that the Prince rode through the forest and went by the tower. He heard a song which was so lovely that he stood still and listened. This was Rapunzel who in her loneliness passed her time singing. The Prince wanted to climb up to her, and looked for the door of the tower, but none was to be found. He rode home, but the singing had so deeply touched his heart, that every day he went out into the forest and listened to it. Once when he was standing behind a tree listening to Rapunzel's song, he saw the witch come and heard how she cried,

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair."

Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her hair, and the witch climbed up to her.
"If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I will for once try my fortune," thought the Prince and the next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried,

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair."

Immediately the hair fell down and the Prince climbed up.
At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man such as her eyes had never seen, came to her; but the Prince began to talk to her quite like a friend and told her that his heart had been so stirred by her singing that it had let him have no rest. Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him for her husband -- and she saw that he was kind and handsome, she said yes, and laid her hand in his. She said, "I will willingly go away with you, but I do not know how to get down. Bring a bit of silk with you every time you come and I will weave a ladder with it. When that is ready I will climb down and we shall escape together." They agreed that until that time he should come to her every evening, for the old woman came by day.
The witch knew nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said in her distraction, "Oh my, you are so much heavier when you climb than the young Prince."
"Ah! you wicked child," cried the witch "What do I hear thee say! I thought I had separated you from all the world but you have deceived me."
In her anger she clutched Rapunzel's beautiful hair, seized a pair of scissors -- and snip, snap -- cut it all off. Rapunzel's lovely braids lay on the ground but the witch was not through. She was so angry that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.
The witch rushed back to the tower and fastened the braids of hair which she had cut off, to the hook of the window, and when the Prince came and cried,

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair,"

she let the hair down. The Prince climbed to the window, but he did not find his dearest Rapunzel above, but the witch, who gazed at him with a wicked and venomous look.
"Aha!" she cried mockingly, "You've come for Rapunzel but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it and will scratch out your eyes as well. Rapunzel is banished and you will never see her again!"
The Prince was beside himself and in his despair he fell down from the tower. He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell pierced his eyes. Then he wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries and did nothing but weep over the loss of his dearest Rapunzel.
In this way, the Prince roamed in misery for some months and at length came to the desert where the witch had banished Rapunzel. He heard a voice singing and it seemed so familiar to him that he went towards it. When he approached, Rapunzel knew him and fell into his arms and wept.
Two of her tears fell on his eyes and the Prince could see again. He led her to his kingdom where he was joyfully received, and they lived for a long time afterwards, happy and contented.