Three Cards From Three Countries

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                                                                      GLORY TO UKRAINE

                                                                      

I mentioned last time that I had lots of postcards on hand  and that's a good time. Canada Post workers here in Canada have been on a nationwide strike since last Friday. So, no mail coining to Canada, no mail leaving Canada and no mail or postcards getting delivered in the country. It is what it is .

My first card for this time is from Guatemala. Here's a local resident of the country with a fantastic hat. 

The card is from Diego, a relatively new reader of my blog. He used 3 stamps on his card, all of which were issued in 2020. The left stamp is 1 of 4 issued highlighting UPAEP, an educational institution in Mexico. The other 2 stamps are from a set of 5 showing Orchids. 

    

Card 2 for today is from Islamabad , Pakistan. David's card show us the Faisal Masjid mosque, opened in 1986. It is the 5th largest masque in the world and shaped like a Bedouin tent. 

 

David used 4 copies of a special stamp issued on the special directive of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. It is a commemorative marking the 77th Independence Day of Pakistan. It bears the image of Javelin throwing Gold Medalist Arshad Nadeem.  It was issued this year.

Here's the last card for this time. It arrived from Sri Lanka. It shows us Sigiriya, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982. Sigiriya is an ancient rock fortress located in the northern district of the central province of the country. It is dominated by a massive column of granite approximately 180 m high. The gardens of Sigiriya are among the oldest landscaped gardens in the world. 

Ravindra used 3 stamps here. The left stamp was issued in 2021 and is 1 of 10 showing Gemstones. The top stamp on the right is from 2013 and celebrates the Pada Yatra Peace March. The bottom right stamp is from this year and commemorates the 150th Anniversary of the Sri Lanka Law College.

 

So ends another update of GemsWorldPostcards. Thanks to Ravindra, David and Diego for thee great cards and stamps.