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Extreme Puzzling

Right, these three photos together make up my entry for the Mind Candy "Perplex City Extreme Puzzling competition".

I'm not at all sure what extreme puzzling is, and so I've no idea whether these count. However, it's the most extreme thing I'm likely to do in time for the competition (and quite possibly, ever). I'm just not an extreme kind of person.

A bit by way of explanation: The photos were all taken whilst I was in a hot air balloon, drifting somewhere near Uchisar in Cappadocia (in the middle of Turkey), and watching the sunrise. So I suppose if speed is a factor in extreme puzzling, this probably doesn't count. If altitude, the (slight?) possibility of danger, and originality are factors, then I may be in with a chance.

Even if it doesn't count as extreme, I thought it was fairly cool, and the photos are quite pretty (especially the first, sunrisey one). The second photo shows some of the other balloons that were up that morning. The third picture is trying to demonstrate that I was indeed in the balloon, and not just standing on some hill somewhere, or in a plane or something.