Author: Andrew

Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park is a national park located in Melaky Region, northwest Madagascar.

The Tsingys are karstic plateaus in which groundwater has undercut the elevated uplands, and has gouged caverns and fissures into the limestone. Because of local conditions, the erosion is patterned vertically as well as horizontally. In several regions on western Madagascar, centering on this National Park and adjacent Nature Reserve, the superposition of vertical and horizontal erosion patterns has created dramatic “forests” of limestone needles.

The word tsingy is indigenous to the Malagasy language as a description of the karst badlands of Madagascar. The word can be translated into English as “where one cannot walk barefoot” or “walking on the tip of the feet” as in the hint.

Found the field of needles, without a haystack:

• Horvath György
• Lighthouse
• David Kozina
• Martin de Bock
• Phil Ower
• Paul Voestermans
• Eloy Cano
• Abcdefg Hijkl
• Walter_V_R
• Garfield

And after the hint:

• rob de wolff

Built in 1992, the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso has had a history of spilling over. This affects downstream areas in Burkina Faso and northern Ghana.

Money has been set aside by the Ghanaian government to build other dams downstream to capture the near-annual spillage that floods agricultural land and houses, but no dams have been built yet.

No Ferris Wheels here, but a dam:

• Lighthouse
• Paul Voestermans
• Walter_V_R
• Phil Ower
• Garfield
• Horváth György
• Martin de Bock
• Abcdefg Hijkl

This week’s contest was a visit to a country that we do not think has seen a WhereOnGoogleEarth contest: Asuncion, Paraguay.

The hill is topped with a monument to the chief of the Guaraní indigenous people of the area when the Spanish arrived. The hill provides views across Asuncion, the capital city of Paraguay.

Found in a new country in the game:

• hhgygy
• Lighthouse
• Walter_V_R
• Phil Ower
• Garfield
• Martin de Bock
• Paul Voestermans
• AVE.C@ES.AR

After the hint:

• Elisabeth Montes