Guess the City

somewhere like Bukhara

not Uzbekistan tho, somewhere nearer mountains - Afghanistan, Pakistan?

http://i.imgur.com/9h7Zm6t.jpg

architecture looks like it should be somewhere in the post-Soviet group of nations?

I gave up and GIS'd this, very obscure

mmmm sort of

not ex cis

cheated too. steppe and mountains makes sense. v. much want to visit.

steppe and mountains = mongolia? i know the names of two cities there but i'm quite confident it's neither ulan baatar nor erdenet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khovd_%28city%29

yeah would not have found it. love this thread, every time i'm on it, i long for that wonderful tv/movie thing where i just say enhance and am finally able to read the license plates on cars or billboards to help me figure out whch city it is.

http://imgur.com/oPHypxn

this should work
http://i.imgur.com/oPHypxn.jpg?1

somewhere in xinjiang, kashgar?

not the right country

osh?

no
http://i.imgur.com/iZsAQUs.jpg?1

this last image isn't actually in the city, but it's nearby

Lhasa?

no. different country. here's a huge pic that should help in identifying the city.
http://i.imgur.com/XbHmQp3.jpg

leh

http://i.imgur.com/MX1Trsb.jpg

vaduz?

B O O O O M

i think

That's an interesting guess, Noodle. But it is incorrect.

Hint 1: It's in the Southern Hemisphere.

dharamsala?

India is in the Northern Hemisphere.

Hint 2:

http://i.imgur.com/ZbTrSpS.jpg

You can see a bit of the architecture and the people.

I'll give one last hint and if no one can guess it, I'll reveal the answer!

miami

the "buddhist thangkas" sign made me think it was somewhere in sikkim

southern hemisphere? i wanted to say somewhere in madagascar but the people don't really look malagasy. not in africa either i'd guess so south america, in the andes. is it in bolivia?

oh and that was for jibe

Can I go?

http://i.imgur.com/rasRxjv.jpg

ya, go ahead, cardamom.

One last, big hint for mine. Hint 3:

http://i.imgur.com/nYoYOmG.jpg

Traditional architecture

cardamon my pic was leh, crimsonhexagon got it right. but sikkim makes sense too.
crimhex, that last picture really has me stumped. hungarian and german(?) flags? southern hemisphere? googling with that (is that allowed?) gives me three places in peru: is it one of Oxapampa, Pozuzo or Villa Rica?

Yes.

http://cde.elcomercio.pe/66/ima/0/0/6/3/6/636142.jpg

"Welcome to Pozuzo. The only Austro-German colony in the world"

How Borgesian.

an Austro-German enclave in South America? who'd've thought it?

cardamon's looks very British

minaret makes me think Birmingham or something

not cos it's the only mosque in the UK but there's one in the Hagley Road area that's v. similar i think

Yeah if that's not Britain I'll be amazed (and I'd be surprised if it was Scotland tbh). Could easily be Leeds - the tower which I'm assuming is a minaret could easily be one of those Italianate Victorian jobs just south of the town centre.

Bradford was another thought yes

http://norwich.tab.co.uk/files/2012/10/1958700_4fdf5bbf.jpg

having images turned off at work kinda blew the gaff on that one

need more photos of that wetherspoons

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should have picked this one really, got a nice continental sheen to it:
http://www.tournorfolk.co.uk/norwich/norwichtomblandlatasca.jpg