The Largest Sundial in the World

January 5th 2007
We were really tired and down when we set off from towards Jaipur. The early mornings at Bharatpur had taken their toll, combined with feeling low about the state of the planet and to top it all Robin was suffering the effects of a dodgy samosa. Still we loaded up and set off anticipating the benefits of some cycling for our bodies and states of mind, unfortunately these never materialised. The ... read more

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Erika Bird and Robin Searle

Banchory to the Bosphorous by Bike

We are Erika and Robin from Scotland and in April 2005 we quit our jobs and set off to cycle from Scotland to İstanbul. We reached İstanbul in October 2005 having discovered that cycling truly is the best way to travel and so decided to keep going beyond the Bosphorous...... We had never cycled any long distance before but had been wanting to travel for a long time and had finally saved enough and realised ıf we didn't set off now we never would. We decided cycling would be the best form of transport as we wanted to learn more about the countries and people we passed through at a s... full info

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7th June 2010

Bryn Jones
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mono
I HAVE A MONO!!!!!! :L

15th June 2010

Lauren Reston
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:/
As if thats a sun dail lol. WOOOW

14th June 2014

Kosh
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The largest sundial of the world is located in Zaragoza (Spain)
Although the Jaipur astronomical compound is probably the best, most attractive and a very old site, the largest sundial of the world is located at Zaragoza (Spain) and it even holds the corresponding Guinness World Record for the largest Sundial.

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