8/9/2023 0 Comments Western oklahoma scenery![]() ![]() The Ouachita National Forest was incorporated into the national forest system in 1907. Fairview is home to the breathtaking Gloss Mountain State Park’s geological wonders.įrom the onset of the national efforts to preserve America’s natural beauty, Oklahoma has been recognized as a place worth saving. If you’re more into scenic views and rolling hills, the Ouachita Mountains of Southeastern Oklahoma’s Talimena State Park are for you. In northwestern Oklahoma, you can race buggies on the vast dunes of Little Sahara State Park. The Oklahoma State park system offers a vacation landscape more diverse than any other state. ![]() Through a state park system encompassing 50 parks, nine national wildlife refuges, one national recreation area and many privately owned nature reserves, Oklahoma’s beauty will be around for years to come. Preserving Oklahoma’s natural side has become of paramount importance to many of the state’s residents. ![]() Other than the two historic neighborhood the 1936-41G.C Italian expansion areas such as campo Greco, Addis Ketema ,Haftal Issa,Laga hare and No One need moderate protection.The unique terrain of Oklahoma has mystified and mesmerized visitors for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Thus the sharp contrast between this two historic urban quarters provide tourist with extraordinary experience unlike any other city in Ethiopia. Though this quarter has some form of urban planning it will not benefit from the CFE modern urban planning, unlike Gezira it has narrow street which is not always straight, house are closely packed not well aligned, building compound. The dominance of Arabs creates the overall setting that resembles an old Arabian urban fabric. A numbers of Secondary Street connected to three main axes meeting at three different nodes to form a sort of triangle. Partial view of Gezira in 1934 The old city of Magala(CONEIL,Amestegna,Kefira and Dechatu) has a network of twisting streets or criss-crossing alleyways, Arab and Indian style house with light white wall and a rain bow color. This quarter has greatly influenced by European architecture like French provincial style, French Renaissance style, Italian, Greek and Armenian architecture(Gezaw,2017). The railway company CFE (Chemendefer Franco Ethiopian) has had the mandate to inspect the constructions of all buildings in this quarter and planting trees in the garden were among the requirement expected of new building. The century old railway station and its installations, stores, workshops, many houses with yellow colors, shops, offices, and modern buildings are found in this quarter. It was carefully planned by the railway engineers having asphalt roads and well-aligned building, a drainage system and piped water. The quarters were separated from each other by the Dechatu dry river, the old city Magalla (indigenous, Arab and Indian quarter) is on the south bank of the river geographically it faces Middle East, while the new city Gezira (meaning island and plateau in Arabic) is on the north bank of the river facing Europe on the world map.The city of Dire Dawa, in the particulars Gezira quarter is the most European of all Ethiopian cities(mainly French, Greeks, Armenians and Italians) with its distinctive urban planning of straight and perpendicular street. The City has two unique urban quarters having practical and geographical coincidence. Skinner, who passed through the city in 1903 (soon after its establishment) at the head of an American delegation, called it “the Queen of the Desert”. Right after its establishment in 1902 Dire Dawa rapidly grew into a thriving small town. Nevertheless, the fact that it was built with support from powerful backers illustrates the growing enthusiasm for both historically themed tourism and the automobile as a way of experiencing it in Canada during the early interwar years. Plans to make the Memorial Fort into a tourist-oriented museum faltered due to the collapse of the land company that had pushed for it. The Memorial Fort was sponsored by the Canadian Pacific Railway and Hudson's Bay Company and was novel not only for using the past to draw tourists in a region where sublime mountain scenery was the staple attraction, but also for being intended to draw automobile-borne tourists to a region where railways had traditionally been the dominant mode of conveyance. Constructed in Invermere, British Columbia, in 1922, it was part of a larger campaign by a politically connected land development company to establish a tourist trade that would spur economic growth in an underdeveloped region. The David Thompson Memorial Fort was western Canada's first purpose-built historically themed tourist attraction. ![]()
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