There are 25 of us from my company in Goteborg. Yesterday, we all went on an one day picnic to a place called Dalsland in west sweden. It was around 3 hrs from Goteborg. We left by around 7 in morning and returned by around 11 at night. We went to a camping spot and had good fun there. We played cricket, football and some other games for a while. Enjoyed the lake, and many many other lovely picnic spots. Water water everywhere.
In the middle we stopped at a place where the ferry, train route and roads meet. It was very scenic. And best part was the ferry route. Actually the ferry comes from a low lying area to a place of higher altitude. But the stretch is narrow too. Hence huge powerful ferries cannot climb. They have come up with a neat idea. Picture this. Level 1, level 2 and level 3. Equate them with ground first and second floor. When the ferry reaches level 1, they close a gate. And then flood that area with water. Slowly the ferry rises along with water level and reaches level 2 
They repeat the same process and you reach level 3. And then the ferry goes farther. After that they release the water, and it is back to level 1,2 and 3 again Neat right?
It was a wonderful day. Just that am a bit stiff now after all the action :D. Will update the post sometime tomorrow with the links of the places I visited.
on 18 Jun 2006 at 9:00 pm # Anonymous
Incidentally, I saw about the same technique on Engineering Marverls on the History Channel sometime last week.
on 18 Jun 2006 at 10:23 pm # PisaasWithPizazz
Isn’t that how Suez canal or Panama Canal work ?
on 19 Jun 2006 at 10:29 am # Mukunth
Dalsland = Disneyland?
on 19 Jun 2006 at 12:16 pm # priya
Nice pics as usual..lovely sceneries!!
Aana oru photo la edho “nallavaru” nu comment kudutheenga.. aana andha pic la thedi paathen appdi yaarum kadaikaliye :-p
on 19 Jun 2006 at 12:22 pm # Jacky
There’s a canal boat ride in Mines Resort, Malaysia which operates the same way.
on 19 Jun 2006 at 5:55 pm # Karthik
The cheese burger looks yummy.. u should patent it and sell it to some company
on 19 Jun 2006 at 9:06 pm # Unmai
Same here in Chicago between chicago river and lake michigan.
on 20 Jun 2006 at 6:57 am # visithra
ohhh interesting
on 20 Jun 2006 at 6:33 pm # vinod
xcellent pictures prabhu.
on 23 Jun 2006 at 2:58 pm # smiley
good to know that, i was thinking panama canel was the only one operating on that technique
on 20 Jul 2006 at 6:32 am # Emma
Nice to read about my home region from a tourists point of view. I lived in Dalsland when I was a child and the place you´ve been visiting I recognice as”Håveruds akvedukt” in swedish. I´m glad you had a nice visit and it was particularly interesting to read your exitement over the ferry system, since we who live there sometimes “get blind” for what´s good and beautyful arround us. Welcome back!