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Showing posts with label AS - ASIA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AS - ASIA. Show all posts
January 23, 2020

3383 TURKEY (Central Anatolia Region) - Mevlana Museum in Konya

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Located in Konya , the Mevlâna Museum is the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi , a Persian Sufi mystic also known as Mevlâna o...
January 20, 2020

3376 CAMBODIA - Royal Ploughing Ceremony

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The Royal Ploughing Ceremony is an ancient royal rite held in many Asian countries to mark the traditional beginning of the rice growi...
January 5, 2020

3337 MALAYSIA - A roadside hut selling durians and rambutans

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Named in some regions as the king of fruits, the durian is the fruit of several tree species belonging to the genus Durio. There are 9...
December 29, 2019

3314 MYANMAR (Sagaing Region) - Settawya Pagoda in Mingun

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Located on the west bank of Irrawaddy river , a mere 230 meters SE of the Mingun Pahtodawgyi , the Settawya Pagoda is a small, whitewa...
December 6, 2019

3286 INDONESIA - Gibran Rakabuming Raka and Selvi Ananda at their wedding

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Mayor of Surakarta from 2005 to 2012, and the Governor of Jakarta from 2012 to 2014, Joko Widodo (born Mulyono, 21 June 1961) becam...
November 30, 2019

3112, 3275 FRANCE (Saint Barthélemy) / THAILAND - A Thai spot in Gustavia

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3275 Posted on 16.07.2017, 30.11.2019 Located right in the heart of Gustavia , the main town and capital of the island of Saint Bar...
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January 5, 2018

1270, 3233 THAILAND - Thai Classical Dance

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1270 Thai Classical Dance Posted on 05.10.2014, 05.01.2018 The present Thai classical dance ( natasin ) probably developed during t...
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January 1, 2018

3231 VIETNAM (Red River Delta) - Hoàn Kiếm Lake in Hanoi

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Hoan Kiem Lake (meaning "Lake of the Returned Sword" or "Lake of the Restored Sword" ) is located in the historic...
November 18, 2017

3200 TAIWAN - National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine in Taipei

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The National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine , resting on the slopes of the Chingshan Mountain and overseeing the Keelung River , is ...
November 3, 2017

3188 VIETNAM (Red River Delta) - St. Joseph's Cathedral in Hanoi

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Located west of Hoàn Kiếm Lake , in a small square within the Old Quarter of Hanoi , St. Joseph's Cathedral is a late 19th-century...
October 23, 2017

3045, 3175 VIETNAM - Hmong people

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3045 A Hmong little girl with her bird Posted on 10.05.2017, 23.10.2017 The Hmong is an ethnic group from the mountainous regions o...
October 8, 2017

1061, 3164 CHINA (Guangdong / Guangxi / Guizhou / Hainan / Hubei / Hunan / Sichuan / Yunnan) - Miao people

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3164 Miao people Posted on 21.04.2014, 08.10.2017 Miao is an ethnic group who live primarily in southern China , in the provin...
September 30, 2017

3157 VIETNAM (South Central Coast) - A friendly smile from Hội An

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In almost the entire 20th century, Vietnam was the scene of military conflicts, not seldom atrocious. The more precious is the gentle ...
September 25, 2017

3156 PHILIPPINES (National Capital Region) - Feast of the Black Nazarene

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The Black Nazarene is a life-sized image of a dark-skinned, kneeling Jesus Christ carrying the Cross enshrined in the Minor Basilica ...
September 17, 2017

3152 VIETNAM (Red River Delta) - Millennial Anniversary of Hanoi

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Hanoi , the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city by population (7.7 million people in 2015). In 1010, Lý Thái ...
August 15, 2017

3124 THAILAND - Traditional Thai puppets

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The Thai puppetry dates back at least 300 years, the earliest recorded account of it being in 1685. Shows were often performed for the...
June 19, 2017

3093 CHINA (Yunnan) - Pumi people

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The Pumi people are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by China , ethnically related to the Tibetans , and recognized...
June 2, 2017

3075 VIETNAM (Mekong Delta) - Đồng Tháp girls with lotus flowers

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    Vietnam has a strong affinity with the water. Actually, Vietnamese civilization sprung out of the Red River delta and Mekong del...
May 31, 2017

3073 TURKEY (Central Anatolia Region) - Mevlevi Sema ceremony (UNESCO ICH)

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The Mevlevi is an ascetic Sufi order founded in 1273 by the followers of the Persian poet and Islamic theologian Jalal ad-Din Muham...
May 12, 2017

0109, 3049 VIETNAM (Mekong Delta) - Floating markets in Cần Thơ

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3049 Cái Răng floating market Posted on 27.01.2012, 12.05.2017 With an estimated population of 1,121,000 as of 2004, Cần Thơ is t...