Yueyaquan (Chinese: 月牙泉) is a crescent-shaped lake located at 5 kilometers south of the city of Dunhuang (敦煌) in Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. The lake had several names in the past, it was named Yueyaquan in the Qing (清) Dynasty (17th century).
Singing Sand Dunes (Chinese: 鳴沙山) are the sand dunes located in Mogao (莫高) Town, Dunhuang (敦煌) City, Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. When the wind blows, the sands give out a singing or drumming sound.
Mogao Caves (Chinese: 莫高窟), also known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes (千佛洞), is located 25 kilometers southeast of the city center of Dunhuang (敦煌), Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. The caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of 1,000 years.
Dunhuang Yardang National Geopark (Chinese: 敦煌雅丹國家地質公園), also dubbed Ghost Town (魔鬼城), is a national park in Dunhuang (敦煌), Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. The geopark is located about 180 kilometers northwest of Dunhuang's town center.
The Great Wall relic of Han Dynasty (Chinese: 漢代長城遺址) is located 5 kilometers west of Yumenguan (玉門關), Dunhuang (敦煌), Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. The relic has almost 2,000 years of history but is still well preserved.
Tapsa (Korean: 탑사) is a small Korean Buddhist Temple complex found in the Maisan (마이산), a mountain in Jeollabuk-do, (전라북도), South Korea. Tapsa literally means ‘Pagoda Temple’ in Korean, which has around 80 stone pagodas.
Maisan (Korean: 마이산) is a mountain in Jeollabuk-do, (전라북도), South Korea. Maisan has an elevation of 686 metres, its name means ‘Horse Ears Mountain’, which refers to two extraordinary rocky peaks as they appear from the town of Jinan.
Yumen Pass (Chinese: 玉門關), also Jade Gate or Pass of the Jade Gate, is located around 90 kilometers west of Dunhuang (敦煌), Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. During the Han (漢) dynasty (202 BC - AD 220), this was a pass through which the Silk Road passed.
Dunhuang (Chinese: 敦煌) is a county-level city in Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. Dunhuang was a major stop on the ancient Silk Road and is best known for the nearby Mogao Caves (莫高窟). Besides their abundant cultural relics, don’t miss the delicacies in Dunhuang.
Hexi Corridor (Chinese: 河西走廊), also known as Gansu Corridor (甘肅走廊), is an important historical region located in the modern western Gansu (甘肅) province of China, referring to a narrow stretch of traversable and relatively arable plain west of the Yellow River.
National Memorial Chorten (Dzongkha: དགོངས་རྫོགས་མཆོད་རྟེན།) also known as the Thimphu Chorten, is a stupa located at Thimphu (ཐིམ་ཕུ), Bhutan. The stupa was built in 1974 to honor the third Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་ འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་) and dedicated to World Peace.
Rinpung Dzong (Dzongkha: སྤ་རོ་རིན་སྤུང་རྫོང) is a large dzong of the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school in Paro District (སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག), Bhutan. Rinpung Dzong was built in the 15th century, it has been a unity of monastery, fortress and government office since then.
Rinpung Dzong (Dzongkha: སྤ་རོ་རིན་སྤུང་རྫོང) is a large dzong of the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school in Paro District (སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག), Bhutan. It houses the district Monastic Body and government administrative offices of Paro Dzongkhag.
Bingling Temple (Chinese: 炳靈寺) is located in Yongjing County of Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture (臨夏回族自治州) in Gansu (甘肅) province, China. ‘Bingling’ in Tibetan means ‘Thousand Buddha’, so Bingling Temple Grottoes are also called Thousand-Buddha Caves.
Bingling Temple (Chinese: 炳靈寺) is a series of grottoes filled with Buddhist sculpture carved into natural caves and caverns in a canyon along the Yellow River, it is located in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture (臨夏回族自治州) in Gansu (甘肅) province, China.
Liujiaxia Reservoir (Chinese: 劉家峽水庫) is located at Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture (臨夏回族自治區), Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. The reservoir formed by the dam is the largest body of water within the province, which is about 70 km from the provincial capital Lanzhou (蘭州).
Kurazukuri District (Japanese: 蔵造りの町並み) or Kurazukuri no Machinami is located in Kawagoe (川越) City, Saitama (埼玉) Prefecture, Japan. Kurazukuri District provides a nostalgic scene from the Edo Period (江戶時代).
Kawagoe (Japanese: 川越市) is a city in Saitama (埼玉) Prefecture, Japan. The city prospered as a commercial and transshipment center, It is known locally as ‘Little Edo’ (小江戸) after the old name for Tokyo, due to its many historic buildings built in the Edo period.
Mudan (Chinese: 牡丹) is a name used for a group of cultivars of tree peonies that are the result of hybridisation with species exclusively belonging to the subsection Vaginatae. Choumeizai has visited a Mudan garden in Xian of Shaanxi Province in China, the Mudans there are incredibly beautiful.
Kashiya Yokocho (Japanese: 菓子屋横丁) is a shopping street in Kawagoe (川越) City, Saitama (琦玉) Prefecture, Japan. Confectionery stores including penny candy stores flank both sides of the street, a place which can arouse your memory of childhood.
