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Asia, Japan, Northeast Asia, Play

Old pines in Kenroku-en

Kenroku-en (Japanese: 兼六園) is an old private garden located in Kanazawa (金澤) City, Ishikawa (石川) County, Japan. Kenroku-en is famous for its beauty in all seasons, containing roughly 8,750 trees and 183 species of plants in total, most of them are pines.

Asia, Northeast Asia, Play, Hong Kong

Pre-war fortress of Mount Davis

Mount Davis Fortress (Chinese: 摩星嶺炮台) is located on the top and the mountainside of Mount Davis, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The fortress was a military fortress during the Battle of Hong Kong, but now there is no military use, only ruins remain.

Asia, Northeast Asia, Play, Hong Kong

Mount Davis the Westernmost

Mount Davis (Chinese: 摩星嶺) is an area surrounding and including the westernmost hill on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Mount Davis is 269 meters tall, it is named after Sir John Francis Davis, who was the 2nd Governor of Hong Kong, from 1844 to 1848.

Latvia, Europe, Play

Love cave in Sigulda

Gutman's Cave (Latvian: Gūtmaņa ala) is located on the Gauja River in the National Park of Sigulda, Latvia. The cave is the widest and highest cave in the Baltic countries and also the oldest tourist attraction in Latvia, it started forming more than 10 000 years ago.

Latvia, Europe, Play

Sigulda’s medieval style

Sigulda is a town in the Vidzeme Region of Latvia, 53 kilometers from the capital city Riga. Sigulda is a popular tourist attraction in Latvia, Sigulda is on a picturesque stretch of the primeval Gauja river valley, which makes it one of the most popular tourist attractions in Latvia.

China, Asia, Sichuan, Northeast Asia, Play

Little friends of Wuxuhai

Wuxuhai (Chinese: 五須海) is located in the northern part of Jiulong (九龍) County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།), Sichuan (四川) Province, China. There is a Tibetan village here, and the locals living here are simple and honest.

China, Asia, Sichuan, Northeast Asia, Play

Wuxuhai: Forest of Usnea

Wuxuhai (Chinese: 五須海) is located in the northern part of Jiulong (九龍) County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།), Sichuan (四川) Province, China. Wuxuhai is surrounded by lush forest, the scenery is primitive and beautiful.

China, Asia, Sichuan, Northeast Asia, Play

Wuxuhai: Mirror of Fairy

Wuxuhai (Chinese: 五須海) is located in the northern part of Jiulong (九龍) County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།), Sichuan (四川) Province, China.Wu Xuhai is known for its beauty, dubbed as ‘Mirror of the Fairy’ by the locals.

Asia, Japan, Northeast Asia, Play

Morning of Shirakawago

Shirakawago (Japanese: 白川郷), literally means’White River Village’, is located in the village of Shirakawa in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Shirakawago is well known for its beautiful scenery, especially in the early morning, so it is good to stay there overnight.

Asia, Stay, Japan, Northeast Asia, Play

Homestay in Gasso-zukuri

Shirakawago (Japanese: 白川郷), literally means’White River Village’, is located in the village of Shirakawa in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Shirakawago is well known for its Gasso-zukuri (合掌造り), it is good if you can stay at least one night in such a traditional farmhouse.

Asia, Northeast Asia, Play, Hong Kong

Sunset of Lion Rock

Lion Rock (Chinese: 獅子山) is a mountain located in Sha Tin (沙田) District, Hong Kong. Lion Rock is 495 meters high, it lies between Kowloon and the New Territories, it is one of the most famous landmarks of Hong Kong, and also an ideal place to view the sunset.

Asia, Northeast Asia, Play, Hong Kong

From Wong Tai Sin to Lion Rock

Lion Rock (Chinese: 獅子山) is a mountain located in Sha Tin (沙田) District, Hong Kong. The mountain is 495 meters high, there are several routes to reach the peak of Lion Rock, the route from Wong Tai Sin (黃大仙) is amongst the most popular.

Asia, SouthEast Asia, Vietnam, Play

Tomb of Khải Định: Interior

Tomb of Khải Định (Vietnamese: Lăng Khải Định), officially Ứng Mausoleum (Ứng lăng), is located in Chau Chu mountain near Huế in Vietnam. It was built for Khải Định, the twelfth Emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty. Choumeizai will talk about the interior of the tomb here.

Asia, SouthEast Asia, Vietnam, Play

Tomb of Khải Định: Exterior

Tomb of Khải Định (Vietnamese: Lăng Khải Định), officially Ứng Mausoleum (Ứng lăng), is located in Chau Chu mountain near Huế in Vietnam. It was built for Khải Định, the twelfth Emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty. Choumeizai will talk about the exterior of the tomb here.

Asia, SouthEast Asia, Vietnam, Play

The pass of ocean and cloud

Hải Vân Pass (Vietnamese: Đèo Hải Vân), literally means ‘ocean cloud pass’ in Vietnamese, is an approximately 21 kilometers long mountain pass in central Vietnam. Its name refers to the mists that rise from the sea, reducing visibility.

China, Asia, Ningxia, Northeast Asia, Play

Tagong Temple the Buddha beloved

Tagong Temple (Chinese: 塔公寺) is located in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།) of western Sichuan (四川) in southwestern China. Tagong Monastery has a history of more than a thousand years and is one of the holy places for Tibetans in the Kangba area.

China, Asia, Sichuan, Northeast Asia, Play

Tagong Grassland the holy land

Tagong (Chinese: 塔公) Grassland, also known as Lhagang (Tibetan: ལྷ་སྒང་), is located in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།) of western Sichuan (四川) in southwestern China. It is located in the historical Kham region of eastern Tibet.

Asia, Northeast Asia, Play, Hong Kong

Tung Ping Chau: Cham Keng Chau

Tung Ping Chau (Chinese: 東平洲) is an offshore island located in the northeast corner of Hong Kong. The island has an area of 1.16 km², it is the most easterly point of the Hong Kong territory. Choumeizai will talk about Cham Keng Chau (斬頸洲) on Tung Ping Chau.

China, Asia, Sichuan, Northeast Asia, Play

Dangling: Feijiping

Dangling (Chinese: 黨嶺) is located in Danba (Tibetan: རོང་བྲག།) county, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།) in western Sichuan (四川) Province, China. Dangling is famous for the beauty of mountains and lakes, Choumeizai will talk about Feijiping (飛機坪).

China, Asia, Sichuan, Northeast Asia, Play

Tibetan Village of Jiarong people

Jiaju Tibetan Village (Chinese: 甲居藏寨) is located in Danba (Tibetan: རོང་བྲག།) county, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།) in western Sichuan (四川) Province, China. It was rated as the most beautiful village in China by Chinese National Geographic Magazine.

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