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China, Asia, Northeast Asia, Gansu, Play

Landscape of Matisi Grottoes

Matisi Grottoes (Chinese: 馬蹄寺石窟) is located in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County (肅南裕固族自治縣), Zhangye (張掖), Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. Matisi Grottoes cover about 100 square kilometers, the landscape around is beautiful and splendid.

Asia, SouthEast Asia, Vietnam, Play

Hoi An: Mansion and market

Hoi An (Chữ Nôm: 會安), formerly known as Fai-Fo or Faifoo, is a city in Vietnam's Quang Nam Province and is noted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999. Hoi An preserves many old buildings, such as Phung Hung Old House and Hoi An Central Market.

Asia, SouthEast Asia, Vietnam, Play

Hoi An: Japanese Covered Bridge

Hoi An (Chữ Nôm: 會安), formerly known as Fai-Fo or Faifoo, is a city in Vietnam's Quang Nam Province and is noted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999. Japanese Covered Bridge (Vietnamese: Cầu Nhật Bản) is one of the most iconic attractions in Hoi An and Vietnam.

China, Asia, Northeast Asia, Gansu, Play

Zhangye Geopark: Natural wonder

Zhangye National Geopark (Chinese: 張掖國家地質公園) is located in Linze (臨澤) counties within the prefecture-level city of Zhangye (張掖), Gansu (甘肅)Province, China. The core area of the park is Linze Danxia Scenic Area (臨澤丹霞景區).

China, Asia, Northeast Asia, Gansu, Play

Zhangye Geopark: Beauty everywhere

Zhangye National Geopark (Chinese: 張掖國家地質公園) is located in Linze (臨澤) counties within the prefecture-level city of Zhangye (張掖), Gansu (甘肅)Province, China. The park is the destination for many Chinese and international tourists due to its beautiful landscape.

Europe, Spain, Play

Cibeles Palace the white splendor

Cibeles Palace (Spanish: Palacio de Cibeles) formally known as Palacio de Comunicaciones (Palace of Communications), is a complex composed of two buildings with white facades and is located in one of the historical centres of Madrid, Spain.

China, Asia, Northeast Asia, Gansu, Play

Yueyaquan the spectacle of desert

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).

Oceania, New Zealand, Play

A blue lake named Pukaki

Lake Pukaki is located in the central South Island of New Zealand, occupying 169 square kilometers of a valley dammed by glacial debris. The lake is around 500 meters above sea level, receives its water from melting glaciers east of the Southern Alps.

China, Asia, Northeast Asia, Gansu, Play

Ghost Town in Dunhuang

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.

Asia, Northeast Asia, Play, Korea

Mysterious stone pagodas in Maisan

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.

Asia, Northeast Asia, Play, Korea

Autumn breeze in Maisan

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.

China, Asia, Northeast Asia, Gansu, Play

Yumen Pass: Gate of the Silk Road

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.

China, Asia, Traffic, Northeast Asia, Gansu, Play

Midnight express of Hexi Corridor

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.

Bhutan, Asia, South Asia, Play

Memorial of a good king

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.

Bhutan, Asia, South Asia, Play

Rinpung Dzong: Unity of Buddhism and state

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.

Bhutan, Asia, South Asia, Play

Rinpung Dzong the treasure of Paro

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.

China, Asia, Northeast Asia, Gansu, Play

Bingling Temple the thousand Buddha

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.

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