In the sunny afternoon on July 14th, I flied from Vienna to Poland’s capital, Warsaw, and stayed in the Warsaw SAS hotel. In the sunny morning the next day I visited the oldest church in Warsaw (Church of the Virgin Mary, established in 1308) and the Newtown Square. On the way from the Newtown Square [...]
40 countries’ cleverly getting a visa is open to the public. The Golden Week of the National Day is coming and a lot of people want to travel abroad as usual in the autumn tourist season, to experience an exotic mosaic. However, because the foreign embassies and consulates in China are only set in Beijing, [...]
Vehicles can run on the bridge now, to protect the ancient bridge,the height of the vehicles is limited.
In the middle of the bridge is top blacked.And the stone beast has been damaged.
central hole of Yong Tong Bridge is 8.5 meters high,higher than any other holes,specifically for ships
Matteo Ricci,(1552.10.6--1610.5.11) Italian missionary .He is one of the pioneers who preached Catholicism in China.His cemetery is placed in Beijing,the capital of China.
In the floruit of Tang Dynasty,there are nearly 300 temples in all.So far,there are still 47,among which Foguang Temple and Nanchang Temple are the earliest existing wood structure building in China.Xiantong Temple,Tayuan Temple,Pusading,Shuxiang Temple and Luohou Temple are listed as five buddhistic places in Wutai.
Great White Pagoda in Tayuan Temple is the landmark building in [...]
Maori is the aborigines in New Zealand,they call this land Aotearoa,which means the hometown of white clouds.
greeting etiquette The way of greeting guests of Maori is very special.There is a kind of family way to greet guests.In the begining,it is quiet and men and women stand in a row at both [...]
If you wanna go to Dendare and Abydos,you should charter a bus from Luxor andescorted by police cars,and you must set off and return at certain time,no staying in the middle.So we can see the safety problem in Egypt.
Incomplete houses can be seen everywhere in Egypt,there is no exception in Abydos.Why?According to the Egyptian laws,so [...]
Recently three forest fire happened near the city of Kelowna, western Canadian province of British Columbia. The fire grew rapidly and 350 hectares of land has been burned, over 17000 people were forced to leave.
Kelowna is about 375 km east of Vancouver. The region had suffered from forest fires for many times in the history. [...]
There is a country, whose flag is so simple with only blue and white, but the blue is so unique and the white is so pure; they impress you and remind you of the blue Aegean Sea, white cliff houses, and the clear sky above the Mediterranean. People say France is a romantic country, but [...]
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Going to Los Angeles, it is a must to visit Disneyland. There are five Disney in the world, and the one in LA is the first. The other four are in Florida, Paris, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. There will be a sixth one in Shanghai, and I think it will be very popular. Disneyland is [...]
Dutch sabots are famous all around the world, but to the Dutch people sabots are not just crafts, but also are important and valuable; at least it’s true in the history. Land in Holland is too wet, and sabots are very suitable to function on such wet lands and they are hard to broken, thus [...]
Boston may be one of the few cities where you could travel without vehicles. That’s because most of the scenery can be reached in one or two stops by a trolly. MIT and Harvard are a bit further, but still in three or four stops distance. I expected America to be huge and orderless, and [...]
To enter the Grand Theater you have to go through the underground. The corridor in front of the gate has a glass roof, and the water around the huge egg stadium sways on the glass. There are a lot of visitors and most of them are nonlocal here. Ticket for an adult is 30 RMB, [...]
Palace of Arts in San Francisco used to be the parking lot of the army.
It was built in 1915 for Pacific World's Fair.It attracted 18 million tourists then,but after that it was cast aside.It has been used for the parking lot of the army for five years.Not until 1962 did the famous German-born Architect Maybeck [...]
Kashi is no doubt one of the most representative regions of Islamic culture. Due to geographical reasons, the mosque in Kashi Prefecture, retained more of the shape of the Arab Mosque, the local ethnic minorities is almost believe Islam. In towns, villages, mosque scattered everywhere. located in downtown Kashgar Id Doyle is China's largest mosque, [...]
In my childhood, I enjoy singing a children’s song, "the sea is my Homeland". This song has been with me gone through the whole childhood. While singing this song, I also imaged what the sea like. I live in a little town where there is no sea, only have river. But dreaming of going to [...]
