Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Kiyomizu-dera,japan


Kiyomizu-dera Temple is an ancient Buddhist temple, built in 798 and 10 times already damaged or burnt as a result of war or natural disaster. Behind the main temple there are temples Jishu-jinja is a god Perjodohan, and in front of the temple there are 2 stone which is often called the "stone blind" and "Stone Love fortune."

Perhaps it is reported by local residents with a close eye distance of 100 m we walk toward the stone blind with the eye or eyes and memejamkan up right in front of the stone blind, then our desire will be achieved. And to test the faithfulness of heart on the pair, we can try seer stone in love, I remain the same with memejamkan eye, but when the direction of our feet is not right to love or seer stones melenceng so far we still have the hearts of others.

Christ the Redeemer statue,Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.


Statue of Christ the Redeemer (Portuguese: Cristo Redentor) is a statue of Jesus Christ with the Art Deco style of architecture and the largest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The statue has a 38 meters high and located on the top of Corcovado Mountain is 710 m high in the Tijuca Forest National Park, overlooking the city.

The statue is the symbol of the Christians, and became a symbol of pride of the city. The hand of a statue that opens this many people viewed as a sign of the warmth of Brazil.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Carlsbad Cave, United States National Park


Carlsbad Cave National Park is a United States National Park that is located below the Guadalupe Mountains, located in the southeast corner of New Mexico, the United States to the nearest town in the Carlsbad, New Mexico. Natural labyrinth that lies under the land area has ± 189.26 km ². Cave that has 76 separate, and many surrounding areas that have not yet crawled.

Carlsbad cave has three levels down, an average of 750.9 feet (230.27 m) dam 1320 feet (400 m) below the surface. Regions terdalam found in the depth of 1565 feet (480 m) below the surface.

Palenque,Mexico


Palenque (BAAK 'in Modern Maya) is a Maya archaeological site near the Usumacinta River in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, located 130 km south of Ciudad del Carmen.

Haein Temple,South Korea


Haeinsa or Haein Temple (Temple of Reflection means Ocean Calm) is one of the main Buddhist temple of the sect Chogye in South Korea. Haeinsa a storage area of the Tripitaka Koreana, carved Buddha's holy book as many as 81,258 wooden printing blocks since 1398. [1]

Haeinsa is one of the "Temple of Three Permata" and symbolizes the Dharma or the teachings of the Buddha. Haeinsa located atop Mount Style in South Gyeongsang province. Until now this temple is still a place of teaching Buddhism and Seon flow into place biksu Seongcheol effect until the year 1993.

Haeinsa built in 802 BC during the Silla. Legend says it seems that two people biksu back from China, Suneung and successful cure of disease Ijeong wife of King Aejang of the kingdom of Silla [1]. As a reward will love the Buddha, he built this temple. Another story says, in the year 900 Choe Chi-won, a scientist wrote that Silla biksu Suneung and Ijeong successfully convince his mother to faint King Aejang embrace Buddhist religion and the mother was faint Haein help build the temple.

This temple complex, renovated several times in the 900-an, 1488, 1622, and 1644. Hirang, biksu head Haeinsa, received support from the King Taejo during the period he was in power. Haeinsa burned in 1817 and built the main page again in the year 1818. [1] In 1964, renovation of King Gwanghaegun found clothes that do renovations in the year 1622.

In the main shrine room, Daejeokkwangjeon (Page Agung Cahaya and silence), dedicated to Vairocana while most Buddhist temples in Korea Seokgamoni place in the main room.

Haeinsa temple carvings and libraries for "Tipitaka Koreana", added by UNESCO to the World Heritage List in 1995. Committee of UNESCO stated that the library building Tipitaka Koreana is very unique because no other history of the building is dedicated to preserve the special artifak and also because of the special technical architecture.

This temple also save some as a national treasure trove of wood carvings and Buddhist paintings, stone pagodas, and the lantern.

Schönbrunn Palace, wina


Schönbrunn Palace (Schloss Schönbrunn, the beautiful well ") in Vienna is one of the most important cultural monuments in Austria and since 1860-has become a major tourism in Vienna. Regional location of the palace was purchased by Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor in the year 1569. In 1996, UNESCO palace set this as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

BANGKOK PHUKET


In Phuket, a full day tour to visit Phang Nga Bay, to see the natural beauty of many islands with a strange form of erosion as a result of James Bond Island (the location where the film The Man with the Golden Gun) where there is a large stone hill like a swell out of the base of and sea level rise, Limestone Cave, Islets of Majoo Khao, Khao Chang and Khao Tapoo.

Then visit Wat Chalong Temple and the biggest temple in Phuket and the beautiful Promthep Cape coast with a very good.

Tour starts in the city of Bangkok to visit the Grand Palace that almost all the buildings in this Tuscan. The Grand Palace complex, surrounded by white walls along the 1900 meters. Area building, which was established this year 1782 reached 218,000 square meters. Dekorasinya depicts traditional Thai culture. When entering this place, we can see the giant statue that holds a weapon. Each building and the sculptures in this place looks unique.

In the north this complex, there is The Royal Monastery of the Emerald Buddha. This is the golden color of the house as a place for the Emerald Buddha statue. The statue is visible in a position to sit on the throne bersila colored golden traditional Thai style. There are three Emerald Buddha statue placed in the temple in turn in a year. Each statue placed based on the season is in progress, namely summer, monsoon and winter.

Vimarnmek Palace is a palace made of wood, and then resumed the Chao Praya River to witness the life of the people directly that Thailand needs to sell to buy a day-to-day on the boat that is known by the name Floating Market, view from a distance while the ambience of Thai King. You will not forget invited to visit Wat Arun or The Temple of Dawn is located in the Bangkok Yai district. This temple was founded Thai King, Rama II, the 18-th century.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Itsukushima shrine,japan


Itsukushima shrine (厳岛神社, Itsukushima jinja?) Is a Shinto shrine (jinja) located on the island of Itsukushima (Miyajima island), the city of Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Founded more than 1400 years ago, Itsukushima shrine is one of the site's cultural heritage UNESCO World Heritage Site of registered since 1996.

Some buildings are in the environment Itsukushima shrine and property inheritance owned Itsukushima shrine including silk Heike Pusaka Nōkyō registered as a Japanese national. Heike Nōkyō stored Itsukushima shrine is a tribute from the Taira clan in the year 1164.

In the first period, the island is the island of Itsukushima sacred that should not be any person entered, so that construction of the temple building similar pier, which was established in the bay islands Itsukushima.

Torii building the orange light that looks like a float in the middle of the sea is a characteristic of Itsukushima shrine as well as one of the goals of the most popular tourism in Japan. Torii to float on the sea during high tide, but can be reached on foot when the water.

At the time of sea water are receding, the beach around the building Torii is popular place for memunguti shell that can be eaten. At night, building temples and Torii wallow light from the lamp-light beam that is placed around the beach.

Torii scene building with the background of Mount Misen was one of the Three You Landscape in Japan together with the line in the sand beaches of the Gulf of Amanohashidate and Matsushima.

Inside the temple there are also environmental stage debut Noh.meji (Japanese:姫路城, Himeji-jo) is a palace located in the city of Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. According to the first division of the province of the age, the palace is located in the Harima-no-kuni, Shikito-gun, Himeji. Pesona beauty of the white stucco walls dominate the palace Himeji Castle has called another "white heron bird palace" (Japanese:白鹭城, Shirasagi-jo). Himeji Palace is one of the examples of architectural heritage palace from the beginning of the 17th century's most important.

Palace Himeji always escape from the danger of fire and war survivors from the fall of the palace in the hands of the enemy, so the main towers and buildings are still many other palace remaining. 8 Japanese government set the building, among others, the main tower, turret, and Watari-yagura which is in the palace complex as a state inheritance. In addition, the manifold building, with a total of 74 buildings in the palace complex (27 buildings Yagura / Watari-yagura, 15 of the gate, the building of the wall 32) set as an important cultural heritage.

Himeji Palace considered as belonging to the world cultural heritage which is very valuable, so that in 1993 UNESCO enter Himeji Castle to the list for World Heritage Site category heritage.

Seen from a distance with a beautiful palace walls white, Himeji Castle is often used as the location of the film with the background history of the era of Japan first. Palace are also often used as the location of the palace to palace-like Edo Castle.

Himeji Palace,Japanese


Himeji Palace (Japanese:姫路城, Himeji-jo) is a palace located in the city of Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. According to the first division of the province of the age, the palace is located in the Harima-no-kuni, Shikito-gun, Himeji. Pesona beauty of the white stucco walls dominate the palace Himeji Castle has called another "white heron bird palace" (Japanese:白鹭城, Shirasagi-jo). Himeji Palace is one of the examples of architectural heritage palace from the beginning of the 17th century's most important.

Palace Himeji always escape from the danger of fire and war survivors from the fall of the palace in the hands of the enemy, so the main towers and buildings are still many other palace remaining. 8 Japanese government set the building, among others, the main tower, turret, and Watari-yagura which is in the palace complex as a state inheritance. In addition, the manifold building, with a total of 74 buildings in the palace complex (27 buildings Yagura / Watari-yagura, 15 of the gate, the building of the wall 32) set as an important cultural heritage.

Himeji Palace considered as belonging to the world cultural heritage which is very valuable, so that in 1993 UNESCO enter Himeji Castle to the list for World Heritage Site category heritage.

Seen from a distance with a beautiful palace walls white, Himeji Castle is often used as the location of the film with the background history of the era of Japan first. Palace are also often used as the location of the palace to palace-like Edo Castle.

Village Historical Shirakawa-go and Gokayama,japan


Historic village of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama is one of the World Heritage Site located in Japan. The site is located in the river valley Shokawa (Shirakawa Village) on the border and Gifu Prefecture Toyama Prefecture in the Tokai-Hokuriku region, Honshu. Shirakawa-go (白川郷, "White River District") is located in the Village of Shirakawa in Gifu Prefecture. Gokayama (五箇山, "Five Mountain") located in the region divided between the Village Kamitaira and Taira Village in Nanto outside the city in Toyama Prefecture.

These villages are the traditional home gasshō-zukuri (合掌造り). Model home Gassho-zukuri, or "the construction of prayer" characterized the form of a sloping roof and the hands of people who are praying. Design house is very strong and has a unique roofing kekokohan who maintain the building because of this village will be covered a very thick snow during the winter. Home village of Shirakawa-go is very large, with 3 to 4 level under the roof which is very low, so the place is enough for one big family.