Thursday, February 22, 2018

Spain's most beautiful places: CNN

The Alhambra palace, Granada: The Alhambra is a breathtaking fortress-palace in the ancient city of Granada, at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The fortress dates from 889 AD.

For detailed Report please visit: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/gallery/spain-beautiful-places/index.html

11 amazing places to visit in the Czech Republic: CNN

Prague: Nicknamed "the City of a Hundred Spires," Czech Republic's capital city is known for its beautiful Old Town, Gothic churches and its amazing variety of architectural styles.

For detailed Report please visit: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/czech-republic-places-to-visit/index.html

6 of Zanzibar's best islands: Luxury retreats and underwater adventures: CNN

Mnemba Island: Dubbed the "Millionaire's Island," &Beyond Mnemba Island is wrapped by an oval reef (often referred to as the Mnemba Atoll), which has been declared a marine conservation area. 

For detailed Report please visit: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/zanzibar-best-islands/index.html

Zanzibar: Located 35 kilometers from Tanzania's mainland, the largest island in an archipelago of dozens is 85 kilometers at its greatest length and 39 kilometers wide. 

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

13 best things to see and do in Qatar: CNN

Al Zubarah Fort: The archaeological remains of Al Zubara became Qatar's first World Heritage listed site in 2013.

For detailed report: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/qatar-things-to-do/index.html

The Land of 100 Castle: BBC


http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180221-the-magnificent-palaces-of-polands-lower-silesia


Saturday, February 17, 2018

25 World Monuments in Danger: CNN

Al-Hadba' Minaret, IraqIn June 2017, militants detonated explosives at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri and its famous leaning minaret. The mosque was constructed in 1172, and became one of the most iconic sites in Mosul’s Old City. The future of the site and possibility for post-conflict reconstruction remains uncertain.

For detailed Report please visit: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/lists/world-monuments-in-danger/

24 Best Spots in the Caribbean: CNN

Mangroves shelter the coastline in the Panamanian archipelago of Bocas del Toro,
where sea stars dot the calm waters of Starfish Beach.

For detailed Report please visit: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/north-america/caribbean-hot-spots/

Travel blogger tracks down real-life movie and TV locations: CNN

Fantasy meets reality: It occurred to her that matching the print to the real-life location would make a great photograph: "Three years ago, I thought it would be fun to try to align the image with its real background to mix up fantasy and reality in one picture," says David. Pictured here: Dubrovnik, Croatia -- "Game of Thrones."

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/travel-blogger-film-locations/index.html

Indonesian man kills 23-foot python after it bit his arm: Telegraph


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/04/indonesian-man-kills-giant-23-foot-python-mauled-arm/


সেরা আন্ডারওয়াটার ফটোগ্রাফার পুরষ্কার, ২০১৮: BBC


For detailed Report: http://www.bbc.com/bengali/news-43073548 

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Ruins of Tsaparang - capital of the Kingdom of Guge, Tibet

Tsaparang was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Guge in the Garuda Valley, through which the upper Sutlej River flows, in Ngari Prefecture (Western Tibet) near the border of Ladakh. It is 278 km south-southwest of Senggezangbo Town and 26 km west of the 11th-century monastery at Thöling, and not far west of Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar. The Tsaparang Dzong was located here. Nearby is the Bon monastery of Gurugem.

Tsaparang is a huge fortress perched on a pyramid-shaped rock rising about 500 to 600 feet (152 to 183 m) at the end of a long narrow spur. It contains numerous tunnels and caves that have been carved out of the rock. At its base was a village where the common people lived. Above them were two public temples - the Lhakhang Marpo (Red Chapel) and the Lhakhang Karpo (White Chapel), and quarters for the monks. Further up, ascending a twisting stone staircase in a tunnel, were the royal quarters, and at the very top, the summer palace.

TV Presenter and historian Michael Wood, in the "Shangri-La" episode of the BBC TV/PBS documentary series In Search of Myths and Heroes, suggested that Tsaparang was the historical origin of the legend of Shangri-La, and that its two great temples were once home to the kings of Guge in modern Tibet.

According to some accounts, Tsaparang was made the capital of a Kingdom of Guge by Namde Wosung, one of the sons of the Langdharma the anti-Buddhist king of Tibet 838-841 CE, after Langdharma was assassinated. The Tibetan Empire was then plunged into civil war and split into a number of independent kingdoms. Other accounts say that two of Langdharma's grandsons fled to Western Tibet about 919 CE. The eldest one, Nyima Gon, established himself at Purang and conquered a large area including Ladakh and parts of Spiti. After his death his kingdom was split up between his three sons into the kingdoms of Guge, Purang, and Maryul (= Ladakh). Guge controlled an ancient trading route between India and Tibet. It emerged in the region previously known as Zhangzhung and became an important regional power by the 10th century CE.

"In the 11th century, King Yeshe O, working with the famous Sanskrit translator, Rinchen Zangpo ('The Great Translator"), and the Indian master Atisha, reintroduced Buddhism to western Tibet. Soon Tsaparang, and Tholing, also made of mud brick, were built, along with other temples and monasteries. The influence of the Guge Kingdom, particularly the monastic center of Tholing, was felt from Kashmir to Assam."


Painting showing the story of the Conversion of the Householder Yasa, who became a mendicant
and was established as an Arhat, in the Red Temple in Tsparang, fifteenth century.

See the Super Blue Blood Moon From Around the World: National Geographic


https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2018/01/super-blue-blood-moon-supermoon-lunar-eclipse-spd/




See How Cities Across the World Light Up at Night: National Geographic

Singapore’s 250-acre Gardens by the Bay feature these “Supertrees,” vertical gardens laced with flora—and powered by solar energy. The city is a global leader in developing green space and parks to keep it livable for residents.

For detailed report please visit: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/urban-expeditions/green-buildings/cities-light-pollution-office-building-LED/

Yungbulakang Palace, Tibet


Yumbu Lakhang (Tibetan: ཡུམ་བུ་བླ་སྒང།Wylie: yum bu bla sgang) or Yumbu Lakhang (Tibetan: Wylie: yum bu bla mkhar, also known as Yumbu Lakhang) is an ancient structure in the Yarlung Valley in the vicinity of Tsetang, Nêdong County, the seat of Lhoka Prefecture, in the southern Tibet Autonomous Region of China. According to legend, it was the first building in Tibet and the palace of the first Tibetan king, Nyatri Tsenpo. Yumbu Lakhang stands on a hill on the eastern bank of the Yarlung River in the Yarlung Valley of southeast Nêdong County about 192 kilometres (119 mi) southeast of Lhasa and 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) south of Tsetang.


According to Bon traditions, Yumbu Lakhang was erected in the second century BCE for the first Tibetan king, Nyatri Tsenpo, who descended from the sky. During the reign of the 28th king, Thothori Nyantsen, in the fifth century CE, a golden stupa, a jewel (and/or a form to the manufacture of dough-Stupas) and a sutra that no one could read fell from the sky onto the roof of the Yumbu Lakhang; a voice from the sky announced, "In five generations one shall come that understands its meaning!" Later, Yumbu Lakhang became the summer palace of the 33rd Tibetan king, Songtsen Gampo (604-650 CE) and his Chinese princess, Wencheng. After Songtsen Gampo had transferred the seat of his temporal and spiritual authority to Lhasa, Yumbu Lakhang became a shrine.


A thousand years later, during the reign of the 5th Dalai Lama (1617-82), the palace was turned into a monastery for the Gelug school. The Yumbu Lakhang was heavily damaged and reduced to a single storey during the Cultural revolution but was reconstructed in 1983. As of November 2017 the palace is undergoing $1.5m of restoration works to reinforce its crumbling wooden foundations and cracked walls. It is expected to reopen to the public in April 2018. The castle is divided into front and rear precincts. The front is a three-storey building while the rear is dominated by a tall tower, like a castle. Enshrined at the palace are the statues of Thiesung Sangjie Buddha, King Niechi, the first King of Tibet, Songtsen Gampo and other Tubo kings. Source: Wikipedia











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The World's Most Romantic Adventures: National Geographic

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/lists/most-romantic-adventure-trips-world/

পোড়াদহ মেলায় ১০০ কেজি ওজনের বাঘাইড়: banglanews24


For detailed report please visit: http://www.banglanews24.com/national/news/bd/636678.details


Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Queen Elizabeth's Record-Breaking Reign in 15 Pictures: National Geographic

The queen has a special affection for Canada, which, unlike Australia, has shown no signs of the Republican sentiment that seeks to remove her as titular head of state. Here she is at age 33 with the Duke of Edinburgh in Ottawa, Ontario.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150909-queen-elizabeth-monarchy-record-pictures-photos-england/

Mrauk U, Myanmar

In the 17th century, Mrauk U was one of Asia's most important centres of trade

Mrauk U (Burmese: မြောက်‌ဦးမြို့; MLCTS: mrauk u: mrui., Burmese pronunciation: [mjaʊʔ ú mjo̰]; formerly known as Myohaung) is an archaeologically important town in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. It is also the capital of Mrauk-U Township, a sub region of the Mrauk-U District. From 1430 until 1785, it was the capital of the Mrauk U Kingdom, the most important and powerful Rakhine (Arakanese) kingdom.

Mrauk-U, or Arrakan (city of Arrakan), in the first plan of the Portuguese settlement of Daingri-pet. In Wouter Schouten : Oost-Indische Voyagie, t.o. p. 148. 1676

A dismissed myth was that in the region where Mrauk U was to be constructed, lived a lonely female monkey. She met a peacock and the two later cohabited. The female monkey conceived with the peacock, and it laid an egg. A human son was born from the egg and he grew up to become a mighty prince. The prince later built a city near the jungle, and in respect of his birth story, the city was called Myauk-U meaning ‘Monkey’s Egg’.

In 1433, King Min Saw Mon established Mrauk U as the capital of the last unified Arakanese Kingdom. The city eventually reached a size of 160,000 in the early seventeenth century. Mrauk U served as the capital of the Mrauk U kingdom and its 49 kings till the conquest of the kingdom by the Burmese Konbaung Dynasty in 1784. During British colonial rule, Mrauk U was known as Myohaung.

Mrauk U from Shwetaung pagoda

Koe-thaung Temple

Htukkanthein Temple

Ratana-pon

Andaw-thein Ordination Hall

Le-myet-hna Temple


This temple situated near the city of Mrauk U, 2km East, was built between 1553 and 1556 by King Dikkha, the son of King Min Bin when the Kingdom was prosperous ... The name Paya Koe Thaung , means 'Temple of 90,000 Buddha Images' Each little Stupa is representative of the Buddha's Image

Shite-thaung Temple

Photo Source: Wikipedia

কেপ টাউনের মতো আরো যে ৮টি শহর খাবার পানিশূন্য হয়ে যেতে পারে: BBC

ইস্তাম্বুলের শুকিয়ে যাওয়া হ্রদ
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সাও পাওলোর পানিশূন্য জলাধার

Mont Saint Michel


Le Mont Saint-Michel (pronounced [lə mɔ̃ sɛ̃ mi.ʃɛl]; Norman: Mont Saint Miché, English: Saint Michael's Mount) is an island commune in Normandy, France. It is located about one kilometre (0.6 miles) off the country's northwestern coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches and is 100 hectares (247 acres) in size. As of 2009, the island has a population of 44.

The island has held strategic fortifications since ancient times and since the 8th century AD has been the seat of the monastery from which it draws its name. The structural composition of the town exemplifies the feudal society that constructed it: on top, God, the abbey and monastery; below, the great halls; then stores and housing; and at the bottom, outside the walls, houses for fishermen and farmers.

The commune's position — on an island just 600 metres from land — made it accessible at low tide to the many pilgrims to its abbey, but defensible as an incoming tide stranded, drove off, or drowned would-be assailants. The Mont remained unconquered during the Hundred Years' War; a small garrison fended off a full attack by the English in 1433. The reverse benefits of its natural defence were not lost on Louis XI, who turned the Mont into a prison. Thereafter the abbey began to be used more regularly as a jail during the Ancien Régime.

One of France's most recognizable landmarks, visited by more than 3 million people each year, Mont Saint-Michel and its bay are on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. Over 60 buildings within the commune are protected in France as monuments historiques Source: Wikipedia















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