Archive for the ‘Asia’

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    Why You Should Visit Shanghai?
    Shanghai, the biggest city in china, is glamorous with multicultural flair. Its perfect blend of western customs and Chinese traditions and together they make a unique Shanghai culture, which makes any visitor’s stay a memorable experience. Except having ton of museums and temples to visit, every street and lanes are, sort of, open-air museum of different and attractive skyscrapers. But this city, which is perfect mixture of modernization and traditional culture, is overlooked by the other well-known city of China, Beijing. And if you also think except skyscrapers and modernization, there is nothing to see in Shanghai then, think again! Here are top ten reasons you to shanghai china places to visit: Once you step out of Shanghai airport, the first things that you will notice are pretty buildings, varying in size and designs.  [...]
    Posted at March 8th, 2010 at 12:03 am
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    Best and Cheap Vacation in Thailand
    One of the most, worst natural disasters happened in 2004, tsunami, is not forgotten by many people in Southeast Asia as many lost their family, houses and property. Nine point three magnitude earthquake in Indian Ocean cost approximately two lakh thirty thousand casualties, across fourteen countries and destruction of property. Difficult to believe but the realty was even difficult to accept! It has been five years to that disaster but still fresh in some countries. Thailand, mostly known as the golden land, because the land gives out some luster not because gold is hidden underground but be it rich fertile rice field or cool golden sandy beaches, the country has its own charisma to attract tourists from all over the country. After Tsunami if people might have visited Thailand, they would know the after effect of the Tsunami; debris  [...]
    Posted at February 19th, 2010 at 01:02 am
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    The Perahera Festival of Sri Lanka
    It’s August and I’m in the central Sri Lankan district of Kandy to witness an important event, guess what! No not a cricket match between Sri Lanka and Australia, but to experience the Buddhist festival of Perahera. The Perahera festival is the largest Buddhist festival in Asia and lasts for 12 days and nights.  The festival is held annually in the month of August.  In short the festival is all about traditional dancers, a procession of hundreds of elephants and fire artists throughout Kandy, but the centerpiece of the celebration is the Dalada Maligava or Temple of the Tooth.  This is the temple, where the last remaining piece of Buddha, his tooth is preserved.  Every year the festival is about parading this sacred treasure. History tells us the sacred tooth was bought to the country from India during the 4th century BC.   [...]
    Posted at February 9th, 2010 at 12:02 am
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    Top Unusual Places To Visit In Japan – Part V
    Fuji Five Lake: A splendid way to derive pleasure from the trip to Mount Fuji at a rather unhurried rate from a quaint, innate surrounding is to head to the Fuji Five Lake located at the northern base of the mountain or make a trip to Hakone. The Fuji Five Lake region is situated at the base of the Mount Fuji at a height of thousand meters above sea-level among the splendid wilderness of the Yamanashi Prefecture. One can enjoy varied activities like trekking, camping and catching fish. The Lake Kawaguchi is the easily reached in comparison to the other four lakes namely Yamanaka, Sai, Shoji and Motosu. Hakone, famed for its hot water springs, open-air activities, innate splendour and sights of the close by Mt.Fuji is hardly 100kms from Tokyo. Presently, several springs supply hot spring waters to the scores of baths and ryokan in  [...]
    Posted at September 15th, 2009 at 09:09 pm
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    Top Unusual Places To Visit In Japan – Part IV
    Fujisan (Mount Fuji): The quintessential symbol of Japan, the 3776 metres soaring Mount Fuji is Japan’s tallest, famous and highly sacrosanct mountain, a trip to which is bound to leave an everlasting imprint on one’s mind. This dormant volcano is located on the boundary involving Yamanashi and Shizuoka regions. The idyllic time to hike up this virtually flawlessly shaped volcano is during the official climbing season of July and August when the mountain is normally clear from snow, the weather conditions being rather placid and bearable, the public conveyance is easily accessible and the accommodation huts on the mountain are open. To avoid standing in spiralling queues, hikers might spare the mountain visit during the second week of August when the yearly Buddhist festival, Obon is held with grand pomp and honour to venerate  [...]
    Posted at September 14th, 2009 at 09:09 pm
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    Top Unusual Places To Visit In Japan – Part III
    Toyako or Lake Toya: Meander through a fiery volcano that spitted just 2000 years back followed by a trip to the close by active volcano that soared to its present height within a year during the Second World War. The Lake Toya comes under the Shikotsu-Toya National Park. The scenic lake presents one with a multitude of activities like fishing, trekking and a chance to do some camping. The Toyako region has amazing hot springs and a still exuding volcano, Mount Usu that was last seen erupting in 2000 taking the eruption tally to four in the past century. One can take the Usuzan Ropeway that leads one up in close proximity to the Mount Usu’s peak. The observation deck at the upper station proffers spectacular sights of the Lake Toya and the close by Showa Shinzen, a young volcano perched close to Usuzan. A small stroll away lays  [...]
    Posted at September 12th, 2009 at 10:09 am
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    Top Unusual Places To Visit In Japan – Part II
    Hokkaido: This rather sparsely populated northern island of Japan is an ideal place for adventure mongers with its wide-spanning volcanic sceneries emphasized by dense forests, mountains and lakes. One must visit the finest national parks out here, the Daisetsuzan for its amazing, unblemished wilderness. The widely famed Sapporo snow festival takes place in the initial part of the month of February in Hokkaido is great chance to view so uniquely carved sculptures. The east part of Hokkaido, Akan Kohan is the abode of the delightful ‘’, a form of rare algae which usually thrive at the base of the lakes, but float up to the surface to soak in the sun’s rays, making an illusion of beaming green hue all over. The Shiretoko National Park in Hokkaido is great place to experience the grand sights of the waterfalls cascading into an  [...]
    Posted at September 11th, 2009 at 10:09 am
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    Top Unusual Places To Visit In Japan – Part I
    Japan is a fascinating contrast of the old and the novel and has through its past perpetually imported cultural practices alongside holding on firmly to the festival celebrations, sports and religious convictions of the past. The outcome is an exhilarating array of activities that Japan has in its offing that leaves one spoiled for choices. However, there are a select few enlisted to make one’s trip worth-while. Awashima Shrine This shrine for women is located in Kada, close to Wakayama City in central Japan is famed for a mammoth assortment of dolls that are received from individuals that are incapable of abandoning their souls to the refuse heap on the crook. Here, dolls are believed to be substitutes used to implore for clemency and release. A majority of those that visit the shrine come for purifying their souls and invigorating  [...]
    Posted at September 9th, 2009 at 10:09 am
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    Splendour Beyond The Great Wall Of China – Part VI
    China is considered as a copious warehouse of Buddhist art that is unsurpassed worldwide. Built into a crag wall of the Echoing Sand Mountain that is 25 kilometres south-east of Dunhuang, Gansu Province, the Mogao Caves or Mogao Grottoes also known as the Thousand-Buddha Grottos is a hive of caves built between the fourth to the fourteenth centuries embodying the acme of Buddhist art and a rich treasure trove of Buddhist sutras, frescos and figurines. It is among the three famed rock grottos in China and stretches up to four levels high in the crag wall of the Mingsha hill. A total of 492 grottos in diverse sizes with more than two thousand colourful sculptures were built over a millennium. The vibrant murals are a perfect exemplar of art and mind’s eye, sodden with the best of the arts from primeval India, Greece and Iran.  [...]
    Posted at August 11th, 2009 at 08:08 pm
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    Splendour Beyond The Great wall Of China – Part V
    Considered a nugget amongst the magnificent sceneries in China, the 437 kilometres long Li River originates from the Cat Mountain flowing through the Guilin and Yangshuo as it winds its course like a blue ribbon passing through innumerable mountain peaks, tumbling waterfalls resembling a broad reeling picture that is bound to engage all the senses. Those who wish to unwind in the lap of nature far from the maddening hassles of urban life then the West Mountain and the Dian Chi Lake at the mountain’s base located in south-west Kunming, Yunnan are the ideal places to see. Undertake a trek up the West Mountain exploring the Longmen considered the largely picturesque spots found on the densely wooded West Mountain that overlooks the capacious Dian Chi Lake. The stunning solitary mountain of Lushan, located in south Jiujiang city in  [...]
    Posted at August 10th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
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