Bingling Si is located in Lanzhou, China.  The place is known for the architecturally marvelous Buddhist caves.  The carvings, frescoes and sculptures represent the best in Buddhist artwork and draw large crowds from around the world not just the Chinese. This is a complex of caves, into which Buddhist murals and statues have been carved out hundreds of years ago.  It is believed; the carvings started in 420 AD and continued till the 17th century.  Over the centuries, a number of erosions, earthquakes and looters have damaged many of the caves and the destroyed the artistic treasures inside the caves. Bingling is a translation of Tibeten and simply means `10,000 Buddhas.’  Presently, there are just fewer than 700 clay statues and around 900 sq m of carved murals in 183 caves. Each  [...]

The MuluCaves is Malaysia’s pride.  Theses caves are considered the most spectacular in the world.  Situated near the northern corner of Sarawak, the GunungMuluNational Parkis spread over a massive 52,000 of rain forest spread mainly over flat plains. Caves are listed under two main mountainous areas.  They are Api and Benarat caves. The caves under Api include Blacrock cave, Bridge cave, Cave of the Winds, Clearwater Cave, Cloud Cave, Cobra Cave, Good Luck cave, Green Cave, Hidden Valley cave etc.  The caves under Benarat caves include Benarat Caverns, Cobweb Cave and Moon cave. The talking points of this place are the Deer Cave and The Good Luck cave.  These caves grab all the attention and let’s take a brief look at both below. The Deer cave is a historic and wonderful  [...]

The prestigious China National Geography Magazine rates the Zhijin Cave, located in Zhijin County as “one of the top six most beautiful show china caves .”  The cave is located in the Bijie Prefecture of Guizhou Province and lies between the Sancha and Luchong rivers.  Both these rivers actually source the Wujiang River. Zhijin cave is popularly also known as Daji Cave, which in simple terms means Hit Rooster Cave.  The logic behind the name was, in the past young Miao girls and boys played shuttlecock here. This nature’s beauty is a dry cave and it is believed it lost its subterranean river a long time ago.  It is estimated the Cave collapsed 1.2 million years ago. The reasons for the collapse were erosion, corrosion, scouring and seepage, changes of flow volumes and formation  [...]

Beppu is a very popular hot spring destination of Japan.  Situated on the island of Kyushu, Beppu is Japan’s pride and it is estimated over a billion visitors pay visits to the spot annually.  Beppu also possesses the largest bath range types from mud baths, steam baths, hot sand baths to the usual hot water bath. Beppu can into existence 17th century.  It instantaneously became a famous spot because of the thousands of hot springs (pronounced onsen in Japanese).  These spots are considered scared. Besides enthralling visitors from around the world, Beppu ranks as the hot springs capital of Japan as it possesses the largest volume of hot water in the world besides Yellowstone.  Beppu has 2,849 springs and 9 types of water, a world record.  Additionally, Beppu is famous for some  [...]

The Gateway to the Himalayas, the Char Dham Yatra i.e. The Four Sacred Journey of Hindus ideally begins from Rishikesh. Rishikesh is a small pilgrimage town, 1745 ft above the sea level, in North India in state of Uttarakhand. Rishikesh has eternal beauty, imperial and divine and enhancing this place are temples, ashrams and saints where they do “Tapasya” and meditate which gives celestial aura to this small town. The place is mesmerized and blessed by the sacred river Ganges; it is where it comes down and then enters the northern plains. The place of natural splendor and spectacle of the River Ganges rushing through the Himalayan foothills is breathtaking and awesome sight. The temples dotting the bank and sacred rituals are being carried out on banks, its divine site. The place is  [...]

Nepal is a landlocked country in South Asia and highly diverse and beautiful country because of its range of geography, rich culture and follow of sacred religions. Highlight of the mountains of Nepal is Its Himalayas which is the Pillar of the Earth and The longest Pillar (the highest Peak) is the Sagarmatha actually known as Mount Everest and this is not the only but Nepal has eight of the world's ten highest mountains. Nepal side Himalayas us easy to climb and so people prefer to climb Mount Everest from Nepal. People is Nepal are gentle and welcoming, basically they are known as Gurkha’s and follow Hindu religion and also you will find Buddhist monks in minority. Nepal is mountainous country; with Himalayas it attracts thousands and thousands of trekkers, mountain climbers to its  [...]

Singapore does it need introduction? Do I really have to list down what is Singapore? I mean is it possible to really write in some words what is Singapore? I don’t think so! I can write some few words but will it accredit enough for what this city stands in the world for. Well to cut the long story short, I will just take a chapter of Singapore- its astonishing nightlife! (Am not going to tell you it’s the cleanest countries and don’t mess up anywhere you shall be fined, see did I tell you anything about it!) All the night owls and bats just dress up right and hoot to Singapore to have the extravagant night. The sun gets extinguished but lights don’t dim in Singapore but it gets bright and dazzling. As the night falls, Singapore emerges alive with energy, enigma, vigor,  [...]

The Bornean Orangutan, also labeled as Pongo pygmaeus, is a kind of orangutan local to the Borneo Island. In concert with the somewhat lesser Sumatran Orangutan, it feels right to the merely kind of huge apes’ local to Asia. The Bornean Orangutan has existence duration of almost 35 to 40 years in the natural surrounding; in incarceration it can be in this world for almost 60 years. An examination of untamed orangutans discovered that males are characteristically 75 kg, which range from 50 kg to 90 kg, and are 4 to 4.7 ft tall; moreover female’s average weight is 38.5 kg, which ranges from 30 kg to 50 kg, and are almost 3.3 to 4 ft tall. The Bornean Orangutan resides in tropical as well as subtropical damp broadleaf jungles in the lowlands of Borneo also the mountainous regions at  [...]

The tallest skyscraper namely the Burj Khalifa was opened on Monday, 4 January 2010 in Dubai. The inaugural ceremony of the building was accompanied by an amazing display of the multicolored fireworks. The total height of the building is around 828 meters which is almost half a mile. Initially known as Burj Dubai the building was later renamed to its current name Burj Khalifa as an honor to Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, head of the adjacent rich Abu Dhabi emirate. The burj dubai tower plans to have the highest swimming pool as well as mosque across the world. According to the plan the mosque would be placed on the 158th floor whereas the swimming pool would be placed on the 76th floor. Its sponsor expected the skyscraper to be a testimonial to the unlimited, can-do fortitude of  [...]

The only known relic left of Lord Buddha is his left upper canine tooth which is most sacred to all the Buddhist all over the world is uphold in The Temple of the Tooth which is located in Kandy in Sri Lanka. Once a upon a time… The legend, tells the story of how the tooth was taken from Lord Buddha when he was on his funeral pyre. It was the courage of Princess Hammamali, who hid the tooth in her hair and fled from her own country to Sri Lanka even when his father’s kingdom was being besieged. She took refuge in Sri Lanka in 313 AD. It is still much sought relic and there have been number of attempts to capture and destroy it. The tooth is object of reverence and has been enshrined with jeweled reliquaries. The saga of the tooth has been tale of chronic misshapenness, and this  [...]