Here’s a good review of Lumbini Garden, Nepal.
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The Lumbini Garden was the Buddha’s birthplace. In Sanskrit, Lumbini means ‘the lovely’. It was the family home of his mother, Mayadevi, and she returned here from Kapilavastu (25 km east of Lumbini) to give birth to Siddhartha Gautama, later the Buddha (‘Enlightened One’). The site was described by the Chinese pilgrim Fa Xian and re-discovered in 1896. In 1997 it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and there is a master plan for a monastic zone by the famous Japanese modernist architect Kenzo Tange. Like the same designer’s plan for the Peace Park in Hiroshima, it seems to have been inspired by the Neo-Baroque. There is a long avenue and a circular canal. But the sacred pool remains a place of exceptional calm.
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Here’s some great information on the Kaho Yai National Park in Thailand near Bangkok.
 Khao Yai National Park is located about 2 1/2 hours north of Bangkok and is one of Thailand’s best national parks. Established in 1962, it was Thailand’s first national park and is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. |
| I had always heard great things about the park but, despite living in Thailand for a few years, had never managed to get there. When I played tour guide a few weeks ago to a friend from Boston, I used that as my excuse to finally make it to there. I can’t believe it took me so long. The park is truly amazing- beautiful, empty, filled with lush flora and fauna, and even a few wild Elephants. |
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Here’s some great information on Meteora, Greece.
The Greek word Meteora means “suspended in the air”, and our
words meteorite and
meteorology come from the same root.
The conglomerate rock at Meteora, Greece, has eroded into
fantastic
peaks upon which medieval monks built monasteries, several of which are
still active. The isolated monasteries of Meteora helped keep alive
Greek
Orthodox religious traditions and Hellenic culture during the turbulent
Middle Ages and Ottoman Turk
occupation of Greece (1453-1829). In 1988, UNESCO declared Meteora to
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Here’s a cool ancient city that might be worth visiting next time you are in Spain.
| The City of Petra was hidden in the mountains of Jordan for thousands of years when a young Swiss explorer Johan Ludwig Burckhardt rediscovered it in 1812.Temples, tombs, monasteries and other buildings are all carved out of the sandstone cliffs, which also gives it the name the “rose red city.” UNESCO has described it as “one of the most precious cultural properties of man’s cultural heritage.” |
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Here’s a cool video of Meteora, Greece.
According to Wikipedia:
The Metéora (Greek: Μετέωρα, “suspended rocks”, “suspended in the air” or “in the heavens above”) is one of the largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Kalambaka, Greece and is second only to Mount Athos.[1] The monasteries are built on natural sandstone rock pillars, at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly near the Peneios river and Pindus Mountains, in central Greece. The Metéora is home to six monasteries and is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Metéora’s criteria [2] for the UNESCO World Heritage Site are I, II, IV, V and VII.
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