Many first time vistors to India crave to visit the legedary Taj Mahal and do so often as only a daytrip from New Delhi, ariving there at midday when sun is high and the grandeur of this remarkable site is diminished. It’s a shame as Taj must been seen at least twice, once in the […]
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In the remote parts of Central Sulawesi of the Indonesian archipelago, an-odd shaped island resembling a hunched-over letter “k”, under the Dutch known as Celebes, there can be found a saddle-roof style house type built on piles. Depicted on Dong Son drums as far back as 500BC-AD100, its origin suggests being of mainland Southeast Asia.
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Trekking in Eastern Nepal along the Arun River valley one can admire fascinating changes in house architecture as one progresses from the lower Himalaya toward the elevations where Arun breaches the High Himalaya on its way from Tibet to Nepal. One of the dominant Ancient Nepalese ethnic groups that populate the Nepal Midlands in this region
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Traveling in Finland, Sweden, Norway or Denmark one often comes across fine examples of Scandinavian design, especially architecture, that shows an incredible sense of style. Scandinavian architecture is a wonderful source of inspiration for house design in any environment. Scandinavia has always been a sour ce of great house design as the Nordic architects possess
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Pondering retirement in Panama? Only hour and half from Panama City, along the Pacific Coast, Vista Mar development posses a remarkable site up on a bluff overlooking a beach with grand vistas of the coastline in both directions. The elevated perspective adds to Vista Mar’s grandeur, but it’s not all that makes it stand out
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Guizhou is one of lesser-visited provinces of China. This is largely due to its remote mountainous character and bad roads, especially in its southeastern corner, where a number of fascinating ethnic minorities such as Bouyei, Sui, Hui, Zhuang, Miao and Dong are found. Although much of these ethnic groups live in poverty, Dong relatively prosper
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Ladakh is known as the Little Tibet. It is a cultural satellite of Tibet that is part of India and is in fact one of India’s most remote regions. Located in extreme northwestern corner of India, it lies in the rain shadow of the High Himalaya. Receiving only fraction of monsoonal rains but found in
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The Tibetan architecture of temples as well as houses is always manifested by solid structures no matter where they are found, whether in Central Tibet, in Sikkim or Bhutan and elsewhere in the eastern Himalayas, the Nepal Himalayas or in the far western reaches of Tibet including Ladakh. In the old Tibetan town of Zhongdian
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In import export business it’s popularly known as “Twenty-footer”; in the official jargon of international trade it’s referred to as TEU, a Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit. The length is 20-feet, the width 8-feet, the height 8.5 or 9.5 feet. The 20-footer has a brother twice the size, a 40-footer. Aside ports and industrial loading docks profusion
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