Tag: temple
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230 | Sky :: Bagan, Myanmar, 2014
Hazy morning sky with sunlight streaming through the fog. Basically the photo everyone needs to have when they are floating in an air balloon over Bagan 😛
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217 | Monkeys :: Bali, Indonesia, 2013
This little guy and his mom live at the peaceful monkey temple outside of Ubud. They have learned to play with the humans who will bring them food. I love his wrinkly face and beautiful eyes curiously staring at the world, and at the moment, me.
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216 | Monkeys :: Kathmandu, Nepal, 2014
I have so many photos of monkeys that I need at least a week to share them! This is one of my favorites, a monkey hanging out like it’s the king of the temple in Kathmandu, feasting on the left over snacks people discard (or maybe the monkey actually stole it… that could be a…
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093 | Faith :: Nikko, Japan, 2012
If you’ve ever been to Japan, you’ve probably seen these pieces of paper hanging on trees, racks, strings, you name it. I initially had the idea these were wishes people had written for themselves hoping to come true, only to find out later they are bad luck fortunes people want to leave at the shrine/temple.…
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090 | Faith :: Kathmandu, Nepal, 2014
Atop the hill of Swayambhu, Kathmandu, sits this golden stupa. The bottom part looks like a white mound, with a golden cube in the middle, and a cone on top. Upon first glance I was awed, and then the stupa kinda started to look like an abstract version of buddha in a funny elf hat. As…
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The Bling Bling Temple
Chiang Mai’s known for its ancient temples, many of them older than even the city itself (which is already 700+ years old!). We left on a sunny morning to visit the most famous of them all, Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep. It’s about an hour outside of the city by tuk-tuk, and the ride up the…
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Niko Nikko
Nikko is about 2 hours outside of Tokyo and known for the mausoleum and shrine of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who founded the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603. The 200 years for which his family ruled also became known as the Edo period, a time of great economic and intellectual development that ended with the Meiji Restoration and the…