IMAGES OF ASIA
Sapporo snow and ice festival, Japan
Kinkaku-ji Temple, (gold temple) Kyoto
Imperial Palace, Tokyo Ginza, Tokyo
Meiji Shrine, Tokyo
Chiang Mai – Wat and Hill tribe woman
WAT PHRA Bangkok Temple of the Emerald Buddha
Wat Pho Bangkok
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Golden Budda, Wat Pho, Bangkok
Wat Pho - the oldest and largest Wat in Bangkok.
WAT PHRA SI SANPHET, AYUTTHAYA Ayutthaya served as the capital of Thailand for 417 years from 1350AD to 1767AD, and now serves as a World Heritage site. The area around these ruins has served as: a royal palace; a monastic temple; pagodas (chedis) for royal remains; a royal chapel and halls of worship.
Grand Palace Bangkok
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Terracotta Soldiers, Xian, China
Forbiden Palace, Beijing, China
Tiananmen Square, Beijing
Angkor Wat Cambodia
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Halong Bay, Vietnam
History of the Silk Road The Silk Road opens The route from China to the west was opened around 200 BC, but the golden age of the Silk Road was not until around 600 AD, which coincided with the Tang dynasty in China. During 1200 AD there was a resurgence of the Silk Road trade. This was shortlived, because of the ravages of Ghengis Khan and Timur the Great, the development of maritime trade routes, and the increasing desertification of eastern Central Asia, which had made travel by caravan more and more perilous. The end of the Silk Road With the establishment of the Ming dynasty in China came the end of the silk trade along the Silk Road. However, the interchange between oasis towns along the Silk Road has continued to some extent. The Karakoram Highway Today's equivalent of the Silk Road is the Karakoram Highway, which was built by China and Pakistan and runs from Islamabad to Kashgar. The main difference, however, is that instead of camels carrying bales of silk the traffic consists of trucks carrying oil.
Registan Square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Taj Mahal, Agra,India
Pink Palace, Jaipur, India
Krak de Chevalier, Syria
Petra, Jordan
Dead Sea
Wailing Wall, Jerusalem
Cappadocia, Turkey
Troglodyte rock formations in Cappadocia, Turkey