It was once the starting point of the Silk Road, and historic sites such as the Longmen Grottoes and White Horse Temple still draw huge visitor numbers. Perched on a hilltop above the Maltese ...

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as well as the White Horse temple in Louyang and many other Buddhist Temples in China. Whenever I went to these religious places, I like the others about me were very silent, as we sought to be ...

The temple, which literally means the White Horse temple was built under the reign of King Ly Thai To during the 1010s. The temple honors Long Do – the guardian deity of Thang Long capital and ...

Returning to Khuzhir in a UAZ, switching to a Korean-made bus, and traveling about 40 minutes along the Angara River leads to ...

One well-known ancient legend speaks of Nian, a hideous monster that feasted on human flesh on New Year’s Day. Because the beast feared the color red, loud noises and fire, people put up red paper ...

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This list only included regional sites known to them at that time, and these became known as the 7 wonders of the ancient world: the Temple of Zeus ... by camel or horse. There are many cultural ...