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The East Mebon is a 10th Century temple at Angkor, Cambodia. It stands on what was an artificial island at the center of the now dry East Baray reservoir. The temple was only accessible by boat. The level where the grass is now was all filled with water up to that first platform, about 15 feet high. The columns in the foreground and to the right supported landings where visitors docked their boats.
The sculpture at the East Mebon is varied and exceptional, including two-meter-high free-standing stone elephants at corners of the first and second tiers.
Over 1444 marble pillars, carved in gorgeous detail, support this renowned Jain temple in Ranakpur, Rajasthan, India. Each pillar is uniquely designed and carved so no two pillars are the same. It is also said that it is impossible to count the pillars.
The naga is a deity or class of entities or beings taking the form of a great snake - specifically the King Cobra. A gem in any museum in the world, this naga was just lurking among the stone ruins at Beng Mealea, a temple in the Angkor Wat style located 77 km from Siem Reap, on the ancient royal highway to Preah Khan Kompong Svay.
For years Beng Mealea was difficult to reach, but a road recently built to the temple complex of Koh Ker passes Beng Mealea so more visitors are coming to the site.
A good date is when you are oblivious even as a bunch of people with horn instruments are walking down the street in their underwear.
The Marais, Paris, France.
A homeless man stops for a temporary interior shelter from the rain at Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo, Japan
This shop is about knee high off the ground and is big enough for the proprietor sitting at his table ready to prepare Paan or Beeda, a preparation combining betel leaf with areca nut widely consumed throughout South Asia, Southeast Asia. It is chewed for its stimulant and psychoactive effects. In the alleys of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Bakong is the first temple mountain of sandstone constructed by rulers of the Khmer empire at Angkor near modern Siem Reap in Cambodia. In the final decades of the 9th century AD, it served as the official state temple of King Indravarman I in the ancient city of Hariharalaya, located in an area that today is called Roluos.
Ghats in Varanasi are riverfront steps leading to the banks of the River Ganges. Some steps are more colorful than others. Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
This corner house is going through a renovation. The removed stone blocks stacked at the base of the house have been replaced by decorative carved sandstone. It is perceived as a symbol of wealth just like from centuries past. Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India.
Jaisalmer Fort is situated in the city of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. It is one of the very few (perhaps the only) “living forts” in the world, as nearly one fourth of the old city's population still resides within the fort. Many rooftops near the edges of the fort are turned into cafes and restaurants to cater to the tourist trade. For the better part of its 800-year history, the fort was the city of Jaisalmer. The city was also at the crossroads of important trade routes, including the nearly mythical Silk Road.
Fiat Automobili Srbija, previously known as Zastava Automobiles, is an automobile manufacturing company based in the city of Kragujevac, Serbia. This one was found on the streets of Paris, France
Part of a very large scale model for the exhibit The Great Train Story at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
This part of the model is about the Chicago "L". The oldest sections of the elevated train started operations in 1892, making it the second-oldest rapid transit system in the Americas, after New York City's elevated lines.
The "L" has been credited with fostering the growth of Chicago's dense city core that is one of the city's distinguishing features. It consists of eight rapid transit lines laid out in a spoke–hub distribution paradigm focusing transit towards the Loop.
Residential units with porticoes that provide shade in the hot climate in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India.
The landscape of the highlands, near the town of Yuncaypata, about a 30 minute bus ride up from Cusco.
The Poilo Brass Band performed at the grand opening of an underwear store in the Marais, Paris, France.
Probably the best motorized way to quickly get around Paris. These are parked on the narrow cobbled street in Les Abbesses, Montmartre, Paris.
The Dhammayazika Pagoda Temple lies in the plains of Bagan, Myanmar, where there still remains about 2000 temples & pagodas. Completed in 1198, it took only two years to build despite its massive size, and consumed around 6 million bricks. After centuries of neglect and decay, the temple was finally renovated in the 80's.
Bagan lies in the middle of the "dry zone" of Burma getting very little precipitation as it is sheltered from the rain by the Rakhine Yoma mountain range. While we were there though, it rained almost continuously for 2 days, bringing out the beautiful colors of the landscape, vegetation and architecture.