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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 The removed stone blocks stacked at the base of the house have been replaced by decorative carved sandstone.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 Poilo Brass Band performed at the grand opening of an underwear store in the Marais, Paris, France.
The dragon's den beneath the gangways at the Cloud Forest Dome, Singapore.
Cloud Forest at Gardens by the Bay is one of Singapore’s most impressive attractions. This greenhouse-like glass dome is climate-controlled and has spiralling walkways surrounding the Cloud Forest mountain.
Singapore is a hot and humid country year-round, so a visit here is a great way to cool off. Temperatures inside Cloud Forest are kept low to replicate the moist, damp conditions found on misty tropical mountains from 900 to 2,700 meters above sea level, where dragons reside.
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.
Plants of all sorts looked happily at home in the Cloud Forest Dome, Singapore.
The Cloud Forest replicates the cool moist conditions found in tropical mountain regions between 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) and 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) above sea level, found in South-East Asia, Middle- and South America.
In the courtyard of Mandir Palace, one of the biggest Havelis, a historic mansion in Jaisalmer, also known as the Golden City of Rajasthan, India.
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 brings on Amtrak, coming around the bend into the picture. Founded in 1971 as a quasi-public corporation to operate many U.S. passenger rail services, it receives a combination of state and federal subsidies but is managed as a for-profit organization.
Amtrak serves more than 500 destinations in 46 states and three Canadian provinces, operating more than 300 trains daily over 21,400 miles (34,000 km) of track.
People throughout histoty have fallen in love with their weapons, making them extraordinarily beautiful, like these bows and arrow once used to defend the city fort in Jaisalmer. Rajasthan, India.
Many pagodas and temples were built at the top of the hilly landscape of Mrauk-U, Rakhine State, Myanmar. They were built from 1430 until 1785 and are remnants of the Mrauk-U Kingdom, the most important and powerful of the larger Rakhine (Arakanese) kingdom.
In 2017, an international commission urged Myanmar to nominate Mrauk U for UNESCO World Heritage Site status. The proposal is backed by Kofi Annan and archaeologists are now cataloguing and protecting the city's many sites in preparation for nomination.
The Sanskrit terms sādhu ("good man") and sādhvī ("good woman") refer to renouncers who have chosen to live lives apart from or on the edges of society to focus on their own spiritual practices. It is not meant to be an easy path. They generally walk or travel over distant places, homeless, visiting temples and pilgrimage centers as a part of their spiritual practice.
There are 4 to 5 million sadhus in India today and they are widely respected for their holiness. It is considered that the austere practices of the sadhus help to burn off their karma and that of the community at large. Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.