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Bolo Haouz Mosque is a historical mosque in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Built in 1712, on the opposite side of the citadel of Ark in Registan district, it is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list along with the other parts of the historic city. It served as a Friday mosque during the time when the emir of Bukhara was being subjugated under the Bolshevik Russian rule in 1920s. Thin columns made of painted woods were added to the frontal part of the iwan (entrance) in 1917, additionally supporting the bulged roof of summer prayer room. The columns are decorated with colored muqarnas.
The mosque is rectangular shaped. The prayer room during the winter time is a room with four columns and several entrances. The 12-meter-high iwan, bordered by bulged roofs sustained with twenty wood columns, serves as a summer prayer room attached to the three sides of the winter hall. The wooden columns rest on concrete foundation.
The interior of the mosque is typical 18th-century Central Asian style. The small minaret was built in 1917.
Chrysanthemum is a plant that has been cultivated in China for millennia, currently in the world there are a large number of cultivated varieties. In Japan, one of the countries where this flower is much appreciated, chrysanthemum is seen as a symbol of the sun and the emperor, and there is even a national day of chrysanthemum, called the happiness festival, to celebrate it.
The thousands of existing cultivated varieties range from cultivars dwarfs about 30 cm high to plants about 1 m high.
Inflorescences vary widely in shape and colors, and can be classified, for example, such as simple, semidobrades, ball, pompom, anemone and spider. As for the color they can be yellow, white, pink, red and also intermediate tones between these colors.
Chrysanthemum flowers are edible, and are used to make tea in China and some Asian countries, but plants grown for ornamental purposes are generally inadequate for consumption as they may contain pesticides and other toxic substances.
From Asian origin this species has the scientific name of Chrysanthemum morifolium, sometimes also called Chrysanthemum hortorum and Chrysanthemum grandiflorum.
It grows better with temperatures between 15 ° C and 28 ° C, with high relative humidity, under direct sunlight or partial shadow with good light.
They are short -day plants, and flourish when days begin to decrease and nights increase in duration. Therefore they bloom in Autumn or Winter, depending on the region. In low latitude regions, they do not flourish naturally.
Kaziranga National Park
State Of Assam
India
The Asian or Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus) is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed in Southeast Asia from India in the west to Borneo in the east.
Three subspecies are recognized—Elephas maximus maximus from Sri Lanka, the Indian elephant or E. m. indicus from mainland Asia, and E. m. sumatranus from the island of Sumatra. Asian elephants are the largest living land animals in Asia.
Since 1986, E. maximus has been listed as endangered by IUCN as the population has declined by at least 50% over the last three generations, estimated to be 60–75 years. Asian elephants are primarily threatened by degradation, fragmentation and loss of habitat, and poaching. In 2003, the wild population was estimated at between 41,410 and 52,345 individuals.
Female captive elephants have lived beyond 60 years when kept in semi-natural surroundings, such as forest camps. In zoos, elephants die at a much younger age and are declining due to a low birth and high death rate.
The genus Elephas originated in Sub-Saharan Africa during the Pliocene, and ranged throughout Africa into southern Asia. The earliest indications of captive use of Asian elephants are engravings on seals of the Indus Valley civilization dated to the third millennium BC. – Wikipedia
PH-BQI, a Boeing 777-206ER, taxiing towards runway 06L at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario. It was departing as KLM692 (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V., operating as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) to Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
"Iguazu Falls" was wearing the special livery of KLM Asia. Unlike KLM's standard livery, this variant does not include the flags of The Netherlands or of the European Union, and the KLM logo lacks the Dutch royal crown.
Having seen the train down in Palu we drove (carefully down the hill haha) down to Beyhan station to find DE33 071 and DE24 356 still waiting with their mixed freight. A chat with the driver whilst the second man went to the local shop revealed what we assumed in that the train was headed for Tatvan. Beyhan is a small village in the Murat valley, located near to a fairly new dam. A key feature of the village that couldn't be missed off a photo is the local mosque. Quite an impressive building! It seems however that the station has some posts erected maybe for the planned electrification of the route? Not great at all if so!
Clicked at the Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary, this large wading bird in the Stork family is found mainly in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Their name is derived from the distinctive gap formed between the recurved lower and arched upper mandible of the beak in adult birds. The cutting edges of the mandible have a fine brush like structure that is thought to give them better grip on the shells of snails. The usual foraging habitats are inland wetlands and are only rarely seen along river banks and tidal flats. On agricultural landscapes, birds forage in crop fields, irrigation canals, and in seasonal marshes. Groups may forage together in close proximity in shallow water or marshy ground on which they may walk with a slow and steady gait. They feed mainly on large molluscs separating the shell from the body of the snail using the tip of their beak.
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taken around sunset from a small boat with a local fisherman as guide on the beautiful Ken River in Panna Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India
Just like its cousin, the African Openbill, the Asian Openbill is a medium-sized stork that has a large bill with a gap between the upper and lower mandible.
It is also called Asian Openbill Stork
anastomus oscitans
Indische gaper
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Walking Hong Kong at night is fun! Last October we went to the "monster building" in Quarry Bay on Hong Kong island after dinner, here seen in the back. It is an older apartment building arranged in a W-shape. Double decker trams run along the King's Road.
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Wikipedia: The Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) is a large varanid lizard native to South and Southeast Asia. It is one of the most common monitor lizards in Asia, ranging from coastal northeast India, Sri Lanka, mainland Southeast Asia to Indonesian islands where it lives close to water.
Conservation status: Least Concern
Held each November at the time of the Kartik Purnima full moon, Pushkar Camel Fair is one of India’s most highly-rated travel experiences, a spectacle on an epic scale, attracting camels, horses and cattle visited by over 400,000 people over a period of around fourteen days.
For visitors it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the colour, spectacle and carnival of one of the last great traditional melas, which brings livestock, farmers, traders and villagers from all over Rajasthan.