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With ten computer-controlled climate zones, the Princess of Wales Conservatory is a glassy labyrinth leading you through a series of fascinating ecosystems.
In our zone dedicated to carnivorous plants, you’ll discover the conditions that helped predatory species like Venus flytraps (Dionaea muscipula) or pitcher plants (Nepenthes) evolve to swallow their prey in less than half a second.
There’s a new surprise at every corner of this winding glasshouse. Take in spiky cacti and succulents as you travel through the dry tropics and emerge into the dense, steamy zones where tropical orchids and bright bromeliads come alive.
There’s plenty of beauty on display too. The celebrated giant waterlily Victoria amazonica floats in the wet tropical zone, where its spectacular white flowers open at sunset, filling the air with a strong perfume before they are pollinated and turn bright pink by the morning.
This Grade I listed building is the largest surviving Victorian glasshouse in the world.
It was built to display Kew’s temperate plant collection. These plants need to live under glass where the temperature stays above 10°C.
It is home to 1,500 temperate species from five continents and 16 islands. These are some of the world’s rarest and most threatened temperate plants.Designed by Decimus Burton, who also designed the Palm House for tropical plants
Opened in May 1863 but construction continued for 36 years
Built on a mound of gravel and sand, the spoil from Kew's Lake
127 bombs dropped on Kew during WWII caused structural damage to the Temperate House.
(January 2007) Unfortunately there is a reflection on the glass of the hall behind me but it adds to the creepiness. Intermingled with the creepiness was awe that this was the most lavish, ornate and detailed place I have ever seen and has to be one of the most ornate places in the world.
Nohi sightseeing bus tour to Shirakawa-go.
Gokayama Ainokura is an UNESCO World Heritage site consisting 20 gassho-style houses. Although smaller in scale as compared to the more famous Shirakawa-go, it is quieter and more peaceful.
Ku 16, Room B, The ceiling in this part of the burial chamber still retains some of the faded blue pigment of the sky between the stars. The stars here are noticeably larger than in the antechamber. (Hand-held camera, by torchlight)
The North Garden stands opposite of the more austere South Garden in the palace area of the temple. The North Garden was originally completed in the 17th century, but was destroyed in a large fire with the rest of Goten during the Meiji Period. The garden was reconstructed during the restoration of Goten in the early 1900s.
The garden is in the “pond-viewing” style and features a large pond in the shape of the Chinese character “心” meaning “heart” or “spirit.” There is a small waterfall on one side, and a tea house on a manmade hill on the other.
I traveled to India for the first time to present a keynote at the 3rd Global Conference on Emerging Trends for Business Librarianship, November 21-22, 2017 at the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad, India. We did some sightseeing on our last day in India and visited the amazing Rani ki vav stepwell near Patan, north of Ahmedabad. I am so very glad that I made it here. From the Wikipedia page, "Rani ki vav, or Ran-ki vav (Queen’s step well) was constructed during the rule of the Chaulukya dynasty. It is generally assumed that it was built in the memory of Bhima I (r. c. 1022–1064) by his widowed queen Udayamati and probably completed by Udayamati and Karna after his death. A reference to Udayamati building the monument is in Prabandha Chintamani, composed by the Jain monk Merunga Suri in 1304 AD." The term vav is Gujarati for stepwell. Pictures from Thursday November 23, 2017.
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Kew Gardens, London's largest UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of the city. Home to the world's most diverse collection of living plants and a scientific research centre of international renown, it's the perfect day out.
Discover beautiful glasshouses including the iconic Palm House and its exotic rainforest; the Princess of Wales Conservatory which invites you to explore 10 of the world's climatic zones; and the Waterlily House with its amazing, giant lily pads.
Visitors of all ages love the 59ft (18m) high Treetop Walkway, which soars into the tree canopy offering a bird's-eye view of the gardens. Enjoy a stroll along the Great Broad Walk Borders, home to more than 60,000 plants, and step into history at Kew Palace, the former summer residence of King George III.
Kew Gardens is less than 30 minutes from central London, and easily reached by road, rail, and London Underground.
December 28, 2018 - After a forty minute hike experiencing breathtaking views above the city of Petra and the Wadi Musa Valley the Ad-Deir (Monastery) was the highlight of my day exploring the UNESCO World Heritage Site. I would encourage anyone capable of the hike which includes over 800 steps to see this monument of Nabatean architecture.
The term monastery is a misnomer Ad-Deir (which means monastery in Arabic) when in fact was built as a temple dedicated to Nabatean King Obodas I.
Several stelae survive in the town of Aksum dating between the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. The largest standing obelisk rises to a height of over 23 metres and is exquisitely carved to represent a nine-storey building of the Aksumites.
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Kew Gardens, London's largest UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of the city. Home to the world's most diverse collection of living plants and a scientific research centre of international renown, it's the perfect day out.
Discover beautiful glasshouses including the iconic Palm House and its exotic rainforest; the Princess of Wales Conservatory which invites you to explore 10 of the world's climatic zones; and the Waterlily House with its amazing, giant lily pads.
Visitors of all ages love the 59ft (18m) high Treetop Walkway, which soars into the tree canopy offering a bird's-eye view of the gardens. Enjoy a stroll along the Great Broad Walk Borders, home to more than 60,000 plants, and step into history at Kew Palace, the former summer residence of King George III.
Kew Gardens is less than 30 minutes from central London, and easily reached by road, rail, and London Underground.
January 27, 2020 - Iguassu Falls located on the Argentine side of the Iguassu River. We are on the Brazil side in Iguaçu National Park. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the waterfalls are one of the new Seven Wonders of Nature (2011).
Most of the pyramids of Jebel Barkal are still preserved in their original shape and height. They exhibit an architectural tradition that shaped the political, religious, social and artistic scene of the Middle and Northern Nile Valley for more than 2000 years (1500 BCE - 6th Century CE). From left to right: pyramids 4 (Amanirenas: 40-10 BCE), 5 (unidentified), 6 (Naldamak: 56-43 BCE) then 8 (unidentified person) and 7 (Sabrakamani).
The remaining original walls of the original mosque had holes for ventilation. Modern pigeons make use of the (pigeon)holes.
The second stop on our tour of Rabat, Morocco, was the complex of the modern Mausoleum of Mohammed V and the 12th century Hassan Tower. Construction of the Hassan Tower stopped with the commissioning caliph died, and all that stands is the minaret and some traces of the walls. The modern columns mark the area that the mosque would have filled, and the Mausoleum of Mohammed V occupies the other end of the space.
I traveled to India for the first time to present a keynote at the 3rd Global Conference on Emerging Trends for Business Librarianship, November 21-22, 2017 at the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad, India. We did some sightseeing on our last day in India and visited the amazing Rani ki vav stepwell near Patan, north of Ahmedabad. I am so very glad that I made it here. From the Wikipedia page, "Rani ki vav, or Ran-ki vav (Queen’s step well) was constructed during the rule of the Chaulukya dynasty. It is generally assumed that it was built in the memory of Bhima I (r. c. 1022–1064) by his widowed queen Udayamati and probably completed by Udayamati and Karna after his death. A reference to Udayamati building the monument is in Prabandha Chintamani, composed by the Jain monk Merunga Suri in 1304 AD." The term vav is Gujarati for stepwell. Pictures from Thursday November 23, 2017.
Religious service at the entrance to Bet Meskel (House of the Cross), a tiny semi-chapel carved into the outer wall of the courtyard of Bet Maryam.
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Lijiang
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De oude binnenstad van Lijiang is perfect aangepast aan de ongelijke topografie van deze belangrijke commerciële en strategische locatie. De Lijiang regio (in het noorden van de provincie Yunnan) wordt al sinds de steentijd door mensen bewoond. In de 13e eeuw na Christus werden aan de voet van de Shizi bergen huizen gebouwd, omringd door een stadsmuur en gracht. Deze historische kern is prachtig bewaard gebleven. De architectuur is opmerkelijk vanwege het samengaan van elementen uit verschillende culturen door de eeuwen heen. Lijiang heeft ook een oud ingenieus systeem voor watervoorziening dat tegenwoordig nog steeds functioneert.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are 121 hectares[1] of gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in southwest London, England. Kew is also the name of the organisation that runs Kew Gardens and Wakehurst Place gardens in Sussex. It is an internationally important botanical research and education institution with 700 staff and an income of £56 million for the year ended 31 March 2008, as well as a visitor attraction receiving almost 2 million visits in that year.[2] The gardens are a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Created in 1759,[3] the gardens celebrated their 250th anniversary in 2009.
The Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is responsible for the world's largest collection of living plants. The organisation employs more than 650 scientists and other staff. The living collections include more than 30,000 different kinds of plants, while the herbarium, which is the one of the largest in the world, has over 7 million preserved plant specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. The Kew site includes four Grade I listed buildings and 36 Grade II listed structures in an internationally significant landscape.[4]
In July 2003, the gardens were put on the list of World Heritage Sites[3] by UNESCO.
Seri Melinau Dance Group of the Royal Mulu Resort in the Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak (Mon 5-10-2009).
I traveled to India for the first time to present a keynote at the 3rd Global Conference on Emerging Trends for Business Librarianship, November 21-22, 2017 at the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad, India. We did some sightseeing on our last day in India and visited the amazing Rani ki vav stepwell near Patan, north of Ahmedabad. I am so very glad that I made it here. From the Wikipedia page, "Rani ki vav, or Ran-ki vav (Queen’s step well) was constructed during the rule of the Chaulukya dynasty. It is generally assumed that it was built in the memory of Bhima I (r. c. 1022–1064) by his widowed queen Udayamati and probably completed by Udayamati and Karna after his death. A reference to Udayamati building the monument is in Prabandha Chintamani, composed by the Jain monk Merunga Suri in 1304 AD." The term vav is Gujarati for stepwell. Pictures from Thursday November 23, 2017.