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In 2015, through a unique collaboration between the Lebanese government, donors like the UK, the UN and NGOs, 200,000 Syrian refugees were enrolled into Lebanese schools.
Head of the UK aid programme in Lebanon, Amanda McLoughlin, says:
"No country in history has been able to absorb this proportion of refugee children into its public education system.
"We hope to go even further, and bring every single child on Lebanese soil into education by the end of the 2016-17 school year."
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Today, around 500,000 Syrian refugee children live in Lebanon - forced to flee the crisis in their homeland, and to leave their school behind.
But in the last year alone, more than 200,000 were brought back into school – thanks to a Lebanese government enrolment programme, backed by UK aid and UNICEF.
There is more to be done: we must ensure all refugee children get an education to avoid a lost generation of Syrian children.
Getting every Syrian refugee and host community child back into education by the end of the 2016-17 school year is a key aim of the Supporting Syria and the Region conference on 4 February. The conference is being co-hosted in London by the UK, Germany, Kuwait, Norway, and the United Nations.
For more information please visit www.supportingsyria2016.com
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From the May 2016 trip to Thailand and Cambodia:
Preah Khan is a fairly unique site for being one of the lesser-known places in the Angkor complex. It was constructed by Jayavarman VII in the late 12th century (1191 A.D.), with alterations by Jayavarman VIII.
As I mentioned about Ta Prohm being dedicated to Jayavarman’s mother (in that the main deity was sculpted in her likeness), Preah Khan is dedicated to his father Dharanindravarman. The bodhisattva Lokesvara was sculpted in his likeness.
Preah Khan is also a fortunate site in that its main stele was found in situ, so the history of Preah Khan is well-known. It was a city that housed over 1,000 Buddhist teachers (and, as a result, a Buddhist university). It was built on a “lake of blood” as, apparently, this is the site where the Khmers recaptured Angkor from the Chams (a group from Vietnam, may have been Muslim) and the Cham king died here.
In short, this was a university city – and, like all of these sites, it’s pretty much in the jungle now, but in its prime, was a flourishing city with houses, streets and the like – a religious site, and a site with important history for the Khmers. On top of that, its architecturally unique from other Angkor sites in that it’s a round-columned, two-storied building and there are entrance causeways with boundary stones and nagas.
Preah Khan is located on the route out of the north gate of Angkor Thom on the grand circuit, and visiting here will probably take you at least an hour (but not more than two).
Well, this is it. Save for a return flight to Bangkok on Tuesday, May 17 (a formality, really, just to pick up the return flight to China on the 18th…and no shoots on the 17th in Bangkok), Siem Reap/Angkor Wat is the last stop – and the one I was most looking forward to.
The flight over was pretty uneventful, though amusing. At Phnom Penh International Airport, we checked in at the gate, then went outside and hopped on a bus to take us to the plane…which was literally less than 100 meters away. That amused me to no end. A quick, comfortable 45 minute flight on the prop jet later – over completely black terrain; it seems the countryside is either sparsely populated, or electricity is a premium, but we may as well have been flying over a moonless ocean – brought us to Siem Reap (which, I’m glad to say, had lights). Siem Reap is the small town (and it’s basically a tourist/party kind of town where it’s great to go out at night after spending a full day in the sweltering hot sun. It’s about 10 kilometers south of Angkor Wat.
In overview, Angkor Wat is the ancient capital of the Khmer kingdom. What remains today are temples…temples…and temples. Hindu temples. Buddhist temples. They were also a people who were animists, so some temples are reminiscent of that system, too.
The detail of the temples is also fascinating. There are more asparas here than you can shake a stick at. Of the roughly 20,000 asparas, only one is shown smiling (baring teeth, that is). It fascinates – and impresses – me that people have done such extensive research and restoration that they know this. Those are the details, though.
A macro view of the Siem Reap area is just as impressive in that these temples are a study of a civilization close to one thousand years old (yet another jaw-dropping aspect of Angkor: the longevity) and their durability. The earliest temples are over a thousand years old, and the most recent are from the 14th century. (If the guide book I bought is correct, they were all built between 790-1307.) What survives today is all original (though there have been reinforcements with stone – many foreign countries support renovations of specific temples; I recall China and India among them). It’s quite obvious to tell what’s old and what’s new in most cases. However, the restorations are all good and necessary. One last note regarding the longevity of these temples is this: If these stone temples are what remained…how impressive must the society have been who created them? (That’s to say…think of the temples, houses, and all that didn’t survive as they were built of wood; these are simply the temples built by the royals or the aristocracy.)
A tour of modern-day Angkor Wat can be done in one or two fairly vigorous days. However, if you’re looking for any classic shots, you’ll want to spend longer here. (Common sense: the more time here, the more chances for good shots.) For this trip – it may be the only time I come here, though you never know – we arrived on a Saturday night and checked into our hotel (My Home Tropical Garden Villa; $20/night)
Siem Reap feels, at first, like a small dusty outpost of a town. The center of town is about four square blocks of small dive restaurants (and a bar street) and slightly pricier restaurants. There is also a night market street, an art street…all in all, it’s quite nice and has a bit of a party feel to it in addition to the endless souvenir stands you would expect. Though we didn’t go out on Saturday night (since we didn’t get checked in until around 9:30 p.m.), we did get a chance to go on Sunday.
Sunday morning was an awfully early start. Before having left Phnom Penh, I jumped on Facebook and, by chance, found and hired a local tuktuk driver, Mao Khvan, for $25/day. He agreed to pick us up at 4:50 a.m. to catch the sunrise at Angkor Wat.
Now, a quick note on tuktuks: almost every single hotel/hostel/guesthouse probably has tuktuks available for hire. Also, when we were picked up at the airport, the taxi driver offered to drive us for the time we were there. In short…it’s a competitive market, and finding a driver for the day will be no problem. $25 may even be slightly pricy (you could probably find a driver for $15-20), however, I was so impressed with Mao’s service that, if I were to return, I’d gladly hire him again. He wasn’t rude or pushy, provides all the ice water you could possibly want to drink, and though he’s not an “official” guide, he’s very, very knowledgeable and made both days pleasant. I even had him take us to the airport the morning we left, and he brought his wife and daughter to meet us. He’s just a genuinely good and decent guy. (For anyone who goes to Angkor Wat, here’s Mao’s contact info if you want to arrange his services ahead of time: www.facebook.com/maotuktuksiemreap/?fref=ts )
Back to the actual touring itself, Angkor is geared towards tourism and they do it well. You can buy an admission ticket for either one, three, or seven days. ($20, $40, or…$60?). It’s also nice because they don’t have to be used in consecutive days (for the three and seven day passes, obviously). The three days can be used in a given week. The seven day pass, within a month.
Conventionally, two days is enough to see the “main” sites (albeit quickly) in about 8 hours each day. There’s a small loop (which we did the first morning) in which we caught the sunrise (not a great one, but…there was one, and it wasn’t terrible, by any stretch) at Angkor Wat, followed by a quick tour of the grounds – but not the temple itself. Afterwards (we were at Angkor Wat from 5:30 until 7:00 or 8:00, I’d say), we hopped back in the tuktuk and headed over to Ta Prohm, about 15-20 minutes away. Ta Prohm is famous for those who are fans of the Lara Croft Tomb Raider movies. (The first, I think. I’m not, so I don’t recall it vividly.) After those two spots – probably two of the three most famous – we went to the Khmer Country Kitchen for a rather nice, relaxing, and cheap breakfast where we spent an hour with the other two members of our group. Around 10:00, we went to our third stop: Ta Keo Temple. In 40 degree heat (roughly 104F), I was feeling a bit too exhausted to climb the somewhat steep stairs to the top of this temple, but I did enjoy the lower area just as well. From Ta Keo, we made a quick stop at two temples (they form a pair): Thommanon and Chau Say Tevoda for about 20 minutes. Between these three, I’d say we spent about an hour. Our last stop of the morning, around high noon, was the Bayon complex of Angkor Thom. Passing through Bayon’s east gate, we stopped for a few quick pictures before going to the main compound of Bayon, which I would say is the the last of the three most-recognizable places here. We spent a good hour, or a little longer, shooting here after which point we were completely spent. Mao would have gladly taken us back to Angkor for sunset, but we actually decided to call it a day around 1:00. 9 hours in high heat was more than enough.
Back at the hotel, we rested, and I enjoyed myself immensely in the swimming pool. In the early evening, we walked about 600 meters to the “happening” part of town where we wandered the various streets and had a rather nice Khmer dinner. After eating and walking off a rather good dinner, we called it a night and headed back to our room. (For what it’s worth, the afternoon sky clouded over quite a bit and I heard we didn’t miss much as far as sunsets go. Mao also told us the following morning that the sunrise was a wash, as was Tuesday morning’s. Perhaps he was just trying to make us feel good.)
Monday morning we gladly skipped the sunrise and had a late start around…10:00. After a good old-fashioned breakfast of a ham & cheese omelet, Mao came by and we spent the second full day on the large loop. The first stop of the day was at Ba Phuon, a lesser temple just north of Bayon in Angkhor Thom. This was accompanied by quick stops at the adjacent Elephant Terrace and Leper King Terrace. After about an hour in the Ba Phuon area, we rode off to the northeast and stopped at Preah Khan, which was a rather interesting ruins. Another hour or so gone, we continued along the northeastern loop, bypassing Neak Pean (which, following English pronunciation rules, could theoretically be pronounced “neck pain,” which amused me for some reason…). The next stop was a rather small temple named Ta Som on the eastern end of the outer loop. Just down the road from Ta Som, we stopped at the East Mebon temple. When it was constructed, this was an island, only accessible by boat. That, however, was centuries ago. Now, it’s just a very dry, dusty area – with the temple still standing – and it’s hard to imagine it was once surrounded by water. At any rate, it was a quick stop at East Mebon, followed by another nice meal at the Khmer Country Kitchen before we continued with the tour. The next stop on the list was due east of the restaurant (southeast corner of the outer loop, which is really slightly northeast of Angkor Wat). Pre Rup (or Bre Rup) was a fairly photogenic temple. By this point, the heat – also around 40 degrees, just like Sunday – was starting to take a toll, though we still managed to stay out and see all we could. The last “new” temple for us was Banteay Kdei, a citadel that is at the corner of where the inner and outer loop meet on the eastern side of Angkor Wat. Directly across the street from Bnateay Kdei is what should be a nice lake called Sra Srang. A long, rectangular lake, which is also across the street from the Khmer Country Kitchen, it’s now nothing but a dustbowl. Though it’s rainy season now, there’s been so little rain that the lake has completely dried up. (But, please don’t tell any “right”-thinking politicians in my country that global warming is a problem. It certainly isn’t, despite what your eyes see.) After some rather sad contemplation at Sra Srang, we went back to Angkor Wat around 4:00 and were there until 6:30 or so for sundown. However, a boomer of a thunderstorm (light rain, but heavy on thunder & lightning) came through and there wasn’t much to see. However, we did finally get to tour the interior of Angkor Wat, and found that a pretty fitting way to end the initial Siem Reap shoot. From there, we went back to the hotel where we passed out from exhaustion.
The only thing left to do was wake up on Tuesday for a quick 45 minute flight at noon to Bangkok. We concluded the trip as we started it: eating well at a Thai restaurant. Other than that, we just had a quiet night in Bangkok (no shooting at all) and a very early (3:30 a.m.) wake up call for our return flights out of Thailand. I’m definitely looking forward to seeing Thailand again soon.
Photos Courtesy of Brittany Purlee
This pop-up dinner party, hosted in a unique, non-traditional location, embodies The Mash. In each city we visit, we bring together some of our favorite people to create a memorable meal and moment. Our partner for the tour is the incomparable, members-only, Dinner Lab, whom we first met in New Orleans, last year. For this year's Mash, Dinner Lab is releasing half of each Slow Supper's seats to the public. Brooklyn Brewery is excited to share Dinner Lab's unique dining experiences with our Mash cities.
The curated evening brings people together around a common table to share cuisine crafted by Brooklyn Brewery Chef Andrew Gerson in collaboration with Dinner Lab Chefs paired with Brooklyn beer styles both familiar and rare.
A portion of the proceeds benefits Slow Food Chicago.
Brooklyn Brewery Chef, Andrew Gerson, brings to the table ten years of culinary experience as a cook, educator and activist. As a graduate of the University of Gastronomic Sciences (Pollenzo, Italy) and an active member of Slow Food, Andrew demonstrates and represents Brewmaster Garrett Oliver's philosphoy on beer and food. Andrew is currently travelling his way around the States, collaborating with some of the country’s most innovative chefs, like Marcus Samuelson (NYC), Chris Sheppard of Houston’s Underbelly, from Sea Change in Minneapolis Jamie Malone, and Paco Roberts of NOLA’s Dinner Lab. During The Mash tour, Andrew has picked up new culinary ideas and shared his own from Stockholm to Las Vegas and everywhere in between, bringing you farm-to-table cuisine steeped in regional flavors, with a dash of Brooklyn fortitude sprinkled in for good measure.
Born and raised in Chicago, Chef Daniel Espinoza is now Dinner Lab’s Chef de Cuisine in his hometown. Growing up, Chef spent time giving back to the community tutoring middle schoolers in Sembrando El Futuro (SELF) program, and volunteering as a caseworker for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. After earning his culinary arts degree at Kendall College, Chef Daniel worked at Carmichael’s Chicago Steak House. It wasn’t long before Chef started seeing stars--Michelin stars, that is: in addition to his time at Mexique in Chicago, Chef traveled to France and completed a stagiaire at Bistro des Saveurs Castres. Chef Daniel is happy to be back on his old stomping grounds with Dinner Lab.
Dinner Lab is a membership-based social dining experiment that unites undiscovered chefs with adventurous diners who are looking for something different from the traditional restaurant experience. Whether it happens on the roof of an abandoned building, the floor of a paper mill, or inside a motorcycle dealership, we believe that good people, good food and good drink are the only elements paramount to a memorable meal.
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Brooklyn Summer Ale – 5.0% ABV A modern rendition of the “Light Dinner Ales” brewed in England. Premium English barley malt, gives this light bodied golden beer a fresh bready flavor. German and American hops lend a light crisp bitterness and a citrus/floral aroma.
Citrus marinated cobia, spiced chicharron, lemon curd, pickled tarragon grapes
Brooklyn Sorachi Ace – 7.6% ABV A classic saison, cracklingly dry, hoppy unfiltered golden farmhouse ale featuring the rare Sorachi Ace hop. 100% bottle re-fermented.
Smoked melon soup, braised pork belly, chipotle & marshmallow
Brooklyn Wild Streak – 10% ABV A Belgian-inspired golden ale aged in second-use bourbon barrels & re-fermented with the wild yeast strain Brettanomyces. 100% bottle re-fermented.
Egg in a jar, roe, smoked trout & roe, creme fraiche, rye croutons
Brooklyn Local 1 – 9.0% ABV A Belgian- inspired golden ale Forged with barley malt and hops from Germany, aromatic raw sugar from Mauritius and yeast from Belgium. 100% bottle re-fermented.
Grilled baby lamb chops, cauliflower cous cous, roasted brussel sprouts, anchovy compound butter
Brooklyn Local 2 – 9.0% ABV A Dark belgian inspired ale, with raw wildflower honey. The beer emerges with a mahogany color, dry fruity palate and complex aromatics. 100% bottle re-fermented
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Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout – 10.0% ABV Our award-winning rendition of the Imperial Stout style, featuring a luscious deep dark chocolate flavor from three mashes of specially roasted malts.
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Locals refer to this unique and wondrous site merely as 'The Train Wreck'.
The Train Wreck, seven box cars scattered over a One kilometres patch of forest, the debris from a high speed freight train crash in 1957 or 1958, South Of Function Junction near the Whistler Blackcomb resort in British Columbia, Canada. Too expensive to clear up, apart from the engine unit, the Whistler community decided to leave the wreck in situ and allow the birth of an amazing location, a bike trail and even an art gallery thanks to the incredibly vivid and stylish graffiti that covers each and every box car.
The train wreck is sort of a local secret, and I only found out about it's existence from one of the young hotel receptionists at the Crystal Lodge Hotel in Whistler village, who told me that it was great for photography and hiking. So for this series of photographs, let's wander along the forest pathway, passing waterfalls and crossing the train tracks, into the wilderness to discover those not so secret carriages from the train wreck.
The walk begins at Olives Community Market at 1200 Alpha Lake Road, Whistler, BC V0N 1B1, close to Function Junction in Whistler BC. Behind Olives there is an unmarked pathway into the dense and beautiful forest, though you only find this out upon asking in Olives community market where the ladies serving fantastic gluten free and fresh foods were incredibly friendly and helpful in handing me a printed piece of paper with directions to the train wreck itself. Here, walking at a fairly leisurely pace, almost one hour into the forest trail, the railway track takes a devious left turn and inwards to the forest are the striken box cars, like fallen warriors on the battlefield.
On the point of giving up, an hour into the trail and old legs and dogs paws screaming 'Enough already', we came back out onto the railway track from the forest. Up ahead I walked around a bend and saw in the distance a very sharp left handed bend. Could this be the point of derailment I thought? Walking closer, my eyes looked left once more into the forest and there I could just see the faintest of glimpses, a rusting, shattered box car.... we had found them at last
The box cars now have wooden ramps onto some of the flanks and roofs, and this facilitates a rather exciting bicycle cross track where the foolhardy and adventurous can hone their skills. I climbed up on tghe box car rails, and on one of the ramps to capture a few angles myself. But on a bike.... yikes!
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Photograph taken at 11:23am an altitude of Five hundred and ninety seven metres on Monday 15th September 2014 of the Cheakamus Falls (unnoficial name), off the Sea to sky highway 99 out of Whistler, South of Function Junction and into the forest on the banks of the Cheakamus River in British Columbia, Canada.
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In November 2011 the dress was worn by the winner of the first Alternative Miss Liverpool pageant, as part of the annual Homotopia Festival.
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* Dress: Designed & Handmade by BiBi Doan in NEW YORK CITY
* Hair:Just wash and go
* Make up: No money for it! Spent all in fabric :) (So I used lotion, & Burt's Bees lip shimmer)
NOTE: This design and all of these pictures are protected by ownership law. You are not allowed to copy, re-use, reproduce in anyway without BiBiDoan written approval.
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I believe many designers can design, and make stunning, fancy, gorgeous dresses BUT it's very challenging to come up with amazingly fresh ideas that not only beautiful, awesome, stunning but also unique, which are rare to see out there... I bet you see this dress, and design for the 1st time right? There is nothing like this out there yet. I just made it this week. Later if you see something similar with out BiBiDoan's label. That's the shameless copy!!!
Forget looking like other people!
Forget following the same trend as many people are wearing all around!
Forget the usual dresses!
Go for the ONE OF A KIND! BE UNIQUE!
Contact me! I would come up with great designs that work best for you. And I will handmade it here in New York City special for you only. To check out more of my works and designs. Please like my facebook page.(www.facebook.com/BiBiDoanNYC)
This look is a combination of a fitted lace dress & an oversize soft coverup cape dress. I love the mix of lace and soft printed fabric. Fall in love deeply with this whole look, this amazing colors combination. I hope you would love it too. Email me if you would like to order. Thank you!
{THE nude soft stretch floral french lace dress with skin-tone smooth underlining. You can wear this beautiful, sexy lace dress just itself alone, or pair it with any coverup, add on outer piece, jackets, shirts, scarves, short, long, oversize...etc... Anything you would love to have fun with }
{THE amazingly beautiful floral print, soft cotton silk oversize cape dress with brown leather trim binding around edges, leather buckles on shoulders, and leather tie for belt. This cape dress has a very unique, constructed draping, it will fall beautifully on all different body types & flowing dreamy :)! You can wear this cape dress loose or fitted to your body with the leather belt. Wear it over any fitted dresses, body suits, or slip dresses... Play with all different colors for under pieces. I highly suggest texture for under pieces...}
More pictures follow showing more detail of this amazing dress. I'm taking order for this dress. Please email me if you would like to order. Thanks
On the way back & forth for photoshoot with Pawel Luterek. Everyone was looking, peeking, turning head with curiously looks on their faces. Many were smiling when I was passing by, & also in the subways. Many people love it. I ended up giving out all my business cards in my purse. At the photoshoot, the constructor workers were stopped working and looking at us at the photoshoot. Again, many were cheering for us, Many were saying they love the dress!!! I'm so HAPPY!!!
Thanks for reading my post, and checking my works out. Come back again soon.
Have an awesome sassy day!
xoxo
BiBiDoan
7/19/2012 Long Island City-NYC
"You Give Me Butterflies...You make me feel I can fly"
* Photo: by Pawel Luterek (Raw image, NOT A single photoshop editing or retouching)
* Dress: Designed & Handmade by BiBi Doan in NEW YORK CITY
* Hair:Just wash and go
* Make up: No money for it! Spent all in fabric :) (So I used lotion, & Burt's Bees lip shimmer)
NOTE: This design and all of these pictures are protected by ownership law. You are not allowed to copy, re-use, reproduce in anyway without BiBiDoan written approval.
Whoa here comes a sneak peek next of the most insane Milo Baughman rosewood and chrome sofa. H-h-h-h-hammer time.
I believe many designers can design, and make stunning, fancy, gorgeous dresses BUT it's very challenging to come up with amazingly fresh ideas that not only beautiful, awesome, stunning but also unique, which are rare to see out there... I bet you see this dress, and design for the 1st time right? There is nothing like this out there yet. I just made it this week. Later if you see something similar with out BiBiDoan's label. That's the shameless copy!!!
Forget looking like other people!
Forget following the same trend as many people are wearing all around!
Forget the usual dresses!
Go for the ONE OF A KIND! BE UNIQUE!
Contact me! I would come up with great designs that work best for you. And I will handmade it here in New York City special for you only. To check out more of my works and designs. Please like my facebook page.(www.facebook.com/BiBiDoanNYC)
This look is a combination of a fitted lace dress & an oversize soft coverup cape dress. I love the mix of lace and soft printed fabric. Fall in love deeply with this whole look, this amazing colors combination. I hope you would love it too. Email me if you would like to order. Thank you!
{THE nude soft stretch floral french lace dress with skin-tone smooth underlining. You can wear this beautiful, sexy lace dress just itself alone, or pair it with any coverup, add on outer piece, jackets, shirts, scarves, short, long, oversize...etc... Anything you would love to have fun with }
{THE amazingly beautiful floral print, soft cotton silk oversize cape dress with brown leather trim binding around edges, leather buckles on shoulders, and leather tie for belt. This cape dress has a very unique, constructed draping, it will fall beautifully on all different body types & flowing dreamy :)! You can wear this cape dress loose or fitted to your body with the leather belt. Wear it over any fitted dresses, body suits, or slip dresses... Play with all different colors for under pieces. I highly suggest texture for under pieces...}
More pictures follow showing more detail of this amazing dress. I'm taking order for this dress. Please email me if you would like to order. Thanks
On the way back & forth for photoshoot with Pawel Luterek. Everyone was looking, peeking, turning head with curiously looks on their faces. Many were smiling when I was passing by, & also in the subways. Many people love it. I ended up giving out all my business cards in my purse. At the photoshoot, the constructor workers were stopped working and looking at us at the photoshoot. Again, many were cheering for us, Many were saying they love the dress!!! I'm so HAPPY!!!
Thanks for reading my post, and checking my works out. Come back again soon.
Have an awesome sassy day!
xoxo
BiBiDoan
7/19/2012 Long Island City-NYC
"You Give Me Butterflies...You make me feel I can fly"
* Photo: by Pawel Luterek (Raw image, NOT A single photoshop editing or retouching)
* Dress: Designed & Handmade by BiBi Doan in NEW YORK CITY
* Hair:Just wash and go
* Make up: No money for it! Spent all in fabric :) (So I used lotion, & Burt's Bees lip shimmer)
NOTE: This design and all of these pictures are protected by ownership law. You are not allowed to copy, re-use, reproduce in anyway without BiBiDoan written approval.
Enjoy again this unique art work By Narandra Gaur Jee .....Shreeyantra Yonilingam Banaras art gallery Assi Main Road Varanasi India....
Handmade. Wire wrapped sea glass. Sea glass found by me on one of the beaches of Mallorca and this is one I made inspired by the unique beauty of the butterflies and their fragility and delicacy.
Beautiful voice and amazing music: