Interesting Tourist places and things

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Indian Temples in Abroad


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Mother Temple of Besakih, Bali , Indonesia


Murugan Temple , Sydney , Australia


BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir - Toronto , Canada



Shiva-Vishnu Temple , Livermore , California , US

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The village of Ganvie, in Benin

The village of Ganvie, in Benin, is the only human settlement in the world, built on stilts, in the middle of a lake, several kilometers from the nearest shore. But people don’t just go ahead and build themselves a home, in the middle of a lake, they must have a serious reason. And the reason for the existence of Ganvie can be traced back to the 18th century, when a peaceful African tribe, the Tofinu, tired of running from the slaver tribe of Dom Homey, decided to build themselves a home, on Lake Nokoue.



Ganvie currently has a population of 30,000, all living in bamboo houses, built on stilts. Moving around the village is only possible in pirogues (boats carved from tree trunks), and even if someone wants to visit their next door neighbor, they have to row there. The Venice of Africa, as Ganvie is commonly referred to, has one and a half pieces of dry land. the complete patch of land is the site of the village school, while the half will be the cemetery, when the villagers import enough dry ground, from the shores.





The Dom Homey believed a terrible demon lived in the lake, and their ruthless warriors dared not set foot in its waters. The Tofinu had finally found their peace. But fast forward to present day,and the people of Ganvie are still reluctant to go on solid ground, although the threat of slavery is only a distant memory. They’ve ground accustomed to living on the water, and wouldn’t abandon their unique lifestyle, for anything.

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Torun - The Royal City of Poland

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Torun - The Royal City of Poland

[Alice123]

This is the architecture for what the country India is famous for the world tourist.

[rosylady]

Very nice...

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Beautiful place in Konkun


Road to Konkan from Satara



Paddy fields in konkan


Typical village in Konkan



Water falls on the way to Mahableshwar on Konkan side

[ahmed etman]

This is the architecture for what the country India is famous for the world tourist.

very nice places

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The Postman Who Built a Palace With Stones



Joseph-Ferdinand Cheval (1836 - 1924) , then 43 years old, had been working as a rural mail carrier in the southeast of France for 12 years. Because his daily routine involved walking about 20 miles (32km), mostly in solitude, he did a lot of daydreaming. One day he tripped over a small limestone rock. Astonished by its shape and form, he took the stone home. Soon he started to collect stones during his walks to deliver letters and brought them home in his pockets. Collecting stones became an addiction. When his wife became tired of mending his pockets, he changed the mode of transportation and took a basked with him, and later when the stones became bigger he took a wheelbarrow.



Over the next 33 years he and his wife constructed, from the stones, one of the oddest monuments of all time, the ideal palace or Palais Idéal. By his count it took more than 9,000 days or 65,000 hours and it still brings about 100,000 visitors a year to the otherwise forgettable village of Hauterives north of Valence. "I wanted to prove what willpower can achieve," Facteur Cheval wrote.



The completed work was 26 meters, or 85 feet, long, with a height that varied from 8 to 10 meters. The Palais is a mix of different styles with inspirations from Christianity to Hinduism. A version of a Hindu temple stood next to a Swiss chalet which stood next to the Maison Carrée in Algiers which stood next to a medieval castle, and somewhere in between there was an Arab mosque. The tutelary spirits of the place, the facteur declared, were Julius Caesar, Archimedes and Vercingétorix.



By the time the palace was complete, it had begun to draw international attention. Famous artists visited and drew inspiration from it. It was featured in media from postcards to magazines and people came from far and wide to see this astonishing building. Public opinion about the work and its creator eventually shifted, and Cheval himself came to be regarded as an artist of some renown.

However, even though Cheval had essentially put the town of Hauterives on the map, the city government denied his request to be buried, along with his wife, in the palace. Not to be deterred, he went back to work in 1914 on a second, smaller structure in the local cemetery. He spent eight years building what he called the Tomb of Silence and Eternal Rest. Two years after its completion—and just days after he finished writing his autobiography—Cheval died and was interred in this new structure.

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[kelvinpl80]

Yes Taj Mahal is best place to see. It is symbol of love. Every couple come here and see the Taj Mahal.... This beautiful structure tells that love never die....it stay at human body in a very unique way......Every couple is not same but the emotion is same strange but true......