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Fanjing Mountain and the Mushroom rock
7th of May, 2021 Since it seems like we will be stuck in Beijing for a few weeks and can’t travel outside the city without high risk of being quarantined, I went through pictures of previous trips and enjoyed some good old wanderlust. Here are some impressions from Guizhou, a province in southwest China which…
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Beijing revisited – Temple of Heaven
Inscribed on the UNESCO world heritage list in 1998, the Temple of Heaven is the first of several iconic sights in Beijing we plan to revisit in 2021.
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The Big Buddha, Leshan
During the 2020 national holidays we decided to go see the Sichuan province and discover China’s Buddhist and Tibetan roots.
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Visiting legendary UNESCO world heritage temple Angkor Wat
As the world’s largest religious monument Angkor Wat is an architectural masterpiece from the Khmer period. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7vwLw5FcoP/?igshid=1pt092qc1pry7 https://www.instagram.com/p/B7vxfpjlfMn/?igshid=1bwzqfpvl9ml3
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Disputed Preah Vihear Ruins on the Thai-Cambodian Border
Cambodia, the 27th of January 2020 A three hour long road trip with our local guide Oeum Rida through the Cambodian „outback“ brought us all the way to the northernmost part of the country to the Preah Vihear temple. Located at the natural border of Thailand and Cambodia atop the Dangrek mountain range, these Khmer ruins…