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Saturday, 17 June 2017

Yangon Burma 2016 pics

Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar (Burma) until 2006, when the military government relocated the capital to the purpose-built city of Naypyidaw in central Myanmar. With over 7 million people, Yangon is Myanmar's largest city and is its most important commercial centre.

Yangon boasts the largest number of colonial-era buildings in the region, and has a unique colonial-era urban core that is remarkably intact.

The Sofaer and Co. building in downtown Rangoon was completed by Isaac and Meyer Sofaer in 1906. Both brothers were Baghdad-born.




High tea at the Strand Hotel. Opened in 1901.
It was built by the British entrepreneur John Darwood but later acquired by the Sarkies brothers, who owned a number of luxury hotels in the Far East, including the Raffles Hotel in Singapore and the Eastern & Oriental Hotel in Penang, Malaysia.

 The Myanmar Port Authority.

The colonial-era commercial core is centred around the Sule Pagoda, which reputed to be over 2,000 years old and contains a hair relic of the Gautama Buddha.


 The city is also home to the gilded Shwedagon Pagoda — Myanmar's most sacred Buddhist pagoda.



The mausoleum of the last Mughal Emperor is located in Yangon, where he had been exiled following the Indian Mutiny of 1857.







Saturday, 22 April 2017

San Franscisco - Alcatraz Island.

 Alcatraz Island.


The Guards Apartments & entrance to the island.



 
If you look closely, you can see the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance rising up through the fog


San Fran architecture






Sunday, 12 February 2017

Golden Rock - Burma

Golden Rock Buddhist pilgrimage site in Mon State, Burma.
 This precariously balanced granite boulder was according to tradition lifted by the Lord Buddah
and placed in this spot over 2000 years ago. It has remained in this position balanced by some strands of Buddah's hair.


New Years Eve.
So many people but very few foreigners.


The Rock is covered with 24K gold leaf.


The faithful
A new day

............... and a New Year.
Happy 2017


Our transport back down the mountain.

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Saturday, 17 December 2016

Kyoto Station, Japan

Breathtaking. This is the second largest station in Japan (after Nagoya Station) and is one of the country's largest buildings.

I think it's a futuristic masterpiece and should be on your "to do" list when you visit Kyoto, even if you're not into modern architecture.
Opened in 1997 to commemorate Kyoto's 1,200th anniversary, it is 70 meters high and 470 meters from east to west.

The architect was Hiroshi Hara.
He was a professor at the University of Tokyo until 1997, and has held an emeritus position since that time.
Hara's other buildings include the Yamato International Building in Tokyo 
and the Umeda Sky in Osaka.
Back to the train station:
The interior is a cathedral of glass and steel. Which reminds me a bit of the Musee D'orsay in Paris.
Both are train stations ...beautiful, though separated by a century.




Take the escalator from the 7th floor on the east side of the building up to the 11th-floor glass corridor, Skyway (open 10am to 10pm).
The Skyway is open 10am to 10pm. It runs high above the main concourse of the station.
Panorama of the Kyoto Tower and surrounds from the train station. 

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Thursday, 15 December 2016

El Jadida - Morocco

El Jadida or al-Jadida




Its a port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, located 100 km south of the city of Casablanca,




somewhat of an off-the-beaten-track destination 




Take a stroll through the old Portuguese City



 churches and synagogues sit close to mosques,


 the UNESCO-listed Fortress of Mazagan is one of the country’s best-preserved coastal fortresses,