2013年5月29日星期三

Ha Long Bay is home to 14 endemic floral species and 60 endemic faunal species

Ha Long Bay has an area of around 1,553 km2, including 1,960–2,000 islets, most of which are limestone. The core of the bay has an area of 334 km2 with a high density of 775 islets. The limestone in this bay has gone through 500 million years of formation in different conditions and environments. The evolution of the karst in this bay has taken 20 million years under the impact of the tropical wet climate. The geo-diversity of the environment in the area has created biodiversity, including a tropical evergreen biosystem, oceanic and sea shore biosystem. Ha Long Bay is home to 14 endemic floral species and 60 endemic faunal species. Most people like it in Vietnam tour, the best time to travel to Vietnam is November to April of the following year.

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Hung Sung Sot Cave at Bo Hon Island Hung Sung Sot Cave is located on the same island as Virgin Cave and has a steep path lined with shady trees. There are two chambers in the cave with a square-shaped outer chamber and a ceiling about 30 metres high. The inner chamber formations look like sentries conversing with one another and another formation, resembling a general surveying his troops, lies in the middle of the chamber. The moving light reflected from the water outside seems to bring these formations to life.
Pelican Cave at Bo Hon Island Pelican Cave (Hang Bo Nau) is also popular with tourists. Many of them love to take photos of this cave and its spectacular stalactites hanging from the ceiling.
Virgin Cave at Bo Hon Island The Virgin Cave (Hang Trinh Nu) is one of the most famous caves in Halong Bay. It is probably best known for its shrine. Legend claims that a beautiful woman committed suicide in the cave, unable to return home after being forced to marry an old Mandarin. Here her body tuned into stone. Another similar legend says this girl escaped from a Mandarin that forced her to marry him because her father could not pay a debt. When fishermen found her body, they buried her here and built a small shrine inside the grotto.

2013年5月22日星期三

Bagan represents the spiritual heritage and heartland of old Burma

  Listed as a world heritage site in 1998 by UNESCO, Bagan represents the spiritual heritage and heartland of old Burma. With temples, pagodas and stupas dating from the 9th century, Bagan and its 2229 monuments is considered to be one of the richest archaeological sites of Asia. Burma tour

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It is a prototype for virtually all later stupas over Myanmar. The stupa sits on three rising terraces.   Enameled plaques in panels around the base of the stupa illustrate scenes from the previous lives of the Buddha. At the cardinal points, facing the terrace stairways, are four shrines, each of which houses a 4m-high bronze standing Buddha cast in 1102, these figures are Bagan largest surviving bronze Buddhas. Surrounding the stupa are clusters of rest houses and shrines, some of them old, others more modern, though none of them is original. In addition to ranking as one of the oldest stupas in Bagan, Shwezigon is known as the site where the 37 pre-Buddhist nats were first officially endorsed by the Bamar monarchy. Figures of the 37 nats can be seen in a shed to the south-east of the platform.
  The stone monuments, within the outside domed passageways, are considered distinctive in Bagan. 1500 stone pictures are gotten within the temple. The extraordinary pictures carved from one rock (regular size is 3.5 feet high, 2.42 feet wide and one foot dense) are people who represent eighty chapters from Buddha’s life. additionally seen are forty chapters from the last lifetime of the Lord Buddha, starting with a picture of Setaketu deva to aristocrat Buddha glancing over the wall-hanging for a final consider his partner Yasodaya and his baby son Yahula, beforehand he leftward the palace for the lifetime of outsider within the forest.