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Urban Courtyards at Lahore and Kathmandu

July 26, 2018July 25, 2018

Cities have developed through time forming different urban characteristics such as urban courtyards at Lahore and Kathmandu. A courtyard is an enclosed area, often by …

Asia, Cultural Identity, Heritage News, Traditions

July 15: Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah?s Birthday

July 23, 2018August 6, 2021

Negara Brunei Darussalam (?Brunei?), now ruled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, has a misnomer of being a ?boring? country with nothing to see but low skyscrapers, …

Asia, Public Spaces

Voyaging in Kumaon Land

July 22, 2018July 22, 2018

While hiking in the heart of the Himalayas through the charming and majestic views of the pine trees, one can find the town of Ranikhet! …

Asia, GIP Jan - June 2018, Nature

The Sundarbans: The mystical mangrove forests

July 19, 2018July 14, 2018

The Sundarbans are the the world’s largest mangrove forests spread between Bangladesh & India. This natural heritage was inscribed as world heritage site on 7 …

Asia, Built Heritage, My UNESCO Trip, Religious

Pilgrimage to South Korea’s World Heritage Sites

July 17, 2018August 6, 2021

The Korea Tourism Organization launched a program back in 2012 called “Pilgrimage to Korea’s World Heritage Sites” to encourage locals and foreigners to visit South …

Arts and Crafts, Asia, Experts, Public Spaces

A walk through New Road, Kathmandu

July 16, 2018July 14, 2018

The New Road is the economic and busiest center street of the entire country of Nepal. The New Road is centrally located towards the mid …

Archaeology, Asia, Built Heritage

The Woman Married to Mount Nemrut

July 15, 2018July 25, 2018

In late 1881, the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin received a strange letter from the German Consul of Izmir, mentioning some mysterious statues found …