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Sapporo snow and ice festival, Japan
Kinkaku-ji Temple, (gold temple)
Kyoto
Imperial Palace, Tokyo
Ginza, Tokyo
Meiji Shrine, Tokyo
Chiang Mai – Wat and Hill tribe woman
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Golden Budda, Wat Pho, Bangkok
Wat Pho - the oldest and largest Wat in Bangkok.
WAT PHRA SI SANPHET,
AYUTTHAYA
Ayutthaya served as the
capital of Thailand for 417
years from 1350AD to
1767AD, and now serves as
a World Heritage site.
The area around these
ruins has served as:
•a royal palace;
•a monastic temple;
•pagodas (chedis) for
royal remains;
•a royal chapel and halls
of worship.
Grand Palace
Bangkok
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Terracotta Soldiers, Xian, China
Forbiden Palace, Beijing, China
Angkor Wat Cambodia
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Halong Bay, Vietnam
Halong Bay, Vietnam
History of the Silk Road
• The Silk Road opens
The route from China to the west was opened around 200 BC, but
the golden age of the Silk Road was not until around 600 AD, which
coincided with the Tang dynasty in China. During 1200 AD there was
a resurgence of the Silk Road trade. This was shortlived, because of
the ravages of Ghengis Khan and Timur the Great, the development
of maritime trade routes, and the increasing desertification of
eastern Central Asia, which had made travel by caravan more and
more perilous.
• The end of the Silk Road
With the establishment of the Ming dynasty in China came the end
of the silk trade along the Silk Road. However, the interchange
between oasis towns along the Silk Road has continued to some
extent.
• The Karakoram Highway
Today's equivalent of the Silk Road is the Karakoram Highway,
which was built by China and Pakistan and runs from Islamabad to
Kashgar. The main difference, however, is that instead of camels
carrying bales of silk the traffic consists of trucks carrying oil.
Registan Square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Taj Mahal, Agra,India
Pink Palace, Jaipur, India
Krak de Chevalier, Syria
Petra, Jordan
Dead Sea
Wailing Wall, Jerusalem
Cappadocia, Turkey
Troglodyte rock formations in Cappadocia, Turkey