UNESCO World Heritage sites that we visited:
Five out of six historical UNESCO sites in Sri Lanka are concentrated in the so-called cultural triangle, in the northern …
Continue reading “Dambulla caves – the painted caves of the Golden Mountain Temple”
Today, the ruins of Anuradhapura, the first capital of Sri Lanka, cover a widespread area on the outskirts of the …
Continue reading “Anuradhapura – one of the World’s oldest Buddhist settlements”
It is a busy afternoon at the Sri Dalada Maligawa, the major sanctuary in Sri Lanka’s former royal town of …
When we arrive at the Würzburg Residence it is raining cats and dogs. And all the other tourists visiting this …
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As we are preparing our trip to Sri Lanka we read up on Buddhism and we also recall some of …
In the Slovakian contryside, Banska Stiavnica is a small mining town that used to be rich, immensely rich even: There …
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In 2002 we travelled to India for a few weeks of holidays. At that time we lived in Japan and …
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“It doesn’t look like rain today – let’s leave the Thomas Mann Museum for tomorrow. We’d better head straight for …
Continue reading “Wonderful November days on the Curonian Spit”
The street is full of people, many of them standing with folded hands and looking up to the town gate. …
The hillside is so steep that steps lead up to the top of five strangely shaped, almost conic Kernave hills …
Continue reading “The steep Kernave hill forts near the Neris river”
