50 kilometres from Bagan, perched on top of an ancient volcanic plug on the slopes of an extinct volcano known as Mount Popa is the sacred Popa Taung Kalat monastery. The monastery is famous for being home to ’37 nat’ (spirits) which are represented by mannequin statues which can be Continue Reading
Temples
Golden Yangon – A City of Pagodas and Giant Buddha’s
Situated on top of Sanguttara Hill, the 99 meter high Shwedagon Pagoda is the crown jewel of Yangon and the most sacred Buddhist Pagoda in Myanmar. The Pagoda that is rumoured to be more than 2,600 years old is said to be the oldest Buddhist stupa in the world. We Continue Reading
A Temple of Heaven
[no_toc] Having arrived in Beijing early morning we had a whole day to explore at least one of the city’s top 10 great attractions so we chose the Temple of Heaven as it was walking distance from the hotel. We had spent the morning checking into our hotel organised through Continue Reading
Why we Love Ubud
Bali is to Australians as Ibiza is to Brits. Neither places had ever inspired me to want to visit because of their reputation for drunken bogan behaviour from the aforementioned nationalities. I was probably one of the few Aussie’s that had never been to Bali, even Vaughan had that one Continue Reading