Two thousand years ago in India, the legend goes, a Jain priest who could fly, and a disciple who could create gold founded a glorious sacred city on the crest of a mountain. They called it Shatrunjaya (place of victory). Now it is the Jains holiest pilgrimage site, and every year believers come for a day, a week or even months. To most Jains, these pilgrimages to Shatrunjaya, near Palitana in the western state of Gujarat, are sacred obligations. In seeming contrast to their workaday lives as India’s premier bankers …
Going on a vacation with our family must be really great since we would have a better chance to have some fun with all members of our family. However things will be a bit tougher when we have to go for a vacation with baby. It certainly isn’t wise at all to leave our baby at home alone but carrying our baby in the vacation journey on the other side can be confusing since we have to be ensure that our baby safe during our vacation journey.
If you have a …
The vintage red ‘Hotel Indonesia – Kempinski ‘ sign above Jakarta’s busiest traffic circle is nowadays nearly dwarfed by the gleaming skyscrapers all around it, but it’s a curious historical landmark. Known locally by its acronym ‘HI’ , the hotel is an eerie symbol of President Sukarno’s obsessive 1960s effort to create a ‘New Jakarta’ that would bring international respect to his nation and pride to his struggling people. Opened with great hoopla in 1962, Hotel Indonesia epitomized the era’s modernization drive, and as it declined over the years in …
It is quite easy to find your way around Manhattan. The entire midtown and upper Manhattan sections are laid out in a gridiron pattern of streets and avenues. All numbered streets run east and west (crosstown). All avenues run south (downtown) and north (uptown). The problem is choosing what to do in Manhattan. There are so many possibilities. A good place to begin is the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau. It is located at the southwest corner of Central Park at 59th Street. Here you can pick up helpful …
New York is full of facts about both popular and little-known places in the city. Despite its huge population, New York City does not occupy much space. The island of Manhattan is a relatively small place in terms of the land it covers. It is 2.3 miles wide at its widest point. It is only 0.8 mile wide at its narrowest point. It is just under 13-5 miles long. All of Manhattan occupies only 22 square miles. Manhattan is the place most people mean when they say New York City. …
Stretching for almost 4000 miles from the west to the east, Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world. Consists of many cultures and tribes which make Indonesia as the richest country in the term of the culture. There are thousands of different cultures in Indonesia, the historical events, tradition and buildings, Indonesia traditional food is also influenced by some foreign culture like the Chinese, India, Middle East and even Europe. Food is inseparable aspect in Indonesian tradition. It’s because in almost every traditional ceremony held, there are …
