Lonely pinnacle on the way back
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Bitahai Lake near Zhongdian
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Typical Afghanian truck
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Walking along a road in Herat
Monks entering the Gopura complex
Walking on the edge of Khao Phra Vihaan
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Remains of the first level
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Tram and Dom
Pier at the Khlong Maha Sawat
preparing the Chinese tea
Typical house in Lijiang
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Naxi performance
Stone Forest (Shilin)
Stone Forest (Shilin)
Wat Luang Kone and its chedi
Tha river
An intersection in Thimphu
Dzongchung at Punakha Dzong
Jampey Lhakhang monastery complex
Trongsa, Trongsa Dzong and Ta Dzong
Along the Tang valley
Handicraft shop in Yatna near Ura
Checkpoint in Ura
An intersection in Jakar
Shopping in Jakar
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At the road in Wangdue Phodrang
Inside a store in Jakar
At the Paro market
Street scenery in Paro
Airport Paro in Bhutan from Druk Air
Landscape on the way to Zhongdian
Songzanlin Monastery
Boarding the coach No. 11
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The resistence of some opulent citicen beside the Stone Forest
The Stone Forest is situated in the Lunan Yu Autonomous County 120 kilometers southeast of Kunming. A typical karst formation, the Stone Forest covers an area of more than three hundred square kilometres. Scientific research has shown that what is now the Stone Forest was 270 million years ago an immense expanse of water with a vast stretch of limestone sediment formed over the years on the seafloor. As a result of the crustal movement, the seabed rose gradually and a large piece of land thus came into being. Exposed to rains and winds, eroded by the elements, the thrtist-up limestone ranges were shaped bv time. About 200 million years ago numerous stone peaks, pillars, and stalagmites rose abruptly from the ground and towered into the sky, extending now as far as the eye can see, looking like a vast forest of stone, hence the name "the Stone Forest".
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