Asia
epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Laughter FactoryCOMEDY (MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %44 281 673; www.thelaughterfactory.com; Radisson Blu Hotel, Salwa Rd) The Laughter Factory organises monthly tours of professional comedians from the international circuit around the ...
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Lonely Planet

OSUIMONO The ‘bowl’ The height of Japanese culinary tradition is the ‘kappo’ style of dining out, where customers are seated at a counter, face to face with the master, or ...
( Category: General August 19,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Timpohon Gate to Layang Layang 'Why am I sweating this much already?' The trip to the summit officially starts at the Timpohon Gate (1866m) and from there it's an 8.72km ...
( Category: Southeast August 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Bill Porter

Artisan carving an inkstone After visiting the workshops, we finally went into the factory store. The supervisor told us that most of the designs were developed by the factory but ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 3,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:DK Publishing

1. Dome Church A Gothic structure topped by an onion-shaped baroque belfry, the Dome Church seems more like a charming village chapel than Estonia’s main Lutheran place of worship. Built ...
( Category: General August 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-09 | Author:Christine Manfield

ESSENTIAL SIGHTS Go for a wander to explore the old town, the narrow laneways around the bazaar, the havelis and so on. Visit Clock Tower Market – check out the ...
( Category: Pictorial August 1,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rough Guides

BY PLANE Nok Air flies to Chumphon from Bangkok’s Don Muang Airport (3 daily; 1hr). It’s possible to buy a combination ticket from Nok all the way through to Ko ...
( Category: General July 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-30 | Author:Insight Guides

Macau’s Maritime Museum exhibits Glyn Genin/Apa Publications Macau’s oldest museum, the Maritime Museum (www.museumaritimo.gov.mo; Wed–Mon 10am–6pm; charge) traces the history of Macau’s connection to the sea. Exhibits cover fishing, seaborne ...
( Category: General July 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Peter Chasseaud & Peter Doyle [Chasseaud, Peter & Doyle, Peter]

Turkish maps in Allied hands A crucial – and unresolved – question is how long before the war large-scale maps of the Gallipoli Peninsula, the Dardanelles and the Asiatic Shore ...
( Category: General July 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-13 | Author:Bill Porter

Kazak hosts at Lake of Heaven The lake was formed long ago by landslides that blocked the only side not hemmed in by the Tienshan Mountains. Then, five years before ...
( Category: General July 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:John Gimlette

After all that had gone on before, what happened next feels like Gilbert and Sullivan. In this scene, there are spies and archers, feathery generals, acrobats, priests, nobles in pearly ...
( Category: India July 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-09 | Author:Peter Levi [Peter Levi]

There are twenty-five lines of this inscription, written with incised guidelines on a smooth-sided, rough-backed slab of white limestone. The script is based on Greek with some special Kushan characteristics, ...
( Category: Travel July 10,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rough Guides

Olympos valley The Olympos valley is quite beautiful in its own right; the vast majority of visitors are content to admire the scenery, chill in the treehouses, and swim or ...
( Category: General July 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-22 | Author:Insight Guides

The tombs of the Nguyen kings lie scattered on the hillsides along either side of the Perfume River, to the west and south of Hue. Although the dynasty had 13 ...
( Category: General June 30,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:DK Publishing

10. Ploshchad Vosstaniya The vast, imposing Ploshchad Vosstaniya, or Uprising Square, gets its name from the events of February 1917, when a group of Russian soldiers refused to fire upon ...
( Category: General June 29,2016 )