An Amsterdam canal tour offers a good overview of the city’s attractions. Of the mooring at the Central Station, the tour leads past at the Film Museum Eye. The building, opened in April 2012, was designed by the Austrian architectural office Delugan Meissl Associated Architects. Please watch the video You are currently viewing a placeholder […]
Amsterdam walking through the city center
Amsterdam, walking through the city is an ideal way to collected first impressions of the city. By metro we reached the Nieuwmarkt, where a small carnival takes place. In the middle of the square is an old city gate. The city was crowded with locals and tourists and the preparations for the Koninginnedag, Dutch national holiday, […]
Dujiangyan Irrigation System – China
The Dujiangyan Irrigation System was built 2300 years ago by order of the provincial governor Li Bing. It is located about 60 km northwest of Chengdu. Here, the Minjiang, an important tributary of the Jangtse was divided in the middle by a dam and a flat dyke, the so-called fish mouth. The water of the […]
Wannian Temple at Mount Emei
The Wannian Temple is the oldest surviving temple on Mount Emei. Among the over 200 temples that existed at one time, only 20 remain today. The rest had been destroyed mainly during the Cultural Revolution. The 3099 m high Mount Emei, also called Da Guang Ming Shan (Mountain of Great Light), is in the central […]
Emei Shan – China
Emei Shan is one of the 4 sacred mountains in China and symbolizes fire. Our guide had great respect for the Tibetan macaques, who do not appear that holy. By car you can drive along a beautiful winding road to an altitude of 2500 m above sea level. After a half an hour of walking […]
Giant Buddha of Leshan – China
The Giant Buddha of Leshan lies at the confluence of Min Jang, Dadu and Qingyi near the city of Leshan approx. 130 km south of Chengdu in the province of Sichuan. Among the sights of the 1,300 year-old city of Leshan are the Lingyun Temple and Wuyou Temple, but Leshan became famous for the 71 […]