Asia Travel Blog

Mostly, the countries in Middle East are located in desert, a place that normally can't be enjoyed since wherever we see around, only sand that we can see. Doha, as one city in Qatar, was in that condition. But, today, after built roads and many highrise buildings, many tourists came and visited Doha. Especially since Asian Games and MotoGP event were held there.

Today, mosque is not only for religious place for moslem to pray but it can be used for tourism object. We can see this in Abu Dhabi. A mosque, named Syekh Zayed mosque, which is located Uni Arab Emirat (UAE) is a good sample. As a third biggest mosque, after Masjidil Haram in Mecca and Nabawi mosque in Madina, Syekh Zayed mosque was built in order to give honour for Sheikh Zayed, a father founder of Uni Emirat. The cost for build this mosque was about US$ 545 million and can accomodate about 40,000 person.

On China New Year, couple days ago, the Tiananment and Forbidden City became the destination for celebrate the occasion. The tourists came from any where, not only the domestic but also from abroad. It's about hundred thousands tourist attended in Tiananment, even the weather wasn't quite ...

On Feb 2-4, Kyoto will held Setsubun Festival. Setsubun means the day before the beginning of each seasons and is celebrated yearly on Feb 3. During this festival, many shrines and temples will do special rituals in order to cleanse away all the evils, which many ...

Hangzhou, capital city of Zheijang province, is offering tour to a beautiful lake scene, historical temple, until a thousand age tea garden. Visiting this city will remind us how important to live with nature in harmony pattern. Hangzhou is located in Tianmu mountain with cool air about 15-25 degree celcius. You can called it as a quiet and beautiful city. In Indonesia, you can find the similarity in Puncak or Bandung. Back to Hangzhou, we can find many little rivers with the clean water. In the edge of street, we will see many liu trees in a rows. Many gardens in city corner are maintained and have sharp.

In Ankara, we can find an extraordinary Roman bathing place, because it's age is more than 500 years. At least some evidences said that. This place is located in Cankiri street, in office district at Ankara. Actually, this place is open museum which divided into 2 part. The first part is the bathing place, and the second is street pillar bit in the east of bathing place.

Thulhaagiri, means "Lover Paradise", is located in North of Male. You can reach it about 25 minutes from the Male Airport International, using speed boat. This island is surrounded by a magnificent beautification of sea, because once you see it, I'm sure you won't ...

Bangkok was founded as the Thai capital in 1782 and sited on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River. Many development was established by following riverine pattern. For example, royal and other major buildings were constructed facing the river. Beyond, a nework of canals served as highways and byways into the larger urban area, hence the old soubriquet 'Venice of the East'.

Islamabad is well known as capital city of Pakistan. Recently, there was a chaos happened there, on a 'Red Mosque'. Well, actually I don't want to talk about the chaos but the beauty which is hidden on that city.