[Hornbill town] ~ Sarawak

Like the Sabah state, Sarawak is located on Borneo. It is one of Malaysia's largest state, commonly known as "hornbill town" the north South China Sea, Southeast and Southern is adjacent to Indonesia.

When the expansion of Western country invasion  to the world, while Sarawak is also difficult to stop a strong invasion of Western forces. 1839, British explorer James. Brook (JamesBrooke) to help Brunei insurgency after the dynasty, was bestowed as the ruler of Sarawak (Rajah, second only to Sudan), so Brooke has been the ruling family until the Second World War. After World War II, Sarawak became a British colony until it declared independence in 1963, becoming one of Malaysia's lands. The White rules in this land about a century.

Sarawak ethnic diversity (about 23 races), is rich in cultural resources. More than two-thirds of the land area of tropical rain forests, growing over 2,000 varieties of rare flora and fauna, not only attract tourists, but also to ecologists and archaeologists studies have endless topics to discuss.

Kuching civilization

When James. Brooke ruled Sarawak, he chose to Kuching (Kuching) as the base. Some people call it for the Borneo Cat City Kuching, because the word in the Malay middle finger it is a cat. Why? Because there are many along the river in Kuching called matakuching trees, this tree literally translated as cat tree, that is, we say that the longan trees, so there is a Kuching market in very large white statue. 1988 officially upgraded to a market for the capital of Sarawak.

Kuching, Sarawak River will be divided into two markets, South Kuching is the more prosperous urban centers. But also because this particular case, so there are two mayor of Kuching City, is the rest of the world, Malaysia is also rare to see. Of course, in such a colorful city, we do have many places for you entertained. In general, urban tourism is best tourist information center as a starting point, first Sarawak Museum, the road to the left of the old building (built in 1891), the right for the new building (built in 1983) It is best to appreciate history and culture of Sarawak base. The museum is not only a relic of the Stone Age, but also has flora and fauna specimens of Sarawak, the Second World War Japanese army left behind the weapons and photographs. Old bridge connected between the new museum, new museum and a sale of local products and T-shirts, urban outskirts there is a "cat" Museum to reflect the origins of the market in Kuching.

The other way in the courts, there is a Romanesque building Courts Building, built in 187l, is the administrative center of the white government that year, construction is very elegant, the roof has a Chung House. Sarawak is now not only the law enforcement center, is also a famous tourist landmark.

Built in 1878 Magelieda Castle (FortMargherita), is not only a beautiful location scenery, but also Sarawak River one of the most important strategic position for the second generation of the white rulers to resist foreign enemies and the construction of a fortress.  The white rule, there have been heavily stationed at the Police Museum in 1971, changed to (PoliceMuseum). At present the museum collection since the year since l841 of arms, military and police uniforms, opium pipes and so on, the rule of an entire history of Borneo, are a complete remain in the museum.

How Kuching City Block Temple, has for centuries, the most ancient temples are Shou-Ting Fu Deci (Tua Pek Kong Temple) known locally as "Big Bogong Miao," 200 years of history, Temple in the worship of the Lord God is god, originally named Zhang Fude's god, is the ancient Zhou Dynasty Shui Guan, Feng Gong by Albert during his lifetime, so for the people dedicated to worship; of the second temple in Kuching, is sub-A Street, Xuan Tian Shang Di Temple, the temple also dedicated to the public and to spend public Yan Ma.

A few hundred meters away from the temple of God, in order to Fengshan Temple (Hong SanSiTemple), temple worship is China's Fujian Province Nan Shan Kwok Shing Wang hanging poetry. Reportedly, the Xianfeng years, the Beijing Palace fire, Guo Changfu apparitions fight fires, which were Xianfeng Emperor encomienda "security Hirosawa Venerables" Every year in February Nianer the evening have been held in Kuching, the grand princes Shengjia St. outings, in order to to celebrate Christmas, this is the biggest in Kuching God tour to celebrate one of the activities. In addition to these two well-known outside the temple, located in the middle of the forest up to Huashan Lu Min Goddess of Mercy Temple, and with the Xuan Tian Shang Di Temple Tin Hau Temple with a street of the temple are worth a visit.

Kuching City, the ancient buildings are also fairly well-known attractions; which was built in 1870, the state capital of yuan (Astana) is connected by two castles synthesis of three buildings, is the first generation of white Raja Sarawak James gave the second generation of Raja Charles Shibuluoke a wedding gift; while the High Court Building (CourtHouse) and pull the monument (Rajah Monument) were built in 1874 and 1924, the former is still Sarawak the seat of the High Court and lower courts. Opposite the Law Courts Building in Fort Quartet (Square Tower), and Park, Fort, sand Zhuo bridge, the Post Headquarters Building, Kuching market are also well-known ancient buildings.

Kuching Nianer miles away from the door of Dan Long (Bau) 100 years ago, gold, antimony, mercury and other minerals are mainly grown, Dan Long doors are a beautiful man-made lake an Avon is determined by hard-working Chinese laborers a hoe a provision into a shovel, and now, Avon clarity, scenic, and therefore, "Sarawak's Guilin" laudatory. In addition to Avon, Shilong still wind tunnel near the door, Cave, ghosts and other attractions hole.

Shan Wang (Santubong) is a half-hour journey from Kuching's famous waterfront, according to legend, in the long, long time ago, lived here two princesses, one looks beautiful, is Santubong princess, and the other slightly less than it is Zhang noted for its clarity Princess, one day, Zhang noted for its clarity the heart of the princess because of jealousy stabbed Santubong princess sword, Shan Jiang Jian Wang Princess reluctantly pulled out, thrown Harmonious Zhang princess, causing her to fall into the water and turned it into Mashiko islands, but Santubong princess has been turned into Santubong Hill.

Qi intriguing human search

Kuching from the road about four very Chung is the Sarawak Cultural Village (Damai Cultural villge) where, in this cultural village, you can see Sarawak multi-ethnic microcosm of the social and cultural life. Culture Village to earn the sea in front is a blue water and the sea looked around, listened attentively to hear the melodious the "Chabay" sound, a scene that is intoxicated.

Cultural village buildings, is based on various ethnic groups with the traditional format of the original construction, and exquisite wood carvings gate, the unique culture of the village hall, is to use bamboo, wood, salt, wood, "sub-A" leaves of the original material built. Cultural village, people of all piling rice, fish, carved handicrafts, showcasing their daily lives; whenever a visitor, national artists in traditional music, danced their folk dances, a welcome guest entertainment. ‥ swim across the Sarawak Cultural Village, Sarawak, if it had been visited the original village.

Sarawak has many national parks, Bali Costa Rica National Park is one of the earliest development, but also the most popular national parks, and also the most easily accessible national parks. Kuching market by starting to go, can take the ferry can also use the convenient buses.

Bali Columbia Park covers an area of 2,742 hectares, a rugged peninsula of sand and gravel. Eight of the jungle trails, including the path leading to coastal rocks that allows you a glimpse of beautiful beach rocks, beach facing the South China Sea, an excellent field of vision, is a good base for playing in the water.

Mount Road Mountain National Park is Sarawak's largest national park, an area of 529 square kilometers. In its original natural environment, rich in caves limestone landscape and the ever-unpredictable terrain, as the world's most popular tourist spots of ecological conservation.

Currently in Taiwan, there are flights to and from Taipei, Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur, Kuching one between Kuching, Malaysia Airlines also has domestic flights connecting 10 cities in Sarawak, transportation is very convenient. Tropical style, ancient culture, the beauty of Sarawak waiting for you to discover.

Venice

Venice Bridge of Sighs

Venice is not only bridges and more bridges were also very strange, have the freedom bridge, fist bridge, straw bridge, Bridge of Sighs Bridge ...... many of the names of some have their own origins. Such as the Bridge of Sighs, is an arcade bridge, because it is in the Doge's Palace and prisons across the river between, is dying on death row in the past the only way toward the execution ground, whenever the prisoners now, waiting to see the bridge family members on board Farewell to the scene, always lamented incessantly, and so this bridge called the Bridge of Sighs, Hidden Dragon. General travel team this bridge as a must-visit attractions.

Venice Alito Bridge

 

In the canal, there are a unique bridge Alituosi a grid, the most famous. It is located downtown on the Grand Canal, by the architect Antonio da ponte design, was built in 1588 -1591. This is a single-hole marble arch, bridge length 48 m, width 22 meters, 7.9 meters high. Sleek, fine carvings, dating back about 500 years of history. Spacious bridge with high arches, arches have opened a meat, vegetable and fish markets, the two sides are most representative of the old Venetian buildings. The world-famous big traveler Marco Polo's home on the bridge in the vicinity, is a three-storey building.

St. Petersburg attractions - Palace Introduction

Was built in the years 1754-1762, is the most famous classical architecture of St. Petersburg is one of the mid-18th century Baroque architectural style of the outstanding example of architecture. Is located in St. Petersburg Palace square. This is a Baroque-style three-storey building, by the famous architect to design rust out. About 230 meters wide and 140 meters high 22 meters, was closed rectangle. Covers an area of 90,000 square meters, construction area of more than 46,000 square meters. Today, as part of the State Hermitage Museum. Now the museum occupies 5 buildings, there is world culture since ancient times the 2.7 million works of art, including paintings 15000, 12000 sculptures, 600 thousand line drawings, more than 100 million pieces of coins, medals and medals, as well as 224,000 practical works of art. Hermitage and London's British Museum, the Louvre in Paris, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, together called the world's four major museums.

Florence, Leaning Tower of Pisa

Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: Torre pendente di Pisa or Torre di Pisa) is the Italian city of Pisa Cathedral, stand-alone bell tower, located behind the Cathedral of Pisa, is the Piazza dei Miracoli, one of the three buildings. Tower was built in 1173, designed for vertical construction, but soon after the start of the project due to uneven ground and the soil soft and tilt, completed in 1372, the tower tilted to the southeast.

Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy and the Tuscan city of Pisa province, north of Piazza dei Miracoli, the Square of the large lawn littered with a group of religious buildings, they are the cathedral (built in 1063 -13 century), baptism Church (built in 1153 -14 years of the century), the Clock Tower (that is, Leaning Tower of Pisa, built in 1173 -1.35 thousand years) and cemetery (built in 1278 -15 century), their outer walls are milky white marble, each relatively independent but another to form a unified Romanesque architectural style. Leaning Tower of Pisa is a symbol of the city of Pisa in 1987, it and the adjacent Cathedral, Baptistery, with its cemetery of the 11th century to the 14th century Italian architecture of the huge impact, but by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization named the world's heritage.

Russia's new Saint Cemetery

Built in 1524, where the Smolensk church has five domes Guangcan Can the sun shining golden, with brown convent walls and lush ancient shine into the fun, the whole Moscow's most elegant and beautiful, but also the most historically significant one of the arts complex. Convent Biyou a cemetery, as the church elites and aristocratic burial.

Since 1923, the new Saint cemetery became famous cemetery. Writer, Gogol, Chekhov, Fadeyev and "How the Steel Was Tempered" author Ostrovsky (top right figure), the painter Isaac. Levitan, movie actor Shukshin well-known politicians (such as Khrushchev, Mikoyan, Gromyko), military strategist, artists and scientists are buried here. Almost every gravestone is a sculpture, works of art. For example, Khrushchev's tombstone (left in the diagram) from black and white marble, all three cross-cutting structure, the middle is a stone head; heroine Zoya moving image of the tombstone: Her hands were tightly tied behind his back, clothes broken, Tingzhao bare chest, legs slightly curved, the first high back lifted, and they have shown a variety of shapes and characteristics of the identity of the deceased.

Wang Ming's tomb is here, a half-length statue, wearing a tunic, his eyes looking straight ahead. To have older Chinese people, Wang Ming is no stranger to the name. China's revolutionary history, has his page. Wang Ming had studied in the Soviet Union, known as the Stalin of students. Have been sent to China as the senior leadership of the CPC. Wang Ming's tenure as the leader of Chinese Communist Left had committed the error of opportunism and adventurism. And returned to the Soviet Union to work until it passed away. Saint buried in the new cemetery.

World Music Capital - Vienna

Austria's capital Vienna is a city, is also a state. State and the city of Vienna, Vienna, an area of 414 square kilometers, population 1.7 million. The area of the state is only 0.5 percent of the national territory, but the whole one-fifth of Austria's population concentrated here. The Republic of Austria Vienna is the political, economic and cultural center, the Austrian Federal Council, the National Assembly, the Presidential Palace, the Prime Minister House, the national government ministries and the Supreme Judicial institutions are gathered in this city. Meanwhile, the City of Vienna has also enjoyed an important international status. Past the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Vienna is the capital of the surviving former luxurious.

She is Europe's oldest and most important cultural, artistic and tourist cities. After World War II devastated the city of Vienna, people have rebuilt. Today, all of Vienna's historic buildings have been renovated. With Austria's accession to the European Union, Eastern and Western Europe in Vienna again became the center of commercial and economic exchanges. For the tourists, Vienna has the face of strange things. Music admirers can be a concert thousands of miles to come to visit the temple of music. For many visitors who can not see the fascinating life of the Danube will become a regret.

 

There is no doubt part of the Old City of Vienna, Europe's most spectacular ancient city. Stefan urban centers to the medieval Gothic style church, mainly baroque Hofburg Imperial Palace The magnificent 19th-century Vienna, built around the city streets to the scene of the Old City into a peak. Roaming the Old City in Vienna, the Austro-Hungarian Empire all left the palace, churches, cafes, pastry shops, gardens and streets left people with unforgettable impression.

Madrid: passion and romance

In many European novels, Madrid is a mysterious place. The wide boulevard connects the narrow streets, European-style high-rise buildings silhouetted against the Arab-style red tile and white walls - the contradictions are harmonious.
Madrid, an old and new exist side by side, East and West blend of magical places.

GranVia Style
Spain's well-known fashion critic Jieweierma statins (JavierMartinezReverte) is this description of GranVia street: "If someone GranVia walk the streets, he will soon find here the air filled with a kind of pioneer, because there is a complete the hearts of his soul. At the same time, we see the style of traditional and multi-ethnic co-existence, a wandering spirit and character fuse fashion. "
I stood on the plateau overlooking the Liberian Madrid, the first thing that catches your eyes is the huge billboards. This section of Madrid's busiest streets is full of a variety of advertising, from the weekend's performances to the latest cosmetic Matador pictures, varied, everything.

GranVia night on the street is full of flow with one of bustling scene. There are many cinemas and theaters at night markets, a number of lovers waiting for the theater. The street where there are many Internet cafes, a number of young people in the surf. Fall and winter seasons, Madrid often rains at night, bustling crowd in the rain, I took a digital camera to record the city's unique night.

GranVia means "street" from 1910 Alfonso XIII era began to take shape here during the Spanish Civil War is the city center, between the CallaAlcalah and ReddeSanLuis, you can feel the traces of the French style. GranVia Street, known as Madrid's Broadway or the first street, with no special large-scale department stores, Madrid's fashion sense is through some of the details and the overall appearance reflected, and this is Madrid's style.
Leather Products
The reputation of the Spanish leather goods is without any advertising. Madrid's fashion street, Zara store brand is always crowded. Characterized by their goods, which is cheap and suitable for young people to consumption, the models imitated quickly. I just saw a Zegna store price 1000 euros a white kid shirt, put behind companion joked, and had never seen other handsome guy before me. In this house Zara's flagship store, also has a similar style leather shirt, and cost only 100 euros, but the chest is too small to put on and found the cortex also can not compare with the Ermenegildo Zegna. But because full consideration to the young people's spending power, so Zara store is always crowded. This is a Madrid fashion industry, a very typical example, the Spanish fashion brand, always has a value for money, fashion sense and the freshness of the characteristics of popular mid-range consumers.
Zara is a listing of the Spanish Inditex Group's Ortega (Spain's richest man, with assets exceeding the 10 billion euros) of the brand created, 20 years in 41 countries around the world with 1340 stores, the price of fashion in the not to fight advertising, consumer word of mouth alone and the purchase rate, in the highly competitive fashion industry play world, the Spanish fashion became the fashion retail business around the new force. It also reflects the expansion of Spain's real attitude of the fashion business.
In Madrid, you will find leather goods can be done very rich, a leather shop there is a leather wallet especially attractive zero-line of sight, 1 euro 1, barrel, it seems small, but loaded dozens of coins cents No doubt, the colors green, yellow, orange, light blue, it is not put it down.
Square Capital
Madrid has more than 300 square, Puerta del Sol (PuertadeAlcala) is the center of the city, seven to the four radial extension of this street. Establish a central plaza with a unique flower sculpture - one of the bears climb trees escorted, which is the emblem of Madrid city.
Another well-known square is Piazza di Spagna (PlazadeEspana), also known as Plaza Cervantes, Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes (Cervantes) is a monument to mark the Spanish Square.
Cervantes statue was built in 1835. Sitting in a chair on the high-profile writers look solemn, holding the hands of his masterpieces as "Don Quixote." Monument under the "Don Quixote" in the two attendants of his hero Don Quixote and Panza. Don Quixote was wearing a suit of armor, riding a skinny horse, from my close-up shooting under, I seem to see both master and servant is ready to join efforts to teach fighting windmills.
To commemorate this great writer, Miguel de Cervantes's death day - March 23 was set as the Reading Festival, the annual day of national large-scale book fairs will be organized, and presented the highest Cervantes prize for literature.

RITIRO Park (ParquedelBuenRitiro) is located in Madelia Alfonso XII Street (Alfonse Ⅻ) east of an area of 130 hectares, is the largest park in Madrid, is also Spain's kings hiding and resting places. RITIRO in Spanish means "happy retreat", how meaningful name. Park built in the 15th century, in 1868 after the establishment of the First Republic, Spain, the people of Madrid began to open.
In the afternoon, stroll in the RITIRO parks, quiet incomparable. Roads criss-cross the park will be a huge park is divided into more than 10 different colors of the garden park.
The huge park is very quiet, just a few people walking around, like in their own private garden linger. Hundreds of air of different, life-like statues to accompany me, of which the largest is the King and Queen of Spain's ancient white statues, they are still alive, when everything handed to wealth and status, death can also be in such a wonderland of "happy retreat" .
Autumn and winter is low season for tourism in Spain, park management personnel are on the artificial lake (Estanque) to clean up, they have the lake drained, used bulldozed addition to  clean silt and debris. Looked dark and the bottom of the lake, I think, next year they will have countless tourists boating around the lake.

Travel reminder
1. Voltage: 220V, power plugs for the two-legged round plug, and in some hotels, the Chinese feet flat plugs can also be used.
2. Fashion Street: GranVia Street, known as Madrid's Broadway or Fifth Avenue, the street, and no special large-scale department stores, specialty shops are more common. In the Spanish Square and Puerta del Sol area, you can also find some interesting shops.

Most of the shops 9:30 to 2 pm business, closing at noon. 5 pm to 8 business (Mon-Sat), major department store is open from 10 am to 9 pm or 10 points. Restaurant around 13:30 to 3:30 lunch, 9 pm to 11 pm for dinner. Of course, most bars and cafes will be operating during the day, usually will provide drinks and some staples.
3. Out the best go hand in hand, to "glance right and left," and pay attention to whether there are suspicious persons; the best passport, air ticket copy, and the original kept separate in order to re-submit documents and air tickets; not to bring too much cash, such as the need to bring in cash, should be decentralized to carry, so that all cash once robbed.

4. In case of a robber, generally do not resist, so life is hurt. Robbed after going to report to the  embassies and consulates re-submit the relevant documents and exit.