Tallinn is a port city on the Gulf of Finland, the capital and largest city of the small Baltic country of Estonia. The city was built on a vantage point at the opening of the Gulf of Finland and over the years it has, due to its key port position, incited the attacks...
Saint Joseph’s Oratory is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and a National Historic Site of Canada commanding a spectacular hilltop setting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is Canada’s largest church & the largest shrine anywhere in the world honouring Jesus’...
Occupying some 400 km² of tropical forest near the present-day town of Siem Reap in north-western Cambodia, the UNESCO World Heritage listed archaeological district of Angkor consists of hundreds of sculptured stone Buddhist and Hindu temples built to glorify a...
Hué in central Vietnam was, from 1802 until 1945, the former imperial capital of the Vietnamese Nguyen dynasty, the capital of unified Vietnam & the political, cultural and religious centre of the country. However, given it’s location near the geographical...
The Old Quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital & second largest city, is a district of narrow, tree-lined, scooter infested streets full of ancient traders and general mishmash that’s unique to Hanoi. This area of the city has been a lively trading centre since...
Part of the UNESCO-listed Historic Centre of Macau in southern China, the Ruins of Sao Paulo (Saint Paul) is the most famous landmark in the former Portuguese colony, now a Special Administrative Region of China. Once hailed as the greatest Christian monument in Asia,...
The Tian Tan Buddha, more commonly known as The Big Buddha, is found on Lantau Island, the largest of the islands that form part of Hong Kong’s New Territories. The 34-metre high, 200 tonne statue, depicting a Buddha Amoghasiddhi, was constructed over a three...
Hiroshima is a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan which will forever be remembered as the city that, on August 6, 1945, was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb to be dropped on a populated area. Today Hiroshima, with a population...
Todai-ji is a Buddhist temple complex located in the city of Nara, Japan. Its Great Buddha Hall, which houses the world’s largest bronze statue of the Buddha Vairocana, is also the largest wooden building in the world. The temple, home to the the Japanese...
The Tosho-gu Temple is a Shinto shrine, one of three complexes containing over 100 buildings and structures – two Shinto shrines & one Buddhist temple – that make up the Shrines and Temples of Nikko, a UNESCO-listed World Heritage Site set in wooded...
