The Ingenuity of The ‘Ha-Ha’
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2021
What’s in a wall but a simple structure to keep intruders out, you might say. But a surprising amount of thought goes behind the constructio...
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Mödlareuth: The German Village Divided by The Cold War
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2020
The village of Mödlareuth in south Germany, straddles the border between the two federal states of Bavaria and Thuringia. For more than 14...
Sungbo's Eredo: Africa’s Biggest Monument Nobody Has Heard Of
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2018
Deep in the Nigerian rainforest, there was once an immense kingdom surrounded by a huge earthen wall and moat. Built during the Middle Ages,...
Jealous Wall: Ireland’s Largest Folly
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2017
The Belvedere House and Gardens located on the shores of Lough Ennell near Mullingar, County Westmeath in Ireland, contains several architec...
The Walls of Avila
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2016
The ancient city of Avila is located in central Spain, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, about 100 km to the west of Madrid. ...
The Avalanche Protection Wall of Flateyri
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2016
Flateyri is a small fishing village located on a narrow strip of land at the edge of the sea in the picturesque Westfjords, in northwest Ice...
The Mysterious Desert Kites
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2015
In the 1920s, pilots of the Royal Air Force flying over the deserts of Israel, Jordan and Egypt saw strange line shapes in the ground that t...
The Great Wall of Gorgan
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2015
The Great Wall of Gorgan is a series of ancient defensive fortifications located near Gorgan in the Golestān Province of northeastern Iran, ...
The Stone Walls of Ireland
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 29, 2015
Travelling across rural Ireland from the east to the west, one thing that arouses curiosity among many first time visitors is the hundreds o...
The Great Wall of Kumbhalgarh Fort
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2015
Located 84 km north of Udaipur, in the state of Rajasthan, in western India, Kumbhalgarh Fort is the second most important citadel after Chi...
Bubble Gum Walls: America’s Stickiest Attractions
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2014
Chewing gum litter is a major problem in western countries. According to a study conducted in 2005, Americans chew, on average, 160-180 piec...
The Ancient City Wall of Xi’an
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 26, 2014
The fortification of the city of Xi’an, the ancient capital of Shaanxi province, in the center of the Guanzhong Plain, represents one of the...
The Ancient Sea Wall at Batroun, Lebanon
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 27, 2014
Batroun is a coastal city in northern Lebanon lying 50 km north of Beirut and 30 km south of Tripoli. It is one of the oldest cities in the ...
Old Dragon’s Head: Where The Great Wall of China Meets the Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2012
The Great Wall of China is one of the most amazing piece of architecture and the most ambitious building project ever attempted in the histo...
