The Rocks That Give Birth
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 12, 2018
In the Freita mountain range in northern Portugal, close to a village called Castanheira, is a huge block of granite that periodically eject...
Showing posts with the label China
Yaodong: China’s Pit Houses
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2018
For more than four thousand years, on the Loess Plateau in northern China, people have been residing in caves known as yaodong, which is Chi...
Rainbow Colored Mountains
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2018
Soil is typically brown, but when mixed with the right minerals in right quantities, it can yield a fascinating range of colors. You can see...
Tianducheng: A Fake Paris in China
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2018
These two photographs of the Eiffel Tower look very similar, but they aren’t the same, which you can probably tell from their different surr...
The Floating Fish Farms of China
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2017
In the sheltered coastal waters of the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, there are large fish farms whe...
The Mystery of The Longyou Caves
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 8, 2017
In 1992, a strangely curious man named Wu Anai, near the Chinese village of Shiyan Beicun in Longyou County, based on a hunch, began to pump...
The Moving Facade of Bund Finance Center, Shanghai
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2017
A new financial quarter is being built near the waterfront of Shanghai's old town. Designed by British architectural firms, Foster + Par...
The Temple of The Flying Monks
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2017
That tiny orange figure levitating above this futuristic structure high on the Songshan mountain in rural Henan, China, is indeed a monk, al...
Lucky Knot Bridge in Changsha, China
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 29, 2016
A curvaceous new footbridge inspired by the Mobius strip has opened in Changsha, China, that offers pedestrians a variety of different route...
Taipei’s Typhoon-Bent Mailboxes
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2016
In August 2015, a powerful typhoon named Soudelor slammed into the east coast of Taiwan bringing torrential rain and fierce wind in excess o...
Chaka Salt Lake: Mirror Of The Sky
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2016
Chaka Salt Lake near the town Chaka in Wulan county is one of the most beautiful lakes of the Qaidam Basin in Northwest China’s Qinghai prov...
China’s ‘Transit Elevated Bus’ Drives Above Traffic Jams
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2016
China has unveiled a futuristic ‘straddling bus’ that’s capable of driving over other cars stuck in nightmarish traffic jams which has becom...
Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2016
On 12 May, 2008, a devastating earthquake in Wenchuan County, in Sichuan, China, left nearly 70,000 people killed and over 18,000 missing. A...
Colossal Statue of Guan Yu in Jingzhou
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2016
An enormous statue of the ancient Chinese warrior Guan Yu was recently unveiled at a park in Jingzhou city in Hubei province. The statue dep...
Famous Porcelain Tower of Nanjing Rebuilt
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2016
The lost Porcelain Tower of Nanjing, ranked one of the seven wonders of the medieval world, is back in Nanjing more than a hundred and fifty...
The Alpine Lakes And Waterfalls of Jiuzhaigou
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2016
The Jiuzhaigou Valley, located at the foot of the snow-capped Minshan Mountain, in the north of Sichuan province, China, is a place of excep...
A Walkway Over Water in China
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2016
The Shiziguan scenic area, in Xuan'en County of central China's Hubei Province, has unveiled a new floating walkway over a brilliant...
The Floating Guangji Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2016
Guangji Bridge, also known as Xiangzi Bridge, is an ancient bridge across the Han River in Chaozhou, Guangdong province, China. It is renown...
Anping Bridge, China’s Longest Ancient Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2016
Spanning the bay between Jinjiang County and Nan'an County, west of Fuzhou City, China, is the beautiful 12th century Anping Bridge, als...
Women’s World War 2 Memorials
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 12, 2016
All wars change the lives of those they touch, but nothing was as transformative and revolutionary as the Second World War, particularly for...
