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# 153: Seeing the Eighth Wonder of the World
Idea # 153 – Visit of Dubai Dubai is the most important city and the first port of the United Arab Emirates. Situated on the Persian Gulf, it is major of the emirate of
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#509 : Exploring the archeological and historical site of Ouplistikhe in Georgia
Idea #509 – Exploring the archeological and historical site of Ouplistikhe in Georgia The troglodytic city of Ouplistsikhé (in Georgian: “city of God”), situated on Mtkvari in 10 km east of Gori, in Georgia,
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#498 : Visiting the Black Bastion of Alexandropol in Gyumri in Arménie
Idea #498 – Visiting the Black Bastion of Alexandropol in Gyumri in Arménie In 1804, Gyumri, or Gyumri, was integrated into the Russian Empire, after the Russian-Persian war. In 1837, the Russian czar Nicolas Ier made rename
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#511 : Visiting Jvari monastery in Georgia
Idea #511 – Visiting Jvari monastery in Georgia The monastery of Jvari, or Djvari (in Georgian: ” Monastery of the Cross “) is an orthodox Georgian monastery of the VIth century situated near Mtskheta.
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# 193: Exploring the tomb of the first emperor
Idea # 193: Exploring the tomb of China’s first emperor in Xi’an In the East of Xi An, the former capital of China, rises the isolated and doubtless never raped tumulus of the first emperor
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#620 : Visiting one of the first Central Asian cities in Sarazm in Tajikistan
Idea #620 – Visiting one of the first Central Asian cities in Sarazm, Tajikistan Sarazm, which means “the beginning of the earth”, is an archaeological site that testifies to sedentary human settlements in Central
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#397 : Exploring the Moghol’s necropolis of Delhi
Idea #394 – Visiting Humayun’s tumb in Dehli The Humayun’tumb is a complex of moghole architecture in Delhi, in India is. The site is near Purana Qila to Nizamuddin Est and shelters the grave
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#377: Diving with a Napoleon Wrasse
Idée #377 – Diving with a Napoleon Wrasse The Napoleon or huge wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus) is a species of large-sized fishes which can reach 2,30 m of length. It is present in tropical waters
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#507 : Meeting the oldest european human Homo Gerogicus Erectus
Idea #507 – Meeting the oldest european human Homo Georgicus Erectus in the archeological site of Dmanissi in Georgia The prehistoric archeological site of Dmanissi was discovered during the excavations of a medieval village,
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#397 : Exploring the Mangrove in Sri Lanka
Idea #397 – Exploring the Mangrove in Sri Lanka The mangrove swamp is an ecosystem of maritime swamp including a grouping of specific vegetables as palétuvierrs, developing only in the foreshore, that is the
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#415 : Visiting the Aurobindo’s Ashram
Idée #415 – Visiting the Aurobindo’s Ashram The ashram of Sri Aurobindo was established in Pondicherry on November 24th, 1926. Sri Aurobindo withdraws there then with his partner, Mirra Alfassa, more known under the
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# 123: Seeing giant Bats for a few Baht
Idea # 123 – See arboreal giant bats in Thailand The huge ginger Bat (Pteropus giganteus) whose scale is from 1,20 to 1,50 m for a weight of 600 g 1,6 kg is an Asian species
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#614 : Visiting the old streets of Istaravchan in Tajikistan
Idea #614 – Visiting the old streets of Istaravchan in Tajikistan Named Kir by the Parthians, Cyropol by Alexander the Great, and Oura-Tiubé by the Russians and the Soviets, Istaravchan has one of the
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#606 : Exploring the Scythian Necropolis of Besshatyr in Kazakhstan
Idea #605 – Exploring the Scythian Necropolis of Besshatyr in Kazakhstan The Besshatyr necropolis is the main ethnographic and archaeological site of the Altyn Emel Nature Park. Besshatyr is a burial place of the
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#384 : Studying the production of Ceylon Tea
Idée #384 – Visiting the tea fields in Ceylon Sri Lanka, first world tea exporter and the fourth world producer, exports almost all of his productions, that is 95 % of 300 000 tons
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