IMAGES OF ASIA

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IMAGES OF ASIA
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Sapporo snow and ice festival, Japan
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Kinkaku-ji Temple, (gold temple) Kyoto
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Imperial Palace, Tokyo
Ginza, Tokyo
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Meiji Shrine, Tokyo
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Chiang Mai Wat and Hill tribe woman
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WAT PHRA Bangkok Temple of the Emerald Buddha
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Wat Pho Bangkok
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Bangkok
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Golden Budda, Wat Pho, Bangkok
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Wat Pho - the oldest and largest Wat in Bangkok.
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Grand Palace Bangkok
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Yang t ze Ri ver Ch I na
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Terracotta Soldiers, Xian, China
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Forbiden Palace, Beijing, China
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Tiananmen Square, Beijing
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Angkor Wat Cambodia
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Angkor Wat, Cambodia
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Halong Bay, Vietnam
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Halong Bay, Vietnam
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History of the Silk Road

• The Silk Road opensThe route from China to the
  west was opened around 200 BC, but the golden age
  of the Silk Road was not until around 600 AD,
  which coincided with the Tang dynasty in China.
  During 1200 AD there was a resurgence of the Silk
  Road trade. This was shortlived, because of the
  ravages of Ghengis Khan and Timur the Great, the
  development of maritime trade routes, and the
  increasing desertification of eastern Central
  Asia, which had made travel by caravan more and
  more perilous.
• The end of the Silk RoadWith the establishment
  of the Ming dynasty in China came the end of the
  silk trade along the Silk Road. However, the
  interchange between oasis towns along the Silk
  Road has continued to some extent.
• The Karakoram HighwayToday's equivalent of the
  Silk Road is the Karakoram Highway, which was
  built by China and Pakistan and runs from
  Islamabad to Kashgar. The main difference,
  however, is that instead of camels carrying bales
  of silk the traffic consists of trucks carrying
  oil.

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Registan Square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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Taj Mahal, Agra,India
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Pink Palace, Jaipur, India
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Krak de Chevalier, Syria
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Petra, Jordan
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Dead Sea
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Wailing Wall, Jerusalem
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Cappadocia, Turkey
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Troglodyte rock formations in Cappadocia, Turkey