Emirates Park Zoo
The advantages and disadvantages of zoos across the world have been heatedly debated by environmentalists and animal lovers alike with many of them arguing the demerits of keeping animals in captive. Zoological gardens generally aim to collect animals from various habitats and display them to…
Kite Museum at Jakarta: Colours in the wind
Years back playing with kites was a popular past time for kids. Today tablets, computers, Play stations and other devices have caught the attention of a lot of children and has distanced them from this wonderful past time. There is no time or age limit…
Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park: Discovering Bali’s Spiritual and Cultural Side
Standing on a limestone plateau away from Bali’s world-famous coastline is the iconic greenish-grey statue of Lord Vishnu. Found in the heart of Bukit Peninsula in Southern Bali, the statue is the definitive highlight of Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park. Although an incomplete structure, many…
Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, has witnessed as much violence as the concentration camps in Auschwitz, Poland and Dachau, Germany. During the Pol Pot regime that ruled from 1975 to 1979, unspeakable horrors were perpetrated in this Cambodian city that resulted in around…