Temple of Heavenly Happiness or Thian Hock Keng Temple on Teloy Ayer Street is really two temples in one. The main temple is dedicated to the Taoist sea goddess Mazu and the other to bodhisattva Kuan Yin. It is one of the oldest temples in the city and an important one to the Hokkien Chinese comm...

Galle is a town located in the southern coast of Sri Lanka. With the country's first highway that was built recently, the capital city of Colombo is connected to this town and the journey there now only takes approximately one hour.

It boasts of many places of interest for the visit...

Attracting thousands of visitors each year, the Waitomo Caves are indeed a marvel to behold. The word Waitomo being derived from the Maori Wai referring to water and tomo referring to a sinkhole or doline, the name is aptly coined thus to refer to the small size of the cave as well as to imply t...

New Zealand's natural wonders reaches an epitome with the gigantic Fox Glacier situated in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. The Glacier is one of the primary tourist attractions in the South Island and the entire village is named after it. The vi...

Thailand is a country that believes in superstition and pay great attention to gods and deities. There is firm belief that in every portion of land there is a resident deity, who must be appeased and proper rituals conducted. Thus a shrine built before construction proceeds. All of this must be d...

A major tourist attraction in Hong Kong, the Wing Tai Sin Temple is a well-known shrine dedicated to the great Immortal Wong the Wong Tai Sin. Located on the Southern side of Lion rock north of Kowloon, the temple is famous for answering many prayers of its devotees.

There is an interest...

The city of Doha, Qatar marks the new face of the Middle East. Over the past few years it has blossomed from a quaint little nation to a soaring and booming cosmopolitan hub in the Middle East. Doha is expanding year after year in enormous leaps yet has within its boundaries tales of its traditio...

As interesting as the name sounds, the window of the world is indeed literally a window to the entire world. The theme park located in the city of Shehzen, China is an attraction where some of the most famous sites from all around the world are replicated in a ratio of either one to one, one to f...

Ever dreamt of diving in to heaven? That's exactly what you get when you dive in to the beautiful waters of Maldives. There are several great diving locations that are popular among tourists and locals. Among them the Wreck of Maldives Victory is a very popular and challenging one due to the pote...

The Kuala Lumpur City Gallery is a great place to learn about the beginnings of Kuala Lumpur Malaysia's capital as well as its present all in one go, especially if pressed for time to visit the city's individual attractions. In the middle of the historic enclave of Dataran Merdeka, between the Hi...