Photo of the Day Archive for December 2005

by Albert Wen, Nov 15, 2006 | Destinations: Thailand

Some of the fantastic, miniature depictions of Siamese life, created hundreds of years ago by mural artists, attract admiration even today for the beauty and skillfulness that they display.

Image © 2002 Marc Schultz

Beautiful lacquered paper umbrellas called kasa are a present-day reminder of the grace and elegance of Japan's bygone courtly era, known as ukiyo-e, the floating world.

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June 21, 2002, Hong Kong. A very nice and hot Friday afternoon. Brazil faces England in the quarterfinals. Your friends are in Japan watching the game. Still, there are many places you can catch the game from Hong Kong. One of them is Times Square, one of Hong Kong's major shopping malls.

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A trained masseurs giving an oil massage at a "ghat" (platform constructed on the river bank) in Varanasi. These masseurs ply their trade at "ghats" in religious places, where people throng to worship in the river, a custom that has been prevalent for centuries. These masseurs, it is believed, can cure all kinds of aches, pains and minor ailments.

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