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Travel and Photography | Putrajaya International Fireworks Competition 2013
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Putrajaya International Fireworks Competition 2013 | Fireworks Display by Team United Arab Emirates (UAE) “We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let’s not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine, forever.” – Tōshirō Hitsugaya – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel
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Travel and Photography | Winter in Kashmir
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Winter in Kashmir “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bones of structure of the landscape, the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” – Andrew Wyeth – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel
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Travel | Why You Can Visit Istanbul in One Day And Why You Shouldn’t
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Istanbul From Galata Tower I you were to ask me, whether it is possible to visit Istanbul in one day, my answer is, yes you can but I don’t recommended it. Anyway if you really stuck on time and just on transit in Istanbul, no worry, you still can visit most of Istanbul great landmark in one day. If you were on transit, traveling time from the airport with Metro/Tram will take you to Sultanahmet within forty five minutes. Most of Istanbul attractions are located within Sultanahmet area. As you can see from the photograph above, Blue Mosque, Ayasofya, Topkapi Museum and Grand Bazaar are…
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Travel and Photography | Chora Church | Kariye Muzesi
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Chora Church | Kariye Muzesi Istanbul has more than its fair share of Byzantine monuments, but few are as drop-dead gorgeous as the Chora Church. The fact that it’s hidden away in the little-visited Western Districts of the city means that many visitors overlook it. The church was originally known as the Church of the Holy Saviour Outside the Walls, but what you see today is not the first church-outside-the-walls on this site. This one was built in the late 11th century, and underwent repairs, restructuring and conversion to a mosque in the succeeding centuries. Virtually all of the interior decoration dates from 1312 and…
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Istanbul | Al-Masjid al-Nabawi Replica
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | People Looking at The Replica of Al- Masjid Al-Nabawi Inside Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque) Istanbul Al-Masjid al-Nabawī (Arabic: اَلْمَسْجِد اَلنَّبَوِي ”Mosque of the Prophet”), often called the Prophet’s Mosque, is a mosque built by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad situated in the city of Medina. It is the second holiest site in Islam (the first being the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca). It was the second mosque built in history and is now one of the largest mosques in the world. After an expansion during the reign of al-Walid I, it also now incoporates the site of the final resting place of Muhammad and early Muslim leaders Abu Bakar and Umar. The site was originally adjacent to Muhammad’s house; he settled there after his Hijra (emigration) to Medina in 622. He…