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Travel Photography | The Magnificent AyaSofya, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul Turkey
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | AyaSofya | Hagia Sophia | Istanbul | Turkey Hagia Sophia (/ˈhɑːɪə soʊˈfiːə/; from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία [aˈʝia soˈfia], “Holy Wisdom”; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya) is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its dedication in 360 until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931, when it was secularized. It was opened…
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Travel Photography | Eye On Kashmir
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time in Kashmir | Dal Lake Talking about Kashmir, actually to be honest with you, I really don’t know how to describe it and no matter how I try, no matter how hard I try to photograph Kashmir the best that I can do with my camera, I don’t think my photographs can do justice to its beauty. Yes Kashmir has it own problem, my country also has it’s own problem but then I can see beauty in Kashmir and I’m not here by accident, I choose to be here. I don’t believe what people say about Kashmir, I want to find…
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Travel Photography | Once Upon a Time in Bhaktapur | Nepal
© 2012 MHilmi Osman | Photograph of Me by MHilmi at Bhaktapur | Nepal “Were there nothing else in Nepal, save the Durbar Square of Bhaktapur, it would still be amply worth making a journey halfway round the globe to see.” – E.A. Powell – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel
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Nepal | Traveling | Explore. Dream. Discover
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Explore | Dream | Discover | Langtang Valley | Nepal | Himalaya “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”. – Mark Twain – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel
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Travel Photography | Monk With Prayer Wheels | Kathmandu | Nepal
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Monk With Prayer Wheels | Kathmandu Nepal A monk and prayer wheels, a photograph taken at Boudhanath Stupa, Asia’s largest stupa. We visited this place just few minutes after we came back from Langtang, leave our backpacks to at hotel room, have some lunch and head to Boudhanath Stupa by taxi which cost us Rs300 for one way journey which took about 30 minutes to get here. Foreigners have to pay Rs150 for entry fees, and in term of photographic opportunity, it offers a lot, provided that you spent few hours here or take one whole day to visit this magnificent stupa. The photograph above were taken…
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