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Travel and Photography | Winter Wonderland In Sonamarg Kashmir
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time in Sonamarg | Kashmir “When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don’t even understand the language the people speak. So you are like a child just out of the womb. You begin to attach much more importance to the things around you because your survival depends upon them. You begin to be more accessible to others because they may be able to help you in different situations. At the same time, since all things are new, you see only…
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Into The Wild | Langtang National Park | Nepal Himalaya
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Langtang Valley | Langtang National Park | Nepal “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing…
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Traveling | Why Walk When You Can Fly
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Flying Back Home From Kathmandu To Kuala Lumpur Why Walk When You Can Fly In this world there’s a whole lot of trouble, baby In this world there’s a whole lot of pain In this world there’s a whole lot of trouble But a whole lot of ground to gain Why take when you could be giving, why watch as the world goes by It’s a hard enough life to be living, why walk when you can fly In this world there’s a whole lot of sorrow In this world there’s a whole lot of shame In this world there’s a whole lot of sorrow…
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Travel and Photography | Istanbul | Grand Bazaar On Instagram
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Grand Bazaar Istanbul | Photograph Taken With iPhone | Edited With Instagram The Grand Bazaar is located inside the walled city of Istanbul, in the district of Fatih and in the neighborhood (Turkish: Mahalle) bearing the same name (“Kapalıçarşı”). It stretches roughly from west to east between the mosques of Beyazit and of Nuruosmaniye. The Bazaar can easily be reached from Sultanahmet and Sirkeci by tram ( Line “T1”, tram stop “Beyazıt-Kapalıçarşı”). The construction of the future Grand Bazaar’s core started during the winter of 1455/56, shortly after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. Sultan Mehmet II had an edifice erected devoted to the trading of…
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Fotografi Kembara | Istanbul Aku Datang | Spice Bazaar | Istanbul Turkey
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Spice Bazaar | Istanbul | Turkey Antara tarikan utama di Istanbul Selain daripada Masjid Biru dan Muzium Aya Sofya ialah Grand Bazaar dan Spice Bazaar ataupun Pasar Rempah yang terletak di Eminönü, Spice Bazaar ini terletak tidak jauh dari Yeni Camii ataupun lebih dikenali dengan The New Mosque, jangan pula kita keliru dengan nama “New Mosque” ini, walaupun namanya ialah “Masjid Baru, namun usia masjid ini melebihi empat ratus tahun. Spice Bazaar ialah bazaar kedua terbesar selepas Grand Bazaar, ianya dibina sekitar tahun 1660. Terletak di Eminönü, sekiranya anda menginap di hotel sekitar Sultanahmet, maka untuk ke Eminönü anda boleh memilih untuk berjalan kaki (lebih kurang 30 minit dari…