20 August 2019

Penang - Kek Lok Si

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Covering about 30 acres, and home to millions of representations of Buddha, Kek Lok Si is the largest Buddhist temple in Malaysia. ...
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Penang - Curtis Crest Treetop Walk

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The Habitat is an area of conserved regrowth rainforest, cut down by the British to enable the building of bungalows in the cooler air a...
19 August 2019

Penang - Goddess of Mercy Temple

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Founded in 1728, the Goddess of Mercy Temple, in George Town, Penang, is the island's oldest. It is dedicated to Kuan Yin, the Taoi...
13 June 2019

Standedge - Longest, Deepest, Highest

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The Standedge canal tunnel, on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, is one of four parallel tunnels - the other three are railway tunnels - th...
20 May 2019

Shell - Rock - Shell

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The Church, in the form of James Ussher and his  The   Annals of the World , published 1650, hilariously asserted that all creation comm...
15 May 2019

Duck 'all

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Section of scaffolding tower sunk into pond and joined at top with scaffolding pole. Heavy stretchers run out from bank to atop scaffold...
09 May 2019

Brogyntyn - Secret Tunnel

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The tunnel beneath Castell Brogyntyn is well known, but the parkland boasts a second, the location of which is kept secret by those in ...
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07 May 2019

Brogyntyn - Ozymandian Remnants

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The main entrance to the park was by way of a triumphal arch on Mount Road, built 1815 to a design by Benjamin Gummow, of Ruabon, also r...
06 May 2019

Brogyntyn - Castell

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Castell Brogyntyn is a univallate 'hill fort', supposedly of the Iron Age, and scheduled accordingly as an ancient monument. ...
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Brogyntyn - Swiss Cottage

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The two lakes of Brogyntyn were formed by 1800, by damming the Mill Dingle. A rustic bridge once crossed the head of the dam between the...