Asia

25-05-2025
A typical South Korean household oddities that we could use
Asian countries have always differed from Europe and America and so many everyday things encountered on the streets, in homes and ...

25-05-2025
7 facts about donkeys that will make you respect this animal
For centuries, people have been prejudiced against donkeys. In almost all nations familiar with this animal, the donkey is the ...

24-05-2025
What was Iraq like before the war and sanctions
Iraq has been living in a state of almost incessant conflict and under international sanctions since 1980, when the war in ...

23-05-2025
Anna and the King - how a British feminist lived in the harem ...
Anna Leonwens is one of the most interesting ladies of the Victorian era. An adventurer, suffragette and traveler, Anna spent her ...

23-05-2025
"Rainbow Village" by Huang Yun-Fu: how to make a tourist ...
The problem of dying villages is relevant not only for the post-Soviet countries. But if in our country people leave villages out ...

23-05-2025
The secret of precious matsutake mushrooms
Truffles are considered the most expensive mushrooms in the world. They are sold at auctions and the price per kilogram often ...

22-05-2025
The Tree of Life: the secret of a lonely plant in the middle ...
A lonely tree growing on a salt island in the middle of the Dead Sea surprises tourists. In a place where no living creature ...

21-05-2025
The History of the Expression "China's Last ...
Everyone knows the expression “China's last warning”. It is usually used when they want to warn someone. It contains a ...

21-05-2025
10 facts about Japan that you may not have known
Japan is a beautiful and amazing country, but many people know very little about it and its culture. And there is something to tell ...

20-05-2025
The unique hive wall is the only wild bee sanctuary in China
In the national reserve of Shennongjia, which is located in the Chinese province of Hubei, 700 beehives are located on a stone ...

20-05-2025
Retro photos from the colorful Taiwan of the late 1970s
Taipei is the capital of the Republic of China and the official capital of Taiwan Province within the PRC. It is the political, ...

20-05-2025
Marry a Communist, or How North Korean Women Choose Spouses
North Korea, despite its specific state system with many costs, remains a country of ancient culture. Many of the traditions were ...

19-05-2025
Seeing the amazing in the ordinary: what is the secret of ...
Snowfalls, children, a giraffe and sleeping in the subway-Shin Noguchi snatches truthful and unusual moments in the daily life of ...

18-05-2025
10 stunning views of the desert from the air
Photographer George Shteymets flew a motorized paraglider over deserts all over the world, from China to Africa and Antarctica, and ...

17-05-2025
Honor is more precious than life: how the samurai in Japan ...
A stunning series of vintage photos shows the life of Japanese samurai 130 years ago. Among the pictures there are also those that ...

17-05-2025
"Fragrant Garden": how the Arabic Kama Sutra appeared
Everyone knows about the existence of the Indian treatise on love "Kama Sutra". But almost no one has heard of the Arabic book "The ...

17-05-2025
Naga fireballs - a phenomenon of the Mekong River that has ...
Naga fireballs, also called "Mekong lights" and "ghost lights", are a phenomenon that can be seen over the ...

16-05-2025
Japan is the birthplace of sexual perversions
Japan is an amazing country and completely incomprehensible to us. All these manga, hentai, bukkake, literally elevated to the rank ...

15-05-2025
22 wonderful pictures from Vietnam from the talented Chan ...
Weaving baskets and fishing nets, the season of pink algae, crossing sand dunes, cow races — all this is so far from the modern ...

14-05-2025
The Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 60s and 70s in ...
Propaganda posters from the time of the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1966 & #8212; 1976 clearly show how at that time the country ...

13-05-2025
The Subtle East and the fashionable West: an American's photo ...
Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran was completely different from what it is today. Women dressed in Western fashion, freely ...

13-05-2025
Nijo Castle Gardens
Nijo Castle is the fortified residence of the Tokugawa shoguns in Japan. The castle complex consists of many buildings and several ...

12-05-2025
Vintage pictures of Japan in color and 3D
These animated GIF images were created using stereoscopic photographs taken in Japan between 1895 and 1910. The author of the ...

12-05-2025
Iran of 1901 in the lens of Anton Sevryugin
Anton Sevrugin (1830-1933) was the official photographer of the Imperial Court of Iran, his photography studio was one of the most ...

11-05-2025
Red Beach in China
Every year in Liaoning Province, thousands of tourists rush to see the red beach. It turns red in the autumn, when the coastal ...

10-05-2025
The story of the knight Johann Schiltberger, who spent 30 ...
Being in captivity is an ordeal for any person. The fate of such prisoners in the Middle Ages was especially unbearable. No ...