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Yunomine Onsen, Japan, The World Heritage Site, Nachi Falls, A 600-year-old large ginkgo tree at Kagu Shrine in Hiroshima Prefecture.
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A Tibetan Buddhist temple in the highlands of upper western Nepal built with a mixture of pagoda architecture, resembling a Hindu temple at first glance. May all sentient beings be happy and mindful.
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Mount Emei (峨眉山) is a 3,099-metre-tall mountain in Sichuan Province, China, and is the highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China.
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Psychogeography - is about finding new ways to explore familiar spaces. It’s a fancy name for a playing with an environment. There are various definitions, but the best way to approach it is through an example:
"An awareness of & openness to the psychological effects of environment and space upon the individual"
Take a map of the area where you live. Place a glass upside-down on the map and draw around the edge. Now, go outside with the map, and try to walk as close as you can to the edge of this circle. Make a note of the things you see, staying alert for novelty or strangeness. You could take photos, scribble notes, use voice memos, post to social media, or just remember what you see. At the end of the walk, review what you have produced.
"Landscapes are the chosen agents of reality" - Iain Sinclair
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The ruins of the Phoenician Temple dedicated to the Goddess Diana. Archaeological work located in Cefal, province of Palermo
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The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man
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Verena Gorge Hermitage, Solothurn, Switzerland
This scenic gorge and hermitage is named after the 3rd-century St. Verena, a Coptic Christian who was born in Egypt but is believed to have joined the Theban Legion’s mission to the Roman province of Rhaetia (partly located in modern-day Switzerland) and eventually came to live in a cave near the site of the hermitage, helping fellow young girls in the area. This mystical gorge and romantic streamside hermitage continues to be maintained by a real live hermit who was hired by the town in 2016. (The previous hermit got tired of the media scrutiny and quit the post. No joke!) The idyllic site is best accessed via an easy two-kilometer (just over a mile) hike, peppered with highlights like the mossy Magdalene and Mount of Olives grottoes and a tidy forested chapel built directly into the misty gorge, considered by some to be an ionic hot spot. Whatever your beliefs, it’s hard to deny that this primordial place is charged with oodles of Swiss manna.
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Impressions from St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy
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