244 - FRANCE - doumik

It's been over a Year since my last Post here...
sad... i love to write blog entries and show on my cards, but it's always a hard work to scan the cards and and and... i need to arrange a scanner desk again at home, maybe then i would do this more often...


this card i received from Dominique who's from alsace in France. Even the region is on the boarder to Switzerland and Germany i've never been to strasbourg - that's a blame, isn't it?
i mean i've visited France so many times, but never be in the region direct after the border... maybe i'm doing a daytrip to strasbourg with the christmas market, which has to be very beautiful!


The UNESCO Blog Entry with this card is here, on my other Blog: http://zasa-unesco.blogspot.com/2011/10/strasbourg-grande-ile-france.html

#243 - CHINA - scaret

I already received a postcard from this UNESCO site - but to be honest: I LOVE this site! So fairyland-style... Just beautiful!

#242 - CHINA - nixil

Wonderful card from the Suzhou Street - Summer Palace in Beijing.

The card was sent by nixil. Nixil wrote: "Suzhou is famous for its Private Gardens and always regard as the Oriental Venice. It's so beautiful. I love my hometown :)"

I'm sure that i already got cards from the Summer Palace in Beijing, but you know me and my mess :) I think it's time to reorder my postcard collection this winter!

The Summer Palace in Beijing – first built in 1750, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886 – is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls, palaces, temples and bridges to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/880

#226 - RUSSIA - tens

I'm really not sure under which country i should deposit this card? mmm...

the card was sent by tens, who is originally from Belarus. The card was written in Belarus on a meeting (the 3rd one in minsk), the stamp is also a belarusian one - BUT the card shows St. Petersburg which is in Russia.

Sad! I don't like that much cards which aren't from the country the stamp is from... BUT anyway! I like the card very much! It's full of nice words and quotes! not just the signatures from the postcrossers!

Thank you very much to Tens who sent me the card. And to Csigat_Snail, Sergei, KAteR, OksaFoksa and exmellie for your kind words!

The Kriukov Canal. The St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral of the Epiphany

The architecture of Naval St Nicolas Cathedral of the Epiphany combines baroque style with elements of traditional Russian architecture. The Cathedral, designed by architect S. Tchevakinsky in 1753-62 and sanctified in 1760, is one of the most beautiful churches in St Petersburg.

The Cathedral was named after St Nicolas Chudotvotetz (Wonder Worker). It became a kind of memorial in honor of the lost seamen.

Naval St Nicolas Cathedral is one of few cathedrals that were not closed in the Soviet period.

#223 - JAPAN - tinktink0302

A card from my all time favourite country Japan!

The card was sent by tinktink who lives in Tokyo - but sent a card from a pagoda in kyoto.

To be honest i'm really not sure if i visited this one. Kyoto is full of pagodas and shrines and temples... really too much for 3 days :) Weeeee that was a great time! Just browsed through our photos we take... one is this, which i'd like to show you!

Me (first row with the purple scarf), my family in law and the best friends from my brother in law.
somewhere in kyoto :)

Well i love every single card from Japan, coz they always evoke great time, great pleasure, great and nice hospitality, nice food and and and...

Yasaka Pagoda, Kyoto

The pagoda rests on a bank in Eastern Kyoto. At 46 meters high, the temple stands out as a landmark of the city. Located between the Yasaka Shrine and the Kiyomizu Temple, the Pagoda is surrounded by residental buildings. The Pagoda also has a small traditional well attended garden at its base. 

#212 - JAPAN - aki

o-o, what did i say in the Post 213? That i'm always publishing a foto from the family album? 

The cards was sent by aki and shows one of the most tragical places japan has... hiroshima. Girls and Boys i can tell you - when we visited this place we were all on a strange mood. 

The museum is really interesting and it gave me so much the creeps... 

ok here we go: A wonderful card:

 

A great stamp shows the Himeji Castle.

And the promised Photo:

zasalein in front of the memorial

#204 - CHINA - mr.shi

mr. shi sent me this wonderful card which was since a long time on my top favorites! The card shows the UNESCO world heritage site Wulingyuan Area.

A spectacular area stretching over more than 26,000 ha in China's Hunan Province, the site is dominated by more than 3,000 narrow sandstone pillars and peaks, many over 200 m high. Between the peaks lie ravines and gorges with streams, pools and waterfalls, some 40 caves, and two large natural bridges. In addition to the striking beauty of the landscape, the region is also noted for the fact that it is home to a number of endangered plant and animal species.http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/640

As longer as i'm getting ivolved in this Postcrossing thing (more than 3 years now) i'm more and more interested in those UNESCO sites. But i know me - i wouldn't be a good collectioner since the time is running away for things like this. And i received so many cards in the couple of years - i wouldn't be able to check them all if they are showing a UNESCo related site. So does it makes sense to start as an advanced in years postcrosser? We will see - but for now a label called UNESCO have to suffice!

#194 - CHINA - jiaoxinlun

 

Xinlun sent me a wonderful card from the UNESCO site Mt. Wudang. And used wonderful New Year stamps!

The palaces and temples which form the nucleus of this group of secular and religious buildings exemplify the architectural and artistic achievements of China's Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Situated in the scenic valleys and on the slopes of the Wudang mountains in Hubei Province, the site, which was built as an organized complex during the Ming dynasty (14th–17th centuries), contains Taoist buildings from as early as the 7th century. It represents the highest standards of Chinese art and architecture over a period of nearly 1,000 years.http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/705

What i've always love is a 360 degrees round view! http://www.world-heritage-tour.org/asia/china/wudangshan/tianzhu-feng-down/sphere-flash.html
Amazing! or?!

#060 - RUSSIA - reddeww

i have some cards i never posted or registered in this blog/in the forum... so i'm filling up the gaps i have from users who never sent me a card! Not that much - but we all know that we have those gaps ;) Today is October the 14th 2010 ;)

well this one is from reddew and was sent last january (2010) if i can remember right.

The card shows the Cupolas of the Kremlin and the View on the Cathedrales of Moscow Kremlin.

If one thinks of Russia as a traditional matryoska doll, with Moscow contained within the country and the Kremlin similarly nested inside Moscow, then Cathedral Square is the final solid figure contained within the Kremlin. Laid out as the city's first great public space during the ascension of Muscovite power in the early 14th century, Cathedral Square was for centuries the symbolic heart of Tsarist rule. The square is centered on the impressive Cathedral of the Assumption, built in the 1470s by Ivan the Great as the seat of the Russian Orthodox Church. Until Peter the Great moved his capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg in 1710, Cathedral Square was the focal point of political power in the country--coronations, assemblies of the nobility, and all of the associated ceremonial rituals of state took place here. If one ignores the statue of Lenin that still looks out across the square from its eastern edge, Cathedral Square provides an unparalleled atmosphere of old tsarist Russia. Clustered around the square are a series of cathedrals, towers, and palaces that together constitute almost the entire history of that period. http://www.geographia.com/russia/moscow02.htm

I already received a card from this serie, can you remember? 

#192 - RUSSIA - kaurry

So, if it's ever happen, that you have such a card in your stock... please send them to me! I really like them!