Black Stupa

... laymen and Lamas practice some special rites to exorcise evil factors. Local people practice mainly two types of astrology "Black" and "White" for the determination of auspicious days. Festival in Tsum Valley Numerous festivals, several mask dances ...

... by the Ottomans. There were some old frecoes, not unlıke Sumela. It also had some nıce vıews over the Black Sea.  After about an hour, I walked back to Meydan, stoppıng halfway to watch a schoolkıd football match , one ...

... , egss, toast,pancake and black and white tea. A good start of the day. After breakfast we started on foot for Swayambunath Stupa, aka the monkey temple. After asking for directions a couple of times we ended up somewhere else entirely... So we took a ...

... we have some descent underwater footage ..whoop! Soooo the rest of the dives were all amazing, on one i saw a black and white banded sea snake which scared the life out of me! it swam behind Zoes head (she ...

... also features "Bodhi stupa", or "Kumbum" in Tibetan. Deemed as the symbol of the monastery, the spectacular "stupa" consists of hundreds of chapels in layers, housing about a hundred thousand images of various icons. These icons include ...

... . Today, Wednesday 17th, Sanju took Claire and I to the largest Tibetan stupa in the world, the Boudhanath stupa on the outskirts of Kathmandu. This is an amazing stupa, attracting pilgrims and monks from all over the world. I attach a picture of us ...

... didn't see a stereotypical sunrise....it was dark then all of a sudden it was light! First stop was Borobudur, which is the biggest Buddhist stupa complex in South East Asia. The tour got off to a funny start as we were made to wear sarongs on top of our ...

... butter that pilgrims bring in great slabs to keep the candles ever-burning. We climbed the hill behind the monastery, up past a stupa to a tiny one-monk-run temple situated in a rubbish tip. On closer inspection this turned out to be hundreds of ...

... pool, the central market, the That Dam stupa and the Patuxai. The latter two were particularly interesting:   That Dam, translating as 'the black stupa', is a big black mossy old stupa in the middle of the city, said to have originally been covered ...

... . Still searching for the sleepy backwater we had expected of Laos, we weaved our way through the luxury vehicles past the Black Stupa. The difference between a Wat (temple) and a Stupa is marginal at first glance, both have large, ornate sloping ...

... at the knees every time, heh heh. One last stop on the way back to our hotel we visited That Dam, also known as the Black Stupa. This is literally a Stupa which has been turned into a roundabout.  There was no information around about the Stupa but ...

... the past few weeks). Then we had a yummy french lunch, and began our tour of Vientiane. This basically involved seeing one Stupa (the Black Stupa, as it is black) and a really ugly Arc de Triomphe knock-off made of US concrete, originally intended for an ...

... a pleasant difference from the crowded temples in Vientiane and Bangkok. The most interesting feature of Wat Wisunarat was a large (34.5m high) black stupa known as the lotus (or watermelon) stupa.   We decided to take a day trip from Luang Prabang ...

... a fair walk from the heart. Keeping a tight grip on my last few kip, I head north on foot, past That Dam, the Black Stupa, a neglected monument, overgrown with weeds, on a traffic island. Supposedly it is the haunt of a seven-headed dragon that failed to ...

... for lunch as the hunger drums were banging in my gut. We made our way back towards the bakery, taking a small detour to pass the Black Stupa on the way. This should actually be called the Green Stupa due to all the moss and plants growing on it! The Stupa ...

... sights scattered around Vientiane so Dipan and I headed out to explore.  There was the Presidential Palace, the Black Stupa, the Golden Stupa - Pha That Luang and their version of the Arc de Triomphe called Patuxai. Apparantly, the US government ...

... of Buddhist literature is markedly different with a Burmese style roof. A brief detour on a side street leads to That Dam (Black Stupa), believed by Laotians to be inhabited by a seven headed naga (snake) to protect them from Siamese armies who ...

... monument, which is an 'Arc de Triumphe' kind of looking structure to remember the Laos people killed in the war. Then I went to the black stupa, which is a kind of stupa which is black, and finally had a look at Wat Hai Sok in a vain attempt to prove ...

... is really expensive so we decide against it.  After walking for about half an hour we stuble on the first site, the Black Stupa, it's a bit non-descript.  Essentially just a big black, overgrown stupa in the middle of a roundabout, in the ...