CHINA - Childhood on Loess Plateau

Thanks to Mario for the car

"Loess Plateau, Chinese (Pinyin) Huangtu Gaoyuan or (Wade-Giles romanization) Huang-t’u Kao-yüan, highland area in north-central China, covering much of Shanxi, northern Henan, Shaanxi, and eastern Gansu provinces and the middle part of the Huang He (Yellow River) basin. Averaging about 4,000 feet (1,200 metres) in elevation and covering some 154,000 square miles (400,000 square km), it is the world’s largest loess plateau. The region is overlain by a mantle of fine-grained, wind-deposited, yellowish alluvium known as loess, which is also carried in suspension by the Huang He. The loess layers average 165–260 feet (50–80 metres) in thickness and mask the detailed relief of the underlying surfaces. The loess is highly subject to erosion because of sparse vegetation, heavy precipitation in summer, and gullying."

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CHINA - Girl

Thanks to Chen for the card.

MACAU - Macau Street

Thanks to Vincent for the card.

TAIWAN - Cat

TAIWAN - Walking

Thanks to Iling for the card.

HONG KONG - City Roof

Thanks to Chok Lam for the card.

CHINA - Mazu Temple

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JAPAN -Chidorigafuchi Moat during cherry blossom season

Chidorigafuchi Moat during cherry blossom season.   Thanks to Hiroki for the card.

INDIA - Victoria Terminus, Bombay

 Thanks to Canute for the card.

"Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (officially Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus) also known by its former name Victoria Terminus, is a historic terminal train station and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. 

The terminus was designed by British born architectural engineer Frederick William Stevens, in an exuberant Italian Gothic style. Its construction began in 1878, in a location south of the old Bori Bunder railway station, and was completed in 1887, the year marking 50 years of Queen Victoria's rule, the building being named, Victoria Terminus. 

The station's name was changed to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (station code CST) in March 1996 to honour Shivaji, the 17th-century founder of the Maratha Empire, whose name is often preceded by Chhatrapati, a royal title. In 2017, the station was again renamed Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (code CSTM), where Maharaj is also a royal title. However, both the former initials "VT" and the current, "CST", are commonly used."

SINGAPORE -Singapore Little India

 Thanks to Kay Jin for the card.

"Little India is an ethnic district in Singapore. It is located east of the Singapore River—across from Chinatown, located west of the river—and north of Kampong Glam. Both areas are part of the urban planning area of Rochor. Little India is commonly known as Tekka in the Indian Singaporean community."

TAIWAN - Night View of Jiufen, Ruifang Dist.

TAIWAN - Southeast Coast Taiwan

Thanks for the card.

INDONESIA - Raja Ampat Islands

Thanks to Marina for the card.

"Situated off the northwest tip of Bird’s Head Peninsula on Papua, the most eastern island of the Indonesian Archipelago, Raja Ampat or literally meaning ‘The Four Kings’ is an archipelago comprising over 1,500 small islands, cays, and shoals surrounding the four main islands of Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati, and Misool. The name Raja Ampat itself is believed to derive from a legend where a woman found seven eggs, with four of them hatch and become the kings of the four main islands, while the other three became a woman, a ghost, and a stone.

The territory within the islands of the Four Kings is enormous, covering 9.8 million acres of land and sea, home to 540 types of corals, more than 1,000 types of coral fish and 700 types of mollusks. This makes it the most diverse living library for the world's coral reef and underwater biota." Source

SINGAPORE - Singapore Botanic Gardens

Thanks to Siti for the card.

"The Singapore Botanic Gardens is a 161-year-old tropical garden located at the fringe of Singapore's Orchard Road shopping district. It is one of three gardens, and the only tropical garden, to be honoured as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

The Botanic Gardens was founded at its present site in 1859 by an agri-horticultural society. It played a pivotal role in the region's rubber trade boom in the early twentieth century, when its first scientific director Henry Nicholas Ridley, headed research into the plant's cultivation. By perfecting the technique of rubber extraction, still in use today, and promoting its economic value to planters in the region, rubber output expanded rapidly. At its height in the 1920s, the Malayan peninsula cornered half of the global latex production."

JAPAN - Botanic Garden Delong,H.I.U.

 Thanks to Natsuki for the card.

TAIWAN - Cuban Bast

 Thanks to Joan for the card.

CHINA - Greetings from Heilongjiang

Thanks to Sun for card and great stamps.

HONG KONG - Hong Kong

 Thanks to Dennis for the card.

Cool stamp if you touch it was print with Braille letters.

THAILAND - Sea Gypsy

Card from my travel to Satun and Pak Bara.

HONG KONG - Avenue of Stars (Tsim Sha Tsui)

Thank you to Derek for the card.

"The Avenue of Stars is a scenic seaside promenade in the east of Tsim Sha Tsui. The Avenue of Stars stretches a total length of 440 meters (1,440 feet) from Hong Kong Museum of Art to New World Centre. It models after the Hollywood Avenue of Stars in Los Angeles. The name and hand prints of the distinguished Hong Kong film stars, like Jackie Chan and Andy Lau, are embedded in special plaques and arranged chronologically on the avenue, in order to commemorate the history of the film industry in Hong Kong. Apart from the handprints, visitors can also enjoy thousands of exhibitions related to films, large-scale arts and cultural shows co-organized with overseas institutions, diverse local music, dance, and theater shows." Source