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Elephant Crossing, Kruger National Park in South Africa

elephant crossing the road

Elephant crossing.

A common scene in Kruger National Park in South Africa. Kruger is one of Africa’s largest game reserves at nearly 2 million hectares in size. It is 360 kilometres from North to south and 65 kilometres from east to west and extends into 2 provinces, Mpumalanga and Limpopo. It is home to diverse landscapes from the plains where the cheetah roam, to rocks and bushes where the leopard hide. You can self-drive from sunrise up to sunset. It is one of my favourite places in the world.

Buddha in the Sulamani Temple in Bagan, Myanmar

Each morning we are born again. What we do today matters most. – Buddha

Found this Buddha statue and a quiet moment at the Sulamani Temple in the ancient city of Bagan, Myanmar. This temple was originally built in 1183 and rebuilt after the 1975 earthquake. Today, over 2200 of the original 4000 temples/pagodas still stand. Each temple has many Buddha statues within it.

Vienna’s Prater Ferris Wheel

Vienna Prater

One of Vienna, Austria’s landmarks, the historic Prater ferris wheel. The original ferris wheel was built in 1897 but was damaged in 1944 during World War II. It has since been restored a few times.

 

Menorah in the Musmeah Yeshua synagogue in Yangon, Myanmar

Yangon Menorah

In honor of the last night of Hanukkah, a menorah found in the Musmeah Yeshua synagogue in Yangon. It is the only synagogue in Myanmar and was built in 1896 for the Baghdadi Jews, the Bene Israel Jews and the Cochini Jews from India that arrived during Burma’s colonial-era. It is listed on Yangon City Development Council’s list of Heritage Buildings.

I come from a diverse family of various cultures and religions, from all corners of the world. One of my paternal great-great grandfathers was a Jew from Baghdad, Iraq. This was his synagogue. He and his family were prominent members. He is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Yangon.

 

 

Old Church in Pwin Oo Lwin, Myanmar

Old Pyin Oo Lwin Church

An old church in Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar formerly named Maymyo, a British Hill town. I come from a diverse family of various cultures and religions, from all corners of the world. One of my great grandmothers was Anglo-Burmese (her

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mother Burmese, her father from England). She was raised Anglican and then she and my grandmother became Seventh Day Adventist. This was their church after the war in the late 1940s when they lived in Pwin Oo Lwin.