Tom the Scribbler

Three elaborately carved stone temples in the middle distance, each tapering in layers to a point. Smaller similar temples behind them and stone rubble in the near distance.

The three main temples of the complex. Easily as impressive imo as the headline grabbing Borobudur!

An ancient stone temple, elaborately carved, with a layered pyramidal top. In the foreground, a stone walkway with a line of round, crown like decorations on its wall

The beautifully preserved/restored Prambanan temple complex in Central Java, Indonesia, built 9th century CE by the Mataram Kingdom and dedicated to Siva, Vishnu and Brahma

📸 mine #archaeology #Ancientbluesky #temple

A large black and white hornbill with a long, curving beak, yellow with and a bony prominence running along the top

A beautiful Oriental Pied Hornbill (and doesn’t he know it!)

📸 my own. Pangkor island, Malaysia
#birds #nature #birdphotography

A cluster of gnarled trees covered in thick moss and lichen, dark and atmospheric like something otherworldly lives there

Beautiful mossy forest in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia (jungle trail 3 - 5 is the way to go!)
📸 my own #forestfriday #treemagic #forests #moss

Rainforested hillside in silhouette with the orange clouds of a sunset above

Sunset at Taman Negara in Malaysia, the second oldest rainforest in the world at 130 million years old (meaning it was a rainforest when the dinosaurs still roamed the earth!)

Old bicycle lent against a peeling street wall with a painting of two small, excited children looking like they’re riding the bicycle

5/5 Kids on bicycle by Ernest Zacharevic

Realistic street mural of an old Indian man standing as he rows a wooden boat, painted on a old colonial building beside a covered wallet

4/5 the Indian boatman by Julia Volchkova

Street art depicting a boy leaping, a fat man sleeping in a hammock, a child sorting fish and a cat looking down, all painted on a wooden jetty building on stilts above the sea

M3/5 ‘folklore by the sea’ (Chew Jetty), by Yip Yew Chong

Street mural with a real motorbike leant against a pealing red doorway with a painted young boy in a helmet looking like he’s sitting on the bike

2/5 Boy on Motorbike by Ernest Zacharevic

Street mural of cartoon boy with blue and yellow eyes dressed in a cat costume riding a scooter

A short thread of street art from George Town, Malaysia

📸 my own

1/5 by Alex Face

Wooden boat with long prow moored on a golden beach with green-blue sea in background, limestone cliffs, and small rocky islands

Wave breaking lightly onto sand between limestone rocks with green, rocky islands and turquoise sea in middle distance

Phra Nang Beach, Krabi, Thailand

I’ll take that under careful advisement

A telecoms tower in white and red with crisscrossed telegraph wires, partly lit red, in the foreground and a green traffic light at street level

Surat Thani, Thailand, passing through

#liminalspaces

Buddhist temple with shining gold stupa, golden statues of the Buddha, and worshippers walking it around holding flowers. More flower offerings in the foreground along with red and green paper lanterns overhead

The gleaming temple of Wat Pra That Doi Suthep, just outside of Chiang Mai

Taken last Thursday (July 10) on the Buddhist holiday of Asalha Puja, also known as Dharma Day, celebrating the day the Buddha gave his first sermon.

melting photographer not pictured, which is for the best 🥵

Sign in a Thai temple reading ‘Don’t touch the dragon’ in English and Thai.

He really doesn’t like it.

A row of four story city buildings, one green-yellow, one dark pink, one black/brown, and one pale pink, with balconies on each floor and shuttered windows

Chinatown, Bangkok

5 tiered pyramid temple with smaller ruined stone structures in front on either side

2/2 I was lucky enough to have it virtually to myself. Anywhere else, this would be a headline act!

A 5 tiered pyramid style temple with a tower on top, located at the end of a stone then dirt path fringed with tall trees

‘Personally I’m a big fan of their early material’

250+ years before Angkor Wat, there was Bakong. It was the 1st Khmer temple mountain - a representation of Mt Meru, centre of the universe & home of the gods in Hindu myth 1/2

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_a...
📸 mine #ancientsite #Ancientbluesky

Two crumbling stone temples about 10 meters high, roughly pyramidal with a thick stone framed doorway and dark interior. Ground littered with stone and overgrown with flowering plants

Ruins of the 11th century temple, Wat Banan, just outside of Battambang, Cambodia

(built by King Udayadityavarman II) #ancientsite #Ancientbluesky
📸 my own

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Banan

A crumbling brick temple with statues and decorated pillars on either side of a dark doorway. Trees in background

A 10th century temple at the Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary in Central Vietnam, built by the ancient Hindu kingdom of Champa
📸 my own (this is temple B5 I think) #Ancientbluesky #ancientsite
more info here www.vietnamcoracle.com/my-son-sanct...

Cheers Sarah :)

Buddhist gateway across a narrow stone bridge with water and boats beside the bridge and lush green hills in the background

Entrance to Bich Dong Pagoda, northern Vietnam, a Buddhist site featuring cave temples dating from 15th to 18th centuries.

📸 my own

Large, Mughal era mausoleum made of red brick with a blue tiled dome and blue tiled calligraphy over the 4 arched entrances. Built 1639.

Exploring the 'City of Silence', Pakistan’s vast city of the dead

Read my article about Makli, one of the largest necropolises in the world. Published by Globetrotters mag over on Medium

medium.com/globetrotter...

#Ancientbluesky #Findsfriday
📸 my own: Tomb of Nawab Shurfa Khan

Waterfall from green cliffs with aquamarine pool in foreground and green hills in backfield

One of the of the Bản Giốc Waterfalls on the border of Vietnam and China (on the Vietnam side)

Steep hills with rice terraces and corn. Guide in foreground with purple umbrella. Mountains in distance.

Rice and corn terraces, North Vietnam, just outside of Sa Pa, with our guide Su sporting a lovely purple umbrella

Highly recommend these folks for trekking if you’re ever in the area: sapaochau.org/sapa-trekkin...

Vietnamese lacquer painting showing workers standing and walking, including a woman in loose black clothing and a traditional hat

A work shift ended (1963)

By NGUYỄN SỸ NGỌC (1919 - 1990)
Lacquer painting

📸 taken from original

Very much so. One from the bucket list!

Large painted red wooden statue of seated bodhisattva with many arms and heads

Statue of Avalokitesvara at Vietnam National Museum of History, Hanoi (museum replica, original 1656)

Artist Trương (family name), from Northern Vietnam
📸 my own

Dark stone statue of an emaciated Buddha in meditation posture

Statue of the Fasting Buddha, from the Gandhara civilization, 2nd century AD

Excavated from Sikri in modern day Pakistan
#FindsFriday

📸 my own via Lahore Museum