Tag: historic sites
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Hawa Mahal
Hawa Mahal is a palace located in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. It was built in 1799 by Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh and designed by Lal Chand Usta in the form of a honeycomb. The palace is made of pink sandstone and has 953 small windows or jharokhas that are decorated with intricate latticework. The purpose of […]
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Iglesia de Chichimilá
We ventured into the unknown, leaving the familiar terrain we had traveled many times. With only so many hours of daylight and not knowing the conditions of the roads nor the frequency of or where the bothersome topes would pop up, which half seem to be placed in the middle of nowhere with no rhyme […]
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Route of the Churches
ROADS AND DRIVING As you leave Valladolid, on nicer roads then any in Michigan, the scenery changes, no longer are you in a bustling city but now dense lowland scrub vegetation coats the flat land ahead. The first time my mother came to this part of Mexico she told me she saw why I was so […]