Tag:Travel

Historical travel literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. The discovery of the world

Python worship. Serpent worship in Afrika.

Congo, python, swallowed, goat, serpent, worship,

The worship of the python. Indiolali ceremony. Python god Adumu. Priests and priestesses.

Coral reef of the Red Sea at El Tor in the Sinai.

Sinai, Red sea, marine, animals, fishes, System, corals, Arabian, Family tree, Ernst Haeckel,

System of corals. Arabian corals. Family tree corals. Marine animals of the coral reef.

Arab tent camp near El Tor, Egypt in the Sinai.

Arab, tent, camp, El Tor, Egypt, Sinai, holy land, Ernst Haeckel,

Arabian corals: an excursion to the coral reefs of the Red Sea

Temple gardens of Japan

White cherry, Kitano, Ella Du Cane, Japan, Garden

Of all the gardens in Japan, the temple garden is a peaceful, secluded place, reminiscent of ancient Japan and times gone by.

The Osuwa Park at Nagasaki, Japan.

Osuwa, Park, Nagasaki, Japan, Garden, Japanese, Captain F Brinkley

Gardens are supposed to symbolise abstract ideas, such as peace, chastity, old age, etc.

The Fire-Fly’s Lovers. Fairy tale of old Japan

Princess, Fire-Fly, prison, Japan, fairy tale,

The fairy tale of Princess Hotaru-himé.

The “floating” Torii gate at Miyajima, Japan

Torii, Miyajima, Japan, Shinto, shrine, San-Kei

The “floating” Torii gate at Miyajima or Itskushima (“Island of Light”)

The Ike-no-Niwa of the Imperial Palace at Kioto.

Ike-no-Niwa, Imperial, Palace, Kioto, Mikado, Garden, Kusakabe Kimbei, Josiah Conder, landscape,

The Ike-no-Niwa, or “Garden of the Lake,” in the grounds of the Imperial Palace at Kioto

Sacred Shinkyo Bridge at Nikko, Japan.

Shinkyo, Bridge, 神橋, Shinkyō, Nikkō, Futarasan, Shrine, Japan, Frank Brinkley,

The Shinkyo Bridge (神橋, Shinkyō, “sacred bridge”) to Nikkō Futarasan Shrine.

The Inari Temple at Kyōto, Japan.

Entrance, Fushimi Inari-Taisha, 伏見稲荷大社, Oinari-san, Temple, Kyōto, Japan,

The Fushimi Inari-Taisha is a Shintō shrine in the Fushimi district of Kyōto city.