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Your Favourite Landmark - World Edition
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The Merry Prankster
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Did you mean this prankster?
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Should have used The Buckingham Group.
perth seagull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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I'm probably the only person on NSC to have visited or even heard of this place, but my favourite landmark is Leshan Giant Buddha, in Sichuan (Central China).
A huge Buddha stone carving into a cliff that is 71m high and goes very deep into the cliff. The toes of the Buddha are bigger than a person. It took 90 years to construct (around 700-800 AD) and is situated on a river front. One wonders how the hell they built it in those days when only primitive tools were used and how they even got to that part of the cliff as it goes right on to the river. I would post a pic, but Mozilla seems to keep crashing everytime I do a Google image search.
A huge Buddha stone carving into a cliff that is 71m high and goes very deep into the cliff. The toes of the Buddha are bigger than a person. It took 90 years to construct (around 700-800 AD) and is situated on a river front. One wonders how the hell they built it in those days when only primitive tools were used and how they even got to that part of the cliff as it goes right on to the river. I would post a pic, but Mozilla seems to keep crashing everytime I do a Google image search.
Djmiles
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perth seagull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Wow!
Brilliant, thank you.
Wow!
That looks incredible.
Added to my list.
Perhaps we could have one of these of Bloom cut into the Telscombe cliffs?
mcshane in the 79th
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- Nov 4, 2005
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Looks like a fun walk up and down those steps next to it!
Tom Hark Preston Park
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The island devoted entirely to carving graven images of Adam El-Abd
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severnside gull
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Just back from Hong Kong and Victoria Harbour viewed from the Peak takes a lot of beating whether by day or night
Marty McFly
Seagulls Over Canada
Macchu Picchu is fantastic
Christ the Redeemer is pretty impressive
Angkor Wat is amazing
But the Taj beats them all, in my opinion. Shame it is in such an utter shithole, and probably the worst town on the planet.
Innit just. I was there with a few other NSCers and the first thing you see is taxi drivers beaten back by the police, with batons.