Seven wonders of your country!

7 Korean wonders:

Bool gook sa

Located in Seorabiol, old name for the capital of Shilla, it was designed according to "Buddha's paradise".  I'm not a buddhist enough to tell you the specifics, but the ornaments and the arrangements of the flower means something deep.

Chang Deok Goong

During Imjin war (Hideyoshi's war), the king fled North, and the angry civilians burned the palace down.  After the war, the king returned to see his palace burnt down.  So he had to stay here - Chang Deok Goong, until it was rebuild some time later.

Seok Gool Am

Created under the orders of the Queen of Shilla (her name is Seon Duck Queen), carpenter Kim Desung constructed the grotto from751 to 774.   Every scientific principle known in that era was put into practice, including architecture, mathematical principles, religious principles, art, name it.  The grotto is inside a temple called Seokbulsa Temple, which means the temple of stone buddha.  The buddha you see in the middle is surrounded by 39 of his apostles, saints, kings, etc.  Another trivial fact: exactly at 12:00 am, the light is supposed to enter the temple, and it shines the diamond piece in the forehead of the stone buddha.

Hwa Sung

The fort that guarded the southern portion of seoul.  It was build using a lever created by a genious by the name Seok YakYong in 1794~1789. 

Heinsa JangGyongPanJeon (a.k.a. 80,000 printing blocks)

This collection of around 80,000 printing blocks were made by Buddhist prists during the Koryo period during Mongolic Invasions.  Again, using architectural, mathematical, religious, and other elements known of the time, the buddhists made it so that the blocks were preserved, even till this day.

Goildol (dolemen)

Since there's like 30,000 dolemen in Korea, I thought it would be nice to mention something about them...they are from the caveman era.

Jang Goon Chong

Basically it's a stone burial mound....but nobody truly knows who it belongs to.  It's pelicular shaping particularly interests me...the pyramid like shape.

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It's not the cityscape or the sign that's the wonder, it's the fact the Tollway doesn't have a traffic jam. Positively a miracle. (Oh yeah, no smog either, practically a weeping madonna)

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Hahahahha!!!

I struggle to put small pictures to not to spoil the eye-candy

For Turkey:

1-)Cappadoccia(Nev�ehir,Middle Anatolia)

2-)Pamukkale

3-)Istanbul;with the Maiden's Tower,Hagia Sophia,Sultanahmet Mosque,The Basilica Cistern,the Galata Tower,The Grand Bazaar,Topkapi and Dolmabah�e Palaces and the Bosphorus

Sultanahmet Mosque                        the Hagia Sophia      

                                              Topkapi     Palace

4-)Ishak Pasa Palace(Agri,Estern Anatolia)

5-)Sumela Monastery(Trabzon,Eastern Black Sea)

6-)The Local Houses of Safranbolu(NorthWest of Turkey,Black Sea region)

7-)The  God Statues in Nemrut Mountain

Apart from these,in meditterenean and Aegean region there are lots of Ancient city ruins and buildings,but I put Istanbul instead of one of them.

                                  7 of Cambodia

angkor wat

bayon

banteay srei

ta phrom

bakong

angkor thom

ta keo

''6-)The Local Houses of Safranbolu(NorthWest of Turkey,Black Sea region)''

they are nice but not that special

INDIA

1}TAJ MAHAL {AGRA}

INDIA

3}AJANTA ELLORA CAVES {MAHARASHTRA}

Italy:

1 The Colosseo (Rome)

2 The cathedral of Milan

3 The royal palace in Caserta

4 Uffizi Galley (Florence)

5 Campo dei Miracoli (Miracles' field, Pisa)

6 Rialto bridge (Venice)

7 Prato della valle (Padova). The second largest square in Europe after the red square in Moscow.