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Appeasement and beauty. Impressive temples of Asia

Buddhists say: to get rid of suffering, one should get rid of desire. There are special places for that. Today we suggest you to check out our top five of stunning temples, where Buddhists and tourists are looking for a way to harmony for their souls.

17.02.2022 | architecture, Asia, China, MYANMAR

Amazons from tribe mosuo: Conservation of feminism in the shadow of Himalayas

Composers of antiutopias predict hundreds of sorrows to the people of the future who are from times to times forbidden to celebrate weddings, however, it seems, everything is not so terrible. In Chinese province Yun Nan near the foot of Himalayas the matriarch tribe mosuo resides that is not familiar with the concept of marriage at all.

01.02.2022 | traditions, China

Super-chilled: Best festivals of ice and snow art

Ice and snow has long been used by artists to create different figures and objects, and only 1960, this age-old skill became a new trend of a land art! The largest number of winter artworks is created during special festivals about which we will tell our readers.

08.01.2022 | festival, Japan, USA, nature, China, Canada, Latvia

The kingdom of ice and snow. Harbin Festival

For not to have among our readers too many sad and whiny people counting days till summer or even warm spring days, the OUTLOOK would like to share at least one reason to love the cold season with all heart. The opportunity is to go to the Chinese city of Harbin and eyewitness fantastic and cool festival of ice and snow.

04.01.2022 | festival, China

On the Move. Street food from around the world. Part 2

Do you happen to get hungry? That is great as we go on with our story about the most popular street food from around the world. It’s freshly cooked - fall to, you guys! Let's start with the South Asian countries, namely Singapore - seafood-rich in vitamins and minerals occupy a key place in the diet of residents ...

12.11.2021 | traditions, food, oddities, Israel, China, Netherlands, Brazil, Canada, Singapore, cuisine of the world, Kenya

Rice fields: Grains of unbelievable beauty

- Do you want to try some rice? - such a question is greeted by guests in China. And if the owners are also farmers, they can invite you on an unusual excursion and show you the masterpiece of natural art. The grass which we often eat without thinking about its aesthetics, at the time of growing resembles a blanket woven from multi-colored rags ...

01.11.2021 | Japan, art, history, China, Indonesia

Chinese sugar painting: Art from a ladle

Flowers and trees, animals and birds, dragons and fairytale characters – to put it short, anything that may come to your head can turn into an object of edible art there. Amazing technique of painting with hot sugar is possessed by craftsmen from Sichuan province. Paintings performed in almost caramel can be neither “edited”, nor painted over.

30.10.2021 | art, China

Water gates. Impressive world harbors

Airports, railway and bus stations are almost always erected at a human whim, while ports and harbours are joint creation of homo sapiens and nature. In this article OUTLOOK presents you the most beautiful port destinations with their own unique character worth exploring.

16.10.2021 | Italy, USA, oddities, rating, China, Belgium, Greece, UAE

Lakes that are changing the idea of the power of the nature

At the bare mention of the word lake, our imagination pictures soothing, nostalgia-laden images of quite pond cosily embraced by the grassy hills. OUTLOOK prepared a selection of the most spectacular lakes, which will change your understanding of this work of nature. Each of them has something to surprise, whether it is unusual water shade, or frightening ability to petrify living creatures.

28.09.2021 | nature, Australia, China, Canada, Indonesia, New Zealand, Kenya, Tanzania

Tibet. Mountains that speak with heaven

Tibet… what are you mulling over while articulating this name, drawing it in your mind mentioning the concept involved in the mild space of clouds?Tibet… There are mountains that seem to be speaking with the heaven. Here everything is penetrated with the religion and different beliefs such as culture, art, folk traditions and customs.

15.09.2021 | travel, China

Accompaying persons, please leave the train: the most interesting trains on planet

Despite ongoing development of air transport, many people across the Earth still love to travel by train for various reasons. Though the majority of passengers associate trains with a rather slow way to travel compared with airplanes, and are concerned with low comfort which can be still at the level of last century, reading through our selection below...

02.09.2021 | USA, travel, India, China, Scotland, Switzerland

Life on water: 7 little-known Venice competitors

When we hear about "water city", Venice immediately comes to mind, doesn’t it? Tranquil gondolas, narrow waterways, gentle light of the evening sun and ancient architecture create that heady romantic cocktail which attracts tourists from all over the world to the Italian city.

07.08.2021 | Ukraine, nature, India, China, Netherlands, Cambodia, Brunei, Benin

Tea empire of the world

Few of us, while our favourite tea is steeping, are scrutinizing about the way this drink went through to get into our mug. Of course, stereotypically, we know that most likely it came from India or China, but in fact origin can vary. In the world there are about 30 countries which are very seriously engaged in tea business, and within this community a very clear hierarchy emerges, headed by the so-called Big Tea Seven.

14.03.2021 | Japan, traditions, India, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Kenya

Houses that they build…Unusual houses

Treehouses, dug-outs and secret shelters – all the things we used to build when children. Unfortunately, as we grow older, fantasy fades and most of us now live in uncomfortable grey “boxes”. However, there are people who have created dwellings of their dreams by themselves.

03.02.2021 | USA, art, Portugal, Austria, China, Sweden, Canada, Serbia

White gold of Tianxia. Chinese porcelain

The civilization of ancient China was one of the first to discover porcelain. It is established that back in II millennium BC the firing temperature of pottery found in the Yellow River was close to 1200 ° C. According to some researchers, the invention of porcelain was dictated by the desire to find a replacement for greenstone and jade.

02.10.2020 | art, traditions, China

Lan Kwai Fong: Hong Kong is no Hong Kong without it

It is somehow hard to feel the atmosphere of a city let alone a metropolis without having a stroll along certain streets. We try not only to tell about geographical spots we took fancy for but also to suggest as pinpoint routes as possible. Today we speak about Lan Kwai Fong – the merriest street of Asian-way-strict Hong Kong.

28.02.2020 | China

World ghettos: Chinese Scope in San-Francisco

We continue our series of features about national ghettos. Today OUTLOOK tells you about the largest ethnical enclave of the city of San Francisco in the USA – about local Chinatown.

01.12.2019 | USA, China, world ghettos

Chinese infrastructure: Unusual bridge that connects Macau and Hong Kong

When skeptics say that the greatest things have already been built by humanity, pointing at various and really outstanding works of engineering thought, they are most often poorly informed and hardly look beyond developed Western countries. In the meanwhile, for example, in China, the state raises simply unheard of infrastructure projects.

21.05.2019 | oddities, China

THE MINISTRY OF THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF UKRAINE HOSTED A PHOTO EXHIBITION DEDICATED TO THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN UKRAINE AND THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

On January 12, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine took place the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Ukraine and the People's Republic of China.

13.01.2017 | art, diplomacy, China

Show of Flying Shaolin Monks Takes Place in Kyiv

Within the framework of an ambitious art project Joyful Spring Fest, mysterious and inimitable world of Chinese culture became a little closer to Ukrainian public: in Kyiv and Lviv performances of actors of Zhengzhou Opera and Ballet Theatre and representatives of TAGO Shaolin martial arts school from Dengfeng took place. OUTLOOK was lucky to go backstage of the show right before actors came on stage.

03.03.2016 | art, China