Soudamini Mohapatra

Split sign is a large red sign with the word "SPLIT" written on the main path in Split old town. It's a good photo opportunity for tourists.

The Cairo Tower is 187 meter in height, built in 1961, is a famous landmark in Cairo. It gives a 360 degree view of the Cairo city, including the Giza Pyramids. Often there are long queues to up, even come down. On a less crowded day we had to wait for 1 hour. There is a restaurant at the top and people going to the restaurant get priority to go up. It's very windy and cold at the top in winter. The view of Cairo city in is very good in the evening.

The Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa is the best place to visit in Alexandria. The tombs were supposed to be built by a single wealthy Roman family, considered as one of the “Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages”. The tombs were built deep under the ground, has three levels of burial chambers around a spiral staircase. It has a large number of graves of human and animals. It has many figures carved on wall. A very unique experience visiting the place.

It's a little temple at Yogyakarta, visible clearly from the road. Though we bought tickets to go inside, it's not worth it as there is nothing inside.

Prambanan Temple, Yogyakarta, is probably the largest and best Temple in Indonesia. There are supposed to be 224 temples in the complex. The three significant temples are of Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu. Attached to the three main temples are three smaller temples for their Vahana (vehicle) Garuda, Nandi and Hansa. There are also temples of Goddess Durga, Agastya, Ganesha. The temple is very popular among the tourists as well as locals. It gets very crowded during weekends, especially to watch sunset. It took us one hour just to come out of the parking lot on a Sunday evening. The view of the setting sun in between the majestic temples is worth watching. There is inscriptions of entire Ramayana on the walls of the temples. It require a minimum of half day to visit the temple. Though it's expensive a guided tour is a must to understand and appreciate the architectural wonder of this temple. A combo ticket with Borobudur temple can be purchased to save some money. I tried buying it at Borobudur temple, but it was not available, but the same was available at Prambanan Temple.