Going Places

This world is my playground

I would like to wonder around the world, creating memories before I could proudly leave this un-permanent and sad world. They said its fine to travel alone, but for me I would like to travel my playground with friends. Travel alone, is a bummer because you could not share memories with the ones you're close with. So, these are the places I want to go before my last breath.

1. Stargazing

It has been a childhood dream of mine, to see a sky full of stars. Living in this modern world today, with all the ignited bulbs and neon lights, we often neglect the beauty of the night sky given to us. So, I wish I could one day lie down, quietly and gaze the sky full of stars.

2. Lantern Basilica, Rome

This is the place where the Lord dwells, Lantern Basilica, Rome. The first consecrated church in the world and home to the Pope. This church celebrates its feast day every 9th November each year. Why I wanted to travel here? I would like to learn about the history of my religion, Christianity. 

3. Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

 

Hagia Sophia (from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, "Holy Wisdom"; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya) is a former Greek Orthodox patriarchal basilica (church), later an imperial mosque, and now a museum (Ayasofya Müzesi) in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its construction in 537 until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople,^[1] except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935. 

4. Potala Palace, Tibet, China

The palace is named after Mount Potalaka, the mythical abode of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara.The 5th Dalai Lama started its construction in 1645 after one of his spiritual advisers, Konchog Chophel (died 1646), pointed out that the site was ideal as a seat of government, situated as it is between Drepung and Sera monasteries and the old city of Lhasa. It may overlay the remains of an earlier fortress called the White or Red Palace, on the site built by Songtsän Gampo in 637.

5. Aurora Borealis, Nothern Lights

 

Like Aurora Borealis, Auroras are caused by charged particles, mainly electrons and protons, entering the atmosphere from above causing ionisation and excitation of atmospheric constituents, and consequent optical emissions. Incident protons also produce emissions, and convert to hydrogen atoms by gaining an electron from the atmosphere.

 
6. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Genero, Brazil

Christ the Redeemer, is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by the engineer Heitor da Silva Costa Brazil in collaboration with the French engineer Albert Caquot. It is 30 metres (98 ft) tall, not including its 8-metre (26 ft) pedestal, and its arms stretch 28 metres (92 ft) wide.
 
7. Jeju Island, South Korea

Jeju Province (officially the Jeju Special Autonomous Province^[1]) is one of the nine provinces of South Korea. The province is situated on and coterminous with the nation's largest island of Jeju (also Jejudo), formerly transliterated as Cheju, Cheju Do, etc., or known as Quelpart to Europeans. The island lies in the Korea Strait, southwest of South Jeolla Province, of which it was a part before it became a separate province in 1946. Its capital is Jeju City.