Snowstorm on the East Coast

Strongest snowstorm on Sunday and Monday has caused chaos on the East Coast of Carolina to Maine. Because of rain on Monday, December 27, at the airports were canceled 4,155 flights. Strongest over the past decade, the blizzard broke and rail links.

Travelling by road was also difficult. Most of the snow storm hit New York City, the eastern regions of New Jersey and the western part of Long Island.

Cave city Vardzia

Cave City Vardzia amazing. Located in Georgia, on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, it has a 800-year history.

The cave city of Vardzia (Georgian: ვარძია) is a cave monastery dug into the side of the Erusheli mountain in southern Georgia near Aspindza on the left bank of the Mtkvari River. It was founded by Queen Tamar in 1185.

The monastery was constructed as protection from the Mongols. and consisted of over six thousand apartments in a thirteen story complex. The city included a church, a throne room, and a complex irrigation system watering terraced farmlands. The only access to the complex was through some well hidden tunnels near the Mtkvari river.

An earthquake in Samtskhe destroyed approximately two thirds of the city in 1283, exposing the caves to outside view and collapsing the irrigation system.

The church was reinforced and an externally visible bell tower added during the reign of Beka Jakheli in the thirteenth century.

Persians commanded by Shah Tahmasp I raided the monastery in 1551, capturing all important icons and effectively ending the life of the monastery.

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Dafen: City of artists in China

In China, we can see that in hotel rooms hang the same picture painted with oil. And in China, you can purchase a copy of “Starry Night” or “Mona Lisa” at the price of Kindle. If you think that the reproduction oil paintings – the case of handicraft industry, you’re almost right: it’s a whole industry based in one village.

Snow storms in the US

Powerful winter storms in the U.S. follow one another from the very beginning of the year. Blizzard is a southern heavy, wet snow in the north-east, outlined drifts almost two feet in height. Due to bad weather U.S. airlines canceled thousands of flights, and freezing rain left dozens of residents of towns without electricity.

Cold on the Ganges

This year the whole of central India are unprecedented, even for January cold. Most of the day the region is covered with fog, heavy and joyless, as if the dough from third-flour. Daytime temperature does not rise above twelve, and at night varies near the mark in three degrees.
It seems just a little colder, and temples porastut thin needles of frost. The sun breaks through just to midday, but even then shines through force, gradually dying to five in the evening.