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Here are 10 Things Unique Available Just In Southeast Asia:

1. Happy Pizza sprinkled with marijuana





Happy pizza is culinary quite popular in Cambodia, especially for the foreign tourists who visit the outskirts of Phnom Penh. What is the happy pizza, Pizza which can make people who eat them be happy of course? But happy is meant here is the feeling of floating that appears when someone taking drugs.

Happy Pizza is a pizza variant containing marijuana. Pizza with a sprinkling of cannabis is a popular menu at food stalls Cambodia. As in other countries, marijuana is illegal goods in Cambodia. But ordinary citizens are already taking them as a spice in cooking, medicine, and tea. Even still many Cambodians who grow marijuana in the home page.

In many cities, especially big cities like Phnom Penh can be found a pizzeria or a pizzeria that provides the happy herb pizza menu. In Phnom Penh, alone shops like this lined the area becomes a place for foreign tourists. Many foreign tourists who accidentally visiting the shops, just to feel the sensation of happy pizza.

As quoted from I Survived in Cambodia, if the visitors who come to taste the happy pizza wanted pizza sprinkled with a lot of cannabis, they stay ask the waiter to make them extra happy pizza orders. Actually, not just pizza served with mixed leaves marijuana.

Usually, these stores also offer drinks such as banana milkshake or mango juice, all of them with a mixture of marijuana. In the vicinity of the tavern, there will usually be traffickers who offer dried marijuana at bargain prices. If cannabis is, of course, prohibited the authorities.


2. Performances Cabaret Tiffany Pattaya Ladyboy




It is no secret that the area of Pattaya in Bangkok, Thailand is a place famous for the sex industry and nightlife. Go-go bars, nightclubs, commercial sex workers selling themselves on the roadside, and especially the lady boy (the term for transgender people in Thailand) is an integral part of Pattaya which became the main attraction for visitors from around the world that indeed accidentally came to the area to look for the evening entertainment.

Among all the attractions dinner served Pattaya, one of the most popular is Tiffany Cabaret Show. According to the official website of Bangkok, a show that has been presented since three decades ago is among the most anticipated foreign tourists. Was shown in a large theater stately with spectacularly costumed dancers make show beautiful transgender (Thailand transgender people are known to have beautiful sandstone) are very entertaining.

Usually, they present a dance or skit Broadway-style spiced with hilarious slapstick scenes. Sometimes presenting the theme Bollywood, traditional Korean fan dance, Chinese-style theater, and performances from various other countries.

3. The ancient book world




Most ancient book in the world was located in Southeast Asia. This book is in Kuthodaw Pagoda which was built at the foot of Mandalay Hill, Mandalay region, Myanmar. This book consists of 1460 pages with a width of 107 cm and a length of 153 cm. Alone reached 13 cm in thickness.

The sheets contain a rule of life of the Buddha were copied from the book Tripitaka is divided into several tablets of stone, each of which was written in gold ink and adorned with precious jewels and then placed in the cupola-white cupola that meets pagoda page. The book was made of marble quarried from Mount Sagarin. The process is started from 1860 and only completed in 1868.


4. The mysterious Plain of Jars




In Laos, there is a mysterious historic site are referred to as the Plain of Jars. The place is one of the prehistoric sites which is the mainstay of tourism Laos. The place is as mysterious as Stonehenge prehistoric site sorts and Chichen Itza. But its popularity is still far behind the two places called before. Plain of Jars in Indonesian means plain of jars or jugs. The site is located on the Plain Xieng Khouang, Laos. As the name implies, Plain of Jars filled with thousands of stone jars of various sizes with a half-buried in the ground.

According to Wikipedia, there are at least 90 locations in Xieng Khouang filled with stone jars like this. Each location typically contains 1 to 400 urn. Until now has not made it known what the urn usability. The giant urns generally have a height of one meter and a diameter of 3 meters. Nobody knows where the ancient culture that makes these jars. No written evidence led to a study of the site dating from the Iron Age is hard to do.

According to Lonely Planet, the only source of stories that can be obtained is a local legend that says that the urns are a rice wine storage area prepared by residents to celebrate the fall of the despot who controls the area by a hero named Khun Jeuam. Furthermore, the jar was reportedly made from a mix of buffalo leather, water, sand, and sugar cane is burned in an ancient stone oven. But the study results indicate that archaeologists urns are made of stone intact.

The Plain Plain of Jars never became a battleground when the ongoing Indochina War. The place was bombed several times. Fortunately, most of the jars in Plain of Jars survived the bomb attack. Locals, as quoted Ezine Articles believe that the site was survived because it is protected by an army of jinn who inhabited the area Plain of Jars.

5. Preah Vihear temple which is in dispute between Thailand and Cambodia




Preah Vihear temple is a Buddhist temple located at the height of Dangrek Mountains, Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia. According to Wikipedia, the temple was built in the 9th century Its location on a hill makes the scenery around the Buddhist temple looks amazing. Because its location adjacent to the district of Kantharalak, Thailand, this place could be a dispute between the governments of Thailand and Cambodia.

In 1962, the International Court of Justice handed over the region of Preah Vihear to Cambodia, but it is still frequent disputes and the crossfire between the two countries stationed on the border. Cambodia middle proposed that this temple site is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. But the intention was also a source of new conflict with the Thai government is still not willing to admit Cambodia's ownership of Preah Vihear. Confronts between the military forces of both countries that occurred in the area of Preah Vihear reportedly destroyed part of the building shrines.


6. Ha Long Bay Beach which is lit up at night




In Vietnam, there is a water and rich natural resources and beauty of the amazing panorama, namely Halong Bay. This region is known as the floating fishing villages are unique, where inhabitants supposedly almost never set foot on the mainland and all blood relatives. The bay has a broad coastal strip covering about 2,000 coral islands of limestone which, according to legend giant emeralds that once spewed by the dragon guards the bay.

There are a series of stunning caves are formed naturally, ie Sung Sot, Tam Cung, Lau Dai, Thien Cung, Dau Go, Hoang Long, and Thien Long. Besides popular for swimming and sailing, bay since 1994 designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and part of the 7 wonders of the world version of the New 7 Wonders Foundation in 2012, it is also offering its own beauty at night.

After midnight, the visitors can enjoy the phenomenon of bioluminescence there. The sea water will display a blue light when touched. The phenomenon is caused by a type of bacteria that is part of her body could give off light. But this phenomenon can only be seen in total darkness. Also Read: 5 Beach With water Can Be Lit Night.

7. Chocolate Hills, a thousand hills that resemble candy chocolate




chocolate Hills is a unique geological phenomenon found in Bohol, Philippines. You could say this place is one of the icons of tourism Bohol province. Indeed Chocolate Hills are a series of hills shaped more like inverted bowl. these hills blanketed by a beautiful green grass. While the origin of the name Chocolate Hills itself according to Wikipedia is derived from the appearance of the hilly areas in the dry season.

When the weather turns dry, green grass in this place changed to brown, giving the impression that hill like Hershey's Kisses chocolate candy. There are at least approximately 1700 similar hill chocolate candy in the region. Quasi-symmetrically shaped like a dome with an average height of 30 meters to 50 meters. But there is also the height reached 120 meters.Vegetasi in Chocolate Hills is dominated by grass species such as Imperata cylindrical and Saccharum spontaneous.

Several Compositae and ferns also make this unique hills as a place to live. These hills store various legends circulating among the local population. According to Choose Philippines, one of which is a legend that tells giant named Arogo. Arogo fall in love with Aloya, an ordinary man. Then Aloya dies and leave Arogo heartbroken. It is said that the Chocolate Hills is a teardrop Arogo Aloya lament the passing of time that dries and turns into a hill.

a lot of pain and suffering, and sorrow, she could not stop crying. When the tears dry, the Chocolate Hills are formed. Chocolate Hills had depreciated be part of a World Heritage Site by the Philippine government. But before that desire come true, Chocolate Hills trigger hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale on 15 October 2013 that damage the natural condition of the hills. Now most of the hills in the Chocolate Hills did not seem like the bare ground. Now the government is trying to restore the Chocolate Hills to its original condition.


8. Supertree Groves, super-advanced artificial trees



Supertree Grove, giant trees that are part of the Gardens by the Bay, an area of 101 hectares which is so excellent new tourism in Singapore. As quoted from Amazing Places On Earth, Supertrees actually is an artificial structure that is shaped like a giant tree. This massive structure measuring dominates the Gardens by the Bay area and became an icon of the public park. With the heights ranging between 25 meters and 50 meters, making these trees can be used as a vertical garden. The entire surface of the rod Supertrees covered with vegetation.

There are pockets containing plants unique and exotic ferns, vines, orchids and bromeliads number of plant collections. According to Wikipedia, these trees are equipped with advanced technology that resembles the ecological functions of a real tree. At the top of the tree, there is a photovoltaic cell that utilizes solar energy. Its function is to filter and re-emit sunlight that will be used by plants for photosynthesis.

Trees also able to absorb and store rainwater that will be used in irrigation. Do not just stop there, Supertrees also able to absorb, process and filter the air around it, and then released again in a more pure form. Making the surrounding area was cool, just like the coolness of land covered with trees. At night Supertree Grove featuring the unique beauty and nuances of surreal.

The trees looked amazing in the dark because it is decorated with colorful lights. As a complement, the music being played OCBC Park Rhapsody further enliven the atmosphere at night. There is a long bridge named OCBC Skyway that connects two Supertrees greatest, so visitors can enjoy the beauty of the tree tops surrounding the area as well stare at the view from a height. The plan is a food outlet will be placed in it, precisely at a height of 50 meters Supertrees.

9. The world's largest country palace




Istana Nurul Iman, a magnificent palace that became the family residence of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei and the richest man in the world 1993 version of the Guinness Book of World Records is the biggest castle country in the entire world. And more unique castle with the super luxurious interior is actually located in one of the smallest countries in the world. Built on a hill facing the Kampong Ayer, the castle is equipped with 1,788 rooms, including 257 rooms mandi.Tak only that, Istana Nurul Iman also has a ballroom that can accommodate 5,000 guests, a mosque with a capacity of 1,500 passengers, garage contains hundreds Sultan luxury car collection (including Rolls Royce and Ferrari), the stables that housed 200 ponytail, and 5 swimming pools.

Because of its luxury, must have poured funds of 1.4 billion US dollars for the development of this family home. Most of the year the castle is closed to the public. So visitors are only able to enjoy its beauty from the outside only. But every Eid emperor will hold an open house for 3 days, so its citizens can visit the palace and feast with the family of the king.


10. Cave World




The two biggest cave in the world was located in Southeast Asia. The first is Soon Doong cave with amazing natural conditions, comes from Vietnam which means' \ mountain river cave, located in the province of Quang Binh, Vietnam, close to the border between Vietnam and Laos. This cave has unique natural conditions. With a length of up to 5 kilometers, 200 meters high and 150 meters wide cave can even download a skyscraper with 40 floors in it.

View inside the cave is very beautiful because it is hidden in the dense forest that is always covered with mist and clear with greenish water. Thanks to the flow of river water that reaches the cave area, the soil in the grotto became very fertile, so overgrown with thick vegetation. If at first glance looks like a natural paradise hidden commonly found in science fiction movies. Also in Doong Cave Soon found many pearls place. According to Wikipedia, cave pearls are pebbles rounded commonly found in limestone caves.

These pearls are formed from calcium salts to agglomerate and eroded to form the cobblestones brown. Meanwhile, the second largest cave is the Sarawak Chamber, the largest underground cave ever found in the world. The cave is located in the Gunung Mulu National Park, in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia is able to carry 8 747 and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. Inside are rock formations that are unique, one of which has a shape that resembles a silhouette Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States.

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