To All Dear Guests to People and Places

1. India bids younger brother
 Pakistan Adieu in 1947*

Welcome one and welcome all                 

I would have exclaimed, if in a hall                                                    

But smell the Floral, Rose Bouquets 

And hear the Thundering Loud Applause  

My heart does give, to all of  thee

I'm grateful  Dear Friends, for visiting me.   

                                        

Pakistan, Bangladesh, India's Wings 

2. Sand as far as eyes can see

Thank you for visits, I joyfully sing

Home of sands and vacant lands
Yet Saudi Arabia, a true treasure land**

                                                                                                            

3. Baalbeck (Heliopolis) Lebanon***

                                                        

Lebanon, Turkey, westward me

Each a delight, tourists do see

Hong Kong, Philippines, Pacific darlings

Enchanting both with maritime rings

Thanks for visits, my soul does say

Be safe, come often, my lips do pray

                                                                                                

4. All green and blue is Philippines 

                                                                      

Landlocked Czech,  European country

I salute you dear, for  high HD****                                                                                                                                                                        

With your hard work, the world has been lit

Do accept my thanks, for your kindly visits

                                   

                                                                                                      

5.Castle Karlstejn is one of the most fairy
 tale castles in The Czech Republic  

Bartholomeu, Mandela, Gandhi  in sight 

They touched, in South Africa,  eminent heights

Land of Gold and land of Diamonds******

Thanks for visits and Jai Hindh 

6. An ancient monument to Bartolomeu Dias***** 
at the Cape of Good Hope

Pictorial Sources:
1 exoticans.blog.co.in
2 scottragsdale.com 
3 habeeb.com 
4 hayatalk.org
5 citypictures.org
6 factoidz.com 


Notes: 

 *Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White from Khushwant Singh’s book 

   Train to Pakistan, Roli Books.


**Saudi Arabia has the world's largest oil  reserves  and is the world's largest oil exporter.

***Baalbek is a town in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon at an altitude  3,840 ft,
   situated east of the Litani River It is famous for its exquisite temple ruins
   of the Roman period, when Baalbek was then known as Heliopolis 
   It is Lebanon's greatest Roman treasure, and it can be counted
   among the wonders of the ancient world


****HD here means  Human Development and The Human Development  Index (2009),
     ranks Czech republic as a "Very High Human Development" nation.

*****Bartholomeu Dias is famous as the first European to lead a 1487 voyage 
  around the Cape of Good Hope on the Southern most tip of South Africa.
 1497:  Dias accompanied the expedition led by Vasco da Gama to India
 1500: May 24: Bartolomeu Dias dies in a violent storm in the Cape of Good Hope


******Diamond and gold discoveries played an important part in the growth of the early
 South African Republic. Diamond first discovered on the banks of the Orange River in
 1867  by Erasmus Jacobs. Gold was discovered in the area known as Witwatersrand,
 which led to the Witwatersrand Gold Rush of 1886. South Africa holds the world's
 largest natural reserves of gold (40 percent according to South Africa Yearbook 2009/10)


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