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Monte Kailash

añadido28 de agosto de 2026

Una cumbre del Tíbet occidental sagrada a la vez para cuatro religiones: hinduismo, budismo, jainismo y bön. Nunca ha sido escalada: subir se considera sacrilegio, y los peregrinos hacen en su lugar un circuito alrededor.

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Nan Madol

A city of ninety-two artificial islets built off Pohnpei in Micronesia from basalt columns weighing up to fifty tons, stacked like logs without mortar. How they were moved is unknown; local tradition says sorcerers made the stones fly. The city was abandoned around 1628. Pohnpeians consider the place dangerous and say one does not sleep there — a chief who tried, the account goes, was dead by morning.

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A flying woman's head with its viscera trailing beneath — one of the most recognisable images in mainland Southeast Asian folklore, known in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos under different names. By day she is an ordinary woman; at night the head detaches and goes looking for food. Her appearance was traditionally linked to night lights over rice paddies and to sickness in livestock. In Thailand she has been the subject of dozens of films and remains a living figure of popular culture rather than a museum entry.

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