Word: banyan
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...same time, the Cantonese have he most attractive zoo (more than 200 species, with four show-stealing pandas); one of the world's most renowned botanical gardens, Yueh-siu Park, with more than 100 varieties of orchid; the exquisite Temple of the Six Banyan Trees, built circa A.D. 480; and the nearby Temple of Brightness and Filial Piety, built some 2,400 years ago. A short air hop from Canton is tranquil Kweilin, a delicate beauty spot on the fabled Li River, ringed by eroded limestone peaks that could have been assembled by a stage designer...
...Hanoi's Chi Linh Park, amidst the tamarind, rhododendron and banyan trees, there are two man-made structures. One is a bomb shelter, constructed in the mid-'60s as U.S. air strikes crept closer to the capital. The other is a round cage with a pagoda-style roof, built in the French colonial period but maintained by the Communists; it houses two large cranes, symbols in the Far East of longevity and prosperity. The bomb shelter is overgrown with weeds and largely ignored by the populace. "It is marked for demolition," explained one of our official escorts...
...choicest residential area in Bombay is Malabar Hill, where gleaming mansions and apartments house the city's elite. But the crown of the hill remains a jungle, thick with date palms and banyan trees, girded by two concentric walls that protect it from the encroachments of civilization. Inside the walls, amid the trees, are six low, stadium-like enclosures. Residents of Bombay know them as dokhmas-the "towers of silence." It is to these structures that the city's powerful community of Parsis bring the bodies of their dead, exposing them to the air so that scavenger birds...
Along a dirt road outside Jaura is the Gandhian ashrama known as the Change of Heart Mission. Under a makeshift but colorful tent, we lunched on vegetables and rice served on plates of dried banyan leaves. There I met a former bandit whom Vinoba Bhave had persuaded to surrender. "Did you ever kill anyone?" I asked. "Naturally. I killed policemen," he answered. "How many?" "If I asked you how many pieces of bread you've eaten in the past two months, could you tell...
...proud Bengalis are unlikely to give in. A warm and friendly but volatile people whose twin passions are politics and poetry, they have nurtured a gentle and distinctive culture of their own. Conversation?adda?is the favorite pastime, and it is carried on endlessly under the banyan trees in the villages or in the coffeehouses of Dacca...