Cover#185 Canada, Flowers cover,

This flower is my favorite one.

Sent: 12/4/2016

Arrived: 26/4/2016

Thank you Brenda!

PC#152 Czech, Praha shaped card,

This shaped card presents many nice monuments in Praha, an UNESCO city and the capital of Czech

Sent: 8/4/2016

Arrived: 26/4/2016

Thank you Trung!

Cover#184 Czech, Science cover,

Sent: 13/4/2016

Arrived: 25/4/2016

Thank Trung!

Cover#183 Czech: Regis letter with Monkey Year issue of Macau,

Macau Post always has interesting issues for lunar new year event. This one is an evidence. The stampset and Maxicard set represent 5 elements of balance: metal, wood, water, fire and sols. As this year is Year of Monkey of fire, they designed the element of fire on the minisheet with the highest face value , a monkey using a handfan from a well-known story in the Est: Journey to the West. This fan can blow out any type of fire.

Sent:15/4/2016

Arrived: 22/4/2016

Thank you so much Trung!

PC#151 Poland UNESCO site: Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines;

Sent: 2/4/2016

Arrived: 19/4/2016

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines

UNESCO site
Date of Insscription: 1978

The Wieliczka and Bochnia salt mines are located on the same geological rock salt deposit in southern Poland. Situated close to each other, they were worked in parallel and continuously from the 13th century until the late 20th century, constituting one of the earliest and most important European industrial operations.

The two mines include a large ensemble of early galleries which extend to great depths. The residual excavations have been altered, and made into chapels, workshops and storehouses, etc. A substantial ensemble of statues and decorative elements sculpted into the rock salt has been preserved in both mines, along with an ensemble of tools and machinery. An underground tourist route has existed since the early 19th century.

The two mines, which over a long period were combined as one company with royal status (Kraków Saltworks), were administratively and technically run from Wieliczka Saltworks Castle, which dates from the medieval period, but has been rebuilt several times in the course of its history.

Criterion (iv): The Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines illustrate the historic stages of the development of mining techniques in Europe, from the 13th to the 20th centuries. The galleries, the subterranean chambers arranged and decorated in ways that reflect the miners’ social and religious traditions, the tools and machinery, and the Saltworks Castle which administered the establishment for centuries, provide outstanding testimony about the socio-technical system involved in the underground mining of rock salt.

Source: unesco.org

Thank you Mary!

Cover#182 China, Year of the Monkey cover,

This one took about 2 months to arrive its neighbor. Mail from China to Vietnam often takes a long journey.

Sent: 25/2/2016

Arrived: 18/4/2016

Thank youWonglingchih!

Cover#181 Japan, Cat postmark on Sakura cover,

Sent: 8/4/2016

Arrived: 16/4/2016

Thank you Masako!

PC#150 Malaysia, Mother and Son Monkeys,

I really enjoy this Mother and Baby Primates card. The both are so cute, especially the Baby. Look their eyes, they are so beautiful and so innocent.

Sent: 24/32016

Arrived: 8/4/2016

Thank you Fiona!

Cover#180 San Marino, Cover with mint EUROPA stamps,

I rarely receive anything from this tiny territory. This one arrived recently and it made my day with both EUROPA 2015 &2016 mint stamps.

Sent: 18/3/2016

Arrived:7/4/2016

Thank you, Marco!

Cover#179 Czech, Easter cover,

Sent: 26/3/2016

Arrived: 7/4/2016

Thank you Trung!

PC#149 New Zealand, Hobbit maxicard,

This is my first one for the Hobbit serie of New Zealand Post.

Thank you so much, Alex's Mom. Hope you and your Alex will have chance to visit Trang An soon.

Cover#178 Indonesia, Year of the Monkey 2016 FDC,

Recently I got this beautiful FDC for my main topic: Lunar New Year. The sender offered me two cute "Hongbao" inside. 

Thank you Shinta!

Vietnam, Barringtonia asiatica Issue

Today, Vietnam Post released new issue on the theme Flora: Barringtonia asiatica. This is the typical plant on Hoang Sa, Truong Sa.
Personnaly, I dont like this design as it's a bad way to present a floral specie. It should be more scientific, not a landscape.