This theme i also joined from forum Postcrossing. The group member are from Indonesia, China, Japan and Russia. I used the postcard of Balinese dancers and stamps from First Lady of Indonesia year 2014. In this one I used Mrs Ani Yudhoyono and Mrs Ainun Habibie. Such a lovely theme. Actually right now I  will join this kind of theme again in forum, hehe. Cos this theme I only had one. And the funny thing is, it seems i have same countries like this one in my group hehe.

This chain also from  the forum postcrossing. I am in a group with member from Russia, India and China. I think most of the stamps are from panthera

family. Actually the tiger is not my favorite animal, and I rarely join the animal chain card. It just happened in that time I have the stamps, hehe. And now i just join the tiger group in Instagram cos i have the stamps again hehe, the group not closed yet tough.

This one is about ship and water transportation. I can’t remember when this chain card traveled, but the postmark looks like in 2015, July. I used the stamp from year 2014, KRI Dewa Ruci. It’s famous ship from the Indonesian’s NAVY. This card traveled to 4 countries cos from forum Postcrossing. Indonesia, Hong Kong, China and Russia. I am glad i took part in this theme, and i think it’s the only ship group that i joined, maybe i will join another group next time. Yeaah if i can find the stamps of course, haha

The second chain card i will show also from forum Postcrossing and the theme also Astronomy, hehe. Seems like i can’t get enough of this theme, but unfortunately Indonesia’s stamp with astronomy theme are limited. This one i joined in 2016, after Indonesia launched the total solar eclipse stamps. And the postcard travel from Indonesia, China, Japan, and Russia. All with another different stamps. So love it :D

This one came from Russia too. You can see the very happy face of this girl, smiling while bring the flower and cherry on the basket.

Thank you so much Katya for the vintage card J

Oooww... this kitten is really cute. It’s been long time ago that I had cat as a pet. But i still afraid to have one on my own right now, So I am happy to have it on a postcard, hehe.

Thank you so much Liza for the card and matching stamps J

This card also came from last year, hehe I try to catch up all of its :p.

It show 15 flowers in the pots. I really like flowers and this card is amazing. I can recognized some flowers like lavender, sunflower, carnation, rose, dahlia, and many others.

Thank you so much for the beautiful flowers card, Maria. Also for your warm message to me. It’s really touching :’)

This vintage card show the view of Kremlin from Moscow river. The city built in 1482-1495 and have 27,7 hectares area. Become UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

The name Kremlin means fortress inside a city. Kremlin is a history complex at the heart of Moscow. Overlooking Moskva river to the south, Saint Basil’s cathedral and Red square to the east, and the Alexander garden to the west. It’s best known of the Kremlins , and includes five palaces, four cathedrals, and the enclosing Kremlin wall with Kremlin towers. The complex serves as the official residence of the Russian Federation.

Thank you so much  Tatiane for sending me the card!

Sergei Rachmaninov born on 1 April 1873 and died in 28 March 1943. He was Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. One of the great romanticism  pianist in his era. I  am not familiar with all his worked L but I know for Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini  ( that’s because I love Paganini, haha) and many of his sonata also All- Night vigil of course.

Thank you so much for the postcard Sofia J

Kazan, Kremlin is the chief historic citadel of Tartarstan and located in Kazan. It was built at the behest of Ivan the terrible. In there many old buildings could be found, the oldest was built in 1554-1562 named Annunciation Cathedral. Also the Soyembika tower and Spasskaya tower. And the one in the picture is the largest mosque in Europe (outside from Istanbul), Qol Sharif mosque J.

The mosque is completed in 2005. This building is in the complex too and become the most important symbols of Tartar aspirations. Nowadays the 

mosque become a museum of Islam.

The complex of Kazan become UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2000.

Very nice postcard, Tania. Thank you so much !!!

Violin is a string musical instruments, usually with 4 strings yuned in perfect fifths. It developed in early 16th century. The oldest one believed have been construction in 1555 by Andrea Anati and I think the most famous violin markers ( or called Luthiers) is from Stradivari family. I regret that I don’t learn to play it, huhu. But it’s always be my favorite instruments ever. My favorite violinist are Antonio Vivaldi and Marco Paganini. But I also enjoy Mozart or Bach played.

Thank you for the beautiful postcard Natasha!

An Aurora is natural light display in the sky in high latitude regions caused by the collision of solar wind and magnetospheric changed  particles with the high altitude atmosphere. Usually only seen in  Arctic and Antartic.

In the Northern such us Russia the aurora named Aurora Borealis took from Aurora , the Roman Goddes of Dawn and Boreas the greek for northern wind.  Galileo named it in 1619.

From farther away, Aurora illuminated the norther horizon as a greenish glow or sometimes a faint red. Such a breath taking view J

Thank you so much for the beautiful card  Christine!

The St. Isaac  is the largest Russian orthodox Cathedral in  Saint Petersburg, Russia. It's dedicated to Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, a patron saint of Peter the Great. built in 1818 till 1858 with Augustei Montferrand as architect.

The main dome ( that's very awesome) rises 101,5 metres and is plated with pure gold. decorated with 12 statues of angeks by Josef Hermann. During world war II  the dome was painted over in gray to avoid from enemy aircraft. In 1931 the cathedral turned into museum of the History of religion and Atheism. With the fall of communism, the main body of the cathedral is used for services on feast days only.

Thank you so much for amazing postcard Alyona :). Большое спасибо!

One of my favorite theme of postcard is architecture building. So Irina from russia sent me this postcard :).

It;s Neva gate from Saint Peter  and Paul Fortress. the fortress founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's design from 1706 - 1740. In the beginnings it's used for a prison but today the building adapted as the central and important part of the state museum of Saint Petersburgh History.

The fortress also contains for Peter and Paul cathredal, which has 122,5 metres bell tower and become burial place of all Russian Tsars except peter II and Ivan VI.

It such a beautiful museum for me since I always enjoy visiy museum, hehe.

спасибо Irina :)