Macedonia

A wonderful postcard from Ana showing two of my favourite themes - traditional clothes and musical instruments. 

The girls shown in the front of the postcard are wearing traditional Macedonian dress.

Ana used stamps issued on February 19, 2003 showing Macedonian traditional musical instruments. The complete set of stamps show the bagpipes (MKD9), tambur (MKD10), kemene (MKD20) and drum (MKD50). 

China - Lhasa, Tibet

Postcard from Lhasa, Tibet. Peter was travelling there and had offered to send a postcard in exchange for one of mine.

 

 

 
I like that the postmark is the same as the temple, Gadan Songzanlin, shown in the postcard. It is the largest Tibetan Buddhist Temple in Yunnan.