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3941 - Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia

This card depicts a traditional village house. It is built on stilts to avoid flooding during the rainy season.  Bayan Lepas is a suburb of George Town and is located at the southern tip of Penang Island, 15 km south of the city centre.  Bayan Lepas is home to the Snake Temple  蛇庙 , or the Temple of the Azure Clouds. It is a Chinese temple well-known for being a refuge of resident snakes, said to be reincarnated disciples of the deified Buddhist monk Master Qingshui  清水祖師 , to whom the temple is dedicated. On the six day of the first lunar month, devotees, some as far away as Singapore, Taiwan, and China, come to pray in the temple.  Inside the temple, it is filled with smoke of burning incense and a variety of pit vipers. The vipers are believed to be rendered harmless by the sacred smoke, but as a safety precaution, the snakes have been de-venomed while still retaining their fangs. In 2005 a snake breeding centre was set up in the temple. 
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3940 - Chișinău, Moldova

Chișinău is the largest and capital city of Moldova. It was founded in 1436 as a monastery village. At the beginning of the 19th century there were about 7000 living here. Today there are about 720 000 people.  The card comes from the Canary Islands. Maybe the sender visited there. It doesn't say. The sender is from Kyiv, Ukraine, and was displaced due to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Her biography on Postcrossing thanks the people of  Chișinău for the warm welcome they received and continue to receive. They know have a permanent house to call home. I hope one day she can return to her home in Kyiv. 

3939 - Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Cathedral Rock, located in Arizona, has been seen in countless Hollywood movies, usually westerns. It is a turreted sandstone butte towering 87 meters high at its highest point (1500 meters above sea level). Cathedral Rock is within Coconino National Forest in Yavapai County in central Arizona, about 2.5 km from Sedona. 

3938 - Sanya, Hainan, Chna

The message on the front, translated from a colleague, reads, "Journey to the vast mountains and seas." Sanya  三亚市  is a city on the southern tip of Hainan Island. There are just over a million people that call Sanya home. It has a tropical climate and is a popular tourist destination. Yulin Naval Base is located here and is home to the People's Liberation Army Navy ballistic nuclear missle fleet.  Along with Chinese signs, signs in English and Russia are found everywhere. There are over 100 hotels ranging from five stars to locally managed resorts found here.  The Guanyin of Nansh an  南山海上观音圣像   is found at the top of Nanshan Temple in Sanya. It is 106 metres tall. One side faces the South China Sea. This represents blessing and protection by Guanyin of China and the whole world. Another side depicts Guanyin cradling a sutra in the left hand and gesturing the Vitarka Mudra with the right. The third holds a lotus. It is the 14th tallest statue in the ...

3937 - Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland

A holiday card from the senders. They were in the city of Burgas  Бургас  in Bulgaria. Burgas is on the Black Sea Coast and is the fourth largest city in Bulgaria, with 211 000 people. It is an important industrial, transport, cultural, and tourist centre. Burgas Lakes surrounds Burgas with the Black Sea at its westernmost point. 

3936 - Hattingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Hattingen is located on the south bank of the Ruhr in western Germany. It was first mentioned in documents in 1396, when the Duke of Mark granted permission to build a city wall. Today Hattingen is a tourist draw because of its historic district with Fachwerk (timber-framed houses) built between the 14th and 16th centuries. The old part of the city is still surrounded by the city walls today.  There are about 55 000 people living here. Back in 1720, there were 52 operating coal mines in the area and Hattingen became one of the first industrial cities in the region. Steel production started in 1853. This lasted until 1987, when the steel factory was shut down. 

3935 - Montargis, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Montargis is a French commune of almost 15 000 people about 110 km south of Paris. The town is known to date back to ancient times. At one point it was the stronghold of the Frankish king Clovis I (466 - 511).  In the 1910s and 20s, Montangis was a hub of Chinese expatriate political activity. Deng Xiaoping   邓小平 ( 1904 - 1997) worked here producing rubber goloshes in 1922. He went on to become the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1989. He is regarded as the "Architect of Modern China." The square in front of Montargis railway station was renamed in his honour.