Photo of the Day 12 February 2008


Borobudur Temple, Java, Indonesia, 2001
Photograph by Alexandra Boulat
A woman walks among the bell-shaped spires of Indonesia's Borobudur—the world's largest Buddhist temple. Built in the jungles of Java during the eighth and ninth centuries A.D., this ancient pilgrimage site lay abandoned for centuries until it was rediscovered and restored in the early 1900s.