This week, we’re looking at W for World Famous locations. For Saturday, we head to Shanghai, in China – and the Pudong, or East Bank. But I should give a bit of background first, I guess .. For many people, the most familiar images of Shanghai are those of The Bund, an embankment, or quay, along…
This week, we’re looking at W for World Famous locations. And for Wednesday, its the view from Victoria Peak of Hong Kong, and its residential towers. To get to The Peak, you can go by bus, by taxi, by car – or by a funicular railway – where two carriages are connected on a giant…
This week’s theme is U – for Undulations. And today, it’s a hiking trail and steps below the Ngong Ping peak, on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island. Lantau is Hong Kong’s largest island – but until the 1990s it was largely undeveloped – home to fishing villages and not much else. In fact, film buffs may…
This week’s theme is U – for Undulations. I’ve taken a fairly liberal interpretation of that to mean hills, and valleys .. and so we start with the mountainous country around Beijing, in China. And the Great Wall that is built along those mountains. They say the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure…
Song dynasty writer Liu Yi once wrote “Reading ten thousand books is not as useful as travelling ten thousand miles.” Now, I’m not sure that’s true – because I’ve seen a number of travellers who would have been better off to stay at home, given how little they have learned in their journeys. I am…
This photo stinks! Well, at least its subject does. Hong Kong literally means “Fragrant Harbour”. Yes, well. I could think of lots of words to describe Hong Kong, but I’m not entirely sure “Fragrant” would come to mind. Oh, it’s not as pungent as (say) Bangkok with its smelly khlongs – or Beijing with its…
This week, our Travel pics series has been E for East Asia.The final picture comes from the Summer Palace, in Beijing. A World Heritage listed series of lakes, gardens and palaces, the Summer Palace is considered one of the best examples of Chinese lanscape gardening in the world – as befits its status as the pleasure gardens of…
This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. For Saturday, we return to Hong Kong – and we return to 2010. I mention the year that this image was taken merely because this reconstruction will have finished five years ago – but ones like it are happening every day in Hong Kong. We were…
This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. Friday’s image is of a streetscape that looks like it could be in any European city – except that is it, in fact, in Shanghai. The Bund is an embankment, or quay, along the banks of the Huangpu River, which runs through Shanghai. It’s made up…
This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. When we were in San Francisco the first time (stay with me, this is relevant), we went to the Asian Art Museum – and it used the spread of Buddhism as a chronological guide to the artefacts on show. Amongst other things, it showed just how…
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