Travelling in Sri Lanka is easy and rewarding, with so many things to see and to do within manageable distances. On the isalnd, history, nature, religion and charm of people come together to make one's experience unique, rich and unforgettable. It is one such destination that is not yet swamped by crowds of tourists and should be considered on a true travellor's agenda as soon as possible.

If my trip to east Africa was a re-connection to the very origin of human life, then my first trip to the UK renewed my love for human histories and cultures that made who we are today.

Turkey is a large country with numerous sites of interest， which one cannot even adequately cover in a few months' time. With the 16 days I have, I decided to focus on sites that combine natural beauty and cultural heritage. ...

...When I reached the foot of the hill and set my feet into the soothing warm hot spring water and began to climb up the white terraces, these dogs were always a few steps ahead of me, never leaving me far behind. They stayed with me for the whole two hours I was there alone for photos, in the way to make me feel as if they were my own and for my protection. How poetic and touching to have such unexpected companion to watch the sunrise together in this most unexpected place! ...

...rewarded with strikingly surreal and other-worldly views of cranes resting in the misty water shrouded by the orange sunrise light in a world of snow white. Simply wonderful to the eyes of a Chinese who cherished the special symbolic meaning of cranes from the Taoist ideal of rising from the earthly worries and pursuits and escaping to the pure and undisturbed land a few skies above....

The beauty of Kyoto started to unveil when we set our feet onto its temples, gardens, shrines and the traditional neighbourhoods surrounding them, and the best way to explore such beauty is on foot.

Last night I dreamed of Antarctica...It feels now like another life in another world, so far that it looked even beyond the reach of dreams... If the roaming lives on the grasslands of East Africa connects me to the raw power of mankind's birth place, then the solitude, peace and tenderness of Antarctica suggests to me the gate of heaven, a passage to eternity. 昨夜梦到了南极，是从那里返回一年后的第一次。在南极，仿佛是另一个世界，另一辈子的生活，人回来了，那一种超然变得遥不可及，远得连梦都梦不到。然而就是昨夜，南极之灵雪燕竟飞临我的梦境，舞动双翅将其染成了若樱花般的颜色，那时南极日出的颜色。

... Then I try to peer through that fog, I vaguely see grasslands dotted with flat-top acacia trees, elephants roaming in groups across shallow waters, countless wildebeests bolting through rays of morning sun, and pink flamingos flying over the back drop of snow-capped Mt. Kilimanjaro.... ...我努力凝聚目光试图穿透那雾气，依稀可见大草原上点点的平顶合欢树，可见象群缓缓游荡涉过浅浅溪流，可见无数角马列队狂奔在日出的光线中，可见粉色的火烈鸟从乞立马扎罗白雪皑皑的顶峰前掠过。...

The last time I lost sleep the night before a trip was in the summer of 1974. Very early the next morning I would travel to Luoyang with my father to visit my grandma. I was 6, had never left Beijing, and had never been on a train. I don’t remember another sleepless night before I embarked later for many places around the world until March 30, 2011. And the next day, I was to fly to Taipei.

There was full moon, bright and solid. Sitting at dinner table by the beach with a grilled snapper and glass of lime juice, I felt stricken by a melancholic loneliness. I had a good view of Gunung Rinjani in clouds across the water and Marcus was up there somewhere in those clouds, perhaps eating banana packages cooked for him by the porters.

On the bus back the Xiamen, I still spotted Tulous here and there. I tend to think that one would not choose such an enclosed form of dwelling to live together with the whole clan inside one wall if not for the fear of war and the necessity of defence through unity. ... 我倾向于认为如果不是惧怕战乱和有合族同仇敌忾的必要，没有人会愿意举族群居在一面大墙之内。过了孩童时期，我一定就不愿意继续土楼里的生活了。

Twisty allays of homes lead to Giac Vien Pagoda in District 11 of the Ho Chi Minh City. It’s a quiet, atmospheric retreat from street’s hustles and bustles and ubiquitus motor bikes. One can see some colonial influence in the coutyard-style architecture with Buddhist colors of bright yellow and dark red, sometimes with trims of beautiful blue. A few locals were sitting in one of the two side corridors chatting, and a monk was sleeping on a big, heavy woodboard in the mainhall. Not a touristic destination at all.

A little over 100km north of the city of Guilin sits gorgeous rice terraces called Dragon Back (“Longji”). To feed themselves, the local Red Yao people converted hilly landscape into rice fields through generations of work since Yuan Dynasty (13th to 14th century). Now about a thousand families live in the village “Dazhai” and early June, the season abundant in water, is the time to plant seedlings. 桂林市向北100多公里有一片非常壮观的梯田, 称为“龙脊”。 据说当地的红瑶自元代起已在这片山地开垦耕作了几百年,稻田倚山而建。村子叫“大寨”,有一千户左右的人家。 6月初雨水充足,正是插秧的时候。