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July 18, 2007 08:42 PM EDT --                   (Part 4 of 4.  To begin at Part 1, click HERE)   Four days later, sitting alone on the Great Wall at Simatai, sixty-five . . . more
February 02, 2007 01:38 PM EST --                 PART I – THE SETTING I was in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, and in several weeks I would be traveling to China over the 15,397-foot . . . more
June 16, 2006 08:38 PM EDT -- I had come to Hong Kong by ferry from Macau, one hour to the west.  By the time I was checked for SARS, got my passport stamped, and found my way from the international terminal (on Hong Kong Island) . . . more
August 26, 2006 11:36 AM EDT -- I'm posting these pictures with only a minimum of commentary (mostly because I have a lot to do today here in Tennessee and shouldn't be spending time posting pictures about Tibet).  This . . . more
In Pictures: DOGS OF ASIA
by Joel Carillet
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January 06, 2007 09:56 PM EST --   A SELECTION OF PHOTOS OF THAT UNIVERSAL ANIMAL, THE DOG                           Hanging outside a school in Dharamsala, . . . more
June 20, 2007 07:41 AM EDT --           (Part 2 of 4 -- to read Part 1, click HERE)   The plane banked left to line up with the runway on the edge of hazy Minneapolis.  After a ninety-minute . . . more
May 21, 2006 02:08 AM EDT -- Fyodor Dostoevsky was a perceptive observer of both man and nature.  The Russian novelist was a brilliant writer as well, and if you have not read anything by him perhaps you . . . more
August 16, 2006 10:12 AM EDT -- You could tell just by looking at the windows: Zongdian was a tough and gritty sort of town.  At least in the old quarter, the windows were splattered with mud, as if Earth herself were slinging . . . more
July 03, 2008 03:48 PM EDT --             The day had begun in the Chinese city of Kashgar, where I awoke to see thick winter clouds pouring cold rain onto the streets . . . more
April 04, 2006 05:31 PM EDT -- "You must see the Bund at dawn," a British photographer in my hostel told me several times over the course of my week in Shanghai.  I was no stranger to the Bund, that beautiful facade . . . more
July 26, 2006 11:11 PM EDT -- Tucked among the mountains in the northernmost reaches of China's Yunnan Province, Deqin county is home to 55,000 people, 80 percent of whom are Tibetan.  I entered Yunnan Province from Laos . . . more
September 13, 2006 02:04 PM EDT --   Outside a coffee house in Jaipur, India.  One could enter here to urinate, but anything beyond this had to be done elsewhere. This sign at a park near Luang Prabang, Laos was curiously . . . more
September 25, 2006 12:26 PM EDT -- Laotian hands on the side of a boat on the Mekong River Some time back I got to thinking:  if I were one day to have an office, what image would I most want to frame and hang on the wall.  . . . more
October 26, 2007 01:30 AM EDT --               This installment of my "Reflections on the Road" column draws from the manuscript I've written narrating my . . . more
November 08, 2007 09:49 AM EST --             This is the second "manuscript excerpt" post.  To begin at the first one, CLICK HERE _________________________ . . . more
October 13, 2006 08:48 PM EDT -- (Brief commentary pending...if I can find my misplaced notes) An island off of Nha Trang, Vietnam An Indian patriot at the famous flag lowering ceremony on the India-Pakistan border, Wagah Bukit . . . more
October 15, 2006 03:45 PM EDT -- MORE PHOTOS OF THAT FANTASTIC CONTRAPTION, THE BICYCLE...   Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam   Kathmandu, Nepal   Lahore, Pakistan   Hue, Vietnam (my rental bike)   Luang . . . more
January 10, 2007 11:10 AM EST --   Part one of this series can be found by clicking HERE.  Now for Part two...                         Haad Rin Beach, . . . more
October 10, 2006 10:44 AM EDT -- Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam Kunming, China Varanasi, India Parasi, Nepal Shigatze, Tibet Yangshuo, China Hekou, China (these women are Vietnamese, waiting in line to cross the border back into . . . more
October 17, 2006 05:40 PM EDT -- Sapa, Vietnam Along the Friendship Highway - Tibet, China Mekong River, looking into Thailand - Houy Xia, Laos Kathamndu, Nepal Wagah, India Mtskheta, Georgia On the bridge connecting Thailand . . . more
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