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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
June 21, 2006 09:57 AM EDT -- Lijiang, China Since at least the time of the Qin Dynasty (the rulers who unified China in the third century BC), people have been propelling a ball forward with their feet.  This predecessor of . . . more
July 21, 2006 02:27 AM EDT -- I've postponed a month-long plan to publish a photo essay from a 2003 trip I made to Gaza.  There are several reasons for this, most of them to do with being busy lately, but the primary reason . . . more
December 12, 2008 09:25 PM EST --               This is part two of a four-part series looking at different towns in Nicaragua.  To begin at part one -- Granada -- click . . . more
May 27, 2006 01:49 PM EDT -- Girl at sunrise walking along the moat surrounding the world's largest religious monument, Angkor Wat. Centuries ago, Cambodia was a great power and ruled over territory stretching from Vietnam . . . 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
February 29, 2008 04:18 PM EST --             The following story, based on a 2004 visit to Bangkok and set largely in a strip club, is one of the more sensitive pieces I've . . . 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
June 01, 2006 12:48 PM EDT -- "We travel," says travel writer Pico Iyer, "to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate."  Reading about a place . . . more
July 01, 2006 01:24 PM EDT -- There are many good reasons to travel to Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic tucked away in the mountains of Central Asia.  One reason, at least if you are like me, is that you will finally master . . . more
July 06, 2006 01:14 PM EDT -- On Christmas morning 2003, as dawn struggled to break through the soup-like fog that had the small town of Sapa thoroughly enveloped, I struggled out of bed.  I had been up late the night before, . . . more
January 31, 2008 12:50 AM EST --             In providing captions for photo graphs, there is often background to the image that the photographer leaves out.  . . . more
November 27, 2008 03:51 PM EST --   This post begins what I hope will be a four-part series on Nicaragua, where I recently traveled for two weeks.  The series will be a little different from most of . . . more
August 31, 2007 10:42 PM EDT --               A year ago -- or heck, even six weeks ago -- if you had asked me if I would ever post a photo essay set in a market, particularly . . . more
September 12, 2008 03:30 PM EDT -- Rattle and Hum. Most know this as the title of a U2 album. But it can also describe something of the experience of riding a train. In some countries . . . more
June 06, 2006 04:06 PM EDT -- In 329 BC, when Alexander the Great first laid eyes on the cosmopolitan city of Samarkand, he said, "Everything I have heard about [Samarkand] is true, except that it's more beautiful than I . . . more
July 12, 2006 09:43 AM EDT -- There are both certain times and particular places where I grow angry to the extent that I am uncomfortable with myself.  I value feeling the range of human emotions, for this makes me feel . . . more
July 14, 2006 03:07 PM EDT -- In reading this book I began to ask myself why even now, given the multitude of current and past governments that have committed atrocities, it is the Khmer Rouge that touches my most sensitive . . . more
July 03, 2006 12:07 PM EDT -- Almost two years ago, while in the Vietnamese city of Hue, I rented a motorbike one afternoon to explore the surrounding countryside.  In one village I stopped and found a teenage girl loading . . . 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
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