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Shanghai old and new

Shanghai Old and NewWhat’s it like to visit the world’s largest city proper (as opposed to greater metropolitan area, which is Tokyo)? A ci…

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0 Mar 7, 2017

Kabuki theater in the mountains of central Japan

Kabuki is a traditional Japanese performing art, registered as an "Intangible Cultural Heritage" by UNESCO. In Gifu Prefecture, part of the…

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0 Dec 20, 2016

Seoul's edgy, dyamic arts neighborhood, Seongsu-dong

Visiting South Korea's dynamic capital, one afternoon I decided to check out Seongsu-dong, the gritty, working-class neighborhood on the Ha…

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0 Sep 24, 2016

Exploring the mountain highlands north of Manila

The Philippines is an enormous, sprawling archipelago with lots of lovely, exotic corners to explore. But you don't need to go very far fro…

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0 Jun 6, 2016

Vietnam dispatches 2016: 40 Years after the 'American War'

What's it like for a boomer who who avoided the Vietnam War to finally face up to that Land of Awful Names: Da Nang, My Lai, Khe Sanh and o…

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0 May 24, 2016

The essence of India: its 'Golden Triangle'

The principal sites and sights of what most of us think of as "iconic" India - the Taj Mahal of Agra, Delhi's Red Fort, the palaces of Jaip…

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0 Nov 18, 2015

Another first-hand account of a Halong Bay cruise

Along the northernmost coast of Vietnam, this dramatic UNESCO World Heritage archipelago of some 2,000 limestone islands (whose name is som…

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0 Nov 8, 2015

Happy Mongolia Day! A Most Singular Land...

This landlocked, mostly Buddhist country wedged between China and Siberia (a bit smaller than Alaska and with a population around 3 million…

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0 Jul 14, 2015

3 must-visits in Xian, China

Xian was the start of the Silk Road and at one time the largest city in the world.  Today the city of eight million is booming, and still h…

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0 Jul 5, 2015

China's lovely Yangtze water town of Old Hangzhou

Once known in English as Hangchow, the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou is on a bay between Shanghai and Ningbo. Once the southern end of t…

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0 Jun 28, 2015

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