Asia

Asia is one of the most varied and fascinating continents. From the Far East to the Middle East… We have reached all of Asia to tell you

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Hongcun, the mirror villa

The central plaza is liquid and the sidewalk surrounds a lagoon in which red fish swim, mistaken for the reflection of Chinese lanterns.. It is a round mirror where you look at the stone houses to see that they have barely been affected by the passage of time.

Mongolia: infinite horizon

Simply, it does not have an end. It is the most distant and imprecise horizon I have ever observed. I look at it again ... I appreciate with relative clarity the lines that mark the end of the enormous green plain on which my feet are planted.

Shanghai: neon lights and karaokes

Shanghai appeared to us messy without deciding where the skyscrapers end and where the smell of the lacquered duck begins. We held the camera crew with a grimace of doubt, looking at buildings stretched up and stunned by the noise of scrap metal at ground level.

the steep faith

The Hanging Temple is supported by wooden columns on a wall 75 meters from the ground, in which no sane architect would have thought of building anything habitable. Or maybe it was a genius idea.

Beijing, the marathon

"Un hombre gritaba a su mujer, the customs officers were unfriendly and soon I began to hear the concert of throat clearing and spitting, habitual and incomprehensible practice of the Chinese of all genders and conditions."

Yangon: the temples of saffron revolution

The temples of the Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon were the scene of saffron revolution seven years ago, when the monks rose up against the dictatorship by barrier between the military and the people. Today walk calm and smiling to the traveler protected by their umbrellas to match the habit.

Unexplained Kumano Kodo faith

"Here faith is like a bamboo forest, It sways with the wind, change, it is flexible” The phrase was released casually in less Japanese than the Japanese in the Wakayama region. His name was Brad and he had grown up with the snows of Canada. But his soul was slanted-eyed and his heart entangled in the tangle of creeds we were about to discover..

Sulawesi: die in Tana Toraja

this community, full of ancestral beliefs and rites, lost in the time of the Dutch East Indies many of those rituals, but they were able to keep those related to funeral celebrations. We were lucky to be able to attend one of them..

Any wagon of the Trans-Siberian

There is nothing more wonderful in train travel than that alternation between the chapter of a book, look at the landscape and observe life in the wagon. And start again...

Tokyo, anthill

You might think that in a city where reigns the order and reverence as a greeting, discretion is the usual pattern of its inhabitants, but there, just there, the most disconcerting part of the city begins.

Extreme zen state in the middle of winter Tokyo

What is tokyo? Lots of noises, horns, cries, mermaids, malls... a chaos ... For not. Turns out not. Tokyo is more like the bottom of the sea, where a lot of fish go in the same direction without brushing, than to the cinematographic stereotype of a megalopolis of the year two thousand.

Yangon: welcome Mr. Oil

The commercial capital of Myanmar lies limp along the Andaman Sea, Facing the Indian Ocean. Yangon is a city struggling to forget a sad and tragic past and now trying to open up to the world with dropper. But the fate of Myanmar is about to take a big twist. In the surrounding waters are oil, much oil.
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