There were once thousands of caravanserai, staging posts for the weary traveller, dotted throughout Asia, North Africa and the South-Eastern parts of Europe. The Silk Road, an important and extensive trans-continental network of routes, was dotted with them. Many still survive, but more, like the one in the Lut desert of Iran (above) are abandoned and slowly turning to dust.
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Confucius lived from 551 to 479 BC and was a Chinese philosopher and politician of who was traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages.
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Rickshaws appeared in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1874, in Singapore in 1880, in Beijing in 1886 and then to other parts of Southeast and South Asia and Africa.
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Lotte World is South Korea in a nutshell – bizarre yet familiar. Lotte World in Seoul is the world’s largest indoor amusement park and it has its own ice skating rink, hotel, swimming pool and the Disney-clone Lotte World Adventure.
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In China’s Hunan Province, near the town of Zhangjiajie, the ground literally falls away – think the films Hero or House of the Flying Daggers. It’s not hard to imagine Jet Li or Maggie Cheung flying gracefully through this mystical landscape.
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