• Asia

The Pacific – Batanes Islands/Herman Melville

"...the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly..."

Bundelkhand (Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh)/Jules Verne

“The goddess Kali; the goddess of love and death.” “Of death, perhaps.”

Istanbul/Lord Byron

“…gilded domes and minarets reflecting the first rays of the sun…”

Kyoto/Rudyard Kipling

“…in the crowded street of the cherry…”

Hong Kong/Rudyard Kipling

“Morning gave us a new world--somewhere between Heaven and Earth.”

Bangkok/Joseph Conrad

“…under the shadow of the great gilt pagoda…”