Photography by Peter Shanks

Futurist and monumental, the region is one of the great financial centers of Asia, combining a regime with strong Western and ancient traditions of oriental stamp.

It is the view in the bustle of its markets, filled with imitations of watches and wallets and seafood and ducks hanging head down, always with the haggling and shopping ritual. Is visible in its colorful festivals, the Chinese New Year at the helm, but Hong Kong, certainly not China. Hundred fifty-five years of British rule (1842-1997) left their stamp on the archipelago that spreads in the Pearl River delta, on the southern coast of the Sea of China, and has no less than 260 islands (the Hong Hong is the most popular and crowded, but only the inhabited islands are ten!). (más…)

Photo por BC Taiwan

The Taipei 101, stands out for many heads in the airspace of the city, which is not known precisely for its skyscrapers, as it is in a seismic zone. The building has some postmodern pagoda and climbs almost to the top for a «lift bullet» that rise to 45 km / h would be the fastest in the world.

At night, from the windows of the Taipei 101 looking at the spectacle of modernity at its best, a horizon of light and shadow which looms just the skeleton of an empty city and impersonal, like a ghost moving amusement park but without people. It is the image of a dead city. (más…)

Recent studies by the State Directorate of Archaeology, Topography and Cartography China discovered that the Great Wall is even longer than previously thought. The Great Wall of China belongs to the select group of old buildings (like the pyramids of Giza, Machu Picchu and the Roman Colosseum, etc.) whose performance in such distant times it seems impossible to imagine in these modern times. So each new finding in the environment generates an echo transnational and touch fibers in history. This happened when the State Bureau of Archaeology, China Surveying and Mapping revealed that the zigzag snake stone has about 2500 miles more than I thought. Built in several stages from the sixth century BC, the Great Wall is the greatest symbol of the region, now official length of 8851 kilometers. (más…)

Chronicle of a visit to Long Bedia community, deep in the jungles of Malaysian Borneo. While deforestation is the main activity, the inhabitants of the region of Sarawak want to avoid the deforestation of the jungle, to disappear, would affect the cycles of a devastating storm.

Deep Forest:

The community is called Long Bedia Jok. The names of ethnicity refer to those living “upstream”, but are also known as kayan, the name under which marched from Apau Kayan in Kalimantan, the area of the island of Borneo belongs to Indonesia. Kalimantan abandoned when the farmland were exhausted and settled in various parts of northern Sarawak, especially in the vicinity of the Baram river, Rejang and Tubau, where they still live in communal long houses. (más…)

From the skyscrapers and luxury shops, the neighborhoods in technology and great palaces, the Japanese capital is decrypted with patience, but at the speed of the bullet train. In Yamanote subway line, a line of impeccable style Armani executives share a seat with a middle-aged woman talking on a cellphone with a traditional kimono. Outside, waiting for the city where concrete and asphalt jungle, full of towering skyscrapers, seems to be endless. But the intricate plot holds many surprises to unravel slowly. (más…)

The Lake Baikal is a beautiful lake located in southern Siberia in Russia, is also known as the «Blue Eye of Siberia» or «Pearl of Asia», Lake covers an area of 31.494 km ², is considered as the largest lake in Asia’s freshwater and is the deepest in the world for its depth reaches 1.637 meters. (más…)

Delhi is the capital city of India, located north of the country is a vast plain on the banks of the Yamuna River, a tributary of the sacred river Ganges. Between 1912 and 1947 was the capital of the British Empire, which at independence for the move to be the capital of India joining the new republic would later, she was placed in the modern city of New Delhi, where most are located governmental and administrative institutions the old so-called Old Delhi. (más…)