Lunar new year in Tianshui
Fuxi Temple (Chinese: 伏羲廟) is located in Tianshui (天水), Gansu (甘肅), China. It was the 14th day of the first month in the lunar calendar when Choumeizai visited there, the locals were still celebrating lunar new year.
Death Railway: Song of poppies
The Burma Railway (Thai: ทางรถไฟสายมรณะ), also known as the Death Railway, is a railway between Thailand, and Burma, it is said that more than 100,000 people died during the construction of this railway. Hellfire Pass (ช่องเขาขาด) is noted for the harsh conditions and heavy loss of life.
Death Railway: Fire of hell
The Burma Railway (Thai: ทางรถไฟสายมรณะ), also known as the Death Railway, is a railway between Thailand, and Burma, built by the Empire of Japan from 1940–1944 to supply troops and weapons in the Burma campaign of World War II. For Choumeizai, Hellfire Pass (ช่องเขาขาด) is amongst the most impressive in the whole Burma Railway.
Bridge on the River Kwai
‘Bridge on the River Kwai’ is a bridge located in Changwat Kanchanaburi (Thai: จังหวัดกาญจนบุรี), Thailand. The original name of Bridge on the River Kwai should be ‘Bridge 277’, which is part of the Siam–Burma Railway, now it becomes a popular tourist attraction due to fiction and movie.
Buddha light above Potala
Potala Palace (Tibetan: པོ་ཏ་ལ) is located in the city of Lhasa (ལྷ་ས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར), Tibet. Potala Palace has been a World Heritage Site since 1994, it is the religious center of Tibet and a popular tourist attraction. Blessed by Buddha, Choumeizai sees ‘Buddha Light’ (halo) while climbing to Potala Palace.
Potala the Tibetan sanctum
Potala Palace (Tibetan: པོ་ཏ་ལ) is a dzong fortress in the city of Lhasa (ལྷ་ས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར), Tibet. It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649 to 1959, and also the religious and political center of Tibet. Potala Palace is a must go of every tourist who visits Tibet.
Kuqa’s couple who make naan
Kuqa (Uyghur: كۇچار شەھىرى) is a county-level city in Aksu Prefecture (ئاقسۇ ۋىلايىتى), Xinjiang (Chinese: 新疆), China. Besides its glorious history as an ancient Buddhist Kingdom, Kuqa is also famous for homemade naan (نان).
The story of Fujian tulou
Fujian tulou (Chinese: 福建土樓; literally 'Fujian earthen buildings') are Chinese rural dwellings unique to the Hakka in the mountainous areas in southeastern Fujian, China. They were mostly built between the 12th and the 20th centuries.
Zhaojiabao the royal descendant
Zhaojiabao (Chinese: 趙家堡, literally ’Zhao family castle’) is fortified family residence located in Zhangpu County (漳浦), Fujian Province (福建), China. The construction of Zhaojiabao began in 1600, the enclosing wall is around 5 meters tall in average.
Market in Bagan Empire
Mani Sithu Market (Burmese: မဏိစည်သူဈေး) is located in Nyaung-U (ညောင်ဦးမြို့), Mandalay Region, Myanmar. The market is Nyaung-U's main market and is quite close to Shwezigon Pagoda (ရွှေစည်းခုံဘုရား), a local morning market rather than tourist market.
The rest of Shwezigon Paya
Shwezigon Paya (Burmese: ရွှေစည်းခုံဘုရား) is a Buddhist stupa located in Nyaung-U (ညောင်ဦးမြို့), Myanmar. The pagoda has almost 1000 years of history and is deemed to be the prototype of Burmese stupas. Besides the golden stupa, there are many other things worth seeing.
Aboriginals of Pier 39
Pier 39 is a shopping center and popular tourist attraction built on a pier in San Francisco, California. At Pier 39, there are shops, restaurants, aquariums and even an amusement park, but for Choumeizai, the most impressive is the special aboriginals here.
Sandakan: Little Hong Kong in Borneo
Sandakan is on the east coast of Sabah, Malaysia. Sandakan was nicknamed Little Hong Kong due to a strong presence of ethnic Chinese migration from Hong Kong (mainly Cantonese and Hakka).
Seashore of Buli Sim Sim
Kampung Buli Sim Sim, is a water village on the coast of Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. Kampung Buli Sim Sim is the origin of Sandakan, besides the delicious seafood, the scenery of the water village is also beautiful.
Charm of Hakka Wine Castle
Yuzitanwei (Chinese: 漁仔潭圍) is located in Ganzhou (赣州), the south of Jiangxi Province (江西), China. It was built in around 1760 and is over 200 years old. Since Yuzitanwei has been making wine long time ago, it is also called ‘Hakka Wine Castle’ (客家酒堡).
Hakka story of Guangxi Xinwei
Guangxi Xinwei (Chinese: 關西新圍) is located in Ganzhou (赣州), the south of Jiangxi Province (江西), China. It was built between 1798 to 1827, which is one of the typical Hakka buildings in China.
Alleppey: Green canals
Alleppey (Malayalam: ആലപ്പുഴ; also Alappuzha) is an administrative district in the Indian State of Kerala, its backwaters are a network of brackish lagoons and lakes lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast, the scenery is beautiful and exotic, a must go for every tourist who visits Kerala.
A stronghold named Yanyiwei
Yanyiwei (Chinese: 燕翼圍) is located at Ganzhou (贛州) prefecture of Jiangxi province (江西), China. The construction of Yanyiwei started in 1650 and finished in 1677, it has over 300 years old, looks like a big stronghold.
Green shade of Nan Wai
Nan Wai Old Village (Chinese: 南圍古村) is located at Heyuan (河源) prefecture of Guangdong (廣東) province in China. Nan Wai Old Village preserves over 30 old Hakka buildings, the largest number in Heyuan. The majority of the people in Heyuan are Hakka, so Heyuan is deemed to be ‘the origin of Hakka’.
Self service mart in Wakayama
Wakayama (日語：和歌山) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai (關西) region of Honshu (本州). Wakayama is a provincial place which is not as vibrant as big cities such as Tokyo and Osaka, but it is full of humanity, self service marts are everywhere.
