The black-lacquered sign above the broad gateway proclaims that this is Comrade Soong Ching-ling's old residence. In smaller script right underneath the large characters is written her official designation ?honorary chairman of the People's Republic of China.
Schindler's List producer Branko Lustig was in Shanghai recently scouting locations for his new movie, an inter-racial romantic drama about Jewish refugees who found safe haven in the open port city during World War II.
French kings were once crowned at the cathedral at Reims. The Dresden Frauenkirche, firebombed to rubble during World War II, stands proudly rebuilt on the Elbe River with its distinctive "stone bell?dome. St. Peter's Basilica is the heart of the Vatican. But if I were traveling to Europe on this Easter Sunday, I would hope to spend the morning in a much different building: one of the historic wooden churches that dot communities in the region once known as Wallachia. Now cultural treasures of Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania, many of these sturdy houses of worship have been sanctified by UNESCO as World Heritage sites during the past three decades.
One of the must-dos on every mainland visitor's list is the Shi Lin Night Market in Taipei, usually on the last day of a hectic 10-day round-Island tour. Here, many of Taiwan's iconic "little eats", or street snacks, wait to tempt tourists.
Eight of us are trudging up a mountain ridge into thinning air. Soft, green grass shrouds the steep but graceful slopes that surround us. Near the end of a hike in a vertical field of wildflowers, the purple and yellow blossoms become dotted with familiar white star-shapes. At about 3,000 meters above sea level, our steps come more slowly but we are not hallucinating.
Traveling on the Indian Pacific is an exhilarating adventure and a great eye-opener as it rolls across the diversity of the Australian landscape. The 4,352-kilometer transcontinental journey from Sydney to Perth takes three nights and three days, or approximately 65 hours, and transports the visitor from the stunning Blue Mountains, the Great Dividing Range, the salt lakes and sand dunes of South Australia to the longest straight stretch of rail track across the Nullarbor Plain.
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