Video series reveals destinations' human side

Chinese travel-information website Qyer and Quriosity Studio recently co-released the short-video series, Encounter, about the daily lives of locals in 11 countries.

The 30-episode series of three- to five-minute videos tell the stories, and show the visual splendors of such destinations as Australia, Bhutan and Thailand.

They reveal the lives of such real-life characters as a pottery artist in the Christmas markets of Vienna's Karlsplatz and a bell-ringer who has worked for 35 years in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria's capital, Sofia.