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3 min readTaiwan
Views: 0The Matsu Islands: granite villages at the edge of the strait
A small archipelago off the coast of Fujian, named after the sea goddess, shaped by decades as a military frontier and known today for stone villages and glowing seas.
2 min readJapan
Views: 0Mount Fuji and the Five Lakes
At 3,776 metres, Mount Fuji is Japan's highest peak and its most familiar symbol. A profile of the volcano, the lakes at its northern foot, and why Japanese art keeps returning to it.
2 min readVietnam
Views: 0Bắc Sơn: a valley of stilt houses and a sea of clouds
A green valley in the north-east, ringed by limestone hills, where Tày and Nùng villages sit among rice fields and early mornings can fill the basin with clouds.
3 min readTaiwan
Views: 0New Taipei and Xizhi: the city around the capital
New Taipei wraps around Taipei like a ring of old mining towns, river suburbs and coastline. Xizhi, on the Keelung River, shows its everyday commuter side.
2 min readJapan
Views: 0Kōyasan: the mountain monastery town
High in the forested mountains of Wakayama, Kōyasan is a small town made largely of temples. Founded by the monk Kūkai in the early 9th century, it remains the centre of Shingon Buddhism.
2 min readVietnam
Views: 0The rice terraces of northern Vietnam and the people who built them
Terraced fields climb the mountains of the north in curves that follow the land. They are a farming system built over generations by Hmong, Dao, Hà Nhì and other communities, and they change colour with the seasons.
2 min readJapan
Views: 0Osaka: merchant city and the nation's kitchen
Osaka grew up around trade rather than a court. Its castle, its canals and its famous appetite for street food all come from that merchant past. A profile of Japan's most down-to-earth big city.
2 min readTaiwan
Views: 0Kaohsiung, the harbour city of the south
Taiwan's great port city has spent recent decades reinventing itself, from shipyards and steelworks to riverside walks, art warehouses, temple lakes and lantern-lit festivals.
2 min readVietnam
Views: 0The Đồng Văn Karst Plateau: a geopark made of stone
On Vietnam's far northern border, a high limestone plateau records hundreds of millions of years of geological history, and the communities living on it have learned to farm between the rocks.