ACTS OF KINDNESS

BY EVA CLIFFORD As I drove out one morning down the empty highway in Bagan, dawn light rousing the colours of the plains and the pagodas cold-looking against the sky, I suddenly noticed a small girl on the roadside waving at me like I was a long-lost friend. When I stopped my bike, she greeted me…

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EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY

BY NELSON NG We had been walking along the streets of Tainan cluelessly that night, unsure of where to spend New Year’s Eve. We had just arrived from Alishan and didn’t know a thing about the city. After about an hour’s walk we realized our decision to go to Anping by foot was a wrong…

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CLIMB AND CONQUER

BY SUSAN LIU All I saw were stairs. Stairs in front of me. Stairs behind. Stairs to be conquered – there was nowhere else to go. Grumbling, I continued the climb. I’d been excited to finally climb Yellow Mountain, excited to see the subject of oh-so-many ancient Chinese poems and paintings. But at this moment, all…

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STACK VIDEO REVIEW: LOST ISSUE ONE

Stack reviews LOST Issue One! Quoting Steve Watson of Stack: “I’m totally fascinated by independent publishing in China, so I was excited to receive issue one of Lost magazine last week. A travel title published in China, it’s the first independent magazine I’ve seen that clearly addresses itself to both an international and a domestic…

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NEW BEGINNINGS, NEW ADVENTURES

BY KEEN LOW We made this unplanned trip for our honeymoon…flying halfway across the globe to Brazil with no prior planning. Everything we did on this trip was something we had done for the first time – we were foreigners in a new land, driving on the other side of the road, communicating with locals…

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FUJI-SAN
富士先生

BY TORI DANG 觀看山景是需要湊齊天時地利人和的。 兩年前曾一度錯過了一睹富士先生的風采,兩年後再次來到日本旅遊時必定事在必行!! 由打聽日本友人有關山頂的積雪程度,再來每天搜查靜岡(Shizuoka)一帶的天氣報告,直到選擇臨近又較方便的禦殿場(Gotemba)。 當踏出JR的第一步,懷著向往已久的心情,奔向富士先生懷抱去!

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