East Asia

A week in Tokyo

I was one week in Tokyo in early May 2001. New Tokyo Tokyo is a modern city with 12 million inhabitants. It is cleaner than most cities of its size, and crime barely exists. The population is more homogenous than…

Israel and Jordan

While on vacation in Egypt in December 2000, André and I made a trip to Israel and Jordan. We visited the ancient city of Petra, the Dead Sea and Jerusalem. Petra Our first stop was the ancient city of Petra.…

A trip to Hong Kong

In September 1993, while I was working as a UN soldier in Somalia, I travelled to Hong Kong, Macao and China. Hong Kong Most of the time we spent in Hong Kong, which was a British colony until 1997. Macao…