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Quotes from our contributing authors

"Forty years ago, Hue was a different scene. The brightly lit streets where I now find myself laughing and racing Vietnamese guys on their scooters, the laughing, waving children yelling 'hello,' the friendly smiles from street vendors before they latch onto you like a leech in heat..."

- Dakota Gale

"The Koreans rightly saw modern industrialization as the way out of their predicament. They set to work with a vengeance. By any measure they have succeeded. No longer a 'Hermit Kingdom,' modern day Korea is a wonder of skyscrapers and sophistication."

- John Regan

"Lamarayuru, a village based around a temple west of Leh. It is an indescribable place. It seems as though the mountains have given up any pretence of being composed of anything other than rock, not even sand – just rock – composed of gigantic contorted formations, and in spectacular colours: green, purple, white, grey: even the river is pink."

- Elizabeth Elliott