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Article: A Serendipitous Sojourn to Asia.(a man travels to Asia)(Abstract)
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- Insight on the News
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- January 25, 1999
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Indefatigable travelers will be interested in the Cathay Pacific All Asia Pass, which honors flights to 17 cities during a 30-day period -- a hectic but rewarding excursion to the Far East.
Asia is an adventure in technicolor, an assault on the senses. Months after returning, I still replay the images in my mind: the Buddhist treasures of Japan, the palaces and pagodas of Thailand, Cambodia's majestic Angkor Wat, China's Great Wall. I recall one vivid sunset in Hue, the former imperial capital of Vietnam, a scene as beautiful as a painting -- dark clouds at the top of the sky, a blaze of pink, then the blackness of the Perfume River, where city lights shimmered ...