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America (see American Cities)

Australia

Sydney
- Belmore Park (passed by on train)
- Central Station
- Haymarket/Chinatown
- Paddy's Markets (facade)

Austria

Innsbruck:
- Golden Roof
- tram

Belgium

Brussels
- Grand Place
- tram

Belize

Belize City

Canada

Banff National Park
- Banff Gondola
- Banff Town - Banff Ave.
- Bow Falls
- Bow River
- Bow Lake
- Cowfoot Glacier
- Lake Louise - Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise w/ resident yellow lab named Marcus
- Moraine Lake in the Valley of the Ten Peaks
- Peyto Lake
Glacier National Park
- Revelstoke
- Roger's Pass
Golden
- last Spike Historic Site
- Bee Planet honey farm
Hope
Jasper National Park
- Athabasca Falls (milky blue water that reminded someone in my tour group of Xinjiang)
- Columbia Icefield - Ice Explorer ride to Columbia Icefield, Glacier Discovery Center, Columbia Icefield Parkway
- Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge - resident black lab in doghouse
- Glacier Skywalk
- Jasper Town - train station where more members of our tour group, a girl from China working in Montreal, and a mother and daughter from Hong Kong joined our group
- Lac Beauvert- behind Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge
Kamloops - ginseng farm
Kelowna City Park - sculpture of Ogopogo monster
Montreal
Mt Revelstoke National Park
Mt Robson/highest peak in the Canadian Rockies (too cloudy to see clearly)
Niagara Falls, Canada
Okanagan Lake - Summerhill Pyramid Winery
Revelstoke - Last Spike
Richmond (suburb of Vancouver, Chinese neighborhoods)
- CF Richmond Centre
Toronto
- Eaton Center
- Ontario Science Centre
Trans-Canada Highway in Alberta Province
Valemount
Vancouver
- Gastown - steam clock
- Lynn Canyon suspension bridge
- Queen Elizabeth Park
- Richmond/Vancouver's "second Chinatown"
- Stanley Park - totem poles
- Vancouver International Airport
Vernon
Victoria
- Butchart Gardens
- Fairmont Empress Victoria Island Hotel
- Inner Harbour
- Royal London Wax Museum - Joan of Arc wax sculpture (closed)
Yoho National Park
- Emerald Lake
- Natural Bridge

England

Dover
- Cross-Channel ferry
- White Cliffs of Dover
London
- 10 Downing Street
- Big Ben
- Buckingham Palace - changing of the guard
- Burlington Arcade
- Chinese quarter
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Mayfair
- Gatwick International Airport
- Heathrow International Airport
- Holland Park
- Hyde Park - speaker's corner
- Kensington Arcade
- Kensington Palace
- Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square
- Old Vic (passed by on bus)
- Oxford Street
- Parliament Square
- Regent Street
- Tower Bridge
- Trafalgar Square
- Waterstones (bookstore)
- Westminister Abbey
- tube

France

Beaune: Hospices de Beaune
Calais : cross-channel ferry from Dover
Cannes:
Eze - perfume factory
Lyon : TGV train station
Nice
- beach of white rocks and turquoise waters
- Promenade des Anglais
- train station - took the TGV from Paris to Lyon to Nice
Paris/"the City of Light"
- Arc de Triomphe
- Champs-Elysees
- Charles de Gaulle Airport
- Conciergerie (passed by on bus)
- Eiffel Tower - 2nd level
- Flame of Liberty memorial (smaller replica of Statue of Liberty, passed by while on Seine River boat ride)
- Galeries Lafayette - stained glass ceiling
- ibis Paris Bastille Opera 11eme
- Louvre
- Louvre pyramid by I.M. Pei
- Moulin Rouge (facade)
- Notre Dame - tour
- Opera Bastille (bus passed by)
- Orly Airport
- Palais Garnier - tour
- Pigalle @ night - red-light district w/ Arab men and black women, some who looked transgender, Vietnamese restaurants
- Place de la Bastille
- Place Vendome
- Rue du Faubourg St-Honore
- Sacre Couer Basilica (facade)
- Seine River boat ride
- Trocadero Gardens (viewed from Eiffel Tower)
- Tuileries Gardens/Jardins des Tuileries
- le metro

Germany

Berlin
- Alte Nationalgalerie
- Berlin Central Train Station
- Berlin Tegel Airport
- Berlin zoo - polar bear which would swim towards us, then back, then towards us again & again
- Berlin wall ruins
- Brandenburg Gate/Brandenburg Tor
- casino
- Checkpoint Charlie
- Europa Center (mall)
- Kaiser Wilhem Memorial Church - ruins
- Kaufhaus des Westens Department Store/Kadawe - Winter Garden view cafeteria/rooftop food hall
- Kurfurstendamm/Ku'damm
- Museum Island: Alte Nationalgalerie, Neues Museum
- Neues Museum/New Museum - Nefertiti bust
- modern art museum
- bus
Hamburg
- Alster Lake cruise - villa belonging to Jil Sander
- gates of St Pauli district/Reeperbahn barring women
- harbor promenade
- St Michael's Church
- Warehouse district/Speicherstadt

Guatemala

Indian market
Lake Atitlan - cruise
Tikal - pyramids near rainforest w/ people balancing red macaws on a pole

Hong Kong, Kowloon

Central District/CBD
Jardine House/former Connaught Centre/"Porthole Building"/"House of a Thousand Orifices"
Bank of China Tower
Far East Financial Centre
HSBC Tower
Court of Final Appeal
Statue Square
Mandarin Oriental Hotel - lobby
Peninsula hotel - interior
Grand Hyatt hotel - stayed there during typhoon
Salisbury YMCA - stayed there
Nathan Road/"Golden Mile"
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center (facade)
Landmark Mall
Harbour City shopping mall/Ocean Terminal
Isetan Department Store
Yue Hwa Department Store
Hollywood Road - antique stores
Aberdeen Village
Jumbo floating restaurant (facade)
Maxim's Palace restaurant - dim sum
Wanchai
Repulse Bay - Kwan Yin Statue
Stanley Market
jade market
Star Ferry - to Macao
Ocean Park - cable car and dolphin show
Chungking Express - mall w/ mirrors, electronics stores, selling TV's, mostly African and Indian vendors
Mirador Mansions - mall like Chungking Express
Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade
New Territories - took bus from Hong Kong to China
subway
bus - to Aberdeen, Jumbo floating restaurant, and Repulse Bay
old airport
new airport

Italy

Assisi: Papal Basilica of St Francis of Assisi, a pink stone town lined with narrow streets
Florence
- Florence Cathedral/Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore/Duomo
  - Baptistery of St John
  - Brunelleschi's Dome
  - Gates of Paradise/Lorenzo Ghiberti doors
  - Giotto's Bell Tower
- historic center of Florence
- leather workshop
- Piazza del Duomo
- Ponte Vecchio Bridge
Pisa
- Leaning Tower
Rome/"the Eternal City"
- Altar of the Fatherland/Victor Emmanuel II Monument
- Chinatown
- Colosseum
- Forum
- NH Roma Villa Carpegna (may be where we stayed)
- Spanish Steps and Piazza di Spagna
- Trevi Fountain
- Via Condotti
- Vatican City
  - Moses statue
  - Pieta statue
  - Raphael Rooms
  - Sistine Chapel
  - St Peter's Basilica
  - St Peter's Square
  - Swiss guards
  - Vatican Museum
  - Vatican Gardens
- tram
Venice

Jamaica

Ochos Rios

Japan

Tokyo
- Akasaka
- Akasaka Palace/State Guest House
- Akihbara
- Asahi Beer Tower (viewed from Sumida River)
- Asakusa
- Asakusa Nakamise Shopping Street
- Azabu-Juban Shopping District
- COREDO Nihonbashi/Muromachi/Muromachi Terrace
- Daimaru Department Store (basement floor, 1st floor, 2nd floor)
- Department Store District
- Fuji TV Headquarters
- Ginza
- Ginza Kabukiza
- Ginza Shopping District
- Ginza Yonchome Intersection
- Harajuku
- Hotel Grocery Shinjuku with Godzilla statue
- Imperial Palace/Nijubashi
- Imperial Palace East Gardens
- Japan National Stadium
- Kabukicho
- Kappabashi Dougugai Street
- Kanda
- Keikyu Airport Line
- KITTE (Bldg.)
- MAAch ecute KANDA MANSEIBASHI
- Marunouchi
- Marunouchi Bldg./Shin-Marunouchi Bldg.
- National Diet Building
- Nihonbashi
- Nihonbashi Bridge
- Odaiba
- Odaiba Marine Park
- Odaiba Statue of Liberty
- Rainbow Bridge
- SEIKO HOUSE GINZA's clock tower
- Sensoji Temple - main Kaminarimon Gate/Thunder Gate
- Shiba
- Shibuya
- Shibuya Scramble Crossing
- Shibuya Station
- Shinjuku
- Shinjuku Chuo Park
- Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal
- Shinjuku Golden-Gai
- Shinjuku Kabuki Hall - Kabuki Yokocho
- Sky Bus Tokyo/Sky Hop Bus
- Sumida
- Tokyo City Keiba (racetrack)
- Tokyo International Airport (Haneda - Edo Market Place, Tokyo Pop Town)
- Tokyo International Airport (Narita)
- Tokyo Metro
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building
- Tokyo Skytree
- Tokyo Station (Tokyo Ramen Street, Tokyo Character Street)
- Tokyo Station Hotel - lobby
- Tokyo Tower
- Ueno

Lichtenstein:

Vaduz: Lichtenstein Castle

Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Chemin de la Corniche/Bock Promontory/panoramic cliff path known as "the most beautiful balcony in Europe"
Old Town

Macau/Macao

Casino Lisboa
Sao Paulo/St Paul's Cathedral ruins
Senate Square/Lago de Senado

Malaysia

Genting Highlands Malaysia Resort
Kuala Lumpur - white buildings with aquamarine blue glass windows
- Batu caves
- Chinatown
- Merdeka Square - old railway station
- National Mosque of Malaysia/Masjid Negara
- pewter showroom
- Sri Muraga statue - Batu caves
- old Istana Negara/former Sultan's Palace - gates, facade
- Sultan Abdul Samad Building on Merdeka Square
- a suburb - unkempt lawns, Mediterranean-style white houses w/ red roofs
Penang
- Kek Lok Si Temple
- Wat Chaiya Mangalaram Thai Buddhist Temple/ Reclining Buddha Temple

Mexico

Cancun
- Cancun's turquoise blue and teal green waters
- Van Cleef & Arpels store selling fire opals

Monaco

Oceanographic Museum (passed by on bus)

People's Republic of China/P.R.C.

Beijing
- Great Wall - Badaling section, Mutianyu section
- Forbidden City - Clock Exhibition Hall, 9 Dragon Screen
- Summer Palace/Yuanming Yuan
  - Bronze Ox
  - Long corridor
  - Longevity Hall
  - marble boat
- Yuanming Yuan/Old Summer Palace - Changchunyuan (ruins), Huanghuazhen (maze)
- Temple of Heaven/Tian an men
- Ming tombs/Chang Ling - Sacred Way
- Eastern Qing tombs
- Bell Tower
- Drum Tower
- Tiananmen Square
- Tiananmen Gate
- National Museum of China (our tour group posed for pictures outside, but I didn't go in the first time I went to China)
- Great Hall of the People
- Lama Temple/Yonghe Temple - statue of Maitreya Buddha carved from a single tree
- Marco Polo Bridge
- Beijing Capital International Airport
- Beijing University
- Beijing Central Library
- Beihai Park - White Dagoba, 9 Dragon Screen
- Jingshan Park
- Zhoukoudian - Peking Man site
- LongQing Gorge
- Children's Palaces (2)
- a hutong
- a factory
- Beijing Zoo - panda bears
- Wangfujing Street
- friendship store
- US embassy in foreign concessions area
- Grand Hotel Beijing lobby - team of American female gymnasts
- Isetan department store
- Li Family Restaurant
- Silk Alley
- subway
Changsha
- Mawangdui - Lady Dai's mummy
Chengdu
- Giant Buddha of Leshan (by boat)
Chongqing
- Dazu rock carvings
- Great Hall of the People (bus passed by)
Dongguan
- Dongguan Airport
Fenghuang/Phoenix Town
- Hong Bridge/Rainbow Bridge
- stepping stones of the Two Rivers
- Shen Congwen's former house
- wall
Guangzhou
- Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall
- Chen Family Temple/Chen Jia Ci
- Temple of the Six Banyan Trees
- White Swan Hotel in Shamian Island
- Five Rams statue
- Yuexiu Park
- Orchid Garden
- Nan Yue Museum/Tomb of the Southern Yue King/Museum of the Western Han Dynasty Mausoleum of the Nanyue King/Museum & Tomb of the Southern Yue King
- Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
Guilin
- Li River cruise
- Elephant Trunk Hill
- Seven Star Park
- Camel Hill
- Nine Horses Mt
- Reed Flute Cave
- Fubo Hill/Wave-Subduing Hill
Qingyuan
- downtown
Shanghai
- Bund
- friendship store
- Nanjing East Road
- Shanghai Hongqiao Airport
- Yu Yuan Garden
- Yu Yuan bazaar
Tianjin
- Tianjin Radio & Television Tower
Wuhan (stayed @ Chaojiangchun Business Hotel)
- East Lake
- food hawkers' center
- Hubei Provincial Museum - temporary exhibit of Venetian art
- Red Tower of Wuchang/Former headquarters of the 1911 Wuchang Uprising
- Wuhan University
- Yellow Crane Pavilion
Xi'an
- Terra-cotta army
- Bell Tower
- Drum Tower
- Big Wild Goose Pagoda
- Little Wild Goose Pagoda
- Shaanxi History Museum
Yangshuo
- Li River cruise
- Moon Hill
Yueyang
- city wall
- Dongting Lake/Dongting Hu
- old town
- Yueyang Tower
ZhangZhaJie City
- Bailong lift
- cliff hanging walkway on Tiananmen Shan
- Golden Whip Stream
- Suoxi Valley Ten-Mile Gallery - tram car ride
- Tianzi Shan/Hallelujah mountains
- Tiananmen Shan
- Tiananmen Shan cable car
- Tujia Folk Custom Park
- Western Hunan Show
- Wulingyuan Scenic Reserve
- Yuanjiajie Scenic Area
- Zhangzhajie Hehua Airport

Poland

Warsaw
- Chopin airport
- Nowy Swiat/New World Street
- Palace of Culture and Science
- Zlote Tarasy shopping centre

Singapore/"Lion City"

Changyi International Airport (resembled Oahu, Hawaii's airport)
Chinatown
food hawkers center attached to an apartment block
Little India
Merlion Park
Merlion statue on Collye Quay
Orchard Road
Raffles Place
Raffles statue
Sri Veeramakaliamann Temple (facade)
subway

Switzerland

Lucerne
- Chapel Bridge over turquoise-blue Lake Lucerne
- Lake Lucerne
- Lion Monument
- Mt Titlis - cable car
- store where mom bought a Rolex

French Polynesia

Moorea
- Belvedere Lookout
- freshwater eel location
- Fruit Juices of Moorea - alcohol tasting
- Magic Mountain
- Marae Titiroa
- pineapple plantation
- Toatea View Point in Temae
Tahiti, Papeete
- Archbishop's Palace/Bishop's Palace
- Bougainville Bust
- Bougainville Park
- Carrefour Fa'a
- Ferry dock
- French Polynesian Assembly/Territorial Assembly/Assemblee de la Polynesie francaise
- Hilton Tahiti Nui
- Notre Dame Cathedral/Papeete Cathedral/Cathedral de Papeete
- Office des Postes et Telecommunication
- Pa'ofai Gardens
- Pa'ofai Church/Temple Protestant de Pao'fai
- Papeete Harbor
- Papeete Market/Municipal Market/Marche Municipal Mapuru a Paraita
- Papeete Town Hall/Mairie de Papeete
- Place Vaiete - roulettes
- Presidential Palace
- Queen Marau's House/Maison de la reine Marau
- Sacre-Coeur Chapel
- Seeadler Canon
- Stuart Hotel (where Matisse stayed for two weeks)
- University of French Polynesia
- Vaiava Beach
- Vaima Shopping Centre
- Zelee's Canon
- Aranui - cargo boat and passenger vessel for cruise to six inhabited islands

Taiwan

Jiayi - aunt's Japanese-style house with garden in the back
Kaoshiung
- Grand Hotel Cheng Ching Lake - dinner
- Dragon & Tiger Pagodas on Lotus Lake
- Foguanshan/Mt Foguan
- Kaoshiung Rail Station
- Spring and Autumn Pavilions on Lotus Lake
Keelung - Chientan campus @ Ocean
Kenting Park - beach of brilliant sapphire blue and emerald green waters, beach of turquoise waters that resembled Waikiki's
Longtan Township, Taoyuan County: Window on China
Qingshui Cliff (between Suao City and Hualien City), "Yin and Yan Sea" - passed by on train
Shitou/Xitou
- bamboo forest loop trail
- Sacred Tree
- University Pond - bamboo arch bridge
Taichung
- Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village/Ita Thao (went on all the rides in the indoor amusement park. It included a great German-style rococo palace.)
- Sun Moon Lake's turquoise waters on a misty day
- Taichung Rail Station
- Wen Wu Temple
Tainan
- Korean nightmarket
- Tainan Rail Station
- Tainan Flower night market
- "bridal street"
Taipei
- National Taiwan University/Shida
- Chientan Youth Activity Center
- Ocean campus of Chientan Youth Activity Center in Keelung
- Presidential Building
- Chiang Kai-Sheik Memorial Hall - changing of the guards
- Liberty Square
- Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall
- National Martyr's Shrine
- National Palace Museum
- Yehliu Park - Nefertiti head
- Jingshan Bay
- Yangmingshan Park - flower clock, geysers
- Formosa Fun Coast park/Formosa Wonder World (waterpark)
- Taipei Zoo
- Taipei Fine Arts Museum
- Taipei Convention Center
- Grand Hotel Taipei lobby
- Gongguan night market
- Shilin night market
- Raohe night market
- Shida night market
- Snake Alley night market
- Longshan Temple
- Gorgon's nightclub (closed)
- Kiss nightclub (closed)
- Taipei 101
- Ming Yao Department Store
- Sogo
- Mitsukoshi
- Parco
- "Bridal Street"
- Yongkang St
- Grand Hyatt Taipei (where cousin, Yih-Ching Chuang had her wedding reception, buffet)
- Ambassador Hotel Taipei - buffet w/ Mrs. Shirakawa and her daughters
- Shangri-La's Far Eastern Plaza Hotel Taipei - dinner
- Ximending district - where Joy's cousin lived in a two-story apartment, cinemas, a Japanese conveyor belt restaurant where we ordered eel - was it Sushi Express Ximen Restaurant?
- Dihua Street
- Tianmu district - baseball stadium (facade)
- Tam sui/Dan sui district
- Taipei Mosque
- National Central Library of Taiwan
- Taipei Metro Mall
- Jianguo Flower and Jade Market
- Eslite bookstores
- Wellcome supermarket
- Watson's drugstores
- Taipei Veterans General Hospital
- monorail/Taipei Metro
- Taipei Main Station
- Taoyuan International Airport
Taroko Gorge
- Central Cross-Island Highway
- East Entrance Arch Gate
- Eternal Spring Shrine/Changchun Shrine (passed by on bus)
- marble store
- Tunnel of Nine Turns
- Xiande Temple
Wulai (passed by on train)

Thailand

Bangkok
- Chinatown/Yaowarat
- Erawan shrine
- Giant Swing/Sao Chingcha (bus passed by)
- Grand Palace
- National Museum
- Rose Garden Thai Village - cultural show w/ elephants that used their trunks to steal peanuts
- Wat Benchamabophit/Marble Temple
- Wat Phra Kaew/Temple of the Emerald Buddha
- Wat Pho/Temple of the reclining Buddha
- Wat Traimit/Temple of the Golden Buddha
- gem store - where my mother bought a star sapphire
- silk store
- transgender cabaret show/show where men dressed up as women, lip synched/sang songs
- Suvarnabhumi International Airport
Pattaya's white sand beaches with aquamarine blue and dark blue waters

Ukraine

Kiev (a grey city)
- Train station

mar 26 2012 ∞
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