讀千卷書, 行萬里路
。。三十多年来，竟也走了大半个非洲，大部分欧洲及亚洲。加上几乎整个西半球，却只数得近一百七十个国家。。
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回首往事，出国已然三十载有余。平日苦于繁务，有空只顾云游四方，而不得闲暇构思游记。粗略估计，竟也走了半个非洲，大半个欧洲及3/4以上的亚洲。。加上几乎整个西半球，却只数得区区百二十来个国家。与大家一样，先是欧，美，澳，然后亚，非，拉：折服于亚洲文化之繁多，在新加坡学术休假近三年，当此为跳板囊括了周边国家和地区。。非洲之行（除西非外）已为南半球兄的“纵贯非洲四万里”所录，南美却是在零星旅程之后被一个万里长征所覆盖。。若干年前，在西藏高原无甚反应，激起上山之念，直到南美阿空加瓜败走麦城，从此收兵。至于下海，也只到过几个世界级潜水地。。先贴几张。有机会再从头道来。。
乞力马扎罗，坦桑尼亚
撒哈拉，摩洛哥
维多利亚瀑布，津巴布韦
Ngrongro 火山口
斯威之兰国王
南极洲
夏威夷大岛火山
号称世界第一的潜水地
“地狱之门”
..以免重复飞往同一地区。（打字实在太慢) here is a brief list of the sites covered by my trip to the area of Central America (between Mexico and Colombia):
- Panama: Canal - Miraflores Locks (15km away) and Gatun Locks (70km away); Castillo San Lorenzo - very hard to get to but excellent - i did by rental car (standard costs about $25/day); Panama Viejo - ruins by Henry Morgan - in the capital itself.
- El Salvardo: San Salvardo the capital - full of policemen - quite safe; Joya de Ceren - 30km away ($25 by taxi) - a special Mayan site, but check to see if it is open.
- Guatemala: the capital is a kind of hectic - only good for day time walking - central parque surrounded by beautiful buildings; Antigua - the old capital of the whole Central America (till 1724) - a mecca for the self guided tourists, from where one gets the $7 hiking package to Volcan Pacaya - one of the few places in the world to step on the rolling lava (the only other such place was found in Hawaii Big Island, but much farther away from the volcano lips); Tikal - 500km from the capital - a unique Mayan site with 44-63 meter tall temples.
- Belize: only 4-5 hr bus ride from Flores (gateway to Tikal), where one should skip the city - one of the worst i have ever seen - but still having chinese restaurants, and hop onto a fast ferry to one of its Cayes (Caulker, e.g. where there are not only chinese restaurants but also hotels) to see the world 2nd largest coral reef (for that reason i skipped Roatan Isl of Hongduras, and Bocas of Panama).
- Hongduras: takes a long day to bus back from Flores to its west end - Copan, one of the 4 major Mayan sites featuring fine sculptures (the other 3: Chichen, Palenque - in Mexico, and Tikal); Tegu - the capital - a chaotic city, with its chinese restaurants guarded by the gun man and iron bars.
- Nicaragua: with two well preserved colonial cities - Leon, which is less touristy but more charming, and Granada - claimed to be the earliest in the America Continent (1524) - do not miss the tour to Isleta on the shoreline of Lago Nicaragua; in between one finds the capital - Managua - which could be toured by an hour taxi when switching mini buses.
- Costa Rica: its beaches on the Pacific side were somewhat disappointing; Fortuna - the gateway to Volcan Arenal and hot spring - is somewhat attractive, especially the Fortuna Water Falls; Monteverde is a kind of joke - trivial ziplines burried in the trees are much more expensive than the ones i took across the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe; San Jose is safe but much less appealing - only the hotel i stayed (Casa Morazan) owned by banana baron was a kind of interesting...
the 7 countries are well connected by luxury buses, which are much cheaper than airflights... i would definitely chose Guatemala if only 1 country out of the 7, which could actually be grouped into a visit to Cancun- Merida (Mexico), connected by Belize. If extra i would pick up Nicaragua or Honduras,... and leaving Costa Rica the last in the region, although it is filled with western tourists.
...do not mean to be negative, but Costa Rica has very little to offer, compared to the neighboring countries. For example, Volcan Arenal could only be viewd from distance, whereas one can step on the lava of Volcan Pacaya where i almost got my shoe burnt. Neither is SJO a match to Antigua, Leon or Granada. Not to mention Tikal, Copan or Joya de Ceren...
1, Meeting the penguins *
2, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Stn
3, Cruising the Lemaire Channel *
4, Cape Evans (Ross Island)
5, Shackleton's Hut (Cape Royds, Ross Sea)
6, Paradise Harbor *
(7, Grytviken, South Georgia Island)
8, Deception Island *
9, Antarctic Museam at Port Lockroy
10, Charlotte Bay & Curverville (Boot) Islands
11, Whale Encounters *
12, Cape Denison (Ross Sea)
13, Kayaking
14, McMurdo Stn (Ross Island)
15, Ross Ice Shelf (Ross Sea)
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http://www.yidianzixun.com/article/0DpSb7Xc
http://19417439.blog.hexun.com/101709005_d.html
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甚至评为“精品游记”：
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有趣至极，立此存照。
http://www.worldometers.info/geography/countries-of-the-world/#example
(plus Kosovo as a new country; and St Martin, Antarctica as territories)
一个提供”最后一分钟价格”的网站：
www.ushuaiaturismoevt.com.ar
该公司坐落在Ushuaia。目前所列价格低至5500-5900美刀，为10天左右，百人或以下的邮轮，登陆南极半岛之旅。较之其他欧美预订机构价廉不少。当然，除去那些仅提供隔海远眺，但不能涉足陆地的豪华邮轮。
但该公司要求将部分款项电汇，比别家麻烦一些。
Disclaimer: 笔者与该公司并无瓜葛，仅仅从它购过南极船票而已。恕不提供任何担当与责任。近两年前(2013-14) 该网价大概是4500，为3-4人房。笔者为住双人房付了大概4900/人。而同船不少人费用高达8千，多因其他预订机构层层盘剥所致。顺便说，抵达Ushuaia后，该公司门口所挂的最后一分钟价格为3900/人。
更为重要的是，在通常的小相机中（compact,傻瓜机等），感光元件只有2 -- 4毫米宽。而根据物理学，最小‘光点’的尺寸一般在3微米左右，所以它们最多只能接受一百万左右个‘光点’。所谓的千万个像素全成了‘摆设’（当然，镜头设计/制造也变得很容易）。在手机相机中这个问题尤其严重。
而一般单反相机(SLR)的‘底片’尺寸为35毫米宽（×2/3高），可接收近一亿个‘光点’。所以它的照相质量显然‘不可同日而语’。与此同时，镜头尺寸也得加大，一般要50毫米以上的直径。比小相机几个毫米的直径要大的多，也重的多，更难做得多，大景深亦然。
近几年流行的‘微单’（mirror less），是重量与质量两者兼顾的一种设计。其中的佼佼者Sony-nex的‘底片’达到了23毫米宽，近‘单反’的2/3. 而重量只有几分之一。
当然，若您对质量不讲究，那么这些就算白搭了。
美国，法国，意大利，埃及，印度，秘鲁，土耳其，加拿大，巴西, 以色列/新西兰.
（2）我心目中的 Top 10 （城市）人类遗产；
金字塔，婆罗浮屠，泰姬陵，吴哥，雅典神庙，佩特拉，斗兽场，奇琴尼查，蒲甘，Djenne清真寺/马丘比丘
（3）我心目中的 Top 10 自然风景；
南极半岛，珠峰脚下，维多利亚瀑布，天使瀑布，Serengeti, Amazon, Galapagos, Sipadan(diving), Sahara,
加拿大北极地区(黄刀..白马…Nahanni…Dempster Hwy…Tuk…北冰洋）
（4）我心目中的中国十佳旅游目的地（城市或地区均可）。
西藏，喀什及喀拉昆仑公路，敦煌到吐鲁番，西安周边，北京周边，台湾环岛，香港到澳门，九寨黄龙，武陵源，曲阜到泰山/黄山到西递。
(仅列已到过之处。中国旅游目的地，包括港澳台，单独列在第四项，不参与前三项的名单。)