Plunging into the deep blue, soaring through the clouds, traveling to the remote and exotic places, these activities flush tons of adrenaline in the body, but the most extreme sport we all face may not always lie in those fun-looking activities, it needs not to happen only when we are dropping 200km/h at terminal velocity, or at the edge of having nitrogen narcosis, it can happen in a most ordinary day, when we start to confront our own fears.

Stepping over fear is like opening a door to a new world, you may like or hate it, but it is a new world nonetheless, a terra incognita of your inner self. The images here are bits and pieces of a world that spread out in front of me when I decided to cross that line of travelling solo, but there are far too many things that link those images together, how I wish to share with you the howling winds of Troy, driving rain of New Zealand's Fiordlands, the fragrant smell of sheesha, the tastes of fried insects...

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Overland Journey from Istanbul to Abu Simbel
One of the classic overland journeys that literally touches 3 continents, from Europe through Asia to Africa, with many world famous historical sites lie in between. Traveling surface enabled me to notice the threads that link up the changes in the surroundings, and see the world as a whole instead of merely various political entities.
I travelled from the freezing cold Cappadocia to the steaming hot Valley of the Kings. Some phrases learned to get by in one country were overwritten by another language required once crossing country border, and a whole new exchange rate and dollar notes to play with.
Images of some destinations can be viewed here, like Troy of Turkey, Damascus of Syria, Petra and Dead Sea of Jordan and Egypt.

Northern Silk Road of China
A journey across the face of China, where I went 4000km westward from Beijing through Xi'an, which is the starting point of Silk Road in the East, then all the way to Ürümqi in the west with several stops in between. After entering the Gangsu Corridor from Xi'an, the landscape started changing to barren and rugged, with Gobi desert that stretches across the route, I can imagine the hardships encountered by those traders of yesteryears to go through all these and reached as far as Black Sea in the west.
Click here for some of the images taken along the journey.

Finest Walk in the World
Located in the heart of spectacular Fiordlands, the 53.5km Milford Track follows Clinton and Arthur Valleys, which are separated by Mackinon Pass (1073m), extends from northern end of Lake Te Anau to Sandfly Point near Milford Sound, these U-shaped valleys were carved by glaciers some 14000 years ago.
The Fiordlands is one of the wettest places on earth, it just rains, and rains and rains, one good thing about soaking wet here is that, you can find yourself surrounded by ten to twenty waterfalls, and start wondering whether you can make it to the next hut before certain parts of the track being flooded by the rushing whitewaters.
Here are some images of the South Island of New Zealand, and few images of Milford Track when I could take out my non-waterproof camera at the intervals of downpours, glad that the camera is still working fine.