Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly collection through which NPR’s worldwide workforce shares snapshots of moments from their lives and work all over the world.
In November, throughout one of many final weeks of my posting in Taiwan, I went to my favourite place there: the pink cypress forests of Alishan, a area famend for its misty mountains and wonderful high-altitude tea.
I beloved the volcanic treks and gorgeous, cerulean coastlines of Taiwan, but it surely was these historical forests that I got here to like probably the most. Their mossy glory and stillness felt timeless, they usually helped me discover an inside calm after years of fast-paced, typically irritating reporting. On this image, the late-afternoon solar was peeking by this grove of cypresses at simply the suitable angle. One other hiker strolling previous me commented that the rays had been like “god’s smile.”
See extra photographs from all over the world:
- Greetings from Odesa, Ukraine, the place a Black Sea seaside affords respite from battle
- Greetings from Shenyang, China, the place staff kind AI information in ‘Severance’-like methods
- Greetings from Palmyra, Syria, with its once-grand resort named for a warrior queen
- Greetings from Mexico Metropolis, the place these canine experience a bus to and from college
- Greetings from the Galápagos Islands, the place the blue-footed booby exhibits its colours
- Greetings from Afrin, Syria, the place Kurds danced their hearts out to have fun spring
- Greetings from Dharamshala, India, the place these Tibetan children had been having the very best time
- Removed from the entrance traces, Ukrainians struggle a battle to protect their tradition
- As Greenland prepares for tourism enhance, a second of stillness
