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Michael Yamashita

At a Tibetan monastery in Bamei, China, bowls of black tea keep visitors awake for meditations. Behind them are candles made of yak butter.

Een toerist bezoekt het zuidelijkste puntje van China op het eiland Hainan in de Zuid-Chinese Zee.

Jaks grazen tijdens een lentestorm bij de Yalong-rivier in China.

Fifty years after the end of the Korean War, National Geographic goes inside the Demilitarized Zone, the cease-fire line where soldiers from north and south of the 38th parallel face off in a tense display of might and will—a reminder that a half century of fragile peace could be broken at any moment.

Marco Polo likely encountered the forebears of this masked woman in Minab, Iran, during his journey east to the court of Kublai Kahn in the 13th century. In his three-part feature, Mike Edwards follows Marco's route through lands that still evoke the Venetian explorer's amazing finds.