Instameet Hong Kong

Things to do during a Hong Kong red rainstorm.

The Continent

Snippets of my summer rendezvous around Europe c/o Instagram. There's no better place to be in the month of August than at the Berlin Wall sprawl of graffiti and artwork, or surrounded by minimalist architecture in Helsinki. Europe really refreshingly mitigates the sweltering heat of Hong Kong, and has provided me with aesthetically-pleasing Instagram fare!

BERLIN & HELSINKI

Asiatic Wonder

photodiary: the new hope orphanage, royal palace, genocide museum, killing fields, countryside and villages of cambodia. photos taken by me

A picture is worth a thousand words, yet my trip to Cambodia requires some further explanation. This trip was one of both self discovery and broadening of horizons. I experienced both extreme wonder at Cambodia's beauty and extreme pain at the past suffering of its people.  During my visits to orphanages and the places where mass genocide took place, I was amazed by the sheer bravery and endurance of the Cambodian people. Children smiling and laughing, grateful for the little they had. Hardened survivors telling their stories with great will and determination. And most of all, their ability to pick up the broken pieces of their war-torn country, and to make it into something beautiful. My pictures will tell you the rest of the story.

xo emmy