Bridges over the Nile River in Cairo (Egypt)

"Cairo, mother of cities and seat of Pharaoh the tyrant, mistress of broad regions and fruitful lands, boundless in multitude of buildings, peerless in beauty and splendour, the meeting-place of comer and goer, the halting-place of feeble and mighty, whose throngs surge as the waves of the sea, and can scarce be contained in her for all her size and capacity."

Ibn Batutta, XIV century
about Cairo

Chungchen Bridge over the lake of Taichung's Chungshan Park (Taiwan)

"Three hundred years ago our ancestors
wove fishnets and caught fish
Large sailing ships from the West appeared
blocking out the sun
Fifty years later they shunned the farmed plains
Returning to the forests to hunt
Aside from fighting over the land
We lived in peace with each other
When the Japanese came, what was termed 'civilizing the savages'
Was in fact flogging, from the coast to the mountains
We've been like duckweed the last century..."

By Taiwanese poet Walis Nokan

Dajhih Bridge over the Tamsui River in Taipei (Taiwan)

People scurry too and fro
Endless city ebb and flow
Scooters going here and there
There's pedestrians everywhere
Grab a bus take a seat
Ride it up and down the street
All the signs are in Chinese
Dui bu qi if you please
Hop on off and grab a cab
If bu hui shuo then you don't gab
Move aside and step away
Millions walking in Taipéi

Lyrics of Taipei

Band Reaction 7

Yong'an Bridge over the lake of Beihai Park in Beijing (China)

Zhuangzi said:
    'How happy are the fish in the river!'
Huizi responded: 
   'You are not a fish. Then how can you know whether the fish are happy or not?' 
Zhuangzi answered: 
   'You are not me. Then how can you know that I don't know the happiness of the fish?'

Legendary conversation between two Chinese philosophers in the Beihai Park

Bosphorus Bridge spanning the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul (Turkey)

...y va el capitán pirata,
cantando alegre en la popa,
Asia a un lado, al otro Europa,
y allá a su frente Estambul;

José de Espronceda