Travelling removes borders, says top photojournalist

There are three kinds of “travel” that ease the severe perennial global issues of acceptance, said arecent second-time UAE visitor who backpacked through II countries 20 years back.

- Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter

"My target was to reach South Africa. I had $2,000.00. In Uzbekistan, my $400.00, the only one left was stolen. I had no bank account. So only Il countries in one year and seven months on a backpack; hitchhiking, living with the locals and volunteering," Agustinus Wibowo told Gulf Today.

A third generation Chinese whose grandfather became the headmaster of one of the earliest Chinese schools in Indonesia, the 44-year-old was raised in the traditional Chinese way by his Mandarinspeaking parents whose hometown in their adopted homeland is the “small town” of Lumajang in East Java Province.

"My father has strong sentiments of China being great. He sent me to study at the Tsinghua University in Beijing. I studied in public schools where it was always the children of the Chinese who were either rank one or rank two. I was good in Math and Physics. I did not like Engineering. So I enrolled in Computer Science. It was hard work in China. I only slept for four hours each night. I had to study.