Home Page of Patrick M. L. Lai

About me?
Although I take some nice photos occasionally, I am not a photographer as my photos can not support my living.
Although I have my own opinion in many affairs, I am not a reporter as I don't have any means to report other than this lousy website.
Although I travel a lot, including these countries:

I am not a traveller as some of these visits were last for few days and business in nature.
I just like to travel around, especially less-known area, take some photos, talk with the locals and then share my photos, writings in this website.

It starts from background information of Sudan, then Africa, back to Rwanda in postscript and it points out the importance of colonical history in shaping the current Africa. It also includes the photos taken in Jan of 2001 at Khartoum, Madani of Northern Sudan.
Information | Photos

I visited Iraq in Sep 2003 after the war and left as a single piece luckily. You can see the photos from below link. As impacted by this visit, I did a little research of this country and share in newspaper, radio, travel talk. The following Chinese web page is the collection of these.
Photos | Information in Chinese

Bam I visited Bam one month before the earthquake and Bam will not like the photos anymore.
Persepolis It contains my little research and photos of the ancient ethnic groups as inspired by the eastern stairway, southern panel of Apdana in Persepolis.

I spent nearly one month in Syria and travelled most of the Syria. You can see the photos and information from following links.
Photos | Information in Chinese

1st July and 9th July in HK My Photo Center of the photos of March on 1st July and Rally on 9th July 2003 in Hong Kong.
4th June 2004 in HKFlash photo show of 4th June 2004 night at Victoria Park.