The wife and I have Seoul, Palau, Saigon, Bangkok, Chiang Rai, and Chiang Mai booked for next year already (using United miles). She is out of vacation for 2014 but I have another week I could use. I'm trying to find a good destination and stopover to use up my 90k US Air miles for a North Asia trip about 9-10 days long.

Any recommendations for the most photogenic areas to go to as a solo traveler? I don't know that much about most of Asia really (maybe more than most though), but looking for something that's high up on the list of things that you simply must see and photograph in the world. Landscapes are a favorite of mine.

We've been to Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai (out of the North Asia region). In the list of North Asia countries, Japan, Taiwan, Mongolia, and other parts of China interest me most. Unless there is something I don't know about the "-stan" countries, I don't have a huge desire to visit them on solo travel right now.

EVA airways is really great, and it would be easy to catch DFW-LAX-TPE and do a stopover there if there are some great places to see in Taiwan. Also I've been recommended to go to Hangzhou due to it's nice landscape.

Thanks!!