After our first trip to Bangkok last year (which was mostly spent in a noisy budget hotel near Khao San Road), we went back to the capital city of Thailand...
Besides Chongqing hotpot, the grilled fish is another extremely popular dish from Chongqing. It was said that in the era of Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei swore...
There is a mysterious place depicted in an essay of Tao Yuanming, a poet of the East Jin Dynasty (317 – 420) called Taohuayuan which literally means a garden of peach blossom....
Chongqing is a big city that offers a lot of interesting places for visitors. The Xiao Nan Hai national geological park in Qianjiang district is one that I highly recommend,...
Speaking of maple trees, the first thing comes to one’s mind might be Canada. The maple leaf on their national flag is a good demonstration of how Canadians are proud of...
Living in Singapore for nearly eight years, I have been to Haji Lane several times with each time leaving me with different experience and feeling. The funky little fashion boutiques,...
Day 1 Back from Olkhon Island, we went directly to the hotel in Listvyanka. It is a hotel called Baikal Khan which is owned by a Chinese. The decoration is quite...
Day 3 Yesterday’s tour was so-called the North route and today’s tour was the South route. Different from North route which was mainly to see the blue ice, the South route was...
Day 1 Saying goodbye to Irkutsk, we got on the minibus to Olkhon Island where we started our adventure to Lake Baikal. It was snowing heavily today and the 6-hour journey...
Arriving in Irkutsk, Siberia The wind is blowing gently against my face, and as I stepped out of the airplane door, everything was white and clear. The weather in Siberia...
Russia? Yes. The biggest country in this world, which borders European and Asian countries across the Eurasia continent. Many people may know its capital city Moscow and the second largest...
Previously, we mentioned about the water town culture in China and introduced Xi Tang Water Town – one of the six in Hangzhou. However, if you ask me which is...