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To highlight how simple the Singapore to China rail journey can be – I travelled with little more than passport, wallet, phone and clothes. No pre-arranged visas or cash in hand. However, I do recommend using an international eSIM or local eSIMs along with key travel apps, which I share in more detail below. I […]
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As with all our travels, we were excited to share all our recent adventures in China — the awesome sights, the amazing food, and everything in between. But for some reason, some people were not happy about it. As apparently my post about my super cheap hotel in Kunming, or my train journey from Bangkok
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To highlight how simple the Bangkok to China rail journey can be — I travelled with little more than passport, wallet, phone, and clothes. No laptops, printed paper, or pre-arranged visas. I completed the journey in 48 hours, including a relaxed overnight stay in Vientiane. I travelled solely with Thai baht and didn’t once take
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I wasn’t sure what to expect from Shanghai. There was a time when it was up there on my to-do list yet all our travels to China brought us elsewhere including our recent adventures in Yunnan and Shangri-La. In many ways Shanghai feels to have lost it’s futuristic hype through the years with other Chinese
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China is immense. It will take you at least a week just to read the guidebook, and you won’t see a hundredth of the diversity and beauty during your vacation. Some of the places located in this country are so charming that they inspire developers to create games for https://bizzocasino.com/casino/slots. Here are 5 of the
Top 5 Places in China You Won’t Forget Read More »
When you visit Hong Kong, there are many things you must do – go on the Lion Rock hike, visit the Big Budhha, take the Peak Tram, and many more. However, there is one activity in Hong Kong that many travellers miss – trying dim sum. Because of how complicated and intimidating dim sum restaurants might
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Taiwan’s street food is not just good. It’s legendary. While much of Taiwan’s food originated in Fujian and other provinces of China, many Chinese dishes have been adjusted or reborn in Taiwan, while others are totally unprecedented and have helped to put Taiwanese food as a distinct cuisine on the global food map. The sheer
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My interest in travel to Tibet is not so much for the tourist stops in Lhasa, or even in the surrounding autonomous region itself. But more for the journey through the remote regions of the Himalayas and the mysterious Roof of the World. A region which is still somewhat contentious in parts, with 4 bordering
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This year I was honoured with an invite to the ‘Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants’ events in Macau, a dream for any Asian food lover, sweetened by quite probably 3 days of the best eating in all of Macau. The event was to be held in Wynn Palace, one of the newest casinos found along Macau’s bedazzling Cotai Strip, which
Wynn Palace: A Culinary Extravaganza Read More »
One of my sincerest obsessions in Asian cuisine would undoubtedly be the Sichuan Mala Hot Pot, a sensational mouth-numbing experience that is like no other in the world. And because of this, we traced the unique and somewhat formidable eating experience back to its origins, to Chongqing China (actually we were travelling in the area and
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