Location: Seoul, South Korea Introduction: Seoul is a large cosmopolitan city with much to offer. Unfortunately, we arrived on the eve of Chuseok, Korea’s Thanksgiving Holiday when most businesses shut down for 3 days. We stayed in the infamous Gangnan …
Location: Taiwan Introduction: We feel like we’ve earned our first destination bonus on our trip as visiting Taiwan was not in our original plans. However, we needed to work our way back up north to Japan and the price …
Location: Macau Introduction: Just a 1 hour Turbo Jet Ferry ride from Hong Kong is all it takes to reach Macau, a former Portuguese colony that is now under Chinese rule. The European influence is evident in the older historic …
Location: Hong Kong Introduction: From the moment we set foot in our room in the Grand Hyatt we couldn’t stop smiling. Maybe it was the lavish oversized King Room, amazing fitness center, drinkable tap water and English-speaking people everywhere, but …
Location: Xi’an, China Introduction: The high speed train from Beijing was clean, comfortable and right on schedule. Our first impression upon arriving in Xi’an was tough to overcome as the smog was especially bad and burring our eyes even before …
Location: Beijing China Highlights: Great Wall @ Jinshanlinh & Hutongs Story: We start our first Travelling Blog post from China with a shout-out to Sam & Laura from England who helped us figure out how to overcome China’s censorship of …