Day: November 10, 2018
Southeast Asia travel
Thailand travel
Travel
Thailand’s old capital of Ayutthaya
Bangkok is Thailand’s capital and biggest city but it wasn’t always so. Bangkok was preceded by Ayutthaya, the capital of the Thai kingdom of the same name from the mid-14th century to 1767, when it was sacked by the invading Burmese, which then led to the capital being moved to Thonburi (now part of Bangkok). […]
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China
China travel
Hikes
Travel
Hiking Huangshan, one of China’s most beautiful mountains
Back when I lived in Beijing, I made a spontaneous decision one week before Chinese New Year to travel to Huangshan, one of China’s most famous mountains. In hindsight, it was a foolish decision and I learned my lesson not to travel to places at the exact same time as multitudes of Chinese. Besides Huangshan, […]
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