Cities

Exploring great cities

Rome, Italy
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Italy travel
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Exploring Rome’s ancient castle, Pantheon, and more

Rome is famous for great historic sites such as the Colosseum and the Roman Forum, but what makes it a fantastic city is that there are many more sites across the city. A lot of other cities have famous sites but when you visit those sites, there isn’t much to see in the immediate vicinity. […]

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East Side Gallery, Berlin
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Germany travel
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Visiting Berlin’s East Side Gallery

The Berlin Wall is a symbol of repression and division during the Cold War. Some of it is kept intact as a memorial and a lesson for future generations to heed. But there is one part of the Wall that serves as a symbol of joy, not sadness. This is the East Side Gallery, a […]

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Neues Museum, Berline
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Europe travel
Germany travel
Museums
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Visiting Berlin’s Museum Island, Neues Museum

I really like visiting museums, especially those that focus on history, anthropology and archaeology. Berlin is ideal for museum lovers like myself because of Museum Island, a cluster of museums on the northern half of an island in the Spree River, right in the middle of the city. Museum Island consists of five museums, each […]

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Singapore
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Singapore travel
Southeast Asia travel
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Exploring Singapore further

Singapore has been basking in the spotlight recently as the location of the Crazy Rich Asians movie, which is deserved. Modern, attractive, and orderly, the city is without doubt Southeast Asia’s most prosperous metropolis and one of Asia’s as well. The only drawback is that it possesses those attributes in such great quantities that this […]

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Hanoi, Vietnam
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Southeast Asia travel
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Vietnam travel

Visiting Hanoi’s lakes, night market, and war museum

Like many travelers, I enjoy visiting Southeast Asia a lot. I’ve visited 6 countries and have been to the region numerous times, including twice this year. But the first country I ever visited in Southeast Asia was Vietnam and it remains my favorite. My first stop was its capital Hanoi. I flew into Hanoi, not […]

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Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon, Myanmar
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Southeast Asia travel
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Visiting Myanmar’s biggest city Yangon

As Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon is a decent place to explore before you venture to the rest of the country. The city’s most famous landmark, Shwedagon Pagoda, a beautiful golden Buddhist stupa, is definitely worth a vist. However, while Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon, has developed greatly since the country opened up to the world for […]

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Kandy, Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka travel
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Visiting Sri Lanka’s cultural center of Kandy

The city of Kandy lies in the center of Sri Lanka and can literally and figuratively be considered the country’s heart. As a cultural hub, it is where the island’s most famous festival of  Esala Perahera is held, and where the Temple of the Buddha’s Tooth is located. Surrounded by hills, Kandy also has a feisty […]

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