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Visiting Tokyo’s Ueno district
Tokyo is a city with so many things to see and explore, you need to divide it up by districts. While Shinjuku, Shibuya and Ginza are very well-known, there are older districts that are a little more laid-back but still very interesting. The two times I’ve been to Tokyo, I stayed in the middle of […]
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Hiking Hong Kong’s Lion Rock
As one of Hong Kong’s most well-known mountains, Lion Rock is regarded as a symbol of Hong Kong’s working-class resilience as it developed into a prosperous financial hub in the latter half of the 20th-century. This idea originated from a local 1970s TV show called “Below the Lion Rock” about working-class families living in communities […]
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Bangkok’s Chrao Phraya River
The Chao Phraya River curves along Bangkok, bisecting the older, western part of Thonburi from the more populated and bustling eastern part. If you plan to go to places like the Grand Palace, Wat Pho, Wat Arun or Khao San Road, you’ll probably take a boat on the Chao Phraya. Boat ferries run along […]
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Kyoto’s Nijo castle
Kyoto is a city full of historic temples, but it also has several imperial and shogunate castles right in the middle of town. The most well-known one is Nijo Castle, which served as the shogun’s residence after it was built in 1603, and then became an imperial castle after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate […]
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Kyoto’s Kiyomizudera and Nanzenji temples
Kyoto is a city full of historic temples, old neighborhoods and shrines. You can easily spend days there visiting different districts each day and still not covering all of Kyoto’s many sights. One of Kyoto’s most distinctive temples is Kiyomizudera Temple, located on a hill in the east. Outside the temple is a historic neighborhood […]
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Visiting Datong Grottoes in Shanxi, China
While Shanxi Province may be better known as the dusty, polluted coal-producing center of China, it is also one of the country’s oldest areas of civilization. The coal city of Datong in Shanxi was a former capital of the Northern Wei dynasty, a Xianbei (Mongolian) regime which ruled much of northern China from 386-535 AD […]
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Cities
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City travel-Frankfurt finale
Frankfurt might be better known as a business hub than a tourist hotspot, so not many travelers visit this city, unless they are on a business trip. I was flying back to Taiwan from Frankfurt at the end of my Europe trip so I had to visit Frankfurt. And it wasn’t bad at all. The […]
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