Europe travel
Germany travel
Museums
Travel
Visiting Berlin’s German Historical Museum
Berlin is ideal for museum enthusiasts like myself because of its multitude of museums. It even has a 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 with a different focus and each […]
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Book reviews
Books
China
Book review- The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds
In the early 20th century, a Swedish-Finnish nobleman by the name of Baron Gustaf Mannerheim undertook a secret mission for the Russian Tsar to spy on China. Starting from Moscow, Mannerheim crossed Russia, traveled through Central Asia and across China to collect information on the country’s reforms and development. 100 years later, in 2006, Canadian […]
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Africa
Book reviews
Books
Book review- Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
Nigeria probably isn’t on any list of top countries to travel to, but for the daughter of Ken Saro-Wiwa, it was a special journey. Noo Saro-Wiwa grew up in England and was 19 when her activist father was arrested and executed by Nigeria’s ruling military junta in 1995, shocking the world and bringing significant outrage and […]
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Hikes
Hong Kong travel
Travel
Hiking Hong Kong’s Braemar Hill
Hong Kong is covered with hills, and Hong Kong Island, where most of the business skyscrapers are, is no different. If anything, this just makes for a very striking contrast when you have forested hills and skyscrapers juxtaposed with each other. While the famous Peak view lets you see Hong Kong’s Central business district from […]
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Cities
Malaysia travel
Southeast Asia travel
Travel
Visiting Malacca
The first place I ever visited in Malaysia was Malacca, the famous port city for which the adjacent strait is named after. Malacca has a very mixed background. It used to be a powerful Malay sultanate, but was conquered by the Portuguese in 1511, who in turn were defeated by the Dutch in 1641. In […]
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Museums
South Korea travel
Travel
Visiting the National Museum of Korea
South Koreans are known to be proud of their history and culture, and their national history museum demonstrates this quite well. The National Museum of Korea is a massive, imposing building that contrasts with a pleasant artificial lake in front. The building’s entrance is a huge, conical glass section that leads directly to the exhibits […]
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Book reviews
Books
Book review- Crazy Rich Asians
Even though Crazy Rich Asians and its two sequels have earned a lot of acclaim, I held off on reading it for a long time because I wasn’t sure I cared about the lives of rich, high-class Singaporeans. Especially when the main plot centers on an American-Chinese girl, Rachel, flying to Singapore for the first time with […]
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