East Asia
Museums
South Korea travel
Travel
Visiting Seoul’s War Memorial of Korea museum
Seoul is a great city to visit for many reasons, one of them being that it has several impressive museums like the National Museum of Korea history museum and the War Memorial of Korea. The War Memorial of Korea is the most impressive military museum I’ve ever visited. It has an actual air armada and […]
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Japan travel
Museums
Travel
Visiting the Tokyo National Museum
Despite its name, Tokyo National Museum is Japan’s main history museum as well as the country’s largest art museum. Located in Tokyo’s Ueno Park and built in 1872, the museum features several large collections in separate buildings. I’ve been to this museum twice and I still haven’t seen everything. The Tokyo National Museum is the best […]
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Hikes
Hong Kong travel
Travel
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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Japan travel
Travel
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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Book reviews
Books
China
Book review- The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China
China is a large country with an area of 3.7 million square miles and, though the majority Han ethnic group make up 90% of its population, has over 50 ethnic groups. As a result, beyond the heavily-populated Han-majority provinces with teeming megacities and factory zones, there is a lot of ethnic and cultural diversity on […]
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Hikes
Taiwan
Taiwan travel
Hiking- Taking in Taipei 101
Taipei’s skyline has long been dominated by one building, Taipei 101, one of the world’s tallest buildings. Nowadays, it still is but it’s got company in the form of the Nan Shan Plaza and at least another skyscraper is under construction in the area. The best way to get an up-close view of Taipei 101 […]
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