Ancient style floating village is gaining big popularity in recent years as touristic attraction, since the unknown village of Zhou Zhuang [周庄] made popular within China by now deceased artist Chen Yifei [陈逸飞] and known to the world after the shooting of Mission Impossible 3 with Tom Cruise. Wuzhen [乌镇]] is one of them, situated [...]
I can’t believe I haven’t written any blog for more than a month, it’s been a crazy month at work… Two weeks ago I went to Nanjing with a few friends, my first time to Nanjing actually. As a once glorious capital of China during the beginning of Ming Dynasty [明朝], and then capital of [...]
Last month I took a trip to Xi’an, Shaanxi province, at the central north of China. Visiting China without seeing Xi’an is like going to Egypt but haven’t seen the pyramids, or going to Cambodia but not seeing the Ankor wats. I’ve always wanted to visit Xi’an since my first time visiting China at 2004. [...]
Last weekend I took a trip to Wuyuan [婺源] with the Quyou club [趣游俱乐部]. Wuyuan is a relatively large county that comprises several villages in northern Jiangxi [江西] province, about 500km from Shanghai. Every year from March to April, it attracts tourists from all over the places across China for its large and omnipresent rapeseed [...]
My life is full of surprise these days. Until last Summer I never thought I would visit Japan so soon, but at the 29th December 2007 I was embarking on my second trip to Tokyo, to spend new year over there. This time I went to join Desmond at Tokyo, alone. The first night we [...]
At December 15th we went for a week of vacation at Thailand, actually Phuket and Bangkok. This is our first time to Thailand, we knew nothing about it before neither did we read any tourist guide. We just booked the trip package from ctrip [携程]. Two days before departure, I ran to a bookstore nearby [...]
After my first failed trip to Hangzhou last month, I decided to give it another try two weeks ago. I went there for a day trip with my tourist friend from Chengdu. It didn’t start well, I missed the train depature time by 5 minutes, so had to throw away the ticket and bought another [...]
Two weeks ago I went to Hangzhou [杭州] with the intention to spend one whole day photographying the city’s famous attractions, such as the West Lake [西湖] and some famous tower pagodas. Unfortunalely for my laziness and lack of planning, I was not able to buy a return ticket ahead of time, so at the [...]
After three short shopping days at Tokyo, we fly to Hokkaido [北海道], then rent a car from the Sapporo [札幌] airport. Hokkaido is a big island prefecture at the north of Japan. It kinda looks and feels like at Canada, wide open, green, blue sky, mountains, sea, lakes, hot spring and fresh fishes! I didn’t [...]
Welcome to sushistan, kawaistan and idolistan! Although Japan has a long and strong culture of its own for the past two milleniums, its modern mainstream culture could be described by three words: sushi, cartoon and idol. During my trip to Japan between September 26th to October 3th, as a first time visitor not speaking their [...]
"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"
Some people see a big wave coming and run away from it, but they ultimately end up beaten by the wave and fall down. I choose to stand face to the wave, waiting for it with open eyes (nose shut), and you won't believe how much fun I have jumping over the wave as it comes! As a bonus, I have my feet firmly in the sand before and after the jump. That is the attitude I choose from now on.
— A lesson learned from Phuket