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asia Archive
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Shanghai
Shanghai, home to more than 20 million people, is an exhilarating, fascinating, huge and high metropolis. Skyscrapers everywhere, a magnetic levitated train that goes as fast as 431 km/h (it was fast, yea!), and 40% of green areas by 2010, Shanghai also boasts with an exciting melange of East and West, tradition and hypermodernity, in [...] -
Vietnam and China
My Southeast Asian journey is almost over. Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay was amazingly beautiful. There are almost 2000 limestone hills and rocks that build small islands with weird shapes, surrounded by green water, inhabited by tourists and local fishermen. Cruising around the bay, going kayaking, seeing a nice cave but mostly just relaxing on the [...] -
Vietnam
Millions of motorbikes. Stools so small you really wonder if they were made for infants. No traffic rules whatsoever (Malaysia was a heaven of logic compared to this). Old French buildings. A few new tall buildings. People chilling outside. Very friendly people. Vietnam is great! I’ve been to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) and Hanoi so far, [...] -
Bangkok and Cambodia
Some Photos of Bangkok and Cambodia: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=91120&id=503192582&l=9772cc7e6f -
From Bangkok to Phnom Penh
For my lazy visitors: I’m still fine, still travelling, still enjoying. For everybody else: Here I am, in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. I flew today from Bangkok, where I got to know to a 49-years old ethnically Nigerian London-born Rastafarian, so it was an interesting flight… My last days in Bangkok (I spent four days there) [...] -
Bangkok 1
(German, scroll down!) Today, I arrived in Bangkok, Thailand. Of course I got there in one of these colourful taxis that shine pink and orange and yellow throughout the entire city. Bangkok is Asia’s number one tourist destination and I completely agree. It is a huge metropolis, like Tokyo, but things move slower than in Tokyo or [...] -
on y va!
3 exams to go. While I should be studying (the usual procrastination), I am planning my trip in two weeks: I will go from Penang to Bangkok (Thailand) to Phnom Penh to Angkor Wat (Cambodia) to Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi to Halong Bay (Vietnam) to Nanning to Shanghai (China), and all the way back [...] -
Public Toilets… once again
Once again I’d like to refer you to the World of Toilets blog.. This blog is part of one of my classes at the Science University of Malaysia (USM, Penang) (Dr. Bustami’s class ‘Globalisation, CyberCulture & Future Studies’ in the department of Anthropology and Sociology). The overall goal is to start a movement on a CSR [...]