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china 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 [...] -
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a fascinating place. Warned by a Canadian whom I met on the bus – “this is the best city in the world” – I couldn’t help but also fall in love with this place. Hong Kong offers urban craziness, busyness, hassle, and congestion, it lures you with temples and a massive amount [...]