Since becoming a part of the travel blogging community, there is one city that I’ve heard nothing but constant praise for: Chiang Mai. Home to a sizable travel blogging community, everyone seems to love this city. Can I even call Chiang Mai a city? It feels barely bigger than a town! Located in the northern […]
As the infamous Hong Kong humidity comes rolling in, the junk boats start sailing out. And while the term “junk boat” may have once referred to the traditional Chinese fishing boats famous for their red sails, today it seems to refer to any sort of pleasure-yacht– and usually one that involves all you can drink […]
As I’m writing this, I am sitting in the airport in Hong Kong, the last minutes of our time here ticking down. This past week was full of going away parties– farewell dinners with family, drinks with friends and coworkers. Being an expat is an amazing experience, but due to the short-lived nature of most expats’ careers […]
Next week marks the famous Dragon Boat festival in Hong Kong. Called Tuen Ng in Chinese, this festival always falls on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, and has been taking place since as far back as the third century. While this festival has a bit of a long history, it is mainly known for […]
Every Friday I’ll be sharing a photo from someplace in my travels. This week’s photo is of outside my window in Hong Kong. When I first visited Hong Kong, I was amazed by constantly seeing green mountains and blue seas every which way I looked. Coming from the Midwest, neither mountains nor ocean were things I were […]
Osaka Kaiyukan is an aquarium famous around the world because of it’s star attraction, Ten-chan, a giant whale shark. It was there that I first ever saw a whale shark, let alone heard of one, but I was hooked. There is something awe-inspiring about these magnificent creatures who are as big as a bus, yet […]
The Philippines has a wide variety of landscapes, and what better way to see them all than from a plane. Almost every trip I’ve taken over the past two years had me flying to and from my destinations in the dark. Finally, our flights to Cebu had us coming and going both during the day […]
It’s hard to talk about Bohol without mentioning the Philippine tarsiers. Upon returning from my trip, the number one question I was asked was if I got to see those “tiny, freaky monkey-things”. I had to reply that while I did see some tarsiers, they actually aren’t monkeys at all. Yes, Filipinos boasted them for the […]
Every Friday I’ll be sharing a photo from someplace in my travels. This week’s photo is of a starfish in the Philippines. It’s probably no secret by now that I love the ocean and marine life. One of the reasons I was so excited to visit the Philippines was because it has long been known as the epicenter […]
Every Friday I’ll be sharing a photo from someplace in my travels. This week’s photo is of the beaches of Oslob, Philippines. Being a nation of over 7,000 islands, the Philippines is bound to have some beautiful beaches. While people often flock to the well-traveled areas of Boracay or El Nido, we were surprised by the […]