On my last day in Chengdu, I took a day trip south to Leshan, also in Sichuan Province. I got the train in the morning after rush hour. It only takes about an hour on the high speed train. There is a bus that goes directly from the train station to the park. It was…
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Here’s what I got up to this month! Places I Went Shanghai, China Shaoxing, China Beijing, China Best on the Blog Bangkok, Thailand – this was the first blog post about my Spring Festival travels. Best on Instagram This was a sunset picture from Nanjing Road in Shanghai one one of my two trips to…
For me, my time in Chengdu was for rest and planning. I didn’t do too much, but I did do a few things worth mentioning. My number one thing I did was see the pandas just outside the city. I really dislike zoos and I don’t really consider myself an overt animal lover, but I…
After returning to China from Thailand, I headed for Sichuan province. I had a brief stay in Chengdu before heading straight for Jiuzhaigou. Jiuzhaigou is a National Park in the north of Sichuan province, in a Tibetan Autonomous Region called Aba. The name means 9-village valley. The town is a 10-hour bus ride from Chengdu….
I spent four days on Koh Tao doing a PADI diving course and here’s how it went. Last I left off, I was leaving Bangkok. To make it to Koh Tao, I left at 10pm on an overnight bus to a pier down on the east coast south of Bangkok. We arrived at around 4:30am…
Okay, disaster might be a little bit of a strong word. But it was one of the worst days of my trip. We got up at 5am or something ridiculous like that. We took the subway to the bus station and got on the wrong train, which delayed us a bit. We got on a…
After arriving at 3am on the cheapest flight I could manage, I slept for a few hours then we got right to sight seeing on our first day in Bangkok. We got off in the centre, then walked towards the temple we were going to. On the way, we were admiring the colonial architecture. Such…
As I mentioned in my January monthly recap, I was pretty sick after I came back from India. When I got back I finished up an essay I had due, actually ended up missing my final exams because I was so sick. I recovered just in time to start my travels for the Spring Festival…
This is the last post in my series about my trip to India. Click here to read the previous post. We woke up and had a big breakfast at the hotel then headed into town to the main temple. This was just an absolutely incredible temple. It’s the largest operating Hindu temple in the world…
This is the next post about my trip to India. If you haven’t read the previous post about this trip, click here. In the morning, we waited for plans to be confirmed and waited for our cars to pick us up. As soon as we were ready, we headed to Ramarpatham temple, which has significance…