I wanted to introduce a project I completed while traveling during Spring Festival here in China.I completed my first ever travel journal. I started it while I was traveling in India. I continued on my trip to Thailand later that month. Then I filled the rest of the notebook with my journal entries from my…
Category: Spring Festival
From Zhangjiajie, we headed back to Changsha for one night and then took a train to Guilin! We got to Guilin in the evening and had some time to rest after two consecutive travel days. We made some arrangements and also got the chance to do some much-needed laundry. The next day, we went to…
I took the overnight train from Lijiang to Kunming, which is the capital of Yunnan Province. I took the overnight train twice in Yunnan province. This is the soft sleeper. I took the hard sleeper the other time. They are both about the same level as comfort – I wouldn’t really use the word soft…
After my time in Sichuan Province, I headed south to Yunnan Province, the land of Shangri-la. I flew to Kunming, had a few hours to kill in the evening, then headed out the evening on the overnight train to Dali! After 8 hours or so of not very good sleep, we arrived. After walking through…
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…
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…