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The Blue Mansion, Penang
Tuesday, the 26th of September 2017 The Blue Mansion was the first place we went to see after arriving in Penang. Since this historical house opens to visitors only three times a day, we joined the guided tour at 3:30pm. Our ferry from Langkawi had just arrived and after checking into our hotel, we conventiently…
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Backpacking Northern Vietnam IV – Three day motorbike tour to Meo Vac
29.01.2017 – 30.01.2017 So here is the fourth part of our travel documentary from Northern Vietnam at the beginning of this year (2017). In the last blog entry we were still discovering Bac Ha and the trekking routes around that small village with our local guide. We stayed one more night in “downtown” Bac Ha…
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Backpacking Northern Vietnam Part III – A game of spinning tops in the rural mountains
A popular way for men all over Northern Vietnam is to spend their free playing a game of spinning tops/boule on an open sand field. Quite a large number of participants can join the game, as long as you bring your own whip and bamboo spike. The rules are quite similar to boule, with the…
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Backpacking Northern Vietnam Part II – Bac Ha and the surrounding minority villages
January 29th, 2017 You might say we chose a less than optimal time of year to travel from China to Vietnam, because not only was the whole of China on the move, Vietnam also was amidst the New Year celebrations, which is more commonly known as TET. Since we have never been to Vietnam before…
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The Eastern Qing Tombs and Dowager Empress Cixi’s Final Resting Place
Weekends are for daytripping – at the end of last month that motto brought us to the Eastern Qing Tombs in Zunhua, almost 130km northeast of the Jing in the province of Hebei.
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The Pride of Lions guarding Beijing’s Marco Polo Bridge
Saturday, the 29th of April 2017 One more of Beijing’s sights is down from our tourist bucket list. Last weekend we took a bus all the way out to the suburbs of Beijing and visited the Marco Polo Bridge, a historically significant place in the south-west of town. There is not much else out there,…
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A short trip to the Ancient City of Pingyao, Shanxi
Pingyao Ancient City is an outstanding example of Han Chinese cities during the Ming and Qing dynasties and is a UNSECO World Hertiage Site.
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Hiking along The Great Wall Mutianyu
This is a flashback to last year winter, in early January 2016, when we hiked along the Great Wall at Mutianyu.
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Backpacking Northern Vietnam Part I – Crossing the border from Hekou to Lao Cai
January the 28th, 2017 Not too long ago we had this idea of traveling from China to Vietnam, crossing the border from Hekou (Yunan, South China) to Lao Cai (North Vietnam) on foot. The easiest and most straight forward preperation we did was to buy a Lonely Planet of the destination country and do some…