It’s no mystery that karaoke is kind off a big deal in Asia, even though it’s usually associated with Japan (and Japanese business men singing their way through business dealings- or at least that’s the impression my business culture class would have us believe!) it’s taken hold in a majority of the continent. In our …
Flights in and around China are quite expensive especially if you’re traveling on a student budget and you don’t have a Chinese credit card (because then you can’t book from certain discount sites). Flying from Hong Kong is considered international so it’s often cheaper to take the train to Shenzhen and fly from there. We …
Pingyao After Beijing we headed to a small town called Pingyao which is famous for its walled old town, it was a lovely spot and the perfect place to recover from an overnight train ride! Xi’an Xi’an is best know for being home to the Teracotta Warriors, and although …
Usually reading week is when you’re expected to ‘buckle down’ and make up for all the lost time you spent during the year watching How I Met Your Mother and Facebook stalking people you went to High School with in an attempt to procrastinate. However, if you’re on exchange and you’re lucky enough to be …
Hong Kong is often called ‘Asia light’ by travelers who have been to other places and from my previous experience with China I can pretty much agree with that statement! So when I headed to Beijing I expected to feel at least somewhat out of my element, at least more than I usually do in …
Hong Kong is supposed to be one of the best places in the world for urban hiking. That doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea to try and do any type of walking in the urban areas seeing as its also one of the most densely populated areas in the world, but that you can …
Every year Hong Kong hosts a rugby tournament where each team only has 7 players a side rather than 15, which is the usual. This means that games go much quicker and in one weekend, or even a day, you can have a whole tournament. I’ve never followed rugby and wouldn’t even consider myself much of …
Not too far from Hanoi is one of Vietnam’s top tourist attractions: Ha Long bay. It’s famous for the thousands of little rock formation islands that pepper the water. Our group did what most tourists do which is get a tour on a junk boat (which is luckily not a description of the type of …
