Greetings from Sunshine 3 Hotel, Hanoi. I touched down this evening at about 9.00pm and Hanoi turned out to be unexpectedly challenging.
First challenge was trying not to get ripped off by the airport taxis. The guy in charge quoted a fare for my destination, but once I’ve boarded and tried to reconfirm with the driver, [...]

I thought I could beat the sunrise, but I was greeted by a bright, cloudy and someone hazy morning in Hanoi. I checked out of my hotel and boarded a taxi to the bus terminal where the bus to Lang Son departed. The obviously underaged driver was unsure, but he agreed to take me for [...]

It was a cold and wet morning in Guilin on the 13th of February, Chinese New
Year’s Eve. I could vaguely see the Sun and Moon Pagodas from the window of my
hotel. The distant peaks were hardly visible at all. After a breakfast at KFC,
it started to rain. All hope of taking good pictures got washed [...]

Joining a tour group has always been the last thing on my mind, but I had little
time and no choice. So on the first day of Chinese New Year, I paid Y150 for a
Yangshuo and Li Jiang cruise and boarded a tour bus with Chinese tourists from
all over the country. Our guide was a young, [...]

Guilin was cold but not so rainy on the second day of Chinese New Year. The entrance of Lixin Fandian was still littered with the remnants of firecrackers. Nobody believed in sweeping away their own fortunes. I checked out early that morning and took Bus 11 to the bus station on the advice of the [...]