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 [...]

I’m surprised not many people have even heard of it, but Detain Waterfall has to be the most beautiful waterfall I’ve ever seen. Situated in Guangxi Province, right at the border with Vietnam, it is 200m wide and has a drop of over 70 metres. Though winter is a time when the water volume is [...]

I’ll be leaving for Hanoi on the 11th of February 2010 for a very short Chinese New Year holiday. I’ll be heading for Guangxi and then I’ll be returning to Hanoi to fly back to Singapore on 19th February.
Given the limited time, I need to be very selective with where I’ll go and what I’ll [...]

I arrived in Kunming on the evening of 3rd Feb. It was
a warm 20 deg C and things were looking good for a
successful expedition. That evening, I took a sleeper
bus to Lijiang and from Lijiang bus station, I hopped
on a bus bound for Weixi. This back-to-back
long-distance road travel took its toll. Halfway to
Weixi, I was [...]