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The Rudest and Funniest Town Names Around the World
I walked into a local souvenir shop and asked for some “Fucking postcards”, but the lady at the cash desk simply smiled warmly. With a sparkle in her eye she guided me over to a white bookcase. “These are the Fucking postcards right here” she beamed. Yes, that’s right, there’s a town called Fucking and […]
13 Things To Make You Say ‘Wow’ in China
Babies go to school - Kids start learning English at tw0-and-a-half- years young at private language institutions. Private English School at three. Photo by http://www.the-people-square.com What do you think? wait, it doesn’t matter - China’s efforts to thwart personal opinion is upheld by employing a 30,000 occupied internet police force. Currently, online sites such as Facebook, Youtube, Blogger and WordPress […]
The Countries That Don’t Count
When traveling, what really constitutes a country not counting? Is it the little time spent there, the lack of experiences or the not even leaving the airport? Singapore: We spent only one day in Singapore, but we meant to go there, we saw the sights, and it’s Singapore, how much more time do you need […]
What Lonely Planet Forgot – How To Train India
Lonely Planet is good for many things, but what it lacks is attention to detail; especially when it comes to transportation. One of the most important things to have on a trip through India is a good sense of transportation, and the Indian railway system is your best choice. Providing the vague but helpful “Getting […]
The Great Wall of China
About The Great Wall: Legend has it that its tracks were laid with the aid of a helpful dragon and myth tells of its visibility from the moon. Stacks mud and sediment that once served to protect its inhabitants from invaders now a beautifully eroded vision. Dotting the hills like a horizon of castles, The […]
How to Get a Chinese Tourist Visa in the Philippines
You can get your tourist visa processed in the Philippines, but only in Manila, Cebu and Laoag is this possible. In Manila, there are two options for getting your Chinese visa. You can either go to the Chinese embassy or visit one of the many travel agencies that offer visa processing. What is the Cost for […]
How to: Teach English in China Today
You are in demand. If you’ve never taught or you’re already a teacher, China is a great place to be. China is screaming for teachers. Other than the Middle East, China offers the most employment opportunities. Life is cheap, entertainment is vast and life is easy, so here’s what you need to know about teaching […]
Teach English Abroad: How to Avoid A Scam
I was almost scammed try to find a teaching job overseas. On the prowl for an international teaching job on Serious Teachers, I was contacted by a man claiming to be a Brazilian man named Alex Rizzo working in Cheshire, England. He wanted a full-time English teacher to move to his home in England and act as […]
The Human Element
You’re out of your element. Perfect. Let’s take a picture. Travel and documentary photographer Mitchell Kanashkevich searches the world’s most untouched places to capture disappearing ancient cultures and the human condition in their unique situations. Pausing for a moment, the human element. Here a few of his snapshots from his collection entitled Portraits from around […]
The Last Ride
The amber lights make me hurry. I don’t know how to say excuse me yet so I resort to nudging and bumping my way down the escalator of people enjoying their unmoving movement. I wish I had taken the stairs. The beeping of the lights sound counting the final seconds echoes my heart’s beating desperation. […]
How To Get By The Great Fire Wall of China
Out of the Top 100 Global Websites, 12 are currently blocked in mainland China. China has one of the most extensive internet repressive systems in the world. Chinese censorship began with the emergence of several anti-Japanese, anti-pollution, anti-corruption riots, and ethnic riots, that materialized using online chat rooms and instant messaging. It is rumored that China has an Internet […]
10 Reasons Why Shanghai Rules
10. Top Transportation Shanghai has the world’s largest metro network. Its metro system is made up of 11 lines, excluding the Maglev, 237 stations and boasts a 424.8 km long track. The world’s fourth busiest metro system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metro_systems. Taxis are cheap compared to western cabs and there are also dedicated bike lanes everywhere…but really, you go […]
The Dirtiest Middle Finger
Banteay Srey was built in the late 10th century and was dedicated to the Hindu God. Its name means “citadel of the women” and it bares some of the best carvings of all the temples; it also has so of the strangest people lurking its grounds. Exploring the sienna coloured stone walls, Mr., Mrs. and Caddie all split up looking […]
Wat-ing, Bike Down and Disappointing Spiderman
After blocks of harassment, we finally lost the world’s hardest working tuk-tuk driver. We walked deep into the bustling city of Siem Reap. We’d be taunted by swanky massage parlors and turned down invitations for fish nibbling foot massages with a beer…with all intentions of coming back though, I mean foot massage and beer…jackpot! […]
Glass Eggs and Ham
We left the unwanted guesthouse on a mission to find accommodations of our own picking. At the end of the long driveway leading out from the grounds we’d run into a resting tuk-tuk driver who made it his days mission to give us a ride. Saying “no”, “no thank you”, “go away” and eventually straight […]
Dental Floss Saves Lives in Siem Reap
From Laos we’d move south into Cambodia. Crossing over the border we’d make it through the clearance check involving passport pictures, money and a quick health check. A department store scanning gun pointed up to our heads and we’d be ushered along…was the reading good or bad? I think it flashed 38 for the whole lot of us […]
The 4000 Islands
Sunset or Sunrise? This was the “unfortunate” fork-in-road situation we’d have to choose from when we got to Don Det island. We’d just arrived after the 20 minute long tail boat ride from the docks of Ban Nagasan (and by docks I mean lines of long tail boats pegged into the pebbled river bed). Once […]
The Rice Bus, A Knock on the Door and Some Pee Stops
Go where the locals go. A good rule to live by when exploring a new country. Asking a proficient English speaking hotel manager in Luang Prabang where she’d recommend going in Lao, the response was Savannakhet (in southern Lao; Savanh for short). She said that Savanh is today what Luang Prabang was 20 years ago.We […]
Laos Groceries, Blessed Shopping, The Bike Crash and No Lady Love Allowed
How do the Laos people go grocery shopping? They take a trip to the market where other locals sell the freshest fish, meat, fruits and vegetables…and by freshest I mean still alive. At the Morning Market in Luang Prabang everything is ultra fresh. Fish still flapping about on damp banana leaves. Laos, ladies fry up some of the tastiest little fried […]
The One About Nirvana, Monks and Finding a Laos Lettuce Wrap Lady
The city of Luang Prabang, Laos is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Doing as the monks do, we woke with the rising sun to witness Binthabhat; the daily ritual of giving alms to monks. Giving alms is just another way for travellers to get scammed or ripped off. You can barter for your alms, but this just seems a […]
Slow Boating the Mekong River
From Chiang Mai we would head north to the Laos border town Huay Xai enroute to Luang Prabang. Not making it to Huay Xai on time (buses only running certain times a week/day), we were left to spend a night on the Thai river bank across from Laos in a town called Chiang Khong. Vacant and […]
The Gastown Sessions: J.P. HOE
Reblogged from Vancouver Sun: The Gastown Sessions is a Vancouver Sun music project. We invite bands to play in locations across Vancouver oldest neighbourhood, Gastown, and invite our readers to join us for the exclusive set (follow @gastownsessions on Twitter for updates on artists and venues). Artist: J.P. Hoe Song: Ophelia Location: Blood Alley - Gastown, Vancouver Read more… 16 more words […]
Review: BoredinVancouver.com
Right, Vancouver, here’s a spicy website for those of us who like a dash of usual or a sprinkle of the unusual, or a bit of both. Boredinvancouver.com suggests unique places to enjoy nature and offbeat places to eat and buy stuff and what to do on all those rainy days. “Vancouver is an awesome […]
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