“I felt I am right at home…,” this may be a little bit of overstatement as we were checking in to Regent Taipei at their top floor Tai Pan L...

The township of Jiaoxi in Yilan County (宜蘭礁溪) reminded me of those old-school onsen town in rural Japan, like Kusatsu or Arima or Dogo. The ...

Off we went from Taipei to Tainan via the High Speed Rail on our second day. The efficient 2-hour train ride moved us from the northern tip ...

Work brought me to Shanghai in September so I spent a week at The PuLi, one of the earlier "urban oasis" style properties opened i...

Given we have been to Hakone before, albeit more than a decade ago, and hit most of the tourist spots back then, we decided to bypass the ...

“You are going to love it as long as you don’t think of it as Japan”… my friend JP gave me this piece of advice on Okinawa. To be honest, ...

We didn’t really plan our holidays around the spring sakura season so we considered ourselves lucky to have caught an early glimpse of the...

Getting a wake-up call at 4:30 in the morning was not something I particularly looked forward to, but the reason why I was up that early i...

Earlier I requested my tour guide Mr B to show me some shops for lacquerware, so we went to one just before lunch in Myinkaba, or the Bamb...

As I was planning for my Myanmar trip, I decided to add on another stop other than Yangon when I realized it would be tricky to fit enough...

Before departing for Bagan on a domestic flight in late afternoon, I spent the morning on my last day in Yangon walking with a volunteer g...

It’s hard not to shop a bit in Myanmar as the country and its people were known for centuries the arts and crafts works, most of them stil...

“Once a year, go some place you've never been before” – whoever said that got to be a very wise person. At the turn of this new year, ...

A few weeks ago I spent a few days in Taichung City, the second populous city in Taiwan (after Taipei, of course) on the western side of t...

After spending two nights in Fukuoka, I rode on the Kyushu Shinkansen train and headed south to Ibusuki, one of the many famous onsen town...

Staying over on the Macau Peninsula side meant it's much easier to explore the historical part of this city known not only for its gam...

We spent the whole day museum-hopping in Jerusalem as part of our itinerary. Our first stop is the Holocaust History Museum as part of the...

It's unfortunate that we didn't spend quite enough time to explore the modern side of Jerusalem, as one can never see the full pic...

One place we sorta regret of making a detour for was the Yobuko Morning Market (呼子の朝市) at the northern tip of Saga Prefecture. According t...

Accommodation in Miyajima was the part we confirmed last, done just a week before our departure. I scratched the original plan of staying ...