I have been quite missing for the last couple of weeks because I was in Beijing for a holiday and well, you know, everything is blocked in China. I have always wanted to visit The Forbidden City and The Great Wall of China so we came across a super cheap and good deal for a group package tour to Beijing quite at the last minute … Continue reading China Travels: Beijing (北京)
I have been feeling a little down because of the news of my ex-colleague. There are stuff sitting in my inbox that’s waiting to be posted but I just haven’t been feeling up for it. I’ll get around to it soon. I just need to mope around for a bit more. For the last few days since the tragic news broke, I have spent some time reflecting … Continue reading Life, Death and The Legend of Corpse Herding / Walking (赶尸)
Before I left on this trip to Mainland China, I have heard about Fengdu Ghost City. I could never understand what they meant by Ghost City despite reading up about it. I had thought that Fengdu Ghost City is an abandoned town which no one lives in and it’s inhabited by ghosts. When I arrived, I realised how wrong I was. Hahahahaha. It essentially is a way larger … Continue reading China Travels: Fengdu Ghost City (丰都鬼城)
The Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia and the third longest river in the world. We were on a 5D4N river cruise on the Yangtze River aboard Victoria Jenna. The cruise was absolutely lovely even though I was forced to totally disconnect from digital life for the entire duration of the cruise and have to actually talk to real people. 🙂 Still, it was … Continue reading China Travels: Yangtze River and the Three Gorges Dam (长江三峡与三峡大坝)
Initially, I thought that Huanglong (Golden Dragon) Cave was just like any other cave that I have visited before. Shitloads of stalactites and stalagmites throughout the cave. Boy was I so wrong. Huanglong Cave is HUGE. It is the largest cave system that I have ever been to so far. Spanning 15 kilometres in length, if I remembered right, only about a third of the cave … Continue reading China Travels: Huanglong (Golden Dragon) Cave, Zhangjiajie (黄龙洞, 张家界)
TianZi Mountains was also another major highlight on my recent trip to Mainland China. TianZi Mountains might not ring a bell to you but this would probably look quite familiar to some of you: Yeap, TianZi Mountains is where they filmed the background for Avatar! The entire place was just columns of mountains as far as your eye can see. It’s pretty amazing and I can tell … Continue reading China Travels: TianZi Mountains, Yuanjiajie (天子山, 袁家界)
The biggest highlight from my recent trip to Mainland China has got to be Zhangjiajie (张家界). Zhangjiajie refers to the prefecture city and it it one huge area and not the name of a specific place as I have previously thought. Even the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is one massive area with many other small towns and counties encompassed within. Our first stop into the Zhangjiajie National … Continue reading China Travels: Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon (大峡谷, 张家界)
Fenghuang (Phoenix) Ancient City, in the Hunan Province, is one of the highlights from my recent trip to Mainland China. It has been said that Fenghuang (Phoenix) Ancient city is the prettiest among all the ancient cities that you can find within China and while I haven’t been to all the ancient cities in China, it definitely ranks as the prettiest one that I’ve ever … Continue reading China Travels: Fenghuang (Phoenix) Ancient City (凤凰古镇)
I have been missing online for the last week or so as I was away on holidays in China. This trip has been practically 3 years in the making because my relatives have been talking about making this trip for the past 3 years and finally, we took off for real on 18 October 2014. I don’t usually make such blog posts but this trip has … Continue reading China Travels Through Changsha, Zhangjiajie, Yangtze River, Chongqing (October 2014)
Aloft Hotels recently announced the Asia Pacific edition of Project Aloft Star in collaboration with MTV. This musical talent competition aims to identify and support the hottest emerging music artists from China, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. From now till 24 August 2014, unsigned bands and solo artists are invited to showcase their talents up uploading a video of their original music to http://www.mtvasia.com/projectaloftstar. The … Continue reading Aloft Hotels is Looking for Unsigned Bands/Artists to be Their First Project Aloft Star
