asia
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MALAYSIA’S CAPITAL CITY
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I fist stepped foot in Malaysia in 2014 on my way to Australia and didn’t necessarily enjoy the trip. I ran into a couple of problems with my Couchsurfing host at the time and it was anything but enjoyable!During that 2014 trip, I spent some time in Little India, visited the Patronas Twin Towers and…
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FIRST FEW HOURS IN CHINA
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February 2014 A TV with no English channels, a quick Wifi service with strict internet censorship, restricting me from logging onto Facebook or YouTube, along with others, a Google search spitting out limited links, and a plug sockets that resembles that of the U.S. unit, many differences that I have come to accept in my…
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ONE OF ASIA’S SMALLEST COUNTRIES
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I had never even heard of Brunei when I began planning my first mega world trip in 2017. I wouldn’t even have been able to tell you what continent it was located in. I had no idea where it was on the map, the currency they use, religion, capital city, or what the people would…
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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE IN THE WORLD
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Before I set out on my world trip in 2017, I began wondering where the nicest place in the world was located. I had already found a few decent spots prior to 2017, for example, Times Square in New York, Maya Bay in Thailand, Erlian in Inner Mongolia, China, though there was something special about…
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A TRIP TO AFGHANISTAN
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Kabul was cool and a place that I had wanted to visited for years and years! I was really worried for a while about going to Afghanistan and rightly so. Kabul has always been one of the most dangerous cities in the world. It was the most worried I had ever been pre-departure for any…
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A FEW DAYS IN THE PHILIPPINES
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It was destination Manila, the second biggest city in the Philippines, on a warm September evening as we took off on a Cebu Pacific flight across the South China Sea. Our flight was on time, leaving us in Ninoy Aquino Airport at half past 11. We jumped in a taxi, and he so kindly took…
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GETTING ROBBED IN TAJIKISTAN
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GETTING ROBBED IN TAJIKISTAN SUMMER 2017 “Hey you,” I hear in the distance as I approach the emigration desk at Dushanbe Airport in Tajikistan. He’s a fairly well built customs official. “Show me your passport and show me your visa as well.” “No problem Sir” I reply. He then glances through my visa and begins…
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THE CHEAPEST WAY TO MONGOLIA
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November 2016 Mongolia was a country that I’d wanted to visit during my earlier trip to Asia in 2014. At that time, I planned on flying directly to Ulaanbaatar, the capital city, but the visa regulations had changed at the last minute (so annoying when visa regulations change at the last minute and the websites…
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A TRIP TO ONE OF ASIA’S MOST EXPENSIVE COUNTRIES (BHUTAN)
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It’s certainly an expensive and awkward destination to reach, there’s no question about that! It’s kind of hidden from the world map, really obscure spot in Asia, located somewhere between India and China, so close to India they even accept the Indian Rupee in most shops and restaurants and you can visibly see India, and…