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10 March 2012
Eating Insects in Yunnan China from Bohemian Traveler. Not too much to add to this one. I’m going to let the video speak for itself. All this insect eating took place in Jianshui, in China’s Yunnan Province. Check out all my other blog posts on China. And drop me a line in comments to let [...]
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08 March 2012
View from the road to Dali from Jinghong The vomiting began just after we pulled out of the Jinghong bus station. We hadn’t even left the city limits and the woman behind me had already filled three plastic bags. We were on the sleeper bus to Dali in northwestern Yunnan Province, and I knew this [...]
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06 March 2012
Thanks to Runaway Juno for nominating me for 7 Super Shots started by Hostelbookers.com. You can read her 7 Super Shots post here. Basically, you choose the photos that best fit in the categories listed. You can check out the rules here. And see other round up posts on twitter #7SuperShots These are my 7 Super Shots: Photo [...]
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29 February 2012
On our way south from China, we stopped in the town of Luang Namtha for a few days. It’s a popular place for travelers who are looking to do hill tribe treks in northern Laos. It’s an extremely laid-back and quiet town with a few guesthouses, cafes, and lively night market. One of the days [...]
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28 February 2012
Little Kiwi Brother Reading the Guidebook I first met Little Kiwi Brother back in ’11 in sultry Bangkok. He was only a little bird, but right from the get go I knew he had what it took to be a great traveler and an even finer traveling companion. Then I learned he had a bigger [...]
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27 February 2012
From the edge of Xinjie I walked into the countryside. Xinjie is perched on the mountain like a medieval Italian hill town. But we are in China’s Yunnan Province and here ethnic minority groups from the surrounding villages come in to buy and sell goods. You can notice them by their distinct and sometimes very [...]
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27 February 2012
Back in 2008 I traveled to the Gower Peninsula when I visited Swansea, Wales. I had a week-long lay-over on my way to Spain. I’d never been to Wales, so I thought I’d give it a go—choosing to visit second biggest Swansea over Cardiff. In 1956 Gower became the first area in Britain to be [...]
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23 February 2012
I’ve written previously about my quest to become location independent and posted Using Chiang Mai as a Remote Workplace last year after stopping temporarily to work there during my travels through Southeast Asia. I wanted to continue to write about places that are well suited for digital nomads to set up shop temporarily. This time [...]
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20 February 2012
I thought it would be fun to make a video riding the escalators in Hong Kong. Where else can you ride outdoor escalators in a city? I sped it up and my twenty minute ride will take you about 2 ½ minutes. Enjoy: Hong Kong Escalators Super Fast from Bohemian Traveler. The Central Mid-levels escalators [...]
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17 February 2012
The following is a guest post from Jeff Dobbins of NYCxplorer.com New York City is one of the world’s most exciting destinations. It can also be one of the most expensive, with an “average” daily hotel rate of $276, and dinner at Masa restaurant going for $585. But there are plenty of bargains that [...]
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16 February 2012
Whitby is a picturesque town on the north coast of Yorkshire, England. It was the home town of the explorer Captain James Cook and the place where according to Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula landed in England. Tourists head to Whitby for its intoxicating mix of scenery, seaside historical heritage and fish and chips—which some reckon [...]
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13 February 2012
The Zhu Family Gardens is a huge Qing-era (1644-1911) complex of ancestral building, family homes, courtyards, ponds and gardens. You can amble from courtyard to courtyard through intricately carved and painted wooden doors. Inside the courtyards, flowers and sculpted trees grow. The Zhu Family earned its fortune through its mill and tavern and traded everything [...]
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11 February 2012
Visiting Greenwich, England is one of the places you havegot to go if you love geography, astronomy, or the history of navigation. It is here that the Royal Observatory is situated and the place where world standards of measurement were born. Most notably, it is the location of the Prime Meridian and where Greenwich Mean [...]
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07 February 2012
Kowloon at Night Stop Motion from Bohemian Traveler on Vimeo. After the success of last year’s A Day in Bangkok Stop Motion Video, I thought it would be fun to do another stop-motion video in another city. This time around we went to Hong Kong. Kowloon is the section of Hong Kong located across [...]
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07 February 2012
Boats on Castara’s beach Tobago has got some seriously chilled-out and naturally beautiful beaches. I few years back I explored the northwest coast of the island, impressed with the lack of tourists and relaxed vibe of the seaside villages. Here were my favorite stops: Castara and Englishman’s Bay What’s cool about Castara is that it’s [...]
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02 February 2012
Chaoyang Gate stands proudly in the center of Jianshui, a small Yunnan city south of Kunming. This bright red prominent structure was modeled on the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan and Yueyang Tower in Hunan. Think Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing for more visuals. Although beautiful, the Chaoyang Gate was not what captured my [...]
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31 January 2012
Watch the video of Harry making the local specialty beerfish in his Yangshuo kitchen: We spent more than a week soaking up the dreamlike karst landscape in and around Yangshuo, China. But one’s got to eat, right? So after cycling around the countryside of Yangshuo and rafting down the Li River, we enjoyed some of [...]
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29 January 2012
Our compartment is less than half full. But it still smells. The closest thing I can compare it to is the smell of 100 wet dogs. Add to that, the constant stream of cheap, most-likely fake cigarette smoke drifting in from the vestibule. Think body odor, unclean toilets, and spoiled food. Now we are getting [...]
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