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The Traffic of Hanoi [photos]
 

The Traffic of Hanoi [photos]

People had warned me about the traffic in Hanoi. I thought I was prepared to take it on—but I wasn’t. It’s not big trucks or bumper-to-bumper cars, but motorbikes—and lots of them. The day we arrived, our host Jenny, took us out into rush hour traffic on the way to a bar to meet her [...]

Eating Barbecued Insects in China Video

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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Vomit and Cigarettes: A Ride on a Chinese Sleeper Bus

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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7 Super Shots

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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Cycling around Luang Namtha, Laos Video

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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Introducing the Kiwi Brothers

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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Photos from the Road: Rice Terraces of Yunnan China

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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Photos from the Road: the Gower Peninsula

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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A Digital Nomad in Luang Prabang

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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Hong Kong Outdoor Escalators Video

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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Bargain New York City

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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Photos from the Road: Whitby England

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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Photos from the Road: Zhu Family Garden

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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The Royal Observatory at Greenwich

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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Kowloon at Night Stop Motion Video

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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Bohemian Beaches: Tobago

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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Photos from the Road: Playing Chinese Chess under Chaoyang Gate

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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Cooking Beerfish in Yangshuo

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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Night train to Kunming

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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