The quaint village of Tongli dates back to the Tang Dynasty (618 -907 AD) and it became a city during the Song Dynasty. Currently, Tongli’s population adds up to some 35,000 inhabitants. Located some 18km from the city of Suzhou, ...
In many ways, Hamra, or Al Hamra is the most authentic district of Beirut, although such a multifaceted, multicultural and everchanging city, nothing is really authentic, yet everything is. Although it’s been almost two decades since the system that divided ...
If you’re not familiar with Thai history, there’s nothing about today’s Ayutthaya that could give you a clue about its importance as the most important and populated urban center in Asia only 250 years ago. Somehow this impressive city got ...
The icing of the cake for a year packed with travel was definitely my trip to Thailand during Christmas holiday season. This was my second trip to Thailand, as I had been there during a Southeast Asia trip a few ...
Dubai is a like a dice with several faces, not all are as famous as the ones with the shiny skyscrapers and never-ending luxury. Over a hundred years ago, nobody could have foreseen that the roughly sixty houses built on ...
—So you like to travel solo?, that’s great! I bet you get to meet a lot of people!. This is how conversations always go when I tell my friends about any recent trip that I’ve done on my own. The ...
It’s one of the most emblematic buildings in Dubai. It is not particularly famous for its modernity or even its looks (it was built in 1978), but this 149 meters high tower has something special about it. It stands there, ...
Dubai International Airport has become one of the most important flight connection centers in the world. Driven by the growth of its main airline, Emirates, it has become the most convenient stopping point for flights between Europe and the Asia-Pacific ...
Known in Thai as Wat Intharavian, the Standing Buddha Temple is located in the Pha Nakhon district of Bangkok. It was built during the Ayutthaya Period and was formely known as Wat Rai Phrik. Wat Intharavihan is not nearly the ...
Vibrant, crowded, fast-paced and organized-yet-chaotic are some of the first descriptions that come to my mind when I remember Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing. Call me a misanthrope, but I’m the kind of person to hate crowds. The mere thought of Christmas ...
