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 the banks of the creek would become what it is today. The old settlement that was later to be known ...
—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 answer is usually a smile, a nod and some vague phrase agreeing with them, saying that traveling solo is a ...
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, in the middle of Dubai, with the pride of being the first, the first of a long list of Dubai’s ...
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 most important Buddhist temple in Bangkok, however, it is definitely worth a visit if only to see the 100 ft ...
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 shopping at the mall or being in a stadium full of people gives me chills, and not exactly in a ...
Miyajima itself was everything I expected from my trip to Japan and much, much more. I learned about the existence of this tiny island south of Hiroshima from another travel blog and, truth be told, it was a fair trade from the frenticism that is Tokyo and the over-idealized peacefulness of Kyoto. I had found my own Japanese fantasy to ...