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East Asia

Asia China Destinations 

You Know You’re in China When….

April 12, 2013July 26, 2016 Mike & Anne 5536 Views 36 Comments mountains, temple, trekking, You Know You're In...

When it came time to go through our “You Know You’re In…” file for China, it was bulging at the

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Asia China City & Culture Destinations Luxury 

A Taste of Tibet: Diqing, China

February 19, 2013July 26, 2016 Mike & Anne 667 Views 25 Comments festival, monastary, monks, tibet

Tibet is world famous for its culture of Buddhism and holy mountains but its neighbor Diqing is a well-kept secret.

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Asia China Destinations East Asia 

Cruising the Yangtze

March 7, 2013March 11, 2018 Anne & Mike 3770 Views 15 Comments boat cruise, cruise, river, Water Adventures, yangtze

The Yangtze is the third longest river in the world, stretching 6,400km across China, so we knew we had to

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Asia Destinations Japan 

You Know You’re in Japan When….

July 18, 2013September 13, 2016 Mike & Anne 4291 Views 31 Comments culture, fish, You Know You're In...

Japan is sort of its own special planet. Nowhere is this clean, people are never this nice, and nothing is

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Asia Budget China Destinations 

Beguiling Beijing & The Great Wall of China

April 6, 2013July 26, 2016 Mike & Anne 3159 Views 9 Comments capital city, great wall of china, hike

As the capital city of the Earth’s most populous country and one of its oldest cultures, Beijing is the center

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Asia China Destinations East Asia 

Wulingyuan: The Avatar Forest

March 12, 2013February 25, 2018 Mike & Anne 13416 Views 51 Comments avatar, forest, hike, mist, movie, UJFT, Ultimate Journeys for Two

Avatar is one of the most visually stunning movies of the 21st-century, so when we found out that James Cameron

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Asia China Destinations 

Shanghai Special

March 30, 2013July 26, 2016 Anne & Mike 3841 Views 21 Comments architecture, City Guide, food, gardens, temples

We heard such mixed reviews on Shanghai that we almost didn’t come here. “It’s just another big city” some people

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City & Culture Destinations East Asia Japan Luxury 

The Charms of Kyoto

June 16, 2013July 26, 2016 Anne & Mike 9309 Views 20 Comments architecture, City Guide, culture, geisha, temple

Picture your most elegant image of Japan–-a woman in a floral kimono walking under the shade of her paper umbrella

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Asia City & Culture Destinations Japan Luxury 

Crash Course in the Japanese Arts

June 30, 2013March 11, 2018 Anne & Mike 4990 Views 23 Comments art, castles, City Guide, culture, flowers, geisha, wine

How to tie a kimono, arrange an ikebana flower arrangement, write kangi calligraphy…these are skills we never dreamt we’d learn,

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The Gateway to Yunnan, China

February 9, 2013July 26, 2016 Anne & Mike 4283 Views 21 Comments market, pagoda, temple

We thought our entry into China via Hong Kong would semi prepare us for this massive and mysterious nation, but

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Asia Beach City & Culture Destinations Japan Luxury 

Okinawa: The Japanese Tropics

May 23, 2013November 11, 2017 Anne & Mike 807 Views 16 Comments beach, City Guide, hotels, Okinawa

Japan may seem compact but when you add in the 160 islands of Okinawa it seems to stretch endlessly into

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