People are rude to me. To their point of view, I’m rude to them. 90% of my conversation with Chinese locals goes the same. And it always ends with a hateful look from the people. Always. If they are randomly talking beside of me, I couldn’t notice because I don’t understand the dialect, and they […]
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“The natural world doesn’t come with an instruction leaflet, so it teaches you to use your creative imagination.” It pretty much sums up what I think about travel. This is a part of the news article from BBC how nature deficit is harming children. Throughout many interviews I did with fellow
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“Whoooaaa-“ The very first reaction we got from the students as soon as we walked in the door with Tom, who is my friend and an ESL teacher at Southwest University of Finance and Economy in Chengdu. Tom has been teaching English to university students for six months. While I was staying with him in
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To this day, Dali is my favourite city in China. For two months, I’ve been traveling in Guangxi Province, Yunnan Province and Sichuan Province, and there were not many so places that I could see myself living, but Dali was one of them. Dali used to be a backpackers’’ THE hangout place, but not anymore.
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Entrance fee is the biggest obstacle in China to budget travelers. You have to make the decision based on how much you are willing to pay to see/do. It’s over USD10 most of the time, no matter what it is. Three pagodas, the symbol of Dali, Yunnan province, China are not the exception. The entrance
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Pu’er tea is still a mystery to me. I like it and enjoy it, I truly do, but I still don’t know much about the process and the aging-related factors. There’s no one to explain to me at the tea shop in China, and there’s not enough information to study in English. It’s like a
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One late night in Jianshui, we were looking for something to eat, doubting anything would open at this late hour. Then we stumbled upon this little night market with full of barbecue stalls. Chicken feet, pig feet, chicken butt… No, we weren’t in the mood for a heavy barbecue. “Mi-sheng?” We
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Two years ago, while I was sitting at a cubicle late at night, I thought of a perfect name for my website – Runaway Juno. I bought a domain and studied how to start the blog every night after 14 hours of working days, and sometimes at the cubicle. Two years later, here
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“Hello, hello, I have a guesthouse, take a look.” “Bungalow, good view.” “I have hot shower, cold drink.” A group of guesthouse owners are trying hard to get customers in their house as soon as the boat from Nong Kiew arrived. An hour of long boat ride made my butt sore, but
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Do you remember my little kiwi brothers who were sitting on my bookshelf? They are quite adventurous. I adopted them at a souvenir shop in Auckland, New Zealand and now they’re my travel buddies. Their curiosity meets my wanderlust; it made us good travel companions. A few months ago the Kiwi Brothers
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