Tiger Leaping Gorge

The most difficult trek I did in my whole life. It was very unsafe, one mistake and you can easily go down the cliff, and very intense in terms of physical effort. First we took a bus to Qiaotou, which took about 2 hours, so we were at the main entrance of the TLG at […]

Lijiang

The Old Town of Lijiang really stole my heart. All the buildings have the classic ancient architecture, with all the roofs ends pointing up to the sky. The streets also breath that old Chinese town style, where there’s canals and bridges in every corner. We visited the Black Dragon Pool, which is UNESCO Heritage for […]

Guilin & Kunming

In order to reach Lijiang in Yunnan we needed to do a few stops, which were Guilin and Kunming. Guilin is famous for the Elephant Hill (for which the price to get a view was crazy and we refused to see it) and the Sun and Moon towers, where landscape can be admired for free, but there’s […]

Yangshuo

An amazing town in Southern China, Guangxi province. We happened to stay in the centre of the ancient town (now filled with restaurants, bars and local shops). On the first day we rented 2 e-bikes to ride around the town and have a different perspective of all the mountains and peaks. We hiked up the […]

Hong Kong and crossing to China

As I mentioned in a previous post, I had already been to Hong Kong, what I did not do was crossing the border all the way to China. This time we did the classic leisure visits to the city: Chi Lin Nunnery, Giant Buddha, Victoria Peak, Garden of Stars (Avenue of Stars is under construction […]

Krakatoa – Indonesia

For some reason, every time we go to Indonesia, it feels like a nature science class. This time we went to Krakatoa, one of the most famous volcanoes in the country (which was active a month ago). It took us 3 hours (at night) from the Jakarta airport to Carita, the area with the closest jetty […]

Panglao – Philippines

For Chinese New Year we decided to take a trip to the last country of South East Asia we had pending to visit: the Philippines. So we took a flight from Singapore to Cebu (with the classic Philippines delay of 2 hours). From there we took a ferry to Bohol (2 hours), the island famous […]

Sri Lanka

Another 4 days trip. This time we did it in November and it was the perfect season, it wasn’t as hot as it usually is and there weren’t many tourists. We flew directly with Emirates and it was a really good choice. We did a tour throughout the whole island, starting from Colombo, where we […]

Perth with these 2

We decided to visit Perth, Australia, using 4 days of a public holiday and it was actually a great idea! Perth is a very easy area to see and there’s much more out there besides the city. The city is okay, it feels a bit like the U.S. because the streets are very wide, and […]

Phi Phi Islands, Thailand

My amazing friends came for a visit in Singapore and they took the occasion to goto Thailand, so I followed them for some short 4 days. Phi Phi Islands are quite straight forward: relax, dive and let the island guide you. Seriously, Phi Phi is made for tourists so you might as well go there […]