I have to say it. I love Hong Kong. The city is simply amazing, tourist friendly. Today I visited a couple of museums, some parks and Kowloon neighborhood. I loved all these places and I hope the photo gallery will make at least some of you consider visiting Honk Kong. It’s awesome.

The Forbidden city, the old imperial palace,  is one of the most famous attractions in Beijing. For “only” five centuries it served as the home of the emperors and their families. More info on wikipedia. I’ve attached a photo gallery with the pictures taken here. for the people reading my blog here who are confused [...]

After the amazing meetings I had with the Romanian ambassador and the folks from the Center for American Chinese Partnership on Monday, I decided to do more sightseeing. I went out at night visiting the main pedestrian street in Beijing. After that, I had a fabulous dinner at an Egyptian restaurant (thus remembering both how [...]

During my stay in Beijing (which happily is still going on) I had the pleasure to see various street performers who are simply amazing. Dancers, singers, people playing local instruments, you can find hundreds of them all over the city. Some of them ask for money, but many do it just for the sake of [...]

The second and last photo gallery for today is from the Temple of Heaven from Beijing. According to China.org.cn, the Temple of Heaven is: China’s largest existing complex of ancient sacrificial buildings. Occupying an area of 273 hectares, it is three times the area of the Forbidden City. It was built in 1420 for emperors [...]

I decided to upload photos from my travels. This new small project will kick off today with pictures from Beijing, China. The theme of this gallery is “Beijing Hutongs.” According to ChinaVista.com, a hutong is an ancient city alley or lane typical in Beijing, where hutongs run into the several thousand. Surrounding the Forbidden City, [...]

Ok, so the title might be more interesting the news itself. This morning I woke up and tried to go through some of the blogs I read on a regular basis. When I followed a link from my google reader feed to Africa Unchained, things did not go as expected. The site is apparently on [...]

Got to Beijing on Sunday. I know I read about all this online, but to actually be here and experience it is really, really frustrating. So, where do I start? Perhaps with the fact that almost none of the websites in my bookmarks work in Beijing. The ones that I normally use and not having [...]