If you’ve ever seen a photo of Wat Arun Bangkok with a tall, pointed tower covered in tiny pieces of colored porcelain, you’ve seen Wat Arun. It’s on postcards, posters and half the Thailand pictures on Pinterest. But a lot of first-timers don’t know how to actually get there, what it costs, or whether the…
I’ll be honest when I first heard “Genting Highlands,” I thought it was another casino town sitting on top of a hill. I was completely wrong. This place is a mountain resort city that floats at almost 1,800 meters above sea level and it has a lot more to offer than just slot machines and…
China has a reputation for being very cheap or a lot of trouble to visit. That is not entirely true. What mostly surprises people who visit China for the first time is how much they can see without spending a lot of money. China has a lot of things to see like walls, terracotta warriors…
This Pakistan 7 days budget travel plan covers cities like Lahore, Islamabad, and the mountains of Naran Kaghan in one affordable week. Pakistan has an image problem outside its own borders. People hear the name and think of headlines, not Mughal forts or turquoise mountain lakes. I used to carry some of that same hesitation…
Dubai has a reputation for being a city that costs a lot of money to visit. Dubai 7 days budget travel plan is for those who think the same. You see a lot of things like gold everywhere really expensive cars parked outside shopping malls and hotels that look like they are from a different…
This Malaysia 7 days budget travel plan covers Kuala Lumpur, Penang, and Langkawi in one affordable week. Malaysia has this reputation problem where people assume it’s the “expensive cousin” of Southeast Asia, somewhere between Thailand’s backpacker chaos and Singapore’s ATM-draining prices. I used to think that too. Then I actually did the math after a…
There are some things in Dubai that look nice in pictures. Then there are things that look nice in pictures, feel nice in real life, and somehow end up being even better than what the pictures show. The Dubai Marina Dhow Cruise Dinner is definitely in that group. I had seen the pictures before I…
Going to be perfectly honest, I went to the Chengdu Panda Base just for a brief photo stop on the way to everything else Sichuan had in store. It turned out I was there nearly four hours and still felt like I was rushing at the end. If you’re heading to China and wondering if…
If someone asks me that, if there’s one place in Shanghai that shows the city in one look, I would say it’s the Bund. On one side there is a line of old buildings from the colonial time that shine golden when the sun goes down. On the side of the Huangpu River there are…
China really loves its landscapes. Only one of them is on the money. If you turn over a 20 yuan note, you will see the Li River near Xingping with the mountains and everything. The note does not tell you that the real thing is even nicer and getting to that spot is not as…
