Shanghai 2012: The Lion, The Pearl, and The Chocolate World

Happy new year!  Can you guess what's my main resolution?  Hint: it's staring right at you.  For 2014, I resolve to blog more often and catch up on my most recent travels.  This is a MUST because the coming year has a lot of travel opportunities for me, including at least two places that I have never been.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed. But for now, this post chronicles my first time in Shanghai.  The...

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Guangzhou 2012: Guangdong Museum

On the same day that we roamed around the landmarks of Guangzhou, we also visited the interestingly-designed Guangdong museum.  Honestly, I am not a museum-going type of person but figuring that China has a very rich culture and history, I might as well immerse myself while I was there. ...

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Guangzhou 2012: Opera House and Canton Tower

Continuing my Guangzhou experience, I will focus this time on the sights and skyscrapers, which, for me, are the best part. In my previous post, I shared with you that we stayed at Hilton Hotel Tianhe. Though I didn’t get to take a lot of photos of my room, here is my shot of my view of Guangzhou from my floor-to-ceiling windows. I especially love that gold-colored glass building. It was a bit of a gloomy day that time. At...

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Guangzhou 2012: Where to Stay and Eat

Guangzhou is China’s most developed southern city.  I went here and would have forgotten that I was in China if not for the obvious Chinese characters everywhere.  Okay, okay, it’s impossible to forget.  But the reason for my saying so was that my stay here was ultra-westernized.  I stayed at a modern upscale hotel and ate western food.  For a little over a week, I won’t be an authority on Chinese culture and authenticity....

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Wuhan 2012: The City and the Food

This is a very special blog post because this was my very first visa-required travel! I previously talked about here that I travel for work and this is just one of many exciting opportunities. I love my job! For this trip, we went to Guangzhou and Wuhan, China, but I will tackle the latter first. Believe me, it’s tempting to do both in one post but these wonderful cities deserve separate spotlights. Anyway, it looks like I’m ready...

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