Together with Hervé and Punkgy who never went there before, we visited Wat Arun on Saturday. The stairs to get up are impressively steep, like some part of the Great Wall I was hiking one week before! Once on the…
Thailand, discovering Bangkok
Our flight was as newly planned and arrived in Bangkok around midnight. We took a taxi to the hotel in Sukhumvit 15 for less than 10€ (320 b). We were surprised to see so much activity on the street that…
Extra time in Beijing
Ling’s visa story let us three other nights in Beijing because the next flight was on the 1st. Finding a place to stay in such a huge city is not an easy task! We spent 2 hours in the airport…
Beijing
While I left Beijing under the Sun (the 23th), arriving back in the mid afternoon the 26th was another story: grey sky and low visibility. The next days in Beijing were almost under this grey and rainy weather. In Beijing,…
Shanghai
Shanghai is one of the most western cities in China. It grew mainly thanks to international investors between 1850 and 1950 where British, French and Japanese got concessions to develop their business (not always the cleanest one, opium and prostitution…