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  • Strolling around Beijing

    Strolling around Beijing

    The city is very quiet. There is very little noise in the streets. Most bikes and scooters are electrical. This adds to the serenity of the wide boulevards and the hidden alleyways called hutongs. I can’t possibly describe how the calmness of this place appears to me. After the last weeks of busy cities and…

  • Former Residence of Soong Ching Ling

    Former Residence of Soong Ching Ling

    The house of widow to Sun Yat-sen is a place to learn about the relatively recent history of China. The place itself is a well kept mansion and you can totally feel the importance that this person had for the development of modern China. On the other hand it is a (although large) house of an…

  • First Impressions of Beijing

    First Impressions of Beijing

    I left Thailand at night time with a direct flight to the capital of China. When I arrived in town at 07:00 in the morning I took the Airport Express and a local metro train to arrive at my hostel. The place has no 24 hour reception but is a reasonable design studio that rents…

  • Markets, rainforest and sunsets above town

    Markets, rainforest and sunsets above town

    I met new people the other night. Anca from Timisoara and Buff from Australia and we planned a roadtrip together. We rented scooters and drove all across the island of Phuket. We stopped at many different locations like a wake boarding and free climbing venue. From where we would continue our adventurous ride through small…

  • Throwback Hoi An

    Throwback Hoi An

    I just recently finished another unit of work in Bangkok. My guilt is driving me to update the Tumblr. Somehow the travel made me lazy and I hadn’t picked up the keyboard for an extended period. But now I am back with some fresh updates. The images in this post were taken almost 3 weeks…

  • Railroad Street

    Railroad Street

    You can find a street in Hanoi that has train tracks in the middle of it. People just live next door to the tracks and I guess the train ain’t coming often.

  • Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum

    Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum

    The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum holds the enshrined body of the communist revolutionary leader. Unfortunately we missed the opening hours in the morning so we didn’t get the full experience. The place feels distant and one can imagine how much more estranged the places in Pyongyang must look like. I should definitely investigate those socialist…