Lake Louise, the beautiful, spectacular, emerald coloured lake high in the Canadian Rocky Mountains! Magnificent! One of Canada’s most popular tourist destinations and the perfect place for a little Canoeing, Hiking, or Snowshoeing! Lake Louise was one of the first outposts in the Canadian Rockies opened by surveyors of the Read more…
China is an enormous country with 4/10 of the World’s most populated cities. After visiting the tech city of Shenzhen and spending just a short day in Guangzhou, I really needed to escape the busy streets and crowds. I’ve never seen so many people in my life, it’s crazy… So I Read more…
Shenzhen is the largest and most important city you’ve probably never heard of…yet. Unless you are in the Tech Start Up game or work with hardware, you may be unaware of Shenzhen, its role in the global economy and the young talent flocking across the world to work there. As Read more…
One of the biggest differences travelers learn between the time we spend on the road and at home is the appreciation publicly funded parks, monuments and museums. At home, we complain our taxes are too high and our public services too few. But in a foreign country we love the Read more…
Miyajima Island is one of my favorite destinations. I spent around 5 week in Hiroshima, a lot of it on this wonderful island paradise. Miyajima has been an important sacred location for over 500 years and sees over 5 million visitors each year! The whole island is said to be Read more…
Just a short train ride from Gion or Kyoto Station, Arashiyama (嵐山) is a small sub-section of greater Kyoto, tucked into the base of the city’s western mountains. Famous for the bamboo forest walk and the docile macaque monkeys that live in the mountain top park, Arashiyama has always been Read more…
For my day trip to Nara, I met up with a few travel companions, Fred & Gert, from Belgium. Fred and I met earlier this year at a hostel in Pai, Thailand. Fast forward a few months and we both ended up in Japan! Isn’t that the greatest part of Read more…