Over the Christmas holidays, I made a second trip to Hangzhou to celebrate New Year’s Eve at my friend’s restaurant (I’ll share some pics from his beautiful restaurant in a follow-up post about the second Hangzhou trip). While in Hangzhou,…
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Just around Hallowe’en last year, I got an invitation from my friend to visit Hangzhou and check out his partner’s new restaurant. Not having travelled for most of 2020, I jumped at the chance to get out of the city….
Hope all my readers are keeping safe and healthy during these unusual times. I wish you a Happy New Year! May we all start travelling and exploring the world again soon! With the pandemic still in place, the only option…
While there are a number of interesting airports that I’ve transited through in my travels, I never thought that I’d come across one that took my breath away. If you’re a fan of the late British-Iraqi architect, Zaha Hadid, you…
Autumn in Beijing is very short-lived. Some years, we only get a few days of awesome autumn weather and beautiful yellow and red leaves. This year has taken away many of our daily pleasures, but we were gifted with an…
Today’s post will be a short one as it’s all about this amazing set of buildings on the harbour in Kowloon, right across the water from Central Pier. The buildings are called the China Hong Kong City and include a…
Today’s post is from another incredible view point in Hong Kong from the Kowloon side. Sha Tin Pass Road is in the Wong Tai Sin district and is relatively easy to get to. You can take a taxi right up…
Hong Kong is endowed with incredible views from a number of locations, but my favourite view by far, can be seen from Crow’s Nest. Crow’s Nest is a less well travelled location for viewing the iconic Hong Kong skyline which…
For the past few months, we’ve been exploring Hong Kong’s stunning scenery from its nature side; we’ve visited the Hong Kong Geopark, Ham Tin Wan, hiked across the MacLehose trail 3, 4 and 5, climbed up to the top of Sharp Peak, and so many other short hiking trips with views that challenged our preconceived ideas of Hong Kong.
Continuing with the Hong Kong staycation theme, the past weekend, we made our way over to a less well known destination in Hong Kong called the Ng Tung Chai Waterfalls located in the New Territories. This beautiful hiking route includes…