Ruined in Panama
A walk through Casco Viejo in Panama City leads to stop at the ruins of Iglesia de Santo Domingo.
A walk through Casco Viejo in Panama City leads to stop at the ruins of Iglesia de Santo Domingo.
The May Day holiday has come and gone in China. Of course, here in America we like to celebrate our Labor Day in September…with barbecues and beer. Following my painfully long bus ride from Chengdu during my first May Day holiday, I had a few hours to wander around the small town of Songpan. There
Journey through the China’s Fujian countryside to visit the Hakka tulou, earth buildings. The unique buildings are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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This Sunday is Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) in China, and this year it coincides with the October 1 national holiday, which means the entire country has a week-long holiday. While I was in China, it was only a week-long holiday for the national holiday. But, after I left, the government decided to promote traditional holidays and
The best vacation day trip I’ve ever taken was to Ayutthaya, the ancient capital of Thailand that was destroyed by the Burmese in 1767. Today, most of the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with tourists heading to the ruins of the temples and the Khmer-style architecture that remains. It was a short train
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Wat Arun, the Khmer-style temple across the Chao Praya River from the Grand Palace, is my favorite tourist destination in Bangkok.
On the way to a friend’s wedding in Pennsylvania, I took a side trip to the iconic American private residence known as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.
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Since movie back to the New York-New Jersey area, I’ve rediscovered the joys of being a tourist of sorts in the city. I took New York City for granted when I was growing up in the suburbs. Now, I’ve begun to see it in a new light. Of course, sometimes I see the city with
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