Aaron's Worldwide AdventuresWould you visit a Beauty Salon if it stared at you in a beady-eyed fashion? Ok, so there’s nothing beady-eyed about this particular salon in the sleepy Laotian capital, Vientiane. But they did spell “Beauty” in such a way that it certainly sounds an awful lot like “beady” to me! Unless of course they were […]
All those stories you’ve heard are true. The Chinese sure do love their bycicles as a means of getting around town. That’s not to say that they don’t have a plethora of two-wheeled motorbikes clogging the bike lanes, but the pedal powered versions have a formidable force! The downside to these two-wheeled forms of transit […]
China just loves to dole out advice on all sorts of matters (though whether people actually follow said advice is another story entirely). Earlier, we saw some of their lovely shopping tips being handed out to visitors to one of their UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Yunnan town of Lijiang. Today’s “Say What??” also comes […]
China’s heavily touristy locales face heavy competition amongst businesses, so much so that proprietors of shops and restaurants will go to great lengths to come up with creative names! This was true in every big backpacker destination I visited. So I thought I’d started with a little gem from the amazingly situated town of Yangshuo, a place I enjoyed […]
Today’s “Say What??” comes from remote Lao town of Luang Nam Tha, a tiny town in the northwest part of the country that I spent a mere night in, as I had previously visited it three years ago. Being a communist country, it only makes sense that the Lao government should give the people a […]
Welcome to Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton), a thriving metropolis in China’s Southern Guangdong province. This lovely message welcomes you to town as it’s featured in the entryway to the Metro. And of all the stops, it just happens to be the one that serves the train station and four of the town’s bus stations! […]
One of the true joys of traveling in a foreign country are those English signs that kind of make you say, “What??” You know the type…things that really don’t make a whole lot of sense in English or even some that do, but make you chuckle. A lot has been written about these signs lately, […]
In this day and age, there’s really no reason to travel without a cell phone. Prepaid local SIM cards cost so little that they become a worthy investment. After all, how else are you supposed to keep up with all your new friends? Not to mention that coordinating with a CouchSurfing host is extremely difficult […]