Aaron's Worldwide AdventuresPicture, if you will, a town packed to the brim with backpackers who come to get trashed. A town that long ago lost its soul and solely relies on pandering to the foreigners’ every need, even going so far as to rocket their tubing to fabled status thanks to the additions of bars! This is […]
Move over Mexico, with your fancy minivan “Colectivos.” There’s a new mode of transportation around and it’s that ubiquitous symbol of Southeast Asia, the songthaew (pronounced sowng-taow). The name quite literally means “two rows,” named for the two rows of benches that are set in the back of a pick-up truck for passenger seating. In […]
Near the overrated Chinese tourist hot spot of Guilin lies one of its star attractions…the equally overrated “Seven Stars Scenic Area.” Aside from a cave that was illuminated in a rainbow of colors and a whole host of man made “attractions,” there wasn’t a whole lot that impressed me about this place. That is, except […]
Sometimes, “Say What??” isn’t just about the funny, but also the cute. In fact, today’s photo marks the very first photogenic sign that I spotted after stepping off that plane in Hong Kong. I had just arrived on Hong Kong Island on the speedy Airport Express and made my way upstairs to the throngs that […]
The Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) was my first stop in “real” China. Sure, I started my travels in Hong Kong, a “first world” city that bears little in common with the mainland due to it’s colonial background. Guangzhou hence also marked my first encounter with the phenomenon known as “Chinglish,” or […]
“China Welfare Lottery.” It’s a sign that can be spotted in cities throughout the “Middle Kingdon” (better known as China, though fun fact of the day…in Chinese, China is called Tsong-gwo which means “the middle kingdom.” As it was explained to me, the name was given long ago by an Emperor who thought they were in […]
For starters, I would like to apologize for the blurriness of this image. In my defense, it’s not so easy to take stable images on a very unstable object! That is…a train. Yes, this picture comes to you direct from a bathroom on a Chinese sleeper train! (You know, that wonderful train ride I had […]
Behold…the following conundrum: “Be careful of slippery The careful roof falls the snow.” Read between the lines and you’ll see that they are in fact trying to tell you something along the lines of, “Be careful of a slick surface and the snow may fall off the roof.” Is the roof careful because when snow […]