china
hong kong
My favorite place in China is Macau. But Hong Kong is the place that I am most likely to live in, as I just don’t see a career in gambling or prostitution on my horizon. Hong Kong is probably the most urban city in the world. There are skyscrapers over skyscrapers, all built on a [...]
macau
My favorite place in China was actually Macau. It’s a beautiful city that reminded me a lot of Lisbon. No surprise there, as it actually used to be a Portuguese colony. It’s actually not a city, but rather a special economic region in China. However, for the purpose of this blog entry, it’s a city.
Macau [...]
back in the US
Ok, I made it back to the US. Remind me to never travel with a handwritten, temporary passport again. I had a hard time getting into a hotel room in Macau, so you can only imagine what Chinese border officials thought about it.
Anyway, I am in Santa Monica right now pumping myself full with caffeine. [...]
train ride to beijing
Train ride to Beijing
Ok, so the train station in Shanghai is a complete mess. There are thousands of workers carrying plastic bags in front of the train station who for some reason are not able to wait inside. After finally making it into this ginormous building, Terry and I were led through like a dozen [...]
leaving shenzhen
I am about to check out of my hotel and then take a ferry to Macau. Last night, I might have quite possibly had the craziest night of my life. Now off to Macau, which is supposed to be Asia’s craziest city. Great.
shenzhen
I’m in Shenzhen right now, which is some sort former special economic zone in Southern China. From the look out of my hotel window, it appears to be a nice place. For some reason, I always get hotel rooms on top floor (in this case 27th), which usually results into 15-minute elevator rides. I am [...]
don’t ever go to beijing
So, generally speaking I have had an amazing time here in China. I really like Shanghai, the food is great, there are a million of fascinating images and it’s encouraging to see how open commerce is really helping to build something significant here.
With that being said, I hate Beijing.
And this is the first time that [...]
travel updates
So, I just got back from Beijing. It was quite the trip about which I’ll write more in a bit. I did stand in the middle of Tiananmen square and climbed up the great wall of China. Actually the coolest thing about Beijing was the trip to and from. We took the night train from [...]
new year’s eve in china
Here are some pictures from my New Year’s Eve over in China. A good little group of European, American, Iraqi, German and Austrian men and Chinese women went to Japanese restaurant for all you can eat consume suhis, saki and beer. We paid $15 per person and were able to order whatever we wanted off [...]
off to beijing
I’m off to Beijing via train tonight. It’s a 12-hour train ride (6pm-6am). We booked a sleeper room, sharing the small space with two other people. Should be very interesting. This next week is going to be insanely busy. I’m coming back from Beijing on Friday, then fly out to Hong Kong on Saturday, coming [...]
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