South Africa – Cape Town 南非开普敦 12/2018 Stop 31 站
From Plettenburg I arrived back in Cape Town early morning of 30 December....
South Africa – Plettenberg / Knysna 南非克尼斯纳 12/2018 Stop 30 站
From Plettenburg I walked 3 km to the main trunk road to wave down a local mini bus....
South Africa – Tsitsikama / Plettenburg 南非普莱藤堡 12/2018 Stop 29 站
From Mossel Bay I next moved on to Tsitsikama, on the Garden Route, more for its many activity based attractions....
South Africa – Mossel Bay 南非摩梭湾 12/2018 Stop 28 站
From Cape Town I was plotting my last fling with Africa. ...
South Africa – Cape Town 南非开普敦 11/2018 Stop 27 站
From Keetmanshoop, I went on another marathon bus ride, this time a midnight bus that would take more than 15 hours....
Namibia – Sossusvlei / Keetmanshoop 纳米比亚索苏维来 / 基普曼斯胡普 12/2018 Stop 26 站
After 3 hours at the famous Death Valley and Sossusvlei, I continued my solo drive south in my stud 4-wheel drive....
Namibia – Sossusvlei 纳米比亚索苏维来 12/2018 Stop 25 站
After a night at the Siesrem camp site under an almost topless tree, I set off early into the desert, under the scorching sun, not on a dying wish, just a wish to see the...
Namibia – Sesriem/Sossusvlei 纳米比亚索苏维来 12/2018 Stop 24 站
Arriving at Siesrem around 3pm, I checked into the camp site. Each campervan is given its own parking lot, each with its own luxuriant tree that provide shade....
Namibia – Sesriem / Sossusvlei 纳米比亚索苏维来 12/2018 Stop 23 站
After 2 days stopover at Swakopmund, I drove solo southward in a 4-wheel-drive to tame this Namibia desert. ...
Namibia – Swakopmund 纳米比亚斯瓦科普蒙德 12/2018 Stop 22 站
A short stay in Windhoek was more than enough. I then took a small bus heading for the coastal town of Swakopmund....
Namibia – Windhoek 纳米比亚温得和克 12/2018 Stop 21 站
I hitched a ride with a young German couple in their rented vehicle at Okavango Delta, departing at 6.30 am to arrive at Windhoek, Namibia’s capital late that afternoon....
Botswana Okavango Delta 博兹瓦纳奥卡万戈 12/2019 Stop 20 站
The Chobe River safari ended past 7 pm, at 9 pm I was again on a bus on my way to Maun, finally arriving early in the morning at the Okavango Delta....
Botswana – Chobe 博茨瓦纳乔贝12/2018 Stop 19 站
From Livingstone, Zambia I took a taxi for a short drive into Botswana, first to go to the camp site at Kazungula....
Zambia – Livingstone 赞比亚利文斯敦 11/2018 Stop 18 站
After seeing the Victoria Falls, I walked from the town Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe across the border into Zambia for a second time....
Zimbabwe – Victoria Falls / Zambezi 津巴布韦 – 维多利亚瀑布 赞比西 11/2018 Stop 17 站
Can’t come to Zimbabwe and not see the Victoria Falls....
Zimbabwe – to Victoria Falls 津巴布韦 – 到维多利亚瀑布 11/2018 Stop 16 站
After a couple of nights in Harare, I took a big bus to Victoria Falls, another long ride but for the first time with air conditioning....
Zimbabwe – Harare 津巴布韦-哈拉雷 11/2018 Stop 15 站
After 2 nights I left Lusaka for Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, fifth country on this trip. ...
Malawi Lilongwe to Zambia Lusaka 马拉维利隆圭到赞比亚卢萨卡 11/2018 Stop 14 站
At 5 am I was on a motor bike taxi leaving Cape Maclear for Monkey Bay to catch the bus for Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital, at 6 am....
Malawi – Cape Maclear 马拉维 – 麦克莱尔角 11/2018 Stop 13 站
After 2 nights at Kande beach at Nkhaka Bay, I was on my way again. At 6 am, I started walking for 3 km to the bus stop, caught a pick–up truck to Goromoti, then...
Malawi – Nkhata Bay 马拉维- 恩卡塔贝 11/2018 Stop 12 站
Descended from the mountains at Livingstonia, I waved down a pick-up to get down to Chitimba....
Malawi – Livingstonia马拉维- 利文斯敦尼亚 11/2018 Stop 11 站
6 am the bus departed for the border town Mbaye. It would take an epic 15 hours....
Tanzania – Zanzibar 坦桑尼亚- 桑给巴 11/2018 Stop 10 站
After a day at Stone Town I took the local mini bus to Nungwi, a beach on northern Zanzibar. ...
Tanzania – Da es Salam / Zanzibar / Stone Town 坦桑阿尼亚 – 达累斯撒拉姆 / 桑给巴尔 / 石城 11/2018 Stop 9 站
After four days at the Serengeti safari, I was back in Arusha....
Tanzania – Ngorongoro 坦桑尼亚- 恩戈罗恩格罗 11/2018 Stop 8 站
We spent a night in a camp site near the Ngorongoro Crater, a conservation area....
Tanzania – Serengeti lions on the hunt 坦桑尼亚 – 塞伦盖地狮群捕猎 11/2018 Stop 7 站
Early next morning we set off for central Serengeti. ...
Tanzania – Tarangire / Serengeti / Ngorongoro 坦桑尼亚 – 塔兰吉雷 / 塞伦盖地 / 恩戈罗恩戈罗 11/2018 Stop 6 站
We started driving towards Serengeti the next morning, stopped at a viewpoint to have a peek at Ngorongoro Crater....
Tanzania – Arusha 坦桑尼亚 – 阿鲁沙 11/2018 Stop 5 站
From Nairobi, I crossed into Tanzania via the border town of Namanga into Arusha, Tanzania. ...
Kenya – back to Nairobi 肯尼亚 – 回到内罗毕 11/2018 Stop 4 站
After 3 days 2 nights in Masai mara, I headed back to Nairobi....
Kenya – Masai Mara 肯尼亚-马赛马拉 11/2018 -Stop 3 站
We spent an entire day traversing the vast expanse of this reserve....
Kenya – to Masai Mara 肯尼亚- 到马赛马拉 11/2018 Stop 2 站
Departing Nairobi for Masai Mara, about six hours’ drive away, with 6 others early in the morning....
Kenya – Nairobi 肯尼亚-内罗毕 11/2018 Stop 1 站
Arrived into Nairobi early this morning from Kuala Lumpur. ...
Washington USA 美国华盛顿 4/2019 (4)
Caution: If you do not understand sarcasm or see compliments, you may not want to read further 注：内容含讽刺和隐喻，无意不敬 30/4-1/5/2015. After Cancun, Havana, Cuba, and the Bahamas, I returned to Houston for a little business, then...
The Bahamas 巴哈马 4/2015 (3)
19-20/4/2015. At the airport, a band dressed in bright colors played in the arrivals hall, welcoming tourists and getting us into the mood. I had little time in the Bahamas—to be precise, only a day...
Cuba 古巴 4/2015 (2)
14-18/4/2015. Cuba was the American playground decades ago. Then everything changed. Since the revolution in 1959, the country has been a constant thorn in the flesh of the people up north. In fact, a nuclear...
Cancun, Mexico 墨西哥坎昆 4/2015 (1)
10-13/4/2015. I made this trip back in April 2015, starting in Cancun, Mexico, then to Havana, Cuba, The Bahamas, and finally Washington. D.C., USA. The memory is still sweet and beautiful today, English or Chinese....
Venezuela 委内瑞拉 8/2014
I came to this country on business, but squeezed in some time to take a peek. Venezuela is no stranger to making international news in the past few decades. From the time of its former...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – Vladivostok (17)
22-26/8/2019. After 52 hours cooped up in the train, I finally alighted in Vladivostok, my last stop in Russia, having traveled from one extremity to the other. Not easy sometimes. For example, one of the...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – to Vladivostok 16）
22-26/8/2019. After a few hours wandering around Chita, I was ready for my next train ride. I started this journey in St. Petersburg in Europe, and would end in Vladivostok, in the farthest east of...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – Chita – (15)
21/8/2019. After two days of rest, I departed Ulan-Ude at 11 p.m. to arrive in Chita at about 10 a.m. the next day. By now, a train ride of fewer than 14 hours was a...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – Ulan-Ude (14)
19/8/2019. I enjoyed walking to the end of the world, living on the edge without spilling over, testing the limit without crossing the line, then withdrawing to my comfort zone to relish it, and do...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – Lake Baikal (13)
17/8/2019. The few hours around Khuzhir yesterday were just the appetizer. The next morning, eight of us tourists were driven toward the northern part of the Olkhon Island, in a funny-looking Russian van. Many of...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – Khuzhir/Okhlon/Baikal (12)
16/8/2019 – After a night at Irkutsk, I joined a minibus to Khuzhir on Okhlon Island, paying 1000 roubles for the privilege. The island is reputed to be the best place to see Lake Baikal....
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – Irkutsk (11）
15/8/2019. About eighteen hours after departing Krasnoyarsk, I arrived in Irkutsk early the next morning. This part of Russia was well and truly in Asia. Although the majority of the people were still Caucasian-looking, I...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – Krasnoyarsk (10)
13/8/2019. I arrived in Krasnoyarsk about 10:30 a.m., after two nights—35 hours total—on the train from Yekaterinburg. I’ve never been cooped up in a train or on transport for 35 hours. Traveling by train horizontally...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – Yekaterinburg (9)
10/8/2019. After a little over a day, I boarded the 15-hour night train to go farther east, to Yekaterinburg. I had almost two full days here, a Saturday and Sunday. The sun was out; the...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – Kazan (8）
8/8/2019. I have now seen the two most famous cities in Russia: St. Petersburg and Moscow. Time to move farther east on the Trans-Siberian Express. I wanted to stop at some cities in Siberia, proceeding...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – Moscow/Sergiev/Posad (7)
4-7/8/2019. Fellow travelers have expressed that St. Petersburg is more enjoyable than Moscow. I, however, find many things that intrigue me here. I could spend days wandering around Red Square, admiring its stately buildings and...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – Moscow/Sergiev Posad (6)
6/8/2019. Moscow is obviously more than the St. Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin, so I took a day trip to Sergiyev Posad, one of the towns on the so-called Golden Ring around the city’s fringes....
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – Moscow Kremlin (5)
5/8/2019. Next to the St. Basil’s Cathedral looms the Kremlin, the Russian seat of power. I walked around the compound within the walls. Beautiful churches with those exaggerated golden and colorful domes stood on the...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – Moscow (4)
4/8/2019. From St. Petersburg to Moscow, I wanted to take the night trains to save time, but buying night train tickets at the last minute on a summer weekend was excessively expensive. I ended up...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – St. Petersburg Peterhof’s Palace (3)
1/8/2019. St. Petersburg has many palaces, so I had to at least visit one. I took the morning train to Peterhof Palace, supposedly an easy, one-hour ride, but I overshot it. When I asked the...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – St. Petersburg (2)
31/7 to 2/8/2019. Russia is big, powerful, and has a long history, the Hermitage Museum is the embodiment of that. It is a museum, it was also the palace of the Romanov, the last emperor...
How I Explored the Largest Country in the World (Russia) Solo, by Train, in 30 Days – St. Petersburg (1)
30/7/2019. I flew into St. Petersburg from Singapore to start the first leg of my Russian visit. Not my first visit, though. That was back in the 1980s, when I flew on the Soviet airline...
Rio de Janeiro Brazil （B）巴西里约热内卢 (下）4/2017 (27)
30/4/2017-7/5/2017. I came to this Ipanema beach just before the sun set, to squeeze in one more beach for the day. This was another famous beach in Rio. The sun was about to retire for...
Rio de Janeiro Brazil (A) 巴西里约热内卢 (上）4/2017 (26)
30/4/-7/5/2017. I left São Paulo behind and boarded a bus for a six-hour ride to Rio. Yes, this was the city of the last Olympics. Waking up in the morning, stepping out of my residence,...
Sao Paolo Brazil 巴西圣保罗 – 4/2017 (25)
28-29/4/2017. I touched down in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, in no time. The flight took an hour, but the taxi ride from the airport to my accommodation took about two hours, bogged down by...
Iguazu Argentina 阿根廷伊瓜苏 – 4/2017 (24)
26/4/2017 I broke my own record yet again, this time leaving Buenos Aires on a 20-hour bus ride. The rain had been dripping naggingly through the night, with thick vegetation starting to appear outside the...
Iguazu Brazil 巴西伊瓜苏 – 4/2017 (23)
24-25/4/2017. From Buenos Aires, the next logical stop should be Iguazú in Argentina before moving into Brazil. But I had mistakenly booked the accommodation for Iguaçu in Brazil instead. So here I am in Iguaçu,...
Buenos Aires Argentina 阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯 – 4/2017 (22)
21-23/4/2017. Last night I was treated like a king in this bus from Mendoza to Buenos Aires, at a price of USD 120. I was served red wine, champagne, and a hot dinner. I watched...
Mendoza Argentina 阿根廷门多萨 – 4/2017 (21)
19-20/4/2017. I left the coast toward Argentina. The scenery on this stretch was yet another feast for the eyes. Today, the sun put on quite a show, flashing its glory with its utmost might in...
Chile Santiago 圣地亚哥智利 – 4/2017 (19)
16-17/4/2019. I was on the road again, leaving La Serena behind. I noticed more clouds in the sky and more vegetation on the mountains. This bus ride would take six to seven hours, eventually arriving...
Chile Valparaiso 瓦尔帕莱索智利 4/2017 (20)
18/4/2017. One and a half hours away from Santiago on the Pacific coast was the port city of Valparaiso, made famous by its street art, a euphemism for graffiti. A few cable car stations connected...
Chile La Serena 拉塞雷纳智利 – 4/2017 (18)
14-15/4/2019. I took another night bus, proceeding southward along the Chile Pacific coast. After 10 hours, I arrived at La Serena. I hired a bicycle for the day for USD 10. This beach was wider...
Chile Antofagasta 安托法加斯塔智利 – 4/2017 (17)
11-13/4/2017. At the end of seven hours of riding in the desert, after negotiating a few mountains, Antofagasta—a sizeable city of about 600,000 inhabitants—appeared before us. First thing in the morning, I went to the...
Chile Iquique 伊基克智利 – 4/2017 (16)
9-11/4/2017. Chile is the longest country in the world, more than 4,000 kilometers long narrow strip of land facing the Pacific. Journeying south should provide a feast of beaches. Arica whets my appetite for more....
Chile Arica 阿里卡智利 – 4/2017 (15)
8-9/4/2017. After 10 hours of desperate escape from La Paz, I finally arrived in Chile’s northernmost coastal city of Arica. As I arrived on the coast, my eardrums popped, just like when a plane touches...
La Paz Bolivia 玻利维亚拉巴斯 04/2017 (14)
5-7/4/2017. I finally arrived in La Paz. The first few days in Bolivia were not easy. Few here accepted credit cards. Their ATMs did not take my China and Malaysian withdrawal cards. My dwindling US...
Copacabana/Lake Titicaca Bolivia 玻利维亚科帕卡瓦纳 – 4/2017 (13)
1-3/4/2017. From Puno on the Peruvian side, I traveled by bus toward Bolivia along Lake Titicaca, to arrive at the border. I then walked about 200 meters to cross the border, arriving at the border...
Puno Peru 秘鲁普诺 – 3/2017 (12)
31/3/2017. After seven hours, the tour bus arrived at Puno, still in Peru but now close to the Bolivian border. This was a little town with humble people. I took a casual walk around the...
Machu Picchu and Agua Clientes Peru 秘鲁马丘比丘 3/2019 (11)
28-29/3/2017. There is a place in Peru every traveler touring Latin America makes a pilgrimage to wherever he/she is. From Cusco, I tried to get close to it, by finding my way first of all...
Cusco Peru 秘鲁库斯科 – 3/2017 (10)
27-30/3/2017. A luxurious bus carried me from Arequipa to Cusco. The journey took 10 hours, arriving in Cusco early in the morning. I alighted the bus totally rested and fresh. This was the best and...
Arequipa and Colca Canyon Peru 秘鲁阿雷基帕 – 3/2017 (9)
22-26/3/2017. From Nazca, I took the night bus with a bunch of European youths. Ten hours later, I arrived in Arequipa, Peru’s second largest city. I quickly went out for a quick tour of the...
Nazca Peru 秘鲁纳斯卡 – 3/2017 (8)
21-22/3/2017 I left Huacachina for Nazca the same day I arrived there. As I stood in the local bus looking down the aisle, I saw all these innocent big eyes staring at this yellow gringo...
Huacachina Peru 秘鲁瓦卡奇纳绿洲 – 3/2017 (7)
21/3/2017. An hour’s drive from Paracas, the public bus arrived at Huacachina, South America’s only oasis. The place looked quite ridiculous. Bizarre, really, a little pond in the middle of nothing but sand and sand...
Paracas/Islas Ballestas/National Reserve Peru 秘鲁帕拉卡斯 3/2017 (6)
18-20/3/2017. I departed Lima on a luxurious bus. A pillow and blanket were provided, also a hot lunch and a dedicated video screen. My little luggage had to be checked in. I went through a...
Lima Peru 秘鲁利马 3/2017 (5)
14-17/3/2017. After nine days in Colombia, I arrived in Lima, Peru. Peru conjures up images of mystique. Lima is a start. Let’s see. I excitedly came to this first landmark, Larcomar, in the Miraflores district....
Cartagena Colombia 哥伦比亚卡塔赫纳 – 3/2017 (4)
12-13/3/2017. A couple of years ago, I met a super friendly young couple honeymooning in Cancún, Mexico. They told me I must go to Cartagena. I have not forgotten their friendliness down to this day....
Guatape Colombia 哥伦比亚瓜塔佩 – 3/2017 (3)
10/3/2017. After Medellín, I made a day trip to see Guatape, a two-hour drive from Medellín. Guatape would prove to be the icing on the cake. The roads there were truly mountainous. Wow! Guatape was...
Medellin Colombia 哥伦比亚麦德林 – 3/2017 (2)
9/3/2017. From Bogotá, I flew into Medellín instead of taking the bus. It took only 45 minutes instead of 10 hours by bus, due to the mountainous roads. Besides, there was a lot more ground...
Bogota Colombia 哥伦比亚波哥达 – 3/2017 (1)
3-8/3/2017. It was going to be like going around the globe to reach South America from Kuala Lumpur. But I did not expect it to take 63 hours either. For some reason, the connection at...
Armenia 亚美尼亚 3/2018 (9)
23/3/2018. I regretted not having stayed longer in Georgia. But I had to keep going. After two days in Georgia, I took a small public bus from Tbilisi. After five hours, I arrived at Yerevan,...
Georgia Tbilisi 格鲁吉亚第比利斯 3/2018 (8)
21-22/3/2018. After two days in Yazd, I took a six-hour train back to Tehran. The train and the station were pretty decent, though the train was a bit slower than what I was used to....
Yatz Iran 伊朗亚兹德 (B) 3/2018（7)
17-19/3/2018. This was the place, Chak Chak, where the Zoroastrians still come to do their annual pilgrimage. Zoroastrianism is an ancient Persian religion that may have originated as early as 4,000 years ago and was...
Yazd Iran 伊朗亚兹德 （A）- 3/2018 (6)
17-19/3/2018. After seven hours of an overnight bus ride, I arrived at 7 a.m. in the desert town of Yazd and proceeded to the hotel. The hotel manager invited me for a free breakfast, the...
Shiraz Iran 伊朗设拉子 3/2018 (5)
14-16/3/2018. From Isfahan, I took a seven-hour night bus to Shiraz. The bus fare was less than USD 8, quite economical for a pretty luxurious bus. I was privileged to stay in a boutique hotel...
Isfahan Iran 伊朗伊斯法罕 3/2018 (4)
10-13/3/2018. From Kashan, I moved on to Isfahan, my fourth stop in Iran. This was the world’s second largest square and Isfahan’s most famous landmark, the Imam Square. Shops selling local handicrafts surround the square....
Abyaneh Iran 伊朗阿卜亚内赫 3/2018 (3)
10/3/2018. From Kashan, I rented a taxi heading for Abyaneh. On the way, nothing but desert, the dry, bland desert. Desert was good; I needed a break from the hustle and bustle, the noise and...
Kashan Iran 伊朗卡尚 3/2018 (2)
9-10/3/2018. From Tehran, I traveled to Kashan, about 250 kilometers away, arriving at about 3 p.m. It felt like a small town on the Silk Road. After a quick bite, I started asking for directions...
Tehran Iran 伊朗德黑兰 3/2018 (1)
8-9/3/2018. Curiosity kills a cat. It is part recklessness and part restlessness. I decided to visit Iran to unveil the mysticism of this country. A country that openly chants and taunts “death to America,” and...
I love Shanghai 我爱上海 1/2019
I have gone behind the firewall the past couple of weeks where Instagram, Google, Facebook are not available....
My Shanghai 我的上海 3-5/2019
I returned to Shanghai again after the Chinese New Year....
See the hot spots around The Balkans In 60 Days – Stop 29 Sibiu, Romania
24/9/2018 After a night at Brasov, I proceeded to another old town, Sibiu, about 140 km away. It sure lived up to its tag as an old town. The signs of age were all over...
See the hot spots around The Balkans In 60 Days – Stop 28 Brasov, Romania
23/9/2018 I took the train early in the morning, departing Bucharest for Brasov, a city about a couple of hours away. This was not a big city, but it was the ideal place to take...
See the hot spots around The Balkans In 60 Days – Stop 27 Bucharest, Romania
21-22/9/2018 and 25-27/9/2018 From Varna in Bulgaria, I would take the train, for a change, to get to Bucharest, the capital of Romania, about 6 hours away. It was a Friday when I arrived. The...
See the hot spots around The Balkans In 60 Days – Stop 26 Rila, Plovdiv, Varna, Bulgaria
17/9/2018. From Sofia, I took a day trip to the town of Rila. Along the way, fields of bright yellow dominated the color scheme. Bowing to the command of the sun, sunflowers opened up unreservedly...
See the hot spots around The Balkans In 60 Days – Stop 25 Sofia, Bulgaria
15-16/9/2020. After a five-plus hours bus ride from Skopje, I arrived at Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Bulgaria seems to be a country of few words. It is seldom heard of and from in the...
See the hot spots around The Balkans In 60 Days – Stop 24 Ohrid, North Macedonia
13/9/2020. After hanging around Skopje for a day, I ventured out on a day trip to Ohrid, a lakeside town about three hours away. This was not just another pretty postcard face. It had crystal...
See the hot spots around The Balkans In 60 Days – Stop 23 Skopje, North Macedonia
12-14/9/2028. After Kosovo, I headed to Macedonia (now North Macedonia). This was part of the old Yugoslavia. The bus weaved through mountains and valleys, finally entering the capital of Skopje. I dragged my luggage from...
See the hot spots around The Balkans In 60 Days – Stop 22 Prizren, Pristina, Kosovo
10/9/2018. I was still heading south, en route to discover and uncover more of the Balkan countries. Some were not there when I was growing up, but have since emerged, each trying to take their...
See the hot spots around The Balkans In 60 Days – Stop 21 Berat, Albania
8-9/9/2018. After Tirana, I next went to Berat on my way to other Balkan destinations. Berat was only three hours away by bus. I arrived at about 4 p.m., but the day was long, so...