Probably most tourists visiting Kowloon end up visiting the Ladies Market in Mong Kok. While entertaining, in my opinion, mostly junk is sold there or just your average souveniers (like fridge magnets) that you can get elsewhere as well. If you wander further north (and this is by no means...
Seen at the Bird Market on my recent trip to Hong Kong: If normal food is not good enough for your birds, try some Fancy Bird Food (with Anti Stress ingredients)!
On a recent visit to Hong Kong, I just happened to be there during the yearly Dragon Boat Festival (which is observed as a Public Holiday). Races took place all over the island(s), with the biggest or most famous one in Stanley. We started out by taking a boat around...
From a budget traveller’s perspective, I’d say there are many types of airports when it comes “how do I get downtown at a cheap price?”: First factor: how far is the airport from the city centre? I am not talking about airports misleadingly named by some low cost airline (Paris –...
A few weeks ago I visited old friends who are currently living in Bogor, Indonesia. Bogo-where you ask? At least, that was when I first thought when I was invited. With a population of around one million (which would make it Switzerland’s biggest city… by quite a stretch), Bogor is located...
The range of sports played at the South-East-Asian Games is quite fascinating and we wanted to make sure to catch a sport that is rare in Europe. We settled on Sepak Tekraw, most easily explained as a football meets volleyball. As always, Wikipedia does a great job at explaining the basics:...
While the football tournament and some other sports had already started, the official SEA Games Opening Ceremony took place on Friday, June 5th. Again, I was too slow to buy tickets so was left with watching the fireworks from some distance (I really should have researched earlier when those tickets...
Singapore is currently hosting the 28th South-East-Asian (SEA) Games, kind of like a Mini-Olympics for the 11 participating nations: Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Timor-Leste Vietnam While some of the sports are rather international (such as football), there are some very SEA specific sports on the...
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