- Beijing Olympics - Marathons Start Early!
The streets look like the opening scene to the Terminator with large machines rumbling through the streets at all hours of the day and the night, and you see platoons of men moving forward with determination, carrying the tools of their trade, with smiles on their faces, in anticipation of their daily marathon efforts to get Beijing ready for her Olympics only 500 days away. - Beijing Metro Trains are a Breeze for the China Olympics
Walking down 3 flights of stairs with a strong wind blowing ferociously upwards with people moving fast, side stepping musicians and ad hoc vendors, with a quick stop to pay 3 Yuan, and an even quicker ticket checker pulling the stub, a quick glance at a map for directions, and off you go on the Beijing Metro. - Beijing Central Airport in China
The airport had everything that you would expect, except for one very notable flaw; there is no train into the city, which is unfortunate. They do a have a expressway that goes straight into Beijing from the airport, so the cheapest way to get to Beijing, if you are a single, is to take the bus, the problem with this is that you have no idea where they are dropping you off, so you are at the mercy of the taxis from there and they are quite mercenarily in the pricing if they know you don’t know the lay of the land. - 10 Small Things To Take On Your International Trip
Super Glue I don't know what will break on your trip but from my experience they have fixed shoes, sun glasses, BCD's and held a friends filling in place until we could get him to a dentist, which I might add is not a recommended use, but for him any thing was preferred to the pain.If you bring an air mattress and beach ball (I bet you though I carry them for the pool) for the occasions of late flights and canceled trains. Yes everyone else will be jealous of you especially if you snore like a bear! - Shanghai Trains Don't Miss the Attraction in China!
Shanghai is missing a trick by not listing its maglev train as a tourist attraction. What a rush to go 431 Kilometers an hour. In 8 minutes you go 30 kilometers with a very comfortable ride. The speed of the train makes it just as good as any amusement park, without the long lines. - Singapore Neighborhoods, China Town
They have an interesting mall that has a lot of shop houses but I found the best food was in the little carts that lined the street, careful if you have a hard time with hot stuff, as some this food will light you up like a Christmas tree, if you order it hot. The pleasure of China Towns for most is the riot of colors, smells and maze like quality of the architecture that they all take on, Raffles obviously didn’t want that sort of thing in his city, so it is what it is, small and neat with enough Chinese character to make it stand out a bit from the rest of Singapore. What you still have that are a pleasure to dig around in are the Chinese versions of a pharmacy and the small food stalls, and the curious little shops that sell all sorts of bizarre things that you always wondered where they came from. - Cambodia Cheap Travel "Motodops" Buses Taxis and Cheap Flights
Taxis like wise are improving as the western tourist demand a better quality, you can be fairly certain of getting a taxi that meets a minimum standard that is much improved from the old days. I remember one time that they had taken the seat belt and secured it behind the molding of the door frame, making it totally useless this kind of modification was not unusual, nor was it unusual to be suffer from a massive headache in a mini bus due to sucking on exhaust fumes for hours on end from the open rear door."Moto's" still tend to aggravate tourists mostly for the constant rip offs and now there is a lot of "took tooks" these guys are just as bad as the "touk touks" drivers in Bangkok and if you can avoid using one you will be that much happier on your travels - Holiday Madness in Sihanoukville Cambodia
Sihanoukville is fast becoming a main Asia tourist destination with a transition from the backpackers , flash packers and flesh packers to more travel groups, and main stream self directed tourists. The promise of next year seems to have finally arrived here in Sihanoukville, as many thought that this beach resort city would take off years ago, but with little support from the government, and the repeated missed deadlines for the opening of the airport, it never quite hit its stride. - Cambodia to Thailand Overland in the Rainy Season, a Great Adventure Value
The scenery was so spectacular, that one of our passengers swooned, and slammed her head into the floor with a bass drum like thud. The girl laying there with her eyes glazed over. Immediately set upon by her boyfriend who starts French kissing her, and some sex pat jumps on as well and starts having cheap sex with her breasts in a parody of CPR. we arrive at the border looking like extras from a remake gone terribly wrong of Lord of the Flies. The Thai customs guys pointing at us, their version of the 4 o’clock follies, and burst into the very same laughs that we started our trip with. - Waikiki Scuba Diving Oahu Hawaii - Have Fun Getting Wet in Waikiki!
You can shore dive allot of different spots near Waikiki like Hanama Bay which basically is a giant aquarium filled with all sorts of beautiful fish. They have a tram that takes you down and back up. There is a lot of gear lugging to do this dive, but worth it, as it is one of the best dives in Hawaii. Electric Beach up at the power plant on the west side towards Makaha, has Giant turtles which can be found under the ledges hiding from the sharks, that you will most likely never see. 3 Tables, Sharks Cove, Fire Station and Halaiwa Trench make the north shore of Oahu a beach divers Mecca, when the surf is down dude! If the waves are up maybe go to Magic Beach, inside the wall they do a lot of scuba diving classes, and outside has some very nice reef. - Cambodia Safe Enough For Grandma
Cambodia has a reputation as a place that is very dangerous, this is very far from the truth. As is true with a lot of things the general public's perception of Cambodia is slanted by press reports that serve the interests of the publishers, rather than the reading public. Cambodia is certainly not alone in this regards, Nicaragua and Myanmar are other good examples of the media filling the information channels with negative information, why would the media do this you might ask yourself? A couple of reasons come to the top quickly. - Asia's Newest Beach Resort Sihanoukville Cambodia
Sihanoukville Cambodia, Asia's newest beach resort destination. Angkor Wat and Genocide struggle to keep it in the shade.
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