The Ching Ming Festival is an annual event to honour ones ancestors at their grave sites. Ching Ming translates to ‘clean and bright’ and the festival is also k...
Japan is as well known for its ancient traditions as for striving to be at the forefront of cutting edge technology and cool. Nowhere do these two extremes so p...
Macau is an hour by ferry from its sister SAR Hong Kong, and many visitors to Hong Kong include it on their travel itineraries as a day trip. With a little mor...
Chinese New Year (CNY) also known as Lunar New Year as it is timed according to the lunar calendar, runs from Chinese New Year’s Eve until the 15th day of the n...
I arrived in Hong Kong thinking that I didn’t know a word of the local language – Cantonese. However with English being peppered with loanwords it turns out the...
No visit to Hong Kong would be complete without trying some of the unique local food and drink such as egg waffles, ying-yang (tea-coffee) and dong lai cha (col...
It had long been a dream of mine to see the magnificent Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights, a natural display of usually fluorescent green lights that can be se...
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. - Mary Ritter Beard Nina is an...
For our first foray into China we joined a group of friends for a weekend in Shanghai. As Australians we required visas. After completing the paperwork, paying ...
