Planning a trip to Hong Kong? Here are my suggestions on how to spend three days in Hong Kong, whether it’s your first trip here or your fiftieth.
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Hong Kong Comeuppance
Butterflies cannot allow themselves to be weighed down by memories of life inside the chrysalis.
Continue ReadingA Big Bangkok Surprise
I’ve been to Bangkok 14 times and stayed at dozens of hotels during those trips. So how is it that one of the city’s finest eluded me until now?
Continue ReadingDon’t Ride a Horse Into the Crater of Mount Bromo
Leave Your Daily Hell guest blogger Claudia explains why you should think twice before riding a horse into the crater of Indonesia’s Mount Bromo.
Continue ReadingMyanmar, I Hardly Knew Ye
I expected my driver to be shocked and amazed when I told him I’d visited his country more than five years prior, but all he seemed to care about was my nationality.
Continue ReadingThree Eclectic Days in Edinburgh
Here’s how to make your three days in Edinburgh as colorful and enchanting as mine were.
Continue ReadingPerpetuity Wears a Kilt
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay doesn’t just celebrate the New Year—it consecrates all of them, past and present.
Continue ReadingTerror and Piety in Iceland
Australia’s not the only island in the world that wants to kill you.
Continue ReadingThree Days in Rio de Janeiro
It’s difficult to deny the amazingness of Rio de Janeiro, whether you’re looking down onto the city from Corcovado mountain, sipping caipirinhas on Ipanema Beach or traipsing through colonial Santa Teresa.
Continue ReadingPura Mayonesa
Disclaimer: This article is not so much an indictment of Costa Rica as it is of my failure to properly ascertain the challenges of traveling there.
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