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YOTELAIR Changi Airport review for travellers to Singapore

Singapore’s Changi Airport is world-famous and practically a destination in itself, especially in 2019 with the opening of the Jewel extension, a fancy shopping mall with an impressive indoor waterfall...

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Underrated Taipei night markets that locals love and what to eat there

One quintessential experience in Taiwan is to head to a night market, and most people think immediately of the famous Shilin or Raohe Night markets in Taipei. These night markets are awesome for a...

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My 2-day Suncheon itinerary for sightseeing solo

On this trip to Busan, I wanted to spend some time outside of the city and explore a little more of the rural Jeollanam region in the southern region of South Korea. I visited Gwangju a few years back...

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Fishy reasons to visit Nanfang’ao 南方澳

For anyone heading down the northeastern coast of Taiwan, Nanfang’ao 南方澳 seems like a nondescript scenic coastal town with a port, a convenient stopover viewpoint on the Suhua Highway en route from...

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Exploring Central Laos: The Laos Loop

Looking to explore more of Laos beyond the usual destinations Luang Prabang and Vientiane? I had a chance to check out an under-the-radar spot in Central Laos on a writing assignment known as the Laos...

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Where to find street art in Kaohsiung: Weiwuying Street Art Village

I love hunting down street art on my travels, and my favourite street art in Taiwan is the Weiwuying Street Art Village 衛武營街頭藝術彩繪. Located in Kaohsiung‘s Lingya district 苓雅 where many of the buildings...

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Yeosu Day Trip: An action-packed 1-day itinerary

On this trip to Busan and Jeollanam, the southern region of South Korea, I spent 2 days exploring Suncheon, and also decided to take a day trip from Suncheon to the neighbouring city of Yeosu 여수 to see...

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Solo in Busan: My 3D2N Busan Highlights Itinerary

Tired of busy Seoul? Head down south and chill out in Busan, South Korea’s most famous port city known for its laidback atmosphere, happening beaches and amazing seafood. For my busy readers who only...

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Zaspa: The Gdansk Street Art Housing Estate

On the map, Zaspa looks like any ordinary housing estate with uniform blocks laid out neatly, but when I visited this spot in person, I was absolutely blown away by the many giant murals and street...

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Sawankhalok weekend guide for visitors to Sukhothai

Hunting down street art has led me to some interesting corners around the world, from former military barracks to once unassuming residential estates, but little did I think that it would take me to...

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How to Visit Turtle Island 龜山島, Taiwan’s only active volcano

Taiwan‘s mountains are pretty famous and it does get the occasional earthquake, but did you know that it still has an active volcano, and you can visit it quite easily? I love Taiwan’s offshore...

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Taiwan’s National Palace Museum: From Taipei to Chiayi

Nowhere in Taiwan is there a better place to learn all about Chinese history than at the National Palace Museum 國立故宮博物院. Containing over 600,000 Imperial artefacts spanning the Song, Qing and Ming...

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Taiwan North Coast Guide: Jinshan 金山 (with local recs)

One thing I love about Taiwan is how easy it is to escape the busy city life. Drive for an hour out of Taipei city and you’ll have mountains, beaches and cute little villages that make for a great day...

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2019 Round Up – Back to Occasional Travel

End of the year and end of a decade, how was your 2019? 2019 for me was a year of change – I spent the first half of the year freelancing, and the second half featured a surprise return to the...

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Travel insurance for sabbaticals and longer trips

Travel insurance is one of those trip essentials I recommend to other travellers. I’ve written about it several times before, most notably on why I always buy travel insurance and whether travel...

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Scuba Diving LOB in Raja Ampat for my Birthday

I love scuba diving and Raja Ampat on the far eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago has always one of my dream locations to scuba dive in. Sometime in 2018, my friends started seriously planning a...

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Travelling solo in Medellín, Colombia

When I think about my time in Colombia, one of my favourite places that I visited was definitely the city of Medellín in the central Antioquia region. I’d seen a lot of my online friends and other...

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The Pulau Ubin guide for the solo traveller in Singapore

I’ve been discovering more natural corners of my home country that I’d never visited before like Kranji Countryside and Pulau Hantu, and I finally made a proper visit to the one island that most...

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Diary of a Singaporean traveller in the time of a pandemic

So I’d been wanting to write about the whole COVID/pandemic situation since shit hit the fan for Singapore in January, but things kept changing so quickly that it was hard to put my thoughts...

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ROA street art locations around the world – my sightings

Street art has always been one of my favourite things to discover when travelling. I actively search for cool murals and street art festival spots when I can, and I found some stand-out artists whose...

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