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The Great Wall

A few hikes on the Great Wall

Jinshanling to Simatai

The Wall running along the mountain ridge

Huanghua

Gubeikou to Jinshanling

Village dinner

Thai Islands

2.5 weeks in Thailand not long before Covid put a halt on flights and traveling. I had been to Thailand before and had done all the usual sights and places, so this trip would be just about Thai food...

Pingyao 平遥

Not a very well-known place outside of China, but Pingyao was China’s financial powerhouse until the beginning of the 20th century. The city dates back around 2,800 years, but its present form...

Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia, despite the name, is actually in China. It’s a massive, crescent-shaped province that wraps around the country of Mongolia, aka Outer Mongolia, before pushing further North into...

Harbin

Another trip to the far North of China, but this time in January. At the train station in Harbin, they helpfully installed a thermometer right above the platform, so that as soon as you step off your...

North Korean Arts

A couple of quick videos from some of the performances I attended in Pyongyang Circus The circus is entirely acrobatics-based, so no animals are involved. The opening segment does reference the...

Xinjiang

These days Xinjiang is mostly known from the reports of state surveillance, repression and Chinese “re-education camps” for the local ethnic Uighurs. I traveled around Xinjiang several...

Borneo

Roughly three weeks in Sarawak with a good chunk of that time spent inside different national parks. Orangutans, monkeys, weird bugs & some of the largest caves in the world. The highlight was...

Pyongyang

A mix of nearly a week’s worth of photos from various places in and around Pyongyang Part 1 – Mainly around the iconic Mansudae Grand monument – the two massive bronze statues of...

Outside Pyongyang

Two days outside Pyongyang. Driving down the empty highway Kaesong and the Demilitarized Zone

The West Sea Barrage plus some random farm and a kindergarten

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