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I promised a full update on my adventures in Penghu and since we are ‘hunkered down’ on a typhoon day here in Taipei, I figured this afternoon would be the perfect time to catch up on my blog to-do list. As I am looking at my travel notes and photos though, I’m realizing that I’m [...]

Imagine miles of bare, unspoilt golden beaches. Imagine a place that is unpolluted. No garbage litters the white coral and sand beaches of Penghu. There are no flagrant displays of commercialism or hordes of camera-toting tourists here. In some places, you can still walk down to the water’s edge to search for raw, fresh oysters [...]

Hey folks.  Vacation time is here again and this time, I’m heading to the islands of Penghu for a few days.  This will be my first trip without John in awhile and also, coincidentally, my first trip with just Taiwanese friends.  I’ve committed myself to using Chinese for the duration of the trip.
I’m looking forward [...]

Phang Nga Bay, Thailand. Tourists will recognize this as James Bond Island, but locals know it as Ko Ping Kan. You guessed it. This is the island where Roger Moore and Christopher Lee filmed “The Man With The Golden Gun.”
For more information, please visit Travel Thailand: James Bond Island in Phang Nga Bay.

My friend sent these photos to me and I couldn’t resist posting them. Is this what you can expect at the beaches in China? Seems tame enough at first….

And whoa Mama! Wonder where the toilets are?

I’m not sure who the source of these photos is. As usual, if any of my readers can help out, [...]

We’re back from a lovely long weekend in Kenting. This was our first journey to Kenting National Park in Southern Taiwan. We met up with some friends from work on Saturday afternoon at the High Speed Rail Station in Banciao. Our tickets cost us $1460 NT each.
We traveled just over 300 km in 90 minutes [...]

John and I just got back from a whirlwind trip to Kenting National Park over the long weekend. We were on the go 24/7 and we’re absolutely bushed. I couldn’t resist posting these beach pictures though.
Our day at the beach wasn’t all sunshine and blistering hot sun. It was interspersed with brief [...]

The beaches in Sihanoukville, Cambodia were lovely for about a day and a half until thousands of Khmers desended on the area to celebrate Khmer New Year. We obviously chose the wrong time to go, but c’est la vie. We spent four days in Sihanoukville. It was still nice to sit by [...]

After our rather trying and sobering stay in Phnom Penh, we’ve finally made our way to the west coast of Cambodia.  We left Phnom Penh yesterday and hired a taxi to bring us here.  Serendipity Beach is simply lovely. We’ve rented some small bungalows on the beach and we woke up to adagio breezes and [...]