Tours

I have exciting news! I have been working with a tour agency in China and after a year of planning, I have created a 6-day English speaking winter tour package to north east China where you can experience what -30°C feels like that includes daily breakfast, several lunches and dinners and nightly 4-star accommodation. The tour covers Harbin, Mudanjiang and I am pleased to say, Snow Town, which is notoriously difficult to get access to for foreigners for logistical reasons, and I am possibly the first to offer an English speaking tour there. Check out the details here and book your spot now for no deposit here!

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I am a rational, pragmatic person and a trained scientist, and I love to travel. My goal is to educate people about places around the world by writing about my personal travel experiences and providing information that is actually useful to a traveller.

My mission with this website is to create a reliable resource of information to educate travellers with practical, useful and interesting information about travel.

Why you can trust me and why my articles are reliable

I have been told more than once by my friends that I am too rational and logical for my own good which I take as a good sign and a compliment 😜.

As a trained scientist and a naturally pragmatic person, my articles are detailed, informative, and factual, and based on personal experience and research about places I have actually been to. This means I can actually tell you what a destination is truly like. And if I haven’t, I research the destination so provide accurate information. Apart from first hand exprience, my sources include original and official sources like original receipts, tickets, first hand information, and contacting the offical bodies in charge of the information I need to obtain, such as border control of a country, or the local public transportation body.

I also approach itineraries systematically, and take care to care about the details when making them. For example, location of accommodations respective to the surrounding streets, local shop types, and proximity to public transport, making me the perfect person to plan your itinerary if you have no idea how to plan one.

I have experience travelling mostly solo but also with friends to over 50 cities across 13 countries, arranging all the logistics myself, booking flights, trains, accommodation, local telecommunications, and activities. Countries I have been to include New Zealand, China, Singapore, Germany, Italy, and Spain, to name a few.

Find trip planning too bothersome? Hire me!

I like authentic travel where you get to meet locals, or experience the destination in a less superficial way. This means tours that are not simply packed buses that drop people off at touristy places and then take them back to their hotel.

Being Chinese born and raised in the USA and Australia, I speak fluent Mandarin and English and am familiar with cultures and history of all three countries.

I am also a keen photographer, and most photos featured on my site were taken by me, not stock photography, so you know what they actually look like, not the artificially perfected and heavily edited version you may see elsewhere. You can purchase prints of my naturally beautiful photos on my photography site here.

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You may have noticed I have Aviasales flight search widgets on my site. Aviasales used to be called Jetradar, and I used to use Jetradar and their widgets on my site to find flights because after comparing flight aggregators, they seemed to find the cheapest options. Try it out for yourself and compare it to other flight aggregates. If you do end up booking through the widgets on my site, you’ll help contribute to my site – I earn up to 1% of every completed sale, at no extra cost to you.

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