For our last full day in Dubai we visited a house of worship and a giant freezer.

After three months in southeast Asia we spent a day flying to the other end of the vast continent and into the middle east. Another region where we haven’t spent…

With only two days left in Asia we used our final Monday to travel back to Lantau Island and visit Hong Kong Disneyland. The smallest of the world’s five Magic…

Just across the Pearl River delta from Hong Kong is the former Portuguese colony of Macau. Now the most profitable gambling destination in the world, the tiny region takes in…

Kowloon is the denser and older part of the city that sits just across the harbor from Hong Kong island. We made it over a few times to check out…

As soon as Kim found out there was a giant Buddha on the outskirts of Hong Kong we made plans to visit, as oversize religious statues are a staple of…

We left the relative quiet of Hualien and flew to the historic port city of Hong Kong. Asia’s center of banking and finance, the city of eight million is always…

On our second trip to Taroko we rode the bus to its last stop at Tiansiang (天祥). Located about halfway through the park, Tiansiang is home to a Buddhist monastery, a resort,…

When we first booked flights to Taiwan we knew we wanted to see Taipei, but we also wanted to see some of Taiwan’s natural beauty. A mountain range runs right…

After two weeks in Taipei we took a train to the eastern side of Taiwan to visit the smaller city of Hualien and the famous Taroko Gorge in Taroko National…