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How to Make Basketball Slightly Fun (and Drinking Beer Less So)

Nov 2, 2013 by Daniel McBane 2 Comments

A basketball on a wooden court

Let me get this out of the way right off the bat: I’m not a huge basketball fan. I don’t especially mind watching it, but if given the choice, I would prefer to watch pretty much any other sport (and no, I’m not including golf and car racing in my definition of sport). As for […]

Filed Under: South Korea Tagged With: drinking, sports, Seoul, South Korea

A Good Day in Hsipaw Spent With Kids, Cows and Trash

Oct 26, 2013 by Daniel McBane 12 Comments

Children posing in Hsipaw Myanmar

If you spend a reasonable amount of time in any country, visiting that country’s top tourist attraction will never be the most memorable thing you do while there and in many cases, it will actually be quite disappointing. Instead, the best moments are unplanned and generally come when you least expect them. Knowing this, I’ve […]

Filed Under: Myanmar Tagged With: Myanmar, animals, culture, cows, Southeast Asia, Hsipaw

Barcelona Hides Its Bus Stations Well

Oct 19, 2013 by Daniel McBane 8 Comments

The skyline of Barcelona Spain

When the bus pulled over in a pitch black residential area on the outskirts of Barcelona and the driver practically shoved us out the door, we knew for sure we had missed our stop. We had tickets on a night bus to Madrid and had decided to take a city bus to the long distance […]

Filed Under: Spain Tagged With: Barcelona, bus, transportation, Spain, annoying people

The Hassle of Finding a Hotel in Rural China

Oct 12, 2013 by Daniel McBane 14 Comments

Tibetan homes in Maerkang, Sichuan, China

I enjoy traveling in China overall, but that enjoyment does not generally extend to the accommodation search outside of popular destinations. Only hotels with the proper license are allowed to accept foreign guests and the Chinese government does not seem to hand out many of those licenses in less visited destinations. In many small towns […]

Filed Under: China Tagged With: transportation, China, Sichuan, Tibet, annoying people

Bargain Prices on Elephant Torture in Chiang Mai

Oct 5, 2013 by Daniel McBane 18 Comments

Elephant riding in Chiang Mai Thailand

Most visitors to Thailand have a good-sized list of things they want to experience in the country and riding an elephant is usually one of them, but if they knew the treatment those elephants are forced to endure, most would probably make a new list. The problem isn’t the riding itself, though. Unless, you top […]

Filed Under: Thailand Tagged With: transportation, animals, Thailand, Chiang Mai

Capture the Color and Watch Other People Win Prizes

Sep 28, 2013 by Daniel McBane 10 Comments

Bird flying above a temple in Kathmandu Nepal

TravelSupermarket.com’s annual Capture the Color contest is back, which is a great opportunity for me to watch other bloggers with much nicer photos than mine win some prizes. I actually wasn’t going to bother entering at all, mainly due to laziness, but when Corrinne from Reflections Enroute nominated me, I resolved to go out and […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: photo contest, Jiuzhaigou, Berlin, Kathmandu, China, photography, India, Goa, Nepal, sand dunes, Dunhuang

Survive New Delhi Station and the Rest of India is Easy

Sep 21, 2013 by Daniel McBane 14 Comments

walkway over trains at new delhi station

New Delhi railway station serves as a great introduction to India in that it combines much of what is annoying about the country into one location. Every visitor to India will have stories of annoying touts and scams and some people will have nothing but. In actuality, only a small part of the country provides […]

Filed Under: India Tagged With: India, annoying people, scams, Delhi, transportation

Don’t Let China Into Your Home!

Sep 14, 2013 by Daniel McBane 14 Comments

apartment in xujiahui Shanghai

The concepts of manners and personal hygiene are viewed very differently in China. In my two years in the country, I saw people clipping their toenails at their restaurant table, grown men defecating by the side of the road, a pretty violent brawl between two old men on a bus and virtually everybody smoking everywhere […]

Filed Under: China Tagged With: Shanghai, China, culture, annoying people

Tal to Chame: Falling into a Trekking Routine

Sep 7, 2013 by Daniel McBane 6 Comments

Porters near Koto on Annapurna Circuit
This entry is part 6 of 13 in the series The Annapurna Circuit Trek

As we were having breakfast the next morning, I realized my brilliant idea of ordering cornbread the night before to snack on throughout the day wasn’t going to work out quite the way I’d hoped. I mentioned in the previous part of this series that the food at our guesthouse in Tal was the best of [read more…]

Filed Under: Nepal Tagged With: nature, mountains, Nepal, Annapurna, trekking

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain: Choose the Correct Chairlift or Suffer

Aug 31, 2013 by Daniel McBane 6 Comments

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain near Lijiang, Yunnan

When you imagine spending a day in the mountains, you don’t generally picture yourself second-hand smoking hundreds of cigarettes amidst thousands of people in a large, dimly lit room, but that’s pretty much what a day on the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (Yulong Xueshan in Chinese) near Lijiang in China‘s Yunnan province looks like for […]

Filed Under: China Tagged With: transportation, China, annoying people, Yunnan, Lijiang, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain

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