The Great Wall is said to be the only structure that is visible from the moon. Either there's a modicum amount of truth in it or there isn't, this man-made longest structure on earth will amaze everyone who visits it. Its grandeur is unfathomable and the long stretch of the wall looks like a dragon's tail on a clear summer day if viewed from the top. It's a magnificent panorama of man's effort to build such a fortress to defend its vast country from the enemies. The Great Wall Tour Since th

  If you are a traveler in Beijing, forget all about your visual notion about old China. Beijing has changed a lot since I arrived in 2002 and left in April 2010. Don't anymore worry about getting lost in the streets as the streets signs are written in the alphabet method and not anymore in Chinese characters. They replaced those old street signs to please the Olympic Team Committee before they hosted the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. And, of course, to make things easier for the budget trav

  I don't wanna bore you with how my first international flight went: Manila-Hongkong-Beijing. It went fine and I hid my excitement and fear (in one!) successfully--with grace and poise. Since Beijing was my first city in mainland China and I lived and lived there for five year (after working in the other provinces in China for almost 3 years), I'll talk about it here more often. I've been to 56 cities in China--more than any of my Chinese friends been to. I've traveled to these places i

ORIGINAL POST: http://budgettravelmall.com/2010/10/hello-world/ When I was living in the Philippines, I had this notion that travelling was only for the moneyed individuals who can enjoy the luxury of it. Though I know what travel means in the real sense of the word, I had this exclusive definition of travelling at the back of my mind as, exploring and discovering places and culture outside the shorelines of the 7,107 islands of my country. I had no idea of budget travelling alone then. For