Turkey 2010/11 (Day 4)
Along the Bosporus: After celebrating New Year’s Eve on the Galata Bridge, we spent the first day of 2011 on the Bosporus. This narrow waterway separates Europe and Asia and […]
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Turkey 2010/11 (Day 3)
Istanbul: We started our third day in Istanbul with a visit to the world-famous Topkapi Palace (see here for day 1 and day 2). The city’s sultans lived in this […]
China 2007 (part X): Jinghong
Jinghong, Yunnan: An overnight bus took us from Kunming to Jinghong, the capital of Xishuangbanna (for a map see here). This autonomous prefecture is far in the southwest of China […]
China 2007 (part IX): Kunming
Kunming, Yunnan: After our adventures in and around Lhasa, we had to leave Tibet and the easiest option was to take the plane to Kunming in Yunnan (for a map […]
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