Tiger Leaping Gorge Resting the horses. All through the hike, these guys follow you and ask if you’d like to rent a horse for the rest of the trip. The ringing of the horses’ bells soon becomes part of the background of the walk. —- Want to visit […]
Tag: Hiking
Fujian and Xiamen
After about a month of teaching in Shenzhen came my first vacation: National Day. Myself and a group of 7 other teachers from CTLC had trouble finding tickets to anywhere we were super excited about going, so instead we headed to where we COULD find tickets: Xiamen. Fujian province is […]
Camping in HK
When you really need to get out of the big city, Hong Kong has plenty of nature as well. Four long-distance hiking trails cross the Hong Kong S.A.R., totaling over 180 miles. Some of these cross marvelous beaches and scalable mountains, my favorite of which was the stretch of the […]
Gunung Bromo Volcano
In the middle of 4 long days of public transportation, a volcano to mix things up! Volcano! Sunrise didn’t work out due to intense foginess, but on the way back to our accommodation we did get to climb an active volcano as it spewed sulfuric gasses over a Martian-looking barren […]
Bohol Island – Home to Terrifying Alien Monkeys and More!
Bohol Island Jungle-living fantasies play out on a large scale on Bohol Island. Staying in river-side huts that are more easily accessed by bamboo-seat boats than they are by any form of land transportation. Climbing the mountain (well… mountain is perhaps a strong words here) up to the Giant Cross […]
Climbing Taishan (R)
Hiking Mount Tai Even if sunrise at TaiShan wasn’t the most incredible experience, the hike up is still a bit of fun and rewards with pretty nice views over the mountains of Shandong province. Even if you haven’t been training to be a warrior monk at the Shaolin Temple in […]
Hey there! I'm Stephen, this is my travel blog, and that's me in the poofy hat.
I'm a photographer / writer traveling since 2008, and I've been doing my best to visit amazing places.
My current focus is Central Asia, because for a hiking and camping enthusiast it's as good as it gets.