Avoiding Travel Rip-Offs
Some hints on how to avoid some of the most common travel scams. Ten tip-offs to avoid travel rip-offs http://www.theage.com.au/travel/traveller-tips/ten-tipoffs-to-avoid-travel-ripoffs-20101006-167hn.html Related Articles: Sydney China now the world’s third most popular destination Street Food From Around the World Life in North Korea What to Eat Around the World Please support my blog by clicking this blog [...]
Posted by Aidan under News - World, News Articles, Travel, Travel - World | Permalink | No Comments »North Korean Newspapers
North Korea is known for its censorship and control of the media. When I visited, I bought a couple of copies of the Pyongyang Times, an English-language North Korean newspaper. It doesn’t have many pages, but comes out once a week. Almost every front page headline is about Kim Jong-il. The stories in the rest [...]
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In Beijing I joined a tour run by Koryo Tours. It was a week-long tour into North Korea – one of the world’s most isolated countries. We flew into Pyongyang using Air Koryo — North Korea’s national airline. We had a group visa and so didn’t get any stamps in our passports. In the last [...]
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In China, I visited Beijing Zoo. There were lots of cute pandas. Related Articles: Sydney China now the world’s third most popular destination Street Food From Around the World Life in North Korea What to Eat Around the World Please support my blog by clicking this blog site ranking list.
Posted by Aidan under News - World, News Articles, Travel, Travel - World | Permalink | No Comments »Vacation
This weekend I’m going on vacation for a month. I’m spending 2 weeks in Japan. I’ll be visiting friends in Osaka and Tokyo and also visiting a couple of places I haven’t been in Japan: Takayama and Nagasaki. I bought myself a Japan Rail pass to travel around. I hardly spoken any Japanese in the [...]
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