Perched on top of a mountain. Stands 98 feet tall. Largest Art Deco statue in the world. Symbol of Christianity. I was too lazy to figure out how to get…

I wanted to go to North Korea but not on this trip. I couldn't enter from South Korea, and the real reason was that I didn’t have enough gold bars…

I hadn’t originally planned on visiting South Korea. Having watched a ton of KDramas (since the DVD era!), I felt like I already had a pretty good sense of the…

A quick stop in Shanghai to visit my friend, before embarking on my Trans-Mongolian train journey in Beijing.I arrived at around 3 AM, which in hindsight wasn't the best decision.…

We flew to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, their major hub and one of Europe's busiest airports.  This was kind of a last-minute trip; all accommodations in Amsterdam were either fully…