Travel – Page 6 – Andy Cheng

Korea: a city tour of Seoul.

I have a lot to say about Seoul. Considering a short five day stay, I have relatively more to say compared to most countries I’ve been to. Much of this I must thank to:

Rolly, business contact turned friend.
Stephanie, fellow Cal student who is studying abroad at Yonsei University.
Andrew, friend since 7th grade! He’s just finished his masters in finance at Yonsei University.

On Saturday, April 19, Rolly took me on a full day city tour around the Seoul City Hall. We went to three palaces, beginning with Deoksugung Palace.

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Korea: Songdo, the international district.

I went to South Korea on a business trip from Thursday, April 17 to Tuesday, April 22.

I landed on Thursday evening and got to the apartment set up for me.

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In the Taiwan mountains: Wulai

Apologies for not posting recently, I’ve been extremely busy and haven’t had any mental energy to produce blog posts.

On Sunday, April 4, I went hiking again with the Taipei Adventure Group. We were going to Wulai, a 45 minute drive away from the outskirts of Taipei city. We took the 849 bus from Xindian 新店 MRT Station.

Upon arriving, we saw this view.

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Mudslides and leeches: hiking in Pingxi, Taiwan.

On Saturday, March 29, I went hiking with the infamous Taiwan Adventure Group. The 15 of us took Bus 795 from the outskirts of Taipei over to the town and began our hike.

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A summary of three days in Singapore.

I am now one month behind in blogging about travels, it’s embarrassing. I’m currently in Seoul, South Korea. My experience in Korea has been, without question, my favorite in Asia. A lot of this is due to chance (good weather, good company), but also due to other factors. I’ll discuss more on this when I finally write about Seoul.

First, let’s talk about my Singapore trip from March 19-23, 2014. Continue reading “A summary of three days in Singapore.”

Bangladesh: the definition of a developing country.

I expected to be shocked in India, and therefore it did not hit me that hard.

Bangladesh is different. Not many traffic lights anywhere, not much road either. A lot of dirt as roads. Cars drove in both sides of a barely-distinguishable road, shared with bicycle rickshaws and pedestrians.

Similar to my awe of Sri Lanka’s countryside, I couldn’t take my eyes off the sights, and thus did not take many photos.

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Dhaka, Bangladesh: not a good first impression.

Professor Zook warned me, Bangladesh would be a culture shock. I believed him, but didn’t expect the shock to start as early as getting off the plane. Continue reading “Dhaka, Bangladesh: not a good first impression.”

Galle, Sri Lanka: the Dutch fort and surroundings.

On Saturday, 3/16/14, I took a bus down to the southern end of the country to Galle, a major city in Sri Lanka. In Taiwan terms, I went from Chiayi to Kaohsiung. Continue reading “Galle, Sri Lanka: the Dutch fort and surroundings.”

Colombo, Sri Lanka: ocean paradise.

On the evening of Thursday, 4/13/14, I arrived in Colombo. In addition to being overly cautious and avoiding scamming taxi drivers, I had some network proxy issues on my laptop and could not connect to the internet. Finally got that fixed, and slept at 2am. Continue reading “Colombo, Sri Lanka: ocean paradise.”

Tim and Eileen, met.

“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen?”

On Friday, March 14, I had dinner with a lovely husband and wife. Tim was an India-born America, while Eileen grew up and moved around in the States. The two met when they were in the peace corps. Continue reading “Tim and Eileen, met.”