Taipei Tips and Highlights
Taipei, I hardly knew ya. We traveled to Taipei for one week–sandwiched between Hong Kong and Seoul–and the challenge was to take it easy so I could recover from a … Read more
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Young Women in Traditional Dress, Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul, Korea
Pride in Korean culture shines in the traditional dress regularly worn to visit the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, Korea.
The Confucius and Buddhist Temples of Taipei
It’s an odd quirk of the Unesco World Heritage system that there are no World Heritage sites in Taiwan. It’s politics, you see. According to China, Taiwan is China. (Of … Read more
Jongmyo Shrine, Seoul, South Korea
The Jongmyo Shrine in Seoul is a Confucian shrine that was built to serve as the venue for the memorial services of the Korean dynasty that ruled from the 14th … Read more
The Heunginjimun Gate, Seoul, South Korea
Strolling Seoul at night can give you eye overload at all the LED lit modern architecture. For if anything, Seoul is relentlessly and aggressively modern. Except occasionally, when you run … Read more
The Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, South Korea
In our first day in Seoul, we took the Metro to the Dongdaemun Design Plaza, just because that’s where we were planning on catching a tour bus. We sometimes take … Read more
Recommendations for Five Days in Hong Kong
We were prepared to love Hong Kong. It is our first trip to China, and we were looking forward to easing into a very foreign environment by starting with (mostly) … Read more
A Walking Tour of Hong Kong, in Context
Editor’s note: As a result of the 2020 pandemic, Context Travel has introduced an excellent series of virtual seminars. These live, scholar-led courses even allow time for discussion and questions. … Read more
Under the Weather and On the Road: 13 Ways to Feel Better
Four years ago, at about this time of year, I was suffering from a cold or flu, and wrote this post. Judging from the photos, I was in Bangkok. I … Read more
Images of Mount Fuji, Japan
Mount Fuji, or Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration, is how UNESCO describes Mount Fuji. It is indeed an inspiration.