As many of you may or may not know, China is one, if not the most populated places of the world. With an estimated population of 1.5 billion citizens, not counting ex-patriots living in the country, when it comes to traveling, you can expect higher volume traffic than back in the states. It is impressive…
Author: rquintero@rollins.edu
Strolling Shanghai
When you study or travel abroad, one of the things I must recommend everybody to do is to take a random day and stroll the city or place of travel. It can give you one of the best and most clear views and feels for the place you are at. In terms of culture and…
For all the Foodies!
Traveling to China comes with all sorts of intricacies when it comes to the topic of food. It all comes down to the type of eater you are. If you’re coming from a completely westernized way of life, where you have not developed a sense of adventure for food, well, China can come as a…
Travels to Beijing
The great capital of one of the biggest counties in the world! Most people get to experience this city through the fabrication of many tails about it, the stereotypes built upon its reputation, as well as what the wonderful World Wide Web gives us to understand it. I will say that all expectations about it…
China from a new angle.
Before I embarked on this 4 month journey to China, I was able to derive one question that was often asked by the folks around me. Each time the concept of me traveling to Shanghai cam about conversation, people tend to assume the country to be a potentially culturally dangerous place. NOTHING, and i say…
1 Month in Shanghai
An unbelievable experience it has been thus far! One can always imagine how things can be when traveling abroad, but I must state how out of the ordinary my experiences have been in comparison to my expectations coming here to Shanghai. To begin with, the 1st three days are going to be the epic-center of…
The day before departure.
What an exciting, thrilling, and bumpy summer it has been. My life has gone up and down, side to side, and even curves I couldn’t see coming were thrown. But it was all with a greater purpose in the end. All leading up to this moment — departure time. In just a couple of months…