Anna Meanders

Tag: Overland Asia

  • A Trip Across Mongolia

    A Trip Across Mongolia

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    Beijing to Mongolia, considered one of the world’s Greatest Railway adventures. Memories of the Trans-Mongolian Express through the Gobi Desert.

  • Beijing Tales | Memories passed from my father.

    Beijing Tales | Memories passed from my father.

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    Beijing existed in my mind as an abstract painting, fragments taken from my late father’s many tales of arriving in this mysterious land. Visions of tranquil ancient penzai gardens danced with the buzz of a post-modern metropolis. The city was all these things at once and still somehow more; a breathing, gyrating, living contrast to…

  • Xi’an and the tiniest Baozi House

    Xi’an and the tiniest Baozi House

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    Disembarking from our carriage out into the heart of one of China’s oldest cities, the beginning of the Silk Road, and home to the Terracotta Warriors, I realised Xi’an was already everything I’d hoped to find in China.

  • Dragons, Myth, and Minjian

    Dragons, Myth, and Minjian

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    As ancient Chinese legend would have it, here in the Sichuan region of Southwest China there was a fierce dragon lurking in the Minjian River. A 735-kilometer-long tributary of the famed Yangtze River that we were visiting from nearby Chengdu.

  • In Chengdu, A Land of Pandas and Tunnels

    In Chengdu, A Land of Pandas and Tunnels

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    In my travels, I have yet to experience anything quite as post-apocalyptic sci-fi as the unusual tunnel land that was to greet us in Chengdu. The tunnels of Chengdu are not like anything I was prepared for.

  • The Mysteries of Chinese Airlines

    The Mysteries of Chinese Airlines

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    Despite many years of working in the airline industry, the unique and often baffling rules of Chinese airlines still managed to surprise me. On arrival into Bangkok airport we were told , in no uncertain terms, that we were to pay another five thousand baht in overweight baggage fees to this small Chinese airline I…

  • Ao Nang, My love

    Ao Nang, My love

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    As we departed the Phuket region of Southern Thailand bound for Ao Nang, I couldn’t help but wonder if I’d been grossly mistaken about this entire corner of the world. So far, nothing in Southern Thailand had been as expected. Even the 6 hour bus journey, which I would usually dread, was deliciously scenic &…

  • The Khlongs of Bangkok

    The Khlongs of Bangkok

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    Propelled from an ancient city into a space-aged modern one at the blink of an eye, Bangkok has undergone many changes in recent times. What was once a city of floating markets and traders of spices and silk is now a global tourism destination. A sprawling metropolis set against a futuristic landscape of skytrains and…

  • Naiyang & the hidden treasures of Phuket

    Naiyang & the hidden treasures of Phuket

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    There is nothing quite akin to the pleasure of stumbling upon an incredible new destination completely by accident, and with the amount of research I indulge myself in, it’s a rare find to be completely blindsided by somewhere. But tucked away just out of view of Phuket International Airport, I was delighted by Naiyang Beach.

  • Penang, Revisited

    Penang, Revisited

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    Coming to Georgetown was like coming home for me. It was exactly 2 years since I had list visited, and back then I had opted to live in a cabin on the side of the hill, surrounded by pristine jungle and within the open arms of the local Buddhist sanctuary. The place is heaven on…