We’ve been here for one week exactly and tonight’s our last night in Israel. We planned our visit according to the Jewish Sabbath when literally everything in Jerusalem takes a rest from Friday sundown until Saturday night...
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As Henry detailed earlier, our flights to Tanzania were pretty exhausting, so there was no reason to believe that leaving there would be any easier. After several days of sun and fun in some of the most beautiful beaches my privileged feet have ever walked on...
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Do you know that for $22 USD a month, you can send a child in a poor country to school? Two and a half years ago, while walking home one day in Manhattan, I was approached by a volunteer from an organization called Children International...
Read MoreAfter 2 nights in Dubai, we arrived in Tel Aviv this afternoon after a 6-hour layover in Jordan. Tel Aviv is expensive! The only place we could find that does not have reports of bed bugs or strange characters lurking or urinating outside the building is this hostel called Hayarkon 48...
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Pictures are up. Our 8-day Tanzanian safari went by in a blink of an eye. We have not even left Tanzania yet and I am already reminiscing the details of those adventure-packed days. There were so many exhilarating moments, like waking up to a group of giraffes not even 100 feet from our tent...
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Please note: We have long left Jordan. We have since gone back to Hong Kong for Christmas and New Year and also visited Japan, India, and Tanzania. As usual, I am behind. This place was a godsend. We left Egypt in a peak state of fatigue, frustration, and defensiveness...
Read MoreWe finished our 8-day safari today and it is the first time we’ve had access to internet. We were supposed to be in a beautiful resort in Zanzibar tonight, but due to “technical problems” to our plane and that the Zanzibar airport closed at 6PM...
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After visiting Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan, we returned to Hong Kong on Dec 21. This was the second time we have stopped in Hong Kong since our trip began. For the next two weeks, Angela and I were fully engaged in a flurry of family and holiday activities. There was little time to blog or to even make travel arrangements...
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