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Tour de Taihu Day 7: Turtlehead Peninsula
Turtlehead Peninsula (鼋头渚) and Lihu (蠡湖) are generally considered to the be the most scenic parts of Taihu, so I figured they deserved a whole day. Both are quite nice, though I wouldn’t count them as...
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Tour de Taihu Day 8: Remembrance of Things Past
Five and a half years ago I made my first trip to Taihu. I wrote about it on City Weekend. That’s around the time I started reading Chinese language guidebooks so I could get off the beaten path a bit....
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Tour de Taihu Day 9: End of the Road
After 585 kilometers and 9 days on a bike I became the first foreigner to complete a solo cycle trip around Taihu today at 10:45am. A definite sense of accomplishment eluded me, though I am very...
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Taihu: For Cyclists
There is some great road riding to be done around Taihu, plenty of gorgeous views, newly built roads, wide shoulders, many even with bike-only lanes. Whether you’re in for a full day, two days or the...
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Taihu Photos: Views of the Lake
Below is a gallery of photos depicting Taihu in its various views and elements. A lot of one’s feeling about anything belonging to nature is dependent on time and the weather. I was fortunate to have...
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Taihu Photos: People of the Lake
The thing that is most difficult to capture or explain is the faces I saw during those nine days and 585 kilometers of cycling. They are etched in my memory, but are otherwise ephemeral. How can...
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Taihu Photos: Visions of the Lake
This gallery of photos is not really about the lake itself but about surprising and inspiring things I saw on the nine-day trip. They are loosely grouped together with a little commentary where...
View ArticleSaigon Guide
Ah, Saigon. In the last six months I’ve spent two weeks there and formed favorable impressions. Part of it is the warm weather. Part of it is the food. Part of it is the beautiful women. Part of it is...
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[This Is Not A] Tokyo Guide
I’ve always thought of Tokyo as impenetrable in some way. Maybe because of the language barrier, maybe due to scare stories of the impossible-to-navigate Tokyo subway, maybe because of its reputation...
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My Japan Mlog
I don’t want to write a travelogue of Japan, but I do want to convey what it was like to travel by bicycle through this very interesting country. So what I’ve done instead is a Mlog–a music blog–which...
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Shaoxing Digressions
Shaoxing is a magical place for me. There are a few others in China–Qingdao, Moganshan, and Xiangshan just outside Beijing. These aren’t obscure places. Many people have been there, but maybe they...
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Lushan Travel Guide
A century ago, Moganshan attracted Shanghailanders looking to escape the summer heat. They went down and built wonderful stone country homes amidst the bamboo forests which still stand – and are still...
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Taishan Travel Guide
I’ve been traveling in China for 15 years now and seeing the sunrise on Taishan was easily one of my top five experiences. I didn’t expect it to be as moving as it was. Here’s my experience. Taishan is...
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Something About Travel
I took my family for a weekend staycation, the Mandarin Oriental Shanghai, club level, all the amenities, all the special treatment. Ordinarily we might have flown to Hong Kong or Osaka or taken the...
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