It was 1:30 a.m., and I was taking in the Malaysian nightlife near the PETRONAS Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
I needed to wake up early to catch a bus, so I decided I should get back to my hostel …
There’s an old Chinese proverb, 黄金万两容易得，一个知心最难寻。(huáng jīn wàn liăng róng yì dé, yí gè zhī xīn zuì nán xún.) – Gold is easy to obtain, but a great friend is the hardest to find.
Chinese culture places a lot …
Maya Angelou once said, “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.”
When we travel abroad, one way we can guarantee that we’ll have a good time is by making new friends.
And potential friends are everywhere! They could …
In the movie “Predator,” Austrian-born movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger screams at the top of his lungs, “Get to the chopper!”
He was in such a rush to get out of the jungle that he didn’t have the chance to …
Voltaire once said, “The danger which is least expected soonest comes to us.”
We might not expect anything to go terribly wrong when we travel abroad. We’re on vacation! Life should be relaxing. All we have to focus on is …
Google has literally changed the world.
And one of its most disruptive technologies has been the open-source, mobile operating system of Android.
Every day, billions of people use an Android phone to talk to their friends, take photos, conduct …
Dan Rather once said, “If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.”
Traveling the world is challenging.
For many globetrotters, one of the most challenging parts of …
I had just arrived in Guatemala City at 10 p.m. and had an important Skype meeting scheduled for 10 a.m. the next day.
That meant that I had fewer than 12 hours to find a private location with fast Wi-Fi.…
In “The Innocents Abroad,” Mark Twain wrote, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.”
The benefits of studying abroad can’t be understated.
Yes, studying in another country will broaden your perspective of the world and teach you about people …
I was sitting at my office computer in Portland, Oregon, scrolling through Google Earth while pretending to work.
I dragged my cursor into China and stumbled upon the rice terraces of Yuanyang.
Immediately, I was awestruck. I had never seen …
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