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Heraklion Efforts

Heraklion Efforts

by Calvin Sun | Jul 25, 2023 | Crete, Greece, July 2023: The Greek Epic, Walking Tours

  After a lunch and afternoon in Rethymno, we reunited with Sujay and Kelly who had done some of their own exploring of the Greek islands before coming to Heraklion to visit the rest of Crete.     After settling into our lodgings at a second floor...
Santa Ana Over To Tazumal

Santa Ana Over To Tazumal

by Calvin Sun | Nov 20, 2021 | El Salvador, November 2021: El Salvador, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, Weekend Trips

  After an early breakfast at 8am and disappointigly finding out that Joya de Ceren — the Pompeii of El Salvador — was temporarily closed for renovations, we instead set off for San Andres: a pre-Columbian site in El Salvador beginning in 900 BC and...
Geghard Garni-ng All The Levon’

Geghard Garni-ng All The Levon’

by Calvin Sun | Nov 13, 2018 | Armenia, November 2018: Armenia & Artsakh, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come

 After a long first day in Yerevan, we turned in at around midnight and woke up 8 hours later to catch an early breakfast and get picked up by our local driver Aram, with whom we had coordinated a few days earlier to take us around the outskirts of the...
A Christmas Eve In Siberia: Irkutsk & Lake Baikal

A Christmas Eve In Siberia: Irkutsk & Lake Baikal

by Calvin Sun | Jan 6, 2017 | Fit for Foodies, How Did You Do That?, How's the weather?, Russia, Winter 2016: The Trans-Mongolian & Tibet

  Merry Christmas Eve from Siberia!And so begins our Trans-Siberian experience. A number of itineraries had been devised, discarded and replanned over the past year for this trip — Russia’s railway system had a habit of cancelling and...
From Saint Petersburg To Moscow

From Saint Petersburg To Moscow

by Calvin Sun | Jan 4, 2017 | Fit for Foodies, Russia, Walking Tours, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2016: The Trans-Mongolian & Tibet

  After New Year’s Eve and 2 memorable days in Saint Petersburg, we headed onwards on the overnight Train 001 from Saint Petersburg’s Moscow Station to Moscow’s Yaroslavskiy Station departing at 11:55pm.  We boarded...
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