Eating street food is a way of life for most Vietnamese, and we travelers love to join in, trying exotic dishes fried up by the best chefs around. On the bustling An Hoi island near...
Read More →Wedged between the global war of WWII and the controversial war of Vietnam sits the Forgotten War, known to most as the Korean War. It lasted a little over three years, but technically the war...
Read More →We took the express train from Busan to Seoul (which has on online booking process and is very simple to figure out from Busan station) and arrived here in Seoul with no plans. We are...
Read More →Five months ago, Alissa and I visited Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, the scene of the first land battle between the U.S. and Japanese in WWII. There we got a glimpse of what the beginning...
Read More →Every once in a while during our travels, timing seems to be perfect. We got to Hiroshima on the day before the 2013 International Symposium for Peace, an annual gathering of scholars from all over...
Read More →Read all our posts from Japan here: https://thisworldrocks.com/category/destinations/asia/japan-asia/...
Read More →A few days ago, Alissa and I completed the travelers superfecta, having now traveled between two cities using all four of the main forms of travel: Road, Air, Rail, and Water. Water was our last...
Read More →When we take our first steps off the bus from the Oita airport to Yufuin, Japan, it’s obvious how small this town really is. The main street is really the only street with anything to...
Read More →A shrine of controversy Of all the war history sites, memorials, and museums that Alissa and I have visited and are planning to visit, few have caused this much anxiety and nervousness in me. The...
Read More →We arrived in Hiroshima by train at about 2pm today, with absolutely no clue on what to do tonight. We had a reservation at a local hostel, but we didn’t take the time earlier this...
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