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The Ultimate Travel Plan: The Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
The Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is one of the world’s largest and most famous winter festivals. Welcome to the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, a dazzling spectacle that turns China’s “Ice City” into a frozen fairyland. Unlike most places on Earth, Harbin comes alive in the winter months in the form of the world’s largest and most famous winter festival. This annual extravaganza is a masterpiece of frozen artistry, boasting colossal ice sculptures, towering ice castles, and an ethereal luminosity that will leave you spellbound. So in that case, here’s everything you need to know about the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival. This article may contain affiliate…
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Sexy Ladies and Traditional Taiwanese Birthdays
The thing with travel is that you’ll find yourself realising that all people are the same. Children from America and China both whine to their mothers for more candy, and young adults are all struggling with the concept of love. Though grandparents very much would behave much like any other, as I learned, Taiwanese grandparents don’t celebrate their birthdays in the most traditional of ways, the same… So, this lone foreigner discovered what makes traditional Taiwanese birthdays so special! This article may contain affiliate links, for which I may be compensated at no extra cost to you, dear readers! An Invitation It was the end of April, and I had…
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Keelung: Ghosts and Good Times
Taiwan is currently in the heart of Ghost Month, a time when locals honour their ancestors. This time around, rather than taking a back seat, I decided to jump right into the festivities. Sure enough, we found a place nearby where we could celebrate the Hungry Ghost Festival first-hand. That place was Keelung, somewhere I was yet to visit. So what better time to explore it than now? Celebrating The Hungry Ghost Festival The entire reason for coming to Keelung in the first place was to see the iconic Hungry Ghost Festival. It was the nearest point to Taipei where we could see a large-scale ceremony. But what is it…
