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I visited the remote village of Nagoro, a.k.a the Scarecrow Village, deep in the mountains of Iya Valley on Shikoku island, Japan

Population: approx. 25 human and over 300 dolls. The village is only a row of old houses stretched for a few hundred meters along a...

11 Days in Mongolia | The Land of the Eternal Blue Sky

Definitely the best trip / tour of my life up to date. This was back in 2023 when there are very few tourists in Mongolia....

The Oldest Rock Art in the Americas - Serra da Capivara National Park. The 3rd largest archaeological park in the world.*

It has over 1,200 archaeological sites, and more than 900 of them have rock paintings. It is in the middle of the Caatinga, a biome...

China Trip Report (Wuhan, Yichang, Xi'an, Shanghai, Beijing)

To preface, this month-long trip was in 2018 as part of a study abroad, so the report is a bit dated and atypical. But recently,...