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Flying to China can either be a relatively cheap and easy experience or a massive expense depending on what time of year you intend to travel there. Traveling during the low season, meaning January to early April (excluding Chinese New Year) or from the end of September to November will ensure that the fares will [...]

The time was 8:31 AM when the doorbell rang. My English student was to arrive at half past eight. “Sorry I’m late,” she apologized. She was one minute late, an amount of time that would not even be noticed by most of the world, but it China it is considered tardy. I have never been [...]

The Sunday Travel Story is a new feature on VagabondJourney.com that consists of a weekly summation of my recent travels told in a long drawn linear narrative. They are meant to have more of a book-like style of writing than what is customarily published on this travel blog, and each of the recent stories have [...]

Sky lanterns, also called Kongming lanterns, once had a military purpose in ancient China. Contingents of armies would signal to each other by sending these lanterns into the sky — a tactic that has been used for various purposes throughout Chinese history. Today they are used to celebrate big events in a person’s life, major [...]

Like most everything else, the Chinese have their own traditional system for counting age. In China, it is possible for a two day old child to be a two year old. How? It’s simple: the Chinese count the physical years in which someone as been alive and not the amount of revolutions around the sun [...]

An inordinate amount of twins are sprouting up all over China. Go to the shopping mall, hang out in the middle class districts of cities, and you will see them: two kids who are the same age, more often than not dressed in matching clothes, being toted around by a single set of parents. “I [...]

“No, American,” a Chinese friend of mine snapped at a group of young men sitting near us in a restaurant. “They said that you were from a place that is not very good,” she explained to me. The explanation was not needed, I understood what they where saying: they thought I was from Xinjiang province [...]

As VagabondJourney.com grows and our mission becomes ever more refined it is clear that we need to increase the size of our staff. We are looking to hire journalists, bloggers, and a couple travel writers. The ideal applicants will be experienced in their field and be actively pursuing a career in travel writing/ journalism. We [...]

So you’ve been boarding a couple of times and started to hit some jumps. You’ve done a bungee in the back of your local pub and maybe even done a sponsored sky dive. You’re not doing too badly when it comes to the adrenaline stakes. Fancy pushing it to the next level? If you think [...]