Tag: top 10 favorite places in Asia
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My Top 10 Favorite Places in Asia: #1 – northern Vietnam (Part I)
I’ve had a lot of fun counting down my favorite Asian places. Once again, these are only places that I have actually visited. Many of you have offered up some other incredible destinations perhaps worthy of another list. I hope to get to them all some day. But on top of my list, and it…
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My Top 10 Favorite Places in Asia: #2 – Penang, Malaysia
Where to begin? I moved to Penang or Pulau Pinang (Penang Island) in 2006 having never visited before that time. In 2006, it is safe to say that it would not have been #2 on such a list as this, but Penang slowing grows on you, creeping step by step into your chest like a…
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My Top 10 Favorite Places in Asia: #4 – Beijing, China
My first trip to Beijing was in the summer of 1992 as I flew to Asia for the first time to teach in a summer English course in the northeastern city of Dalian. We were fortunate to stop-over in Beijing during both ways of our trip. The Beijing of 1992 is certainly a far cry…
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My Top 10 Favorite Places in Asia: #7 – Hong Kong
In some ways, I’ve always felt that Hong Kong feels like the anti-Singapore (which was #8 on my list.) Singapore seems western in many ways – especially in infrastructure and city-planning. Hong Kong feels Asian. Hong Kong has the crowded streets, the messiness, the small shops, restaurants, outdoor eateries that make it so fun and…
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My Top 10 Favorite Places in Asia – #8 – Singapore
In some ways, Singapore is the anti-Asia. But only in some ways. It’s clean. It’s extremely functional. You could live in their airport and be quite happy. It’s orderly. Did I mention that it’s clean? It’s like a beautifully developed city-state that just works. Sparkling malls. Manicured lawns. Beautiful parks. One of the nicest zoos…
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My Top 10 Favorite Places in Asia: #9 – Chiang Mai, Thailand
I have many fond memories of Chiang Mai, not the least of which is the day I walked my wife from the YMCA Hotel to Ram Hospital to have our second child. What an amazing experience that was! It certainly was easy, for this reason alone, for Chiang Mai to crack the top 10. But,…
Author Mark W Sasse 