Sights & Stuff

China

• Beijing
  • The Forbidden City
  • The Great Wall of China:
    Badaling Entrance 
  • The Heavenly Temple Park
  • Lama Temple
  • The Mao Mausoleum
  • The Summer Palace
  • Tiananmen Square
  • Trans-Mongolian or Trans-Siberian Express to Mongolia and/ or Russia
  • The Underground City (Closed for now)
• Chongqing
  • The Yangtze River Tour
  • Fengdu
    • The Ghost City
• Guangxi
  • Nanning
    • Take a bus to Hanoi, Vietnam
• Henan province
  • Dengfeng
    • The Shaolin Temple
  •  Luòyáng
    • The Longmen Grottoes
  • Zhengzhou
    • 7th of February Memorial Pagoda  
•  Hubei province
  • Wuhan
    • Chairman Mao’s Villa
• Shaanxi province
  • Xi’an
    • The Huaqing Hot Springs
    • The People’s Square
    • The Terracotta Army
• Shanghai
  • The Astor Hotel
  • The Bond Sightseeing Tunnel – 8 minute trip
•  Tianjin
• • Tanggu
    • Take a boat to South Korea - 25 hour trip

France

• Paris
  • Arc de Triomphe
  • Eiffel Tower
  • EuroStar (Train between London and Paris)
  • Sacré Coeur

Finland

• Helsinki
  • Sibelius Park
  • Stadion Hostel (a hostel in an Olympic stadium.)
  • Temppeliaukio Church

Mongolia

• Ulan Bator
  • Giant Ghengis Khan Statue
  • Gorkhi-Terelj National Park
  • Narantuul Market (Black Market)

North Korea

• Panmunjeom
  • North Korean Side
    • The Blue Room of Tension
    • Bridge of No Return
    • Propaganda Village

 

Russia

• Moscow
  • Galina’s Flat (Hostel is really a Russian Apartment)
  • Red Square
    • The Kremlin
    • The Lenin Mausoleum
    • Saint Basil’s Cathedral
• Saint Petersburg
  • The Winter Palace

South Korea

• Busan
  • BEXCO convention center
  • Eat sannakji (live octopus)
  • Youngdusan Tower
  • The United Nations Memorial Cemetery and Peace Park
• Incheon
  • Take a boat to China - 25 hour trip
• Jindo
  • Hoedong-ri
    • The Sea Parting Festival
• Panmunjeom
  • South  Korean Side
    • The Blue Room of Tension
    • The 3rd Tunnel
• Yeongam
  • Climb Wolchulsan

United Kingdom

• England
  • London
    • 221B Baker Street
    • Big Ben
    • Buckingham Palace
    • EuroStar (Train between London and Paris)
    • Harrods
    • Hyde Park
    • London Eye
    • Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
    • National Gallery
    • Piccadilly Circus
    • Regents Park
    • Thames
    • Tower of London
    • Trafalgar Square
    • Westminster Abbey

Vietnam

• Ha Long Bay
  • Spend some time on a junk
• Hanoi
  • The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum
  • Museum of Ethnology
  • Ngoc Son Temple
  • Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre
• Ho Chi Minh City 
  • Cuchi Tunnels (You can get a tour from HMC)
  • Ben Thanh Market/ Chợ Bến Thành
  • Fanny’s ice cream
  • Mekong Delta (You can get a tour from HMC)
  • Pho 2000 (President Clinton once ate here.)
  • Reunification Palace
  • War Remnants Museum
    
• Nha Trang
  • Doc Let (an hour away from Nha Trang)
    • Paradise Resort hotel