Hello!I just spend six days in Hong Kong and China and fell in love with it. I was able to visit Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. Each city was completely different from one another, which made the trip extremely diverse. Hong Kong was very westernized and most people spoke English, Beijing was a lot more cultural and hardly anyone spoke English but it had all the major sights that I was able to see, and Shanghai was clearly an up and coming city. This was my fir...

Hello! I just arrived back from my longest port, Vietnam. I didn't know what to expect from Vietnam besides what I had been hearing in class and I was really surprised at how much I liked it. I spent two days in Ho Chi Minh City, and four days in Hanoi. There was a huge difference between these two cities. Ho Chi Minh City was a booming city with a lot of development and construction, while Hanoi was a little more low key but I thought it had a lot more Vi...

Hello Again!I just spend only three short days in Singapore, and it was definitely a change in pace from my previous port. The boat ported in Penang, Malaysia and a group of us flew to the country of Singapore. I knew it was the cleanest country in the world, but I wasnt aware it is also the safest. The crime rate in the country is about %.0023, and there were only two murders the entire past year. Different fines in the country include things like chewing gum, n...

Hello! I recently spent six days in India, and nothing could have prepared me for what I experienced. The sights and the smells were like nothing I could have imagined. The entire country is over populated, and about two thirds of the people live in severe poverty. India has come a long way as economy over the past ten years but the way people live is heart breaking. Driving down the road you see garbage, tents and animals everywhere. Beggars line the str...