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By : yapxiong December 31, 2024January 2, 2025

2024: Reviewing a rough year

Battling through the year, home and away

Shimenshan, TW Read More
By : yapxiong December 31, 2023December 31, 2023

2023: Slouching towards being grateful

Ending another no-post year on this blog with some small crumbs of reflection.

Headlands in Bako National Park Read More
By : yapxiong December 30, 2022

2022: The year of staying afloat

2022: A return to normal life, travel and… an empty blog?

A long walk Read More
By : yapxiong December 31, 2021

Reading in the rain: my books of 2021

Seven books that helped me survive 2021, and some hopes for 2022.

Citadel view north Read More
By : yapxiong October 11, 2021October 11, 2021

Walking Tarabulus (Part 1): Zahriyeh, old city & Haddadin

The neighbourhood with the best chili, the citadel and the beautiful Taynal Mosque

Souq at Tarabulus Read More
By : yapxiong September 10, 2021September 11, 2021

Square to Souq: A weekend in Tarabulus

A then-newbie’s impressions of Lebanon’s second largest city

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By : yapxiong October 20, 2020September 11, 2021

Aimless in Beirut

All I did was walk on my first two days in Beirut in 2019

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By : yapxiong August 1, 2019September 11, 2021

How much it costs to go Backpacking in Uzbekistan

Majestic turquoise domes, quiet shrines, imposing Soviet-era murals. Where else but Uzbekistan?

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By : YX April 15, 2018September 11, 2021

Staying Alive: 2018 edition

After 5 years of on-off updating and writing for this blog, I come clean on my disappointment.

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