So I had this plan of climbing the majestic Mt. Kinabalu for the 6th time while I was still based here in Sabah, or at least before my job called out on me and demanded that I be returned to the Peninsula again. I was determined to do it before 2023 rolled to its end. So I had actually started eyeing for a slot right from the beginning of the year via the Sabah Parks official website – or even…
We returned to Shanghai after spending the first two nights in Wuxi. Wuxi was amazing in its own ways, but I was looking forward more to spending our next few days in Shanghai. We checked in at the Mercure Hotel which was located right smack in the middle of Shanghai, except that it was hard to tell if there was such a thing as middle of Shanghai since the whole city is more of a combination of a few sub-cities….
So my job had required me to travel out to China for the very first time not so long time ago. China had always been in my bucketlist for as long as I could remember, but given the geographical size of the mainland and the existence of so many interesting places that I wanted to go to, my plan for a trip to this gigantic nation would always halt because I could not decide where to go first and where…