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China: My Return to the Future

November 28, 2025

China, once hidden, wrapped in legends, distant from the rest of the world, is now becoming a portal to the near future. City by city, with new apps, drones, high speed trains, everything becomes a reality that keeps teaching me how to behave in a world that feels twenty years ahead of mine. But I admit, at the very start of this journey, I had a mild panic…

Where Heaven Rests on the River: A Traveler’s Escape to the Shangri-La Hotel, Guilin

November 18, 2025

There are landscapes that linger in memory long after the suitcase is unpacked scenes so otherworldly they feel borrowed from a dream. Guilin, the ethereal jewel of southern China, is one of those rare places. Its iconic karst mountains rise like ink-brush silhouettes against pearl-grey skies, the Li River glides between green valleys with an almost meditative stillness, and mist gathers every morning in soft ribbons, draping the…