A review of the newest products that make life better for travelers in 2012: a tiny rubber megaphone for your iPhone, an iTwin plug and Play double headed USB stick, a Satechi camera holder to steady your travel photos, and Rick Steve's cool new iPad bag as well as his famous wheeled backpack.
The Editors of GoNOMAD.com select their top ten travel stories which best embody the travel philosophy of the website; their top choice is a story about having lunch with a Sudanese Chieftain, an Italian town in Kenya, and an account of fishing using cormorant birds in Japan.
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Northampton is a famous dining and arts town in Western Massachusetts. With more than 70 great places to eat, it's hard to decide. The readers of Trip Advisor and GoNOMAD's staff have written up this guide to the top ten choices to eating in a great eating town.
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Mridula Divedi explores the Jodhpur-Jaisalmer highway and stays at Rajasthan's beautiful hotel.
Germany's faces are captured by GoNOMAD Associate editor Stephen Hartshorne when he visited Luther Country in November 2011.
Thomas Kohnstamm goes to Brazil and is assigned to review 100s of hotels and resorts. How does he possibly do this on his meager Lonely Planet wages? How does any travel writer do this? Find out in this really hilarious book.
, Campaign Monitor Home Features Pricing Customers Resources Support Our Story Blog Sign Up Login Blog Blog Feed Gallery Feed Blog Gallery Feed Time Out , on sending successful newsletters in 4 minutes or less By Ros Hodgekiss April 19, 2012 1 Comment Long before food bloggers and review sites came into being , there was Time Out a publishing company that's spent the last 40 years guiding us on what to do and where to go in the world's most exciting cities . Given the long-lasting success of their monthly magazines and websites , it wasn't really a surprise to see their email campaigns kicking some serious goals , too . In our most recent case study we got together with the Time Out Sydney and Time Out Melbourne teams to find out how email fits into their fast-paced publishing schedule and
As Heathrow experiences lengthy queues, Nick Trend advises on how to avoid them.
Sophie Butler advises a reader seeking to book the best-value ferry journey for their family holiday.
WildChina’s Beijing office will be closed next Monday, April 30th to Tuesday, May 1st for May festival. The Beijing office will be open for service on Wednesday, May 2nd. Our US and Vancouver offices will be open for normal working hours throughout this time. ———- Throughout the holiday, WildChina travel consultants will be responding to [...]
Despite having seen a gazillion photos, paintings and movies that feature the canals of Venice, I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this city. The audacity of its early residents to build the entire area on a lagoon! The city now consists of nearly 120 islands – all connected by footbridges and canals [...]
This past Wednesday, WildChina sponsored the Greater China Club’s (GCC) annual party at Harvard Business School. The GCC aims to engage HBS students in one of the world’s most dynamic economies on business, economic, and social issues. But this night was all about celebrating Chinese style — toasting, listening to some of China’s up and [...]
Every week I get tons of emails from travel companies trying to promote themselves. I delete almost all of them without looking beyond the subject line of the email. This week, however, I was grabbed by an email that was interesting to say it least. It was for the launch of a new internet dating [...]
This past Tuesday night WildChina attended the fifth annual Time Out Food Awards to see how fared our favorite Beijing restaurants. The invitation-only event was held in the stunning new restaurant, Brasserie Flo. Actually, stunning doesn’t quite cut it–let’s go with jaw-dropping. Our approach to the gilded, iron-wrought gates was peppered with comments like, “Uh, [...]
Europeans have this amazing way of getting you hopped up on coffee and sugar – and nowhere is it more prevalent than in Italy where the coffee is fantastico and the sweets, well, don’t those cookies just make your teeth hurt looking at them? You can’t even imagine how delicious those little chocolate boats were. [...]
When I first saw the Kalai’s from Olu Kai, I imagined myself wearing these out to dinner in Hawaii or waiting for summer to roll around in Seattle so I could show them off at a BBQ or two. As it turns out, they’ve been a great sandal for me in Italy. The fact that [...]
Over the past weekend, Zhang Mei spoke to The Communication University of China’s MBA to share her life experiences and entrepreneurial story. In addition to speaking engagements in China, Mei also travels annually to Harvard Business School to present the WildChina case study as she feels strongly about supporting and mentoring young entrepreneurs. During her [...]
WildChina and Nomadic Expeditions have teamed up to create an itinerary that highlights the best of their respective destinations. The result is Exploring China & Mongolia!, designed by WildChina, founder and president Mei Zhang, and Jalsa Urubshurow, founder of Nomadic Expeditions. Both Mei and Jalsa share a common passion for discovery as well as the honor [...]
I’m staying at Valle di Assisi Hotel located in a valley just a few miles from Assisi itself. Yesterday, a few of us who are here for the Travel Bloggers Unite conference, walked into town (someone calculated our roundtrip walk at about 9 miles!). It’s been a long time since I’ve traveled in Italy (12 [...]
WildChina Expert Steven Schwankert was recently profiled in The Wall Street Journal in “The Most Important British Vessel Sunk Off the Chinese Coast You’ve Never Heard Of.” Steven Schwankert is founder of SinoScuba, Beijing’s first professional scuba diving operator. Along with training hundreds of students how to scuba dive, he is the East Asia Chapter [...]
WildChina is thrilled to announce that Tea and Horse was selected by National Geographic Traveler as one of the top 50 Tours of a Lifetime. The most daunting trade route in the world, passing through the mightiest mountain range on Earth, the Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road linked the fertile emerald teas of Yunnan and [...]
WildChina is excited to hear that The Poverty Line will be featured as one of the solo shows at the upcoming Caochangdi Photospring Festival 2012. The festival is jointly organized by Thinking Hands, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre and Les Rencontres d’Arles. The Poverty Line sets out to explore a simple question. “What does it mean to be [...]
Passing through Shanghai’s Old Town on a sun-soaked early spring day in mid-March, a colleague and I were halted in our tracks by a charming local custom. On the 15th of every month, a group of retirees earns a bit of extra money by offering cheap public haircuts right on the sidewalk — and they [...]
Looking for a special event space in Beijing? Need to really WOW your guests? When WildChina has a client that is looking for an extra special location, we look no further than The Temple Beijing for an incredible evening. A guaranteed success, full of style and fantastic service. Opened in Summer 2011, Temple Restaurant [...]