Dr.-Ing. Sorin Liviu Jurj

China was one of the smoothest, most modern, and most surprising countries I have visited. But I only understood how easy China can be after learning what to prepare in the right order. Before going, I thought the most important things would be flights, hotels, trains, and sightseeing tickets. They are important, of course. But [...]

After a very nice vacation in China, visiting Beijing, Shanghai, and Lijiang, we reached home in Germany today at around 1:20 in the morning. Yesterday, it was raining in Beijing. We took a taxi straight from the hotel to the airport, and I chatted with the taxi driver during the entire ride (thanks to translation [...]

Yesterday, the same guy from our hotel in Lijiang who helped us book a private car for the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain also booked a taxi to take us to the Lijiang Airport. In addition, an old man who works for the hotel carried our luggage from the hotel until the taxi pick-up location on [...]

As I mentioned yesterday, for today, we booked a private tour (the guy at our hotel here in Lijiang helped us book it this time and not Trip.com; we paid 388 x 2 = 776 CNY / 97 Euros in total for both of us) and went to see Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Yunshanping, Blue [...]

Today, we visited Jade Spring Park and its Black Dragon Pool, which offers a view toward Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. There was no entrance fee, and it was fully enjoyable. The water indeed looked like jade, having its distinct green jade color. On our way there, a guy saw me looking at Mao Zedong’s big [...]

Today, we skipped breakfast at the hotel because I didn’t want to be surprised again like I was yesterday, and went to have a croissant and something to drink nearby at a small bakery and coffee shop which we saw yesterday and thought was worth a try, especially after reading the text „Love arrives through [...]

The last two days in Shanghai were spent enjoying some walking and shopping around Nanjing Road. We also did a caricature drawing, but I didn’t like how one of the girls there drew us; it didn’t look at all like us :)) However, I had a good laugh in a clothes shop, where, while waiting [...]

Today we took a taxi and went to visit the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum here in Shanghai. It is a huge building on several levels with a modern design. At the entrance, we bought two tickets for 90 CNY (11 euros). It was full of school kids everywhere, mainly brought there by their teachers. [...]

We are both vegetarians. Dipty since birth due to being raised in a Hindu family, me since February 2014 due to a natural phenomenon I wrote about here before. Therefore, because we are both foodies, and pretentious when it comes to vegetarian food choices, when we recommend something, we mean it. Today, we discovered a [...]