Welcome to Where I Want to Go This Week in Travel. This new weekly series on Solo Female Traveler will focus on place. From every travel blog on my radar, I’ll peruse the posts of the week and pull out the destination-based pieces that capture my attention. Here I will showcase what I think are some of the most intriguing spots on the map of the world, as brought to life by travel bloggers.
Where I Want to Go This Week in Travel is all about the colorful, the powerful, the quirky, the enticing. Travel stories and articles that I include might be of stellar writing quality, they might highlight a destination I personally love or have long wanted to explore or bring to light for me a spot in the world of which I was unaware. They may tell a travel tale – one that makes me want to grab my passport and go, or makes me happy that I’m reading the story and not living it. My focus for Where I Want to Go This Week in Travel is any aspect of the power of the place.
Here’s what grabbed me this week:
Cumi and Ciki, two Malaysian bloggers who run an eponomous travel blog started off my week on an enticing and educational note in Mooncake Festival when I learned that little colorful cakes were used in overthrowing the Mongolian government during the Yuan Dynasty in China. If you want to experience this delicious and historical treat, now is the time to travel to Malaysia, as the Mooncake Festival is drawing nigh.
Kristin of Camels and Chocolate made me want to head immediately to tiny Mataking Island in Borneo, so lovely were her words and beautiful were her photos in Chasing Paradise. She had the intense pleasure of being on her honeymoon in this idyllic tropical locale, but I’d be happy even with just a solo trip.
The week then took a turn for the unexpected when I landed on a particularly wild story on Brendan’s Adventures. Brendan van Son tells an almost unbelievable tale of robbery and escape late one night in Panama City in The Last Time I Ever Got Robbed.
Amateurs in Africa bloggers Benny and Harty continued the trend toward the bizarre when they recounted what happened one night on a beach in Tofo, Mozambique. What do you do when you’re in a foreign country and a cop sexually attacks your friend? Read how they handled it in Don’t Shoot.
Marian, a guest blogger on Skool of Life, dished out yet another traveler’s nightmare – being thrown in jail for failure to produce evidence of onward travel after arriving at the airport in London. She gives her blow-by-blow account of her short life in the slammer in Social Media Lessons Taught by my 26-Hour Incarceration.
Do you have any enticing, unusual, incredible or thoroughly bizarre travel stories you’ll soon be posting? Let me know in the comments below, and I’ll go check them out for next week’s segment.
Thumbnail globes photo by John LeGear
Mooncake, I miss that….
My favourite mooncakes are very simple one: they have chocolate filling, or cheese filling. And it’s got to be from a particular mooncake maker from Surabaya. My Mom will come to Sydney soon, unfortunately mooncake is in the list of prohibited item for entering Australia
How many days you have left here? I wish you were here longer! We haven’t watched sunset in Opera House yet.
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Sabina Lohr Reply:
August 14th, 2010 at 04:22
You’ve eaten mooncakes?!!? They look incredible. I can believe they’re prohibited from entering Australia. The list of illegal items I read on the plane caused me to throw even a wrapped granola bar in the contraband bin. Maybe we can go watch the bats tomorrow?
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Thanks for the feature!!!
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Sabina Lohr Reply:
August 15th, 2010 at 17:56
Thanks for sharing such a wild story, Brandon. Any more?
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thank u for the shout out and hey, you’ve got a really cool blog here yourselves;) keep up the good blog:)
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Sabina Lohr Reply:
August 15th, 2010 at 17:57
Hi Ciki – I couldn’t resist those mooncakes and the history behind them. Very cool.
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Thanks for the love, Sabina! Will have to check out all the other links, too!
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Sabina Lohr Reply:
August 15th, 2010 at 17:58
I really liked your post and photos – particularly the one of you standing in the water – that was magazine cover quality.
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Awesome! thanks for sharing these guys…def good stories-especially “The last time I ever got Robbed.”
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Sabina Lohr Reply:
August 15th, 2010 at 17:58
Thanks a lot, Claire! That was one of my favs, too.
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Great post Sabina. Some of my favorites here, too.
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Sabina Lohr Reply:
August 16th, 2010 at 05:25
Why, thank you, Mike!
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Good stuff keep the way open
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Sabina Lohr Reply:
August 16th, 2010 at 05:26
Thanks, Stumble.
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Why does just the name “mooncake” sound so romantic, so sumptuous? Thank you for sharing your story – as well as Cumi and Ciki’s blog – with us!
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Sabina Lohr Reply:
August 16th, 2010 at 05:27
It does have a great name, doesn’t it?
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Great idea, Sabina. And you’ve chosen some very interesting blogs (some new to me)
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Sabina Lohr Reply:
August 16th, 2010 at 15:46
Thank you, Sophie! You travel so many interesting places. I watch your blog all the time.
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