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The city, sites, and people of Beijing with Dane Hodges
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Dane Hodges climbs Great Wall Mutianyu,China |
Dane flew into Tianjin and after several nights exployering the old port city, the little traveller took the 90 mile 24 minute bullet train ride to the south Beijing station. Ancient Peking in the hutong region is as charming as Beijing is amazing. The sights are fantastic, and the public transportation representative of Chinese
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Dane Hodges near Angkor Wat moat, Cambodia |
Cambodia occupies 181,040 square kilometers of peninsular Southeast Asia. Modern Cambodia is bordered by Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and the Gulf of Thailand, which is a part of the South China Sea. It is all that remains of the once-powerful Khmer empire that flourished in the ninth through the twelfth centuries and dominated much of mainland Southeast Asia. The population is approxamatly 12 million.
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Thailand...touring Siam with Dane Hodges
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Travel day in Siam, Dane Hodges |
Everyone loves Thailand is a common comment among tourists and travelers; Thailand has it all is another. It’s no surprise to anyone who has ever been there that it is the most popular destination in all of Asia, and the title is well disserved.
Dane Hodges LOVES Thailand, and how could you not? Whether you prefer the southern beaches, the mountainous north, the jungles of
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| Fire one, Dane Hodges and Mom snow play in Cincy |
Dane Hodges finally plays America! Dane was tasked with ranking his 2011 travels that included 29 flights, four train trips, 14 countries, and most every means of transportation one could imagine from rickshaws and elephants to Jeepneys, baht buses, bullets, to flat bottom river rafts, and some would be stunned by the results!
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Imagine thousands of islands and then spread them across millions of square miles in the vast southwest Pacific, then open yours eyes to a beach that runs as far as you can see...welcome to Micronesia; a land lost in time.
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Dane Hodges plays with Japanese WWII canon, Saipan |
Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is distinct from Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the
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Borneo... Dane Hodges in the old rainforest
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Dane Hodges in rainforest canopy, Borneo |
The Borneo rainforest is 130 million years old, making it the oldest rainforest in the world and 70 million years older than the Amazon rainforest. Borneo is very rich in biodiversity compared to many other areas (MacKinnon et al. 1998). There are about 15,000 species of flowering plants with 3,000 species of trees (267 species are dipterocarps), 221
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Dane Hodges eats Pineapple rice with mom, Burma |
The history of Burma (Myanmar) covers the period from the time of first-known human settlements 11,000 years ago to the present day. The earliest inhabitants of recorded history were the Pyu who entered the Irrawaddy valley from the north c. 1st century BCE. By the 4th century CE, the Pyu had founded several city states as far south as Prome (Pyay), and adopted Buddhism. Farther south, the Mon, who had entered from |
Kuala Lumpur with Dane Hodges
Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of 243 km2 (94 sq mi), has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million. It is the fastest growing metropolitan region in the country, in terms of population and economy.
Kuala Lumpur is the seat of the Parliament of Malaysia. The |
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| Fire one, Dane Hodges and Mom snow play in Cincy |
Dane Hodges finally plays America! Dane was tasked with ranking his 2011 travels that included 29 flights, four train trips, 14 countries, and most every means of transportation one could imagine from rickshaws and elephants to Jeepneys, baht buses, bullets, to flat bottom river rafts, and some would be stunned by the |
Traveller Dane Hodges does SE Asia
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| Dane Hodges in the land of Lora Craft, Siem Reap, Cambodia | This blog details the travels of a young Micronesian boy, five year old Dane Hodges, and his exploits around the islands, from his home on the Northern Marianas Island of Saipan, and around the Pacific Rim and his East Asian neighborhood. Inspired by “Saipan: The World’s Greatest place to be a little boy” and expanded on 2011 adventures that included Korea, Japan, China,
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| Dane Hodges at the seaside windswept Kingfisher Links, Saipan |
Saipan AP - Six year old American Dane Hodges is the first US junior golfer to make a par in 2012, drilling a 12 foot down hill putt on the evil 6th of Kingfisher Golf Course at 7:45 am CST (5:45 EST 12-31-11). He just missed striking gold three holes earlier when his 20 foot par putt at the par 4 3rd slid left. After a 2011 year of travel and
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