Asia

15-day Celebration of the Chinese New Year

Asia

Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. This year on February 3rd the country will be entering a year of the creative, however incredibly private Rabbit. Since the Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year is based on the Chinese calendar which is partially being founded on lunar cycles, this [...]

The Oldest Hotel In The World

Asia

As it is written the Guinness Book of World Records, the oldest hotel even now in operation is the Hoshi Ryokan, in Komatsu,  Japan which you may not imagine but opened as early as in 718. The hotel has been run by the exact same family for  over forty generations. The origins of Houshi, the [...]