Category: Asia
Dance Workshop Videos from the 2025 Thailand Latin Extravaganza
Prior to my sabbatical to Southeast Asia, I’d taken almost a 6 year hiatus from dancing, as most of the communities that I’d been contracted to work at were in more rural areas of California. Needless to say, country line dancing was more the norm than any form of Latin Dance. I’d already had the ...
Dance Workshop Videos From the 2024 Saigon Latin Festival (Vietnam)
I will admit that prior to my trip to Asia, I had no idea how impassioned the people in the region were for dancing salsa, bachata, and kizomba. Here in Saigon, there has been opportunities to dance daily, and luckily my trip just happened to coordinate with the first Saigon Latin Festival. Much props to ...
Scooter Tour Through the Streets of Hanoi
Hello readers! Just wanted to let y’all know that I’ve uploaded a new video onto my YouTube travel channel. Anyone who’s visited Vietnam will know that the traffic here is quite intense, and that just crossing the street can be quite an adventure, haha! Hopefully this video is able to relay both the chaos and ...
Latin Dancing in Seoul
Arrived in Seoul a few days before my family last summer, so I decided to take the opportunity to check out the Latin scene back in the motherland (Yes, Koreans dance salsa, haha)!. Based on recommendations I’d seen online, I decided to check out Club Turn (the reputation being that they had some of the most hard-core dancers). My ...
Hotel Review: Ibis Seoul Ambassador Hotel, Seoul (South Korea)
“Great Value for the Location” I stayed at the Ibis Ambassador for two nights in June 2012, and was very happy with my overall experience. As past reviewers have stated, the rooms are relatively small, but as I only needed a place to rest my head at night, the room was perfectly suited to my ...
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