3 weeks is not enough for Chinese Heaven!

Pandas! Great food! Great wall! Forbidden city! Hakka houses! Trekking! Rice terraces! Tibet! Yangzi river cruise! Sparkling Hong Kong! Amazing Shanghai! Meditation! Lovely kids!

And only 3 weeks… to get the most of one of world’s oldest cultures. more than 4 thousands years of history in 21 days! Oh God! Why didn’t you make weeks longer? Life is so cruel!

The plan for my first trip to China is:

Landing in Beijing, head directly to Donghuamen night market and get lost into the food zoo! Wake up against the time lag and delight my camera with the colors of Panjiayuan market. After this great introduction, Great Wall day trip here I am!!!! I’m coming with all my winter gear to trek the biggest wall China has got to the world!

Before leaving Beijing, I’ll taste the sin in the Forbidden City, purify my soul in Lama Temple and simple breath and feel the joy of being again in Asia!

Xi’an! Terracotta Warriors and more food at Muslim Quarter!

Pandas, now it’s time to introduce myself: Anca, your fan #1! Get ready to pose for me and with me! Lovely teddy bears, book your time to be awake for me!

Well.. they say that if you meet the angels it means you are in the Heaven. And there I’ll be for more than a week: Lijiang, Shangri La, Guiling, Dragon Backbone Rice Terraces and end up with a short visit to Hakka round houses. I’ll trek, get lost into the stunning landscapes, breath fresh air, learn from locals, be with locals, live China!

My trip will end in sparkling Hong Kong. Fireworks over Victoria harbor on New Year, Macau, and more food! Double decker tram! Culinary delights – places of perdition, I can’t wait for you!!!!

China, open well your arms and chest of goodies coz Anca is coming to live you!!!

I miss Asia badly!

Walking on a dirty street, under a crazy heavy monsoon rain, with earsplitting honks around me. Sleeping with earplugs. No hair mouse or short skirts. Spicy food, too much good food! Delicious sweets! Jewelries, impossible of being forgotten home. What is normal? What is logic?

This is the life I quit one and half years ago. And now, when planing my trip to China I feel a part of me is there, or a part of it is in me.

I miss Asia badly!

The first thing I’ll do when getting to Beijing is going to eat! Asian food! I know I’ll get lost, I will whine when feeling the smells, but I will feel: God! I so much missed Asia!!!

Then I’ll go to check out the random markets, street foood!!! Food!

Food! Food! People! Smiles! Break my patterns! Forget about what is normal.

Asia, here I come!

I have a dream: quit my job and go travel!

I can’t stop thinking about it, every day, every morning when I wake up to go to work, almost every moment of my life. It is what makes me study, run, smile, love life and work hard every single day. I’m like a drug addicted who lives to get her next doses – I live to travel, but with a loooooong life.  I already scheduled my trips for the next 2-3 years and I have plans to travel till I will be an old grandma’.

A year ago I said I traveled enough for the moment and it’s time to settle for a while. I truly though I can stop any time. I can manage it, I said to myself. But here I am, spending the 2nd weekend in Bucharest after 3 months.  How do I feel? Fidgety! I’m already looking forward for the girls escape on Halloween.

It’s time to face the reality and admited! I’m addicted. I can’t handle it any more. Do I need help? No, thank you, I’m fine with my current doses of trips. Till when? I don’t know, but I know one day, I’ll quit my job, get an one way ticket to somewhere (most probably Latin America) without no plan, live the moment and with no final destination or date defined.

I have a dream: quite my job and go travel with no plans!