Dalian - China's Romantic City

 

China Eastern Airline
(Photo was taken through Iphone)

DALIAN, Liaoning, China - On board Singapore Airline flight SQ828 on January 7, 2013 at 7:30 am from Singapore, I arrived in Shanghai, China Pudong International Airport. It was a 5-hour flight and I landed at 12:30 pm. I transferred from terminal 2 to terminal 1 to take China Eastern airline to Dalian. This is my third time to come to China but it is my first time to take connecting flight via Shanghai. My previous trips to Dalian were through Beijing.

I arrived in Dalian at 6:30 pm after a 1- and-a-half hour flight. The temperature then was -8 degrees. This is my first time to experience this very cold weather. The coldest I had was in New York and in Seoul, Korea in 2007 at -3 degrees. Despite the cold weather outside the airport, my driver still asks me to walk for about 300 meters to go to the car park. It was really freezing outside.  



Dalian City
(Photo was taken through Iphone from my hotel room)

Dalian is the second biggest city in Liaoning province (north China). Prior to my assignment to Dalian, I didn't know anything about the city. But I was surprised that the city is very progressive. I can say that business development and beauty of nature are both maintained in the city.

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Sunset Series - Renmin Square - Dalian, China



Sunset at Renmin (People's) Square, Dalian, China
Photo was taken through Iphone

DALIAN, Liaoning, China - To continue with the photo of sunset series.

4. Sunset at Renmin (People's) Square - Dalian, China. I was walking around Dalian city during the cold winter season in January 2013 when I came across the sunset at People's Square. It was very cold at -11 degrees during that time but I was still manage to stay for a while and take photos of the sunset.

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Interesting Places in the World - Part 1



Merlion at
Singapore Changi Airport 

SINGAPORE - Interestingly, I've been to several cities and countries that are considered top performing in their own areas. However, Singapore, was one of the countries included in all the three categories of world's top airports in 2012, most expensive cities in the world - 2013 and least corrupt countries -2013.

1. The World's Top Airports 2012 according to

www.worldairportawards.com. The results are based on 12 million passenger surveys completed during a 10-month survey period, covering over 385 airports.
The survey evaluates the total passenger experience across 39 airport service and product features, from arrival at an airport, through transit and departure processes to the boarding gate. Based on the results, I've been to 5 out of the top 10 in the list.

1. Incheon (Korea) International Airport

2. Singapore Changi Airport

3. Hong Kong International Airport

4. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

5. Beijing Capital International Airport

6. Munich Airport

7. Zurich Airport

8. Kuala Lumpur International Airport

9. Vancouver International Airport

10. Central Japan International Airport

2. Most Expensive Cities to Live in the World - 2013 - The Economist ranked the cities included based on the cost of products and services, such as gas, food, rent and transportation. The whole report was published at www.huffingtonpost.ca. I've been to 4 out of the 10 in the list. 

Tokyo Japan
Photo was taken while on the way
to Narita Airport



1. Tokyo
2. Osaka
3. Sydney
4. Oslo
5. Melbourne
6. Singapore
7. Zurich
8. Paris

9. Caracas (almost, when I was still in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)

10. Geneva 
3. The Corruption Perceptions Index (www.transparency.org) ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 - 100, where 0 means that a country is perceived as highly corrupt and 100 means it is perceived as very clean.


Wellington, New Zealand
Photo was taken through Iphone

A country's rank indicates its position relative to the other countries and territories included in the index. This year's index includes 176 countries and territories. Certain countries have the same scores with other countries on certain spots. I've been to 5 out of 15 countries in the list.

1. Denmark

1. Finland

1. New Zealand

4. Sweden

5. Singapore

6. Switzerland

7. Australia

7. Norway

9. Canada

9. Netherlands

11. Iceland

12. Luxembourg

13. Germany

14. Hongkong

15 Barbados

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