John Saboe's Far East Travels

Starting in January 2019 I will be going live on Spreaker(app & desktop) and Periscope and opening up discussions on travel topics. This week discussing Lonely Planet's top 10 Destinations for Countries and Cities in 2019 and their Asian picks. I always look forward to seeing LP's destination picks every year and there was one surprise for me and one I'm so grateful they chose.For cities Shenzhen, China was a bit of a surprise being mostly a place to go to do tech business. Shenzhen is considered the Silicon Valley of Asia. Still according to LP they have a nightlife comparable to Hong Kong but less costly. Shenzhen is one of the easiest cities to visit in China now with a visa attainable at their port by most nationals , except USA and India, on arrival. Now that the high speed train from Hong Kong to Shenzhen is fully operational travel time is a mere 15 minutes. I was very happy to see Kathmandu on the list of recommended destinations for 2019 as the city and country still need alot of help in order to