America Asia’s Bus Tours Are Worth Not Knowing Mandarin

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • June 15, 2016
Has this ever happened to you? You’re at a National Park or someplace tranquil, finding your moment of Zen, when all of a sudden, you sense a disturbance in the Force. A bus pulls up, and within seconds, hundreds of photo-snapping tourists pour...
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