page_title: Calvin Sun
section_title: The Monsoon Diaries
hierarchical_section_title: Calvin Sun / Career / The Monsoon Diaries
caption_attribution_description: English: Calvin D. Sun, MD of The Monsoon Diaries, Returning to The Great Pyramids of Giza, December 2019
context_page_description: Calvin Datze Sun is an American emergency room doctor. He is the founder and CEO of the travel company, The Monsoon Diaries. Sun is notable for his first-hand reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City emergency rooms.
context_section_description: In 2010 while beginning medical school, Sun began to document his international travels in an online photo blog called The Monsoon Diaries. In 2011, Sun traveled to North Korea where he was one of the first foreigners to photograph and document his experience of accidentally discovering the mysterious hidden 5th floor of the Yanggakdo International Hotel, the largest hotel in North Korea. The 5th floor is a source of curiosity among many foreigners because it is off-limits to hotel guests.
  Around Winter 2012, as a way to organize the emerging ad hoc accidental travel blog turned community of fellow travelers, Sun turned his blog into a travel company so that participants can travel in spontaneously formed groups on budget-conscious loosely structured and last minute short trips while still being able to work full-time jobs and be in school full-time as Sun was still was at the time.
caption: The Great Pyramids, Winter 2019
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