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Tianjin Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Tianjin, China
The Ox and the Mulberry
This is a top pick! ... the historical county seat and provincial walled city, Xidi and Hongcun are living testament to old, small-town life in China. A couple of hours from the hostel, Hongcun and Xidi are nestled within the foothills of the Yellow Mountains, surrounded by ...
Qin Haung Dao-The Starting Point of the Great Wall
This is a top pick! ... was great. I took pics of tons of farmers with donkeys, horses, and all sorts of what I had thought were outdated methods. China is still a third world country after all, even though Beijing does not seem third world in any respect (except maybe the ...
The time we went to the Wall.
... and made it happen. The plan was to take a train out to Jixian which is a small town on the outskirts of the Tianjin Municipality - think of it as going from Wellington up to Woodville. Jixian has a beautiful section of the wall that is no where near as ...
Only in China
... have any good suggestions, comment and Ill add them! Also think of things that will make great stories, or pictures!!! Only in China List 1. Hickey chakra cupping treatment - done!!!!!(see picture if you do not know what this is) 2. Ride in a rickshaw ...
Back by Popular Demand
... to. The other reason being that after the excitement and adventure of our trip down south, we haven't really done much in Tianjin by comparison. But as our families are clearly getting restless with the lack of blogs from the Red Country here goes: On ...
What I Learned in China - Day 10 - Tour Groups
... going to, there are always tour guides to take groups around and point out places of interest. While I have been exploring Tianjin alone, I have found that following these groups, no matter what language they speak, will always lead me towards something ...
Enjoying our days off
... Mandarin lesson with our other teacher Apple. She is very nice and spent some time studying in Australia so understands how different China is for us. After our lesson we decided to get some lunch at the shopping mall by the metro station, ...
China... I have arrived!
... cool places! Tianjin's Water Park: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianjin_Water_Park Tianjin Eye: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianjin_Eye Tianjin's TV Tower: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianjin_Radio_and_Television_Tower Love from Tianjin ...
The week/weekend that was
... day! He gave the impression that the restaurant was only a side venture to him and he showed me a copy of two of Tianjin’s biggest English language magazines which he said he was involved in publishing. When I told him what I had studied he wanted ...
Our first Beijing Christmas & New Year
... was a semi fast train. We reached a speed of 150 km per hour, and we watched the city & countryside whizz by. Arriving in Tianjin, we got a taxi which was a short ride to the hotel, the Astor. The hotel was opened in 1963 and restored in 2010, it ...
Teaching two year olds English
... were absolutely delighted to find out that I was another Kiwi. They were from "The Mount" (Tauranga) and were over in China for some sort of Drag race competition. One of their friends was even from Pukekohe, (I vaguely recognised the name, ...
What I Learned in China - Day 4 - Sidewalks
Sidewalks are not reserved for walking on. Sidewalks on side streets are used for extra parking, or storage. Walking a few blocks somewhere will require going into the street several times to go around obstacles on the ...
Good Bye China & See You Again
... Actually it would not have even taken that long, but I had to stop a while to put in the items just purchased in Tianjin earlier today into the bags, hence I needed another 10 minutes of packing time as well. Once inside ...
Ancient Culture Street and Tianjin Eye
... the tourist location that everyone has been telling me to go to. I took a taxi from the hotel to a very popular place in Tianjin called Ancient Culture Street. My taxi driver assumed that I didn't know where we were going and took me for a ride, although ...
新年好 - Xin Nian Kuai Le!
... form Spring Festival not much has changed for us since our last post. We have gotten right into our routine again of living in China with gym, badminton, Chinese class and teaching taking up most of our time. We start work again on the 20th of Feb and ...
What I Learned in China - Day 7 -Morning Dumplings
I still have a lot to learning about the different kinds of dumplings, but at the hotel they serve a few different kinds in the morning. They do not have English name cards so finding out what is inside them has been a trial and error kind of system. ...
Day 1 All Aboard
We have been waiting to board the Voyager for a long time and today is the day. We had a wonderful buffet breakfast at the Peninsula where there was a host of items to choose from. We met this gal named Abigail and invited her to have ...
On Dry Land Again
... . Antique town is a kilometer from the Orange and the traditional style buildings there are a sharp contrast to modern Tianjin. Michelle found a shop with a back room full of knock-off fake products. The little daypack she decided on ...
The weekend that was and the KTV experience
... smart phone on Monday morning! We went along with our boss James who is a techno-junkie and he showed us the Tianjin Electronics Market. Its basically a shopping mall about the size of St Luke's and across the five floors they sell nothing but electronic ...
Our time in Tianjin comes to a close
The rest of our time in Tianjin went by pretty quickly. After the excitement and disturbed sleep of Spring Festival we got back into our routine of teaching, learning, gym and badminton. Even though we were in a strange country we were now starting to ...
Summer school, math classes and a leg of lamb.
... spices are before we leave. Check out the pics for more info! Tonight we are off to visit the night market in Tianjin. Hopefully we can find some interesting things there (I'm sure we will- just walking down the street can be interesting) and ...
High-Speed Train Ride Tianjin
... that killed 40 people a couple of weeks ago, we decided to take a high-speed Inter-City train to the neighboring town of Tianjin (a distance of 117 kilometers). The change to the shorter trip also saved me a little over $900.00. The ride is ...
Baby Dumplings
Last weekend, I accomplished one of only two requests that my mom made prior to me coming to China: I learned how to make dumplings. The process was quite complex, and I'm not sure if I could successfully recreate the entire process; but who knows what an ...
Tianjin, my home from home
... !!) It's the kind of opportunity and experience you couldn't get any where else but China. The multi-cultural atmosphere is amazing. Every time I visit, Tianjin has completely changed. Crazy city! All as a result of the 'Beijing Hutong Development' ...
One third of the way!
... the park. After Chinese class on Tuesday we both went for a walk in the opposite direction toward the river and the massive Tianjin World Financial Centre Tower. This building is HUGE and can be seen from most places in Tianjin - well the places we ...
Pan Mountain
... that I went to the Air Craft Carrier with. This month the trip was to Pan Mountain. This is a large mountain North of Tianjin in the same mountain range as the Great Wall Mountains. It has several different Buddhist monasteries on the on the mountain as ...
Getting to know the neighbourhood
... sense of direction, thanks to the mapping function on Steph's smartphone, we set off from our apartment building in the sweltering Tianjin heat and humidity. After fumbling around for a few minutes we managed to get headed in the right direction and soon ...