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Travel Blogs from China
A Short Trip to Hangzhou, Suzhou and Shanghai (2)
This is a top pick! ... houses with gray-tiled roofs. Jump to: Shanghai Entry To view more photos of China, please follow the link below: ...
Goodbye China
This is a top pick! May17th Hong Kong The journey to Shenzen (the town on the border between Mainland China and the new territories) was one of the shortest but one of the most expensive we made in China and on boarding the train we realised why. A sleek Modern train with ...
Tibetan Home Life
This is a top pick! Another 4 hour drive brings us up steep roads that make us believe we really are intrepid travellers, but reward us with incredible views. Miles and miles of open countryside, with only low grassy vegetation, make for sweeping vistas. We travel for miles ...
Village Life
This is a top pick! An Aini household works hard to keep everything going, and it seemed that the grandmother--like our Abu, who guided us on our four-day hike visiting Aini villages in Xishuangbanna--was the heart of it. Our Abu, like the woman ...
Farewell to China and Tibet
This is a top pick! ... its work. However, due to the African-Asian summit, it was closed the whole time I was in Beijing. I really enjoyed seeing China's cities, seeing her various landscapes, and meeting her people, but I can't imagine living under such what is to me still a ...
It's the Final Countdown...
This is a top pick! As I pen this entry, I'm overwhelmed by a decent wave of bittersweet. I can't believe I'm leaving China. In some senses, I feel like I've been here forever. It's incredible how quickly you adapt to a place and how familiar you become with a certain way ...
Wo bu ming bai!
This is a top pick! ... ; - everyone seems drunk as they drive. (Not really Mom and Dad, they're just a little crazy.) China's notorious pollution is definitely present, although we are told that Kaifeng is a much cleaner city than others. Erin, ...
The Mysterious Qiadam Depression
This is a top pick! Here you will find notes of our travels from Lhasa across the Tibetan Plateau to Golmud in the Qinghai province of China. We leave Lhasa, not initially for the Tibetan Plateau, but for Ganden monastery about 50km East of Lhasa. The road out of Lhasa ...
Mahaffy's Travels
This is a top pick! The trip back to Hong Kong to pick up my parents was pretty uneventful, minus Phil's detergent-induced dermatologic emergency... (I thought the last few entries lacked dramatic tension; a big thanks to Phil for providing some new material) So we ...
Hong Kong
This is a top pick! Is this really China (or should we say more accurately a "Special Administrative Region of China"? This is cosmopolitanism at its bold and so often flash best. The welcome sound of English in the air and on meaningful signs was sheer bliss. The stark ...
will you be my moon cake?
This is a top pick! Tuesday was Mid-Autumn Festival, China's second biggest festival. It's a time where you come together with your family and your lovers to sit and watch the full moon while eating moon cakes, a circular Asian form of marzipan, but ...
The road to Lhasa
This is a top pick! ... , which was quite a culinary treat to go along with our 2 chunks of pineapple. Apparently, we ordered the "dieter's breakfast" from China Air. Lhasa is very different from what I expected. It's about 70% Chinese, although there is a constant stream of ...
Tian'anmen Square
This is a top pick! ... student protesters. There is no mention of what happened, no memorial plaque, nothing. That is the eery part of China, the authoritarian stranglehold on information over its people. While China is slowly changing to accommodate the new wealth and market ...
Beijing - Part 1
This is a top pick! ... Tiananmen Square massacre in '89, there is now a huge flower garden in the centre, a replica of the Great Wall of China, and various other statues and gaudy minatures of Chinese tourist attractions. Even so, the square is still pretty big! It was ...
Surfing The Himalayas
This is a top pick! After leaving Lhasa and we continued to climb in elevation, the weather got continually colder. Over the next few days, we climbed in altitude to over 4400, then 4800, then finally to 5200 meters at Everest Base camp!!! Since my pack only ...
CHINA!
This is a top pick! ... Wearily waking to arrive in Beijing airport, I am greeted by sparkling marble floors and walls, fantastic artwork and replicas depicting China's treasures and the epitomy of modernity, the ATM machine. Which I promptly use, after I visit the flush toilets ...
January 11, 2005
This is a top pick! ... is the case, since I don't think I can handle any more trips to the dentist. I have had quite enough of them while in China and can safely cross that off the list of things to experience. Rola felt so bad afterwards that she dragged me to her house so ...
The Eighth Wonder of the World
This is a top pick! ... have made a change to our itinerary, after speaking to some fellow travellers we have learnt that flights are relatively cheap in China. We decided to book a flight to South Korea from Beijing. This will be much more convenient than trying to get a ferry ...
A HIGHlight of travelling
This is a top pick! Our illegally hired jeep snaked its way through the very roughly dug out road. Actually, it wasn't a road. A track or bumpy lane better describes it. Derek, Brendan, Myself, Gary and Helen - don't know the name of the driver so his adopted name was ...
Thanksgiving in the P.R.C.
This is a top pick! ... So naturally, Ben and I investigated how to build ovens on the Internet. Thanksgiving in China had begun. Opting to forgo our original plan (dinner at KFC) we decided that we ...
A Very Kaifeng Christmas
This is a top pick! ... they technically don't celebrate. The hotel celebration was indicative of a lot about Chinese culture and where China is headed. According to a lot of my students, Christmas wasn't even on the Chinese cultural calendar ten ...
Tour de Tibet - Part 2
This is a top pick! Day 4 Gyantse Due to some poor planning we ended up having a rest day in Gyantse. This was not all bad as we could use the rest and because Gyantse is probably one of the best towns in Tibet. Almost all of the architecture is Tibetan (not Chinese) and ...
December 7, 2004
This is a top pick! ... Heng Shan, which lies at the base of the Heng Shan mountain. The mountain is one of the five sacred Taoist mountains in China. Buddhists and Taoists both live on the mountain, in the many temples dotting the landscape. We stayed the night with the kids ...
Pingyao is lovely
This is a top pick! Hi there, We did manage to get out of Datong, although we were a bit worried we would be stuck there for a couple of days as there was no train tickets and no direct buses for saturday. However the helpful man who organised our taxi for the caves got us ...
Yangshuo to Nanning
This is a top pick! ... find 3 and 4 star hotels. Nanning is a town with nothing for backpackers other than a Vietnamese consulate and a way out of China. We stupidly travelled to Nanning on a Saturday. The consulate was shut on Sundays so we had a day there with ...
October 8, 2004
This is a top pick! ... departed on the evening of October first, which is National Day. This is also one of the worst times to travel in China, which became very apparent when we reached the train station in Changsha. The waiting room at the station teemed with people-hundreds ...
Mimi is in Shanghai
This is a top pick! Mimi arrived in Shanghai with all her luggage. She got a SIM card for her cell phone, which I just called. I have the map pin on Mimi's home in Shanghai. It is right on her home because the map can be zoomed in a lot when entering ...
Beijing - more sights and sounds
This is a top pick! ... it in Mariska's words "Stupid Chinese why did they have to build a silly wall anyway?????? why not the Great swimming pool of China????" (in dutch accent) and we had to agree.......that is until we reached the top of our climb and could see the wall in ...