We spent a good Tuesday evening on the streets of Shanghai. It's reall a beautiful city. We spent some time at the riverside admiring the impressive skyline while being pushed around from every side. These people have not heard of personal bubbles and they are very touchy and do not leave room for you to even catch a breath. We did find a train ...

Well, our dream of updating the travel blog while in China obviously didn't come true once we left Beijing. Given that most of our computers are made in China you would think they might have an internet cafe or two. Alas, no. For those who didn't check it out, I uploaded a bunch of photos taken with my iPhone to my blog at: http://bentusher.blog...

After getting off the train, we went to our hotel and freshened up. The whole group went out for dumplings and I ordered a mysterious soup that turned out to be some sort of sweet water with a white leafy type of mushroom in it. Not exactly delicious, but not bad. We took a bus out to the Terracotta warriors, which were really amazing. It is a h...

the train ride from beijing to xi'an was interesting. at this point me and my friend had just been speaking english, so other english speakers were kind of drawn to us. me and kai were just chilling and this dude walked over and was like so you guys are american? it turned out he was another chinese american from california who needed someone to...

Hello! I'm still having fun in china! Been up to lots of things so not had time to update this blog, so finally catching up! Going to just write short entries for each place we visited so that it comes up on the map for you all- aren't i nice!! Anyway, hope you are all well? It's been lovely hearing from some of you, realy want to hear what's be...

6 May 06 - 7 May 06 After a very enjoyable week in Beijing, here we are, in Beijing train station, for our first public transportation experience in China. And guess what? Despite 8 train stations to be confused with, and many concurrent trains leaving Beijing, we not only had no worries boarding our sleeper train, but it turned out to be a very...

I'm writing today from Xian china's anciant capital and famed for the nearby "army of teracotta warriors" (one of the locations on last years "amazing race") its nice but once again another overly polluted and not very backpack frienly chinese cities. I left Beijing after a few lazy days and a stop at the Military Museum which was hilariously gr...

On my birthday all the volunteers went out to karoke. It was one of the other volunteer's birthday also, and we were presented with an extremely large cake from i-to-i. We then went to Xian's most famous nightclub "1+1". The cutting of the cake was filmed, and I have been given a copy. Last Saturday I went to the Banpo Neolithic Village with one...