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The golden middle

A travel blog entry by 2enma5ter

... wall 90 minutes later. It wasn't until we did a little picnic on one of the towers that I realized I just fulfilled my life long dream to one day walk on the Great Chinese Wall. And boy did we take a hike. Simatai is the part of the original wall, not restored for lazy tourists. It has been there for half a century and it has taken its toll. At one point the wall was mabye a meter wide, but at exactly that point no tourists will trouble you in your attempt to enjoy ...

Last Train to Xi'an Central

A travel blog entry by matfloyd

... far side, Dan’s bowels made a sound not unlike when you are draining a bath and it gets almost to the end. He looked at me in sheer horror “Oh my god, we’ve got to hurry”, we quickened our pace, at one point we saw a public toilet and Dan literally ran in, five seconds later he ran out “Jesus, you should see the state of it in there, plus it’s a squatter, I could end up with this all over me legs! Ill clench, but ...

Baikal - The Long Way to Beijing from Kamchatka!

A travel blog entry by planetlars

... flight on Saturday morning, 21st July at 02:10 hours. But ah Kamchatka! Man it was worth it! If only to whet my appetite. I can already see that several weeks are required to immerse yourself into brown bear country and salmon spawnings (the planet's biggest in fact), as well as more volcanoes and their craters and lakes and a sense of wilderness I could taste while up the volcanoes slide, where just one or two very industrious mosquitoes managed to find me! I met a ...

She Moves In Her Own Way

A travel blog entry by magentadreams

I am embarrassed to say I don't know much about Tian’anmen Square. I know no more about it having visited. And I don’t think the Chinese know much about it either. It was pretty big with lots of statues of communists scattered around, looking strong and brave – apparently "the people’s heroes". There was huge emphasis on “the people” and “the workers”. Apart from that ...

Forbidden City Lets The Murrays In

A travel blog entry by k1k2k3s1murray

... tour that I thought I should slow down on the picture taking, but then when I looked through the photos I realized I should have shot another 50 or so to get the full effect.

Upon learning that the Emperor had 3,000 wives, some of the men in our tour group felt that maybe 9,999 rooms, and miles of grounds were not enough!!?! Not Ken though… he could never understand wanting to be that far away from ...