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Fall in love with Gulangyu Island

A travel blog entry by chinaholiday

Lead：Gulangyu Island is not like those attractions which are full of adventures fun. Instead, it is mature enough, but still stays fresh and charming. It got through a hundred years of trials and hardships beside the South China Sea, but did not make people feel depressed because of its heavy history. It is said that only wear slipper one Gulangyu Island, will he feel like really stay in Gulangyu Island. You do not need to hurry to see ...

Views of Xiamen

A travel blog entry by tveldstra

Well, my time here in Xiamen is almost up. I have three more days left and they will go by fast. So I'll bundle up and try to stay warm through them all. The temperature isn't that cold but when it is the same temperature inside as outside, you begin to feel it.

Here are some pictures of different places around Xiamen. Click on the pictures for more ...

Xiamen Round 2

A travel blog entry by tveldstra

... medicine.

Chinese cooking is my favorite class in China. Yili also teaches that. We make a dish and then we eat it. Then we cook another! Today we made four dishes; Ma Po Doufu, Tomato Soup, Bok Choy with Oyster Sauce, and Stir-Fried Greens. I was amazed at the simplicity of the foods. It took longer to prepare the ingredients than it did to cook the foods. Stir-Fried Greens was romaine lettuce with garlic and sesame oil. For ...

三十年一回首

A travel blog entry by sdfz

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土楼 Tulou

A travel blog entry by tveldstra

... rest of the bus ride was spent talking to Harry. We swapped questions about history, grammar, politics, and religion. We even told each other stories that we grew up hearing. He told me about Meng Jiang N� (“The Woman Named Meng Jiang”) and Niu Lang and Zhi N� (“The Cowboy and the Weaver Maid”) and the Monkey King.

Lunch was provided with the tour. A few kilometers before the Tulou, we stopped at a house for lunch. According to Harry, the lunch was local ...