Xichang Mingren Hotel

... So the boys walked me back to the hotel and I told them to go out without me. I did my business, drank some sprite, took pepto (thanks Dad for making me bring that to China) and was in and out of sleep. The boys stopped in with some food (which I did not could not eat...I think I had a bite and wanted to vomit) and a few of our friends who were in Xichang as well (because they were on their way to the ...

... tradition, they have preserved their ancient matriarchal system and the tradition of "walking marriage." After puberty, a Mosuo girl is free to receive men. But they can only visit at night and must go to their own homes in the morning. Any children born from these relationships are raised by the mother's family. The father will raise his sisters' children. Read the rest of the story at http://english.people.com.cn/90001/9078 2/90874/6666642.html

So the journey continues...down in Xichang...and its actually warm!!! yey! I've been freezing like crazy every since I got to China but now it is definately t shirt weather....I'm so happy! Xichang is a great little city (well little for China) with everything you expect from a Chinese city: bright lights and swish hotels, big markets with local farmers selling their crazy produce, litter in the streets, pollution, and lots and lots of people ...

... tommorow morning to a Monestary way up in the clouds 4,000+ metres i think ......a place called MULI.....the scenery on the way up there is supposed to be Spectacular (8 hours of it!).......so i cant wait to stick on the mp3 player and lose myself in it. Hope your all good back home doing your shizzle ................miss you guys (a little) when im not thinking that im Becks.................. hey that reminds me ............a good couple of girls have told me that im a ...

... food and children running inside balls on water. You heard me right. Look at the pictures. So we walked around for a while. Talked to a man with a cigarette and a baby without a diaper, who I ended up holding in a picture with him. Then after the chinese saw that, there was a line for us haha. And neither of us had showered for a day or so. How fun. After we looked at some of the festivities we decided to climb to the temple. This turned into a pilgrimage ...

... practice in the Mosuo community (where a woman is free to choose her lover and ask him to stop seeing her when the relationship is over) you can catch a facsimile of this practice re-enacted nightly as part of the song-and-dance story of the Mosuo people. It is performed by community performers at tourist theatres in the bigger villages of Luoshui. What you do not see behind the scenes is the community-based effort of putting on the show, with each household contributing ...

Sure, the recent quake didn't create as many ripples or headlines as the big one which struck Sichuan in May, but last month's shake has created more problems for the people affected: Race against winter in quake zone By Wu Jiao (China Daily) Updated: 2008-09-04 06:44 Comments() PrintMail The country is racing against time to rebuild homes and set up temporary shelters for many of the 1.2 million people displaced by the Panzhihua earthquake. A ...

... next two weeks, said Liu Jie, chief forecaster of the Beijing-based Chinese Seismographic Information Center, on Saturday. And here's an update: CHENGDU: Thirty-two people have died, more than 400 injured and over 100,000 homes destroyed or damaged after an earthquake hit Sichuan and Yunnan provinces around 4:30 pm on Saturday. The epicenter of the 6.1-magnitude quake, which has affected 500,000 people, was about 30 km southeast of Panzhihua city, near the ...

... as a traveler is (are you ready) having NO schedule, being in no rush, and open to alternate ideas. I realize a good deal of people can't abide by this policy, but it works for some of us! So, with no way out of town today, I decided to head for the mountains. There is one in particular that is famous with the locals as it is loaded with temples and monestaries. What I didn't expect was the group of monkeys that seemed to have the run of the ...

... fancy consumer spending, I'm sure most people go down the side street for their daily household purchases. In fact, I bet this change in the way people shop affects the social fabric in general, because the Chinese depend so much on interpersonal connections when doing business. I imagine people go to the same stall for their vegetables, the same back alley store for kitchen supplies, the same family friend to fix their bicycle, etc. Even Americans do that when we ...