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Travel Blogs from Baoding
Baoding Travel Guide
... and ceremonies are held in summer and autumn, so, they are the best season for visiting.
Local Highlights:
1.Local traditional operas: Haha-qiang of Qingyuan County, Baoding Laodiao (old tunes)
2.Local Folk Customs: Lion Dance of Xushui County, Shadoe Play of Zhuozhou City
3.Folk Music: Luogao Ancient Music of Laishui County
4.Handicrafts: Quyang Stone Carvings, Baigou Clay Figures, Yishui ...
Hard travel home
Dear Vermont, I am writing to you from the Gobi desert. In five days I return home -- but I am not the same Farrin I was when I left America a month ago. When I was told this trip would change me, I shrugged it off; everyone says that when they travel, and for me, nothing ever changed -- until now. Because of my disability, back home there were times when I felt like a one-woman traveling freak show. My limp took precedence ...
Olympi-mania
... advertisements featuring Olympic ping pong athletes...but it's truly low-profile there compared to Beijing. Topping our list, yesterday while eating dinner we watched a cartoon where the main characters were the Olympic mascots (designed to look like a panda, bird, antelope-thingy, torch, and fish). We also watched a 10-minute tea-pouring ceremony featuring ...
CHINA
I left on Saturday August 4,207 to board the flight that would take me to Detroit then take me all the way across the Pacific Ocean into Nirita Japan which is Tokyo Japan! This was not my first trip to China but every time I go it always feels like the first time. I had an old (Young) friend I have known for 20 years that I always stay with when I go, so the only expense ...
The Great Buddha
... to Chengdu, was too much for me today, so I told Sara that I would pay to rent a van for the day, which was about $50, that way we would be picked up at the hostel and dropped off at the hostel, pretty much door-to-door service. So after she agreed, we came back to the hostel and could not find a van that was available. But our good luck saved us one more time, in just 1 hour the people who went to see the pandas were due to come back ...