Jade City

... , glaciers, animals and interesting towns to see as well as many man-made items including totem poles, wood chainsaw carvings, and jade jewelry. There are gold dredges along the road in many places and numerous places to pull over to soak up the scenery ...

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... you couldn't look anyway cause of the rough road, so just as well.  Spent the night in the parking lot of the jade jewelry store (they advertised free overnight RV parking, so....) and I escaped with buying only one pair of jade earrings (so much ...

... it would take about an hour and a half. Well we could not maintain 50 miles per hour, and we arrived two hours later at a jade store. Actually it was two jade stores, one on each side of the narrow highway with no shoulders. It was our first stop on our ...

... Fuji in Japan (3776 meters or 12,388 ft) and only 143 meters shorter than Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia. Jade Mountain National Park（玉山國家公園）is just past Alishan National ...

... testing my resolve to do so. I was wondering if I was going to have to grow wings before I could actually make it to Jade Mountain. I called the Tataka Visitor Center and got James on the line. I informed him of the sheer impossibility of making it to ...

... to the Jade Museum (they weren't there in the end). The Jade Museum was pretty impressive with a huge collection of pre-Columbian Jade carvings. There was a lot of info on the daily lives of the people back then and what their function in society was. ...

... Ho Chi Minh City. The guy from my hotel took me around to the three pagodas I wanted to see.  We started with the Jade Emperor Pagoda.  This was a Chinese temple, the air was thick with incense.  It was the first time my guide had ...

... the Jade Emperor Pagoda and tried to be discrete (not easy as a 5'11" western woman in this city) as I observed the people in worship before the huge jade emperor through clouds of incense smoke. The guide book described it as 'spooky' and it certainly is ...

... , also known as the "War Crimes Museum" among other names.  This was our first full day without rain in Vietnam. The Jade Pagoda had ponds with huge turtles and even bigger koi and most of the people there were lighting incense and praying.  The ...

... . From the War Remnant's Museum the two boarded a motorbike taxi. 3 on the motorbike!!! Destination: cross town to the Jade Emperor Pagoda. Within the V Man lit incense sticks and engaged in wishful thinking before the Buddha image. After you light ...

... the balloon popped and tears flowed).  I stole away to the Jade Market one afternoon to haggle with the vendors (among other purchases: a jade pendant that I got for $10 down from the initial asking price of $60, and still knew I'd paid too much for, ...

... and toast - and is tasty.  Maybe the green bits are frog - Today Diana Michelle and Indiandy walked the city centre - red carpers at the Reunification Palace with memorable images of 1950-1970's news events; potent incense, offertory ovens, ...

... for the animals were.  I definitely did not want to see that! We next caught a cab and headed over to the Emperor of Jade Pagoda.  There were altars everywhere.  We didn't stay there very long because of the heat and all the smoke (due to ...

... the Anthropology Museum. Let me tell you about the Anthropology Museum. Firstly it is in the Chapultepec forest section of Mexico City. Chapultepec means cricket sitting on a rock, which I think is pretty cute. The building is a bit of a ...

... a bridge under construction that will cross the Saigon River and allow the people an easier way to cross the river. Currently the city residents use a local ferry. From our ship it dominated the skyline from the port back into the city.  Once on the ...

... a bridge under construction that will cross the Saigon River and allow the people an easier way to cross the river. Currently the city residents use a local ferry. From our ship it dominated the skyline from the port back into the city.  Once on the ...

... the HCM City Museum. I won’t bore you with the details, but it was a pretty random assortment of vaguely city-associated artefacts, mostly from the last few decades, and interspersed with huge propaganda displays. Pretty poor. It dissuaded us a bit ...

... an hour or so with a drive around the city in the air conditioned bus- possibly the safest way to see the city. The congestion is astounding- but it's nearly all motorcycles. The drivers show their individuality with their decorated helmets- mandatory but ...