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Trip Around the World, 1994.
A Travel Blog by jetdude
... you argue with me about what I buy or not ?, those crooks are ripping me off and you are helping them !. Yes, the merchants in some countries in the world can do that, on top of that, without their authorization, the sent merchandise, cannot be returned ...
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... and the new face of China
A Travel Blog entry by garybarnes from Shanghai, China
... (i.e. sleep) every evening. Being the busiest street in the whole of Shanghai, the street is host to a multitude of street merchants attempting to sell fake watches, fake handbags, fake dvd's (but just for the record, there is an authentic Rolex store ...
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China Dairy, 2008
A Travel Blog entry by wilf_day from Shanghai, China
... western tourist path, in an older commercial district around Shanghai's oldest Buddhist Pagoda. Far from the downtown, where the merchants spoke little English, we must have looked like visitors from another planet, but still we had never felt nervous. ...
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china journal
A Travel Blog entry by lc65259 from Qingdao, China
... ever think to buy and bartered till you dropped. I fought for the deals and don't know how many times I was laughed at buy the merchants from my prices until some finally caved and we agreed on a price. We spent almost 4 hours in the market and came out ...
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Goodbye China
A Travel Blog entry by meandher from Hong Kong, China
... of building a railway to the top was laughed at due to the incredibly steep gradients involved. However wealthy British merchants desperate to escape the summer heat and malaria which was rife along the shoreline eventually built the funicular which ...
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So this is China
A Travel Blog entry by a.szalwinski from Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
... trade with China. Foreign trading companies were required to make deals with about 10 appointed and licensed Chinese merchants, known as the Cohong. The Cohong held great power in the merchant world, since they were the only ones through ...
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Entering China: Shenzhen and the Li River valley
A Travel Blog entry by wenzels from Guilin, China
... in the small riverside town of Fuli. We saw some interesting things there. A healer applying brown jelly to someone's backside; merchants blowtorching the bristles off half a pig's face (and that's just the skin - apparently a delicacy); live chickens ...
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Shanghai, China
A Travel Blog entry by modernnomad67 from Shanghai, Shanghai, China
... . The Old Town area south of The Bund is still like an ant's nest of crowded, narrow commercial streets with merchants selling all the necessities of daily life in a working class neighborhood. In the neighborhood's midst, though, the area ...
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Night Skyline & Peninsula Hotel
A Travel Blog entry by londone7 from Hong Kong, China
... extravagant displays? I then went back to the hostel in Chunk King Mansion at the foot of Nathan Road. Many of the pakistani merchants were still open, playing bollywood tunes and selling curries, mithai (sweets), samosas, spices, and dvds. I got a 1/2 ...
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Bought All the Tea in China
A Travel Blog entry by tckontis from Beijing, China
... out on the street, there were people cooking sweet potatoes, corn and chestnuts, as well as selling funny items. Some of the merchants were able to sneak into the palace to sell their goods, but we saw them get chased out by the police when we were ...
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Yu Yuan and Huangpu
A Travel Blog entry by chaletaria from Shanghai, Shanghai, China
... built 1907 on the site of the first telephone exchange 1882; today the Thai Consulate and Bangkok Bank. No 6 The Bund China Merchants Bank Building (first Chinese bank) 1901 and China Merchants Steam Navigation Co Building; now a Shiatzy Chen Department ...
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Getting our bearings
A Travel Blog entry by magnoliakitties from Beijing, China
... you can imagine. Tea, Chop Sticks, Clothes, Jewelry, Watches, Food, Electronics, Silk....really anything. The Merchants were extremely agressive (think Tijuana on Steroids), we did some bartering and picked up a few items to take back ...
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A day of shopping in Shanghai
A Travel Blog entry by sharon_suzhou from Shanghai, Shanghai, China
... , iphones.” They were mostly young Asian merchants who spoke plain English. The whole place was a buzz with customers and merchants haggling over prices. If a customer walked away from a deal the merchant, mostly the girls, would pull at their arms ...
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Xiamei Village & The Start of the Ancient Tea Road
A Travel Blog entry by eddakath from Wuyi Shan, Fujian, China
... was once the starting point of the Ancient Tea Road, which extended from northern Fujian to Moscow. In ancient times, many merchants from the far north Shanxi Province travelled here to purchase tea leaves here and transport them northwards via Guangxi, ...
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Sandy Giggles, The Heavenly Queen & Treaty Ports
A Travel Blog entry by eddakath from Yantai, Shandong, China
... - The Mazu Museum Situated on busy Nan Dajie is the unmistakable Mazu Museum that is located within a fabulous guildhall built by merchants and sailors of Fujian Province as a place of worship to Tianhou (Heaven Queen), Goddess of the Sea and protector ...
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Xi'an= Great city, history, food, people and cheap
A Travel Blog entry by sandeephk from Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
... goose pagoda. Around my hotel there is the Moslem quaters. It is said that in olden days, foreign diplomatic envoys and merchants lived here then they married and had children, so gradually the population increased. Today, most of the inhabitants of ...
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Xi'an
A Travel Blog entry by wetwo from Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
... Xi'an so we booked a tour. Prices were good. How they make their money is they also stop a selected merchants. The merchants pay a commission to the tour operator and probably to the tour guides as well seeing as they were happy when we ...
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Our Trip to Xi'an, April 30-June 3, 2008
A Travel Blog entry by patgower from Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
... across from you or something that gives you some perspective. This was really the highlight of my time in China When we were done, we went back to the hotel to rest and agreed that we were DONE for the day-there were other things we wanted to see but ...
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Evocative Old Kashgar
A Travel Blog entry by crowdywendy from Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China
... crooked dusty lanes and passageways leading to crumbling adobe houses, was alive with tradespeople hammering out copper pots and merchants selling everything from ironware, jewellery, and fine glass to carpets and some very nasty looking knives. A ...
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A Driver Called Mukhtar - Travels to Tashkorgan
A Travel Blog entry by crowdywendy from Tashkorgan, Xinjiang, China
... of Blood – an ancient reference to local bandits who took advantage of the desolate terrain to plunder caravans and slaughter merchants when the road was used for centuries by ancient traders travelling in and out of China and Central Asia. The ...
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God Bless America and all in between
A Travel Blog entry by kwagssd3 from Szenghen, Guangdong, China
... make a new friend. Before I tell you what my room looked like however, I must give you a background on the hotel. The hotel serves primarily for merchants who are traveling in and out of Schenghen. Since time in the hotel is often short lived, it would be ...
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