" China's Golden Week is upon me, leaving me free to do whatever I please for the next week and also leaving me completely alone on a desolate campus. HeDa's ..."
"Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya Too excited to sleep I rose early and headed out into the happy streets of Kaifeng and was soon waiting for beautiful Amigo. She came boun ..."
"John and I leave Shanghai on a sleeper train. I am quite apprehensive about our 17 hour overnight journey and my heart starts to race when I see the chaos at the train station. It ..."
"We were bracing ourselves for a rough ride on the hard-seat carriage of the train to Zhengzhou. Being the lowest class ticket you can buy, the majority of Chinese people travel thi ..."
"Henan, an agricultural province, lies in the middle-lower reaches of the Yellow River. it covers an area of more than 167,000 square kilometers. Shaolin Temple, the most famo ..."
"I started touring today at 8:30am. The first stop was GuaLin. Next I visited the Longmen Grottos. Here I viewed hundreds of thousands of Buddhas carved into stone ..."
"Where to begin?! The last couple of days have been a huge learning experience. We missed our train out of Beijing by 10 mins. Our ticket was in Chinese and we didn't know our train ..."
"We departed Xi'an and headed east. Our final destination was a small town of Shaolin, with the famed Shaolin monks. Originally we were going to take an overnight bus, but after pur ..."
"The pink ticket in my pocket said the train to Zhengzhou started chugging at 9:22. It also said it was standing ticket. 13 hours, no seat. No problem. At the other end of this trai ..."