Destination: China
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Wed, 27 Sep 2006 | By language-guides | Views [32584] | Comments [16]
Have you ever been stuck in a country wanting to be polite, but
not even knowing the word for 'please'? Or been frustrated when you
couldn't ask for the most basic directions to where you're going?
The WorldNomads.com Mandarin Chinese ... Read more >
Tags: language guides, language lesson, china, mandarin, chinese, learn mandarin, chinese language, podcast, ipod, iphone
Tue, 21 Mar 2006 | By lolo | Views [4487] | Comments [2]
Hey hey! Well, I'm definately sore, and pretty darn cold. Northern Sichuan can give Canada a run for its money in the snow department, let me tell you. I just spent the last 4 days on horseback, riding up into the hills and mountains surrounding Songpan ... Read more >
Tags: Snow
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 | By george | Views [3179] | Comments [5]
This rabbit above had escaped from a cage outside the restaurant next door, causing much fuss in the mini supermarket! Guilin After arriving and dropping my stuff at the hostel, I went back to the train station to arrange onward tickets, ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Sat, 11 Mar 2006 | By simon_monk | Views [3003] | Comments [3]
Do you ever wonder how fragile our lives are and how they can turn on a dime? I mean really wonder? In 1918 one of my Grandfathers was fighting in WWI and leading a group of young men in the trenches in France (I think). A mortar round landed ... Read more >
Tags: philosophy of travel, near miss, danger, chengdu, 1989, tiananmen square, anarchy, life, death, grenade
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 | By nomadnorrie | Views [2711] | Comments [3]
Lijiang I arrived at Chengdu airport to find that there was a problem with my e-ticket; somehow it went missing. Somebody came along to help me, took my passport and disappeared, 15 minutes later they came back with a boarding pass, then I was on my ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 | By thestunnings | Views [2582] | Comments [1]
After our quick journey of less than 60 minutes, and pretty much a brief peek at rural China, we arrived in Tianjin. Up, over, down and out of the station into the hands of more taxi drivers. Immediately we attracted several who were vying for our attention.... Read more >
Tags: People
Fri, 13 Oct 2006 | By leo | Views [2496] | Comments [1]
A fronteira entre o Vietnã e a China já mostra bem a diferença: no lado vietnamita um prédio feio, sujo e velho (mas digno); no lado chinês um prédio em construção, enorme, moderno. Dali pra frente tudo seria assim: em construção. A estrada é muito boa ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 | By tim_and_sam | Views [2206] | Comments [2]
As the title suggests, we've now been in Tibet for a week and thought it was time to update this with our latest news. We took the train from Chengdu to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet on the 3rd Feb. Of the 22 trains we are taking on this trip, this ... Read more >
Tags: tibet, mountains
Sat, 27 Oct 2007 | By george | Views [1997] | Comments [3]
Thanks for all the very kind comments, but you'll be glad to know that I'm leaving soon for a mammoth journey to Lijiang (which isn't even very far away), so this one's going to be mainly pictures. Along with the Giant Buddha in Leshan (one of ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bundynbeaches | Views [1930] | Comments [4]
After a three hour trip through some fairly scenic country over a heap of rivers and through a heap more tunnels, (this is why the people in Sichuan couldn't get in or out - same road system) I ended up in Tuxin then got the shuttle up to Tangkou. A ... Read more >
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 | By katie_rose | Views [1807] | Comments [1]
Hi everyone back home hope you are all well and its not getting to chilly. So I now only have one week left in Urumqi and I finished teaching at the primary school last Friday. It was a great last week and it was sad to walk out of the gate on Friday.... Read more >
Tags: People
Wed, 25 Apr 2007 | By largeone | Views [1753] | Comments [3]
China is a place where breakfasts know no bounds. For instance, it would not be uncommon to expect rice, noodles, and cinnamon scrolls. On the other hand, Chinese indulge in watermelon, oatmeal, and occasionally dog meat infused with grapefruit juice.... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Mon, 8 Oct 2007 | By emadilema | Views [1691] | Comments [5]
Another early start and we boarding what is apparently the best train in China in order to leave Beijing and head to Zheng Zhou which is on route to Shaolin for some kung fu action! We arrived in Zhen Zhou and on first impression it did not seem to ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 | By nomadnorrie | Views [1664]
Finally I have found some time to sit down, have a breather and write something. Traveling by plane, train and boat, I went south from Beijing, then east and back west plotting an angular S on the map. My mad-looking route basically ensured that I ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Wed, 27 Apr 2005 | By solbeam | Views [1569] | Comments [1]
I take a deep breath, hold it, and step into the dank room. (When
the students ran into our shared room an hour earlier and exclaimed,
“It’s the most foul thing we’ve ever seen in our lives!” I laughed. I’d
heard the rumors of hell realms to be ... Read more >
Tags: food & eating, tibet
Tue, 6 Nov 2007 | By george | Views [1557] | Comments [5]
After 12 hours in a constantly stopping, rickety old hard sleeper carriage from Emei to Panzhihua, I met Norwegian Marianne and Dutch Pieter an the start of an 8 hour bumpy bus journey across the mountainous Sichuan-Yunnan border. They were also heading ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 | By travelheart24 | Views [1365] | Comments [3]
There’s a phrase heard often here in Leader Land that explains when things go wrong inexplicably, it’s called “T.I.C. – This Is China”. It explains why your hair dryer works one day but not the next, why you can view your email inbox but not actually ... Read more >
Tags: good times, good people
Fri, 6 Jul 2007 | By aemaus | Views [1347]
Watermelon Museum Field Trip 7-6-07 Today we went to the Watermelon Museum in the DaXing Province. It was about a 1 hour drive from the Kindergarten. I once thought it was a bad idea to put about 12 people in our 7 passenger ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 | By nomadnorrie | Views [1339] | Comments [5]
Longsheng
The late afternoon in Longsheng was wasted really but Josianne and I found good, cheap food (stir fried rice noodles with oodles of vegetables) in the evening. Longsheng is not a pretty town so enough said really. We only came here for ... Read more >
Sat, 23 Sep 2006 | By phongnlisa | Views [1334] | Comments [1]
China has been very eye-opening for us...it truly is a country of contradictions...you don't have to worry about finishing the food on your plate because there are "starving people in China"--but there is a lot of poverty here: especially ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 | By nomadnorrie | Views [1280]
Building a birds nest
I bought my train ticket to Russia as soon as I arrived in Beijing and managed to get a bed in 2nd class on the 3 day train trip to Irkutsk. I had to wait 4 days before I could leave China so spent a bit of time wandering ... Read more >
Mon, 25 Jun 2007 | By thestunnings | Views [1278] | Comments [2]
Monday morning started really early, as we were headed for the Great Wall. Despite the early hour, we were quite excited to be up early enough to get to the wall before the throngs of other tourists converge on it, making it crowded and less enjoyable.... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 | By nomadnorrie | Views [1264]
Shenyang
I went to Shenyang principally to visit a museum called 18 September. In 1931 the Japanese occupied Shenyang from the north, the museum is supposed to be a very good place to see how the Japanese army treated the locals. I hopped off the ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Wed, 6 Apr 2005 | By solbeam | Views [1206]
Out of meditation retreat and back to tracking the footsteps of the prophetic pilgrims themselves! An update is on the way. In the meantime, I thought I'd share my backpack book stack... The Secrets of Francis of Assisi: A Meditation by Christian ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, tibet
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 | By george | Views [1201] | Comments [2]
Ni Hao! Arriving in Beijing, I was quite glad that - before leaving the UK - I'd used accumulated Airmiles to book a couple of nights in a hotel. It was well nice to indulge in some 'flashpacking' at the end of all the train journeys from Russia, ... Read more >
Tags: On the Rails
