Destination: China
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Fri, 30 Nov 2007 | By camm_hunter_gibson | Views [340] | Comments [12]
Day 6 and 7: Tianenmen square and The Forbidden City The huge framed portrait of the Chinese Revolutionary Leader Mao Ze Dong hangs forebodingly over the entrance of the Forbidden City. Underneath and around Tiananmen Square touts flog everything ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 | By ontheway | Views [300] | Comments [11]
Finally packing up and getting ready to leave .This new journey has been a long time in the planning [this is not something I usually do when I am travelling ]and has had a few problems not least being the first part of the trip to Lhasa to say goodbye ... Read more >
Tags: beijing
Sat, 1 Nov 2008 | By d_o | Views [347] | Comments [10]
hi! heute waren wir beim shaolin kloster. da gabs wieder ne menge zu sehen. zum einen wiedermal nen tempel. yeah ;-) war ganz ok, dafür dass es der tausendste tempel war. danach haben wir uns den "pagoden-platz" angeschaut. da stehen zig ... Read more >
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 | By mazystar | Views [255] | Comments [10]
I've caught a fairly standard and inevitable travel tummy bug. I was warned and did all I could to prevent it, short of wearing one of those plastic full body radiation suits. I haven't eaten anything suspect, I have only drank bottled spring water, ... Read more >
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 | By d_o | Views [244] | Comments [10]
Hola Tag 3 : pünktlich um 7:30am Ortszeit hat uns der Wecker aus unseren schönheitsschlaf gerissen. Nach der üblichen Morgengymnastik machten wir uns voll motiviert auf den Weg Richtung olympia-stadion. glücklicherweise haben wir die rush-hour erwischt.... Read more >
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 | By roaming_reas | Views [185] | Comments [10]
Ni Hao! Egads, there's just a wee bit of a language barrier here...but we've got the skills to fill our bellies at least! We've developed a fondness for clay pots stuffed with rice that you pick all the stir fry toppings for. They give you a little ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 7 Jul 2009 | By muoy | Views [116] | Comments [10]
Ok..the toughest part of the trip is over!! The flight wasn't as bad as I thought...being in business class made the flight much more comfortable (despite all the turbulence we had). I'm in Beijing for a night and then I fly to Phnom Penh tomorrow.... Read more >
Tags: beijing
Thu, 13 Sep 2007 | By chinapies | Views [986] | Comments [9]
6:30am, and would you believe it, I'm awake. Yesterday we started Chinese classes with our teacher, Liz (named changed to prevent severe embarrassment.) She's awesome. This chick has been Peace Corps trained, and we have heard that Peace Corps Chinese ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sun, 2 Jul 2006 | By sarahmg | Views [662] | Comments [9]
Knowing that when you live in a city, your rarely get round to doing all the amazing things it has to offer, i had planned my trip so that i would arrive a week early and get all my tourist things well under way - it has to be said, i've been doing pretty ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sun, 18 Mar 2007 | By travelheart24 | Views [357] | Comments [9]
Hi friends!! I've made it, I've arrived (although that was a bit of an adventure), and I haven't freaked out yet. =) As far as I can tell I'm already on a China sleep schedule because by the time I arrived last night I'd gotten about 5 hours sleep in ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 | By thesanders | Views [346] | Comments [9]
Well, it has taken us a month in Shanghai to get acclimated, find secure footing with our new surroundings, new jobs and new marriage in order to get to the point where we will start an account of our experiences. Fortunately, ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 6 Oct 2008 | By mazystar | Views [252] | Comments [9]
I went along to one of my Dad's English classes today here at Zhangzhou Institute of Technology. This particular class is a beginners one, so the students English skills are quite poor compared to a lot of the other classes. All of the students in ... Read more >
Tags: zhangzhou, english class, china
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 | By d_o | Views [248] | Comments [9]
ní háo zusammen! wir sind am 21. wohlauf in
hongkong angekommen, und haben mehr oder weniger easy zu michael
(unserem host von Couchsurfing in hongkong) gefunden.
michael hat uns dann bei der u-bahn station abgeholt, er wohnt gleich
daneben, ... Read more >
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 | By joshuapatterson23 | Views [85] | Comments [9]
Well as embarrassing as this story will be it can't be worse than Sammie Cassel in Peru. Since Dan J. is the only one that knows what that is a reference to, he is the only one who knows where this story is going. So yesterday was Sunday, I was forced ... Read more >
Mon, 19 Nov 2007 | By roaming_reas | Views [501] | Comments [8]
We boarded the train in Guilin and followed the smooth rails west to the city of Kunming. Well....lost right from the start! Dang. Lost in Kunming again and again as we traversed the streets from dumpling stands to puppy markets to the wonderful ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Fri, 20 Feb 2009 | By esther_in_china | Views [243] | Comments [8]
Mn eerste 24h in China zitten erop! wat een belevenis! Zo anders dan je je kan voorstellen: modern, onbegrijpelijk, verwarrend, spannend, groot, groen... en toch zo chinees!
Ik zal komend weekend wat foto's posten, want beeld zegt toch meer dan ... Read more >
Mon, 25 Jun 2007 | By aemaus | Views [229] | Comments [8]
So reality has hit, I have arrived in Beijing
China.
Quite interesting to see how convenient the U.S.
airline industry has made it to get here compared to the past when I was living
in China.
No more 7 hour lay over’s in Japan's Narita airport ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 | By carol | Views [218] | Comments [8]
I got to Wuhan via a luxury train. It was fabulous. Then I got to the hotel . . . ummm, what can I say . . . I guess, 'less fabulous' can describe it. I don't really spend much time in my room. Mostly, I am in the teachers computer room checking ... Read more >
Tags: Luo Jia Shan Hotel
Mon, 2 Nov 2009 | By joshuapatterson23 | Views [94] | Comments [8]
The one thing I have missed the most about American, besides Taco Bell, is pizza. Good old fashioned, greasy ,unhealthy piled high with toppings, or stuffed with toppings pizza. I would literally kill a man for a Bronx Bomber right now, and I could ... Read more >
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 | By george | Views [1157] | Comments [7]
Telling me
all about China before I
left, Rosie McC said that Xian (Xi'an -
pronounced like Sheean - just a wee city compared to Beijing
and Shanghai,
with only 7 million people!) was a great place, and she wasn't lying! After a few days ... Read more >
Tags: On the Rails
Sun, 18 Nov 2007 | By travelheart24 | Views [534] | Comments [7]
A Kiwi, two Irish, a Canadian and an American get on a train.... and no one in their carriage sleeps for the next 14 hours! hehehe, okay maybe we weren't that bad... but nearly! Most passengers enjoy the train or are indifferent about it, but these ... Read more >
Tags: Laughter
Thu, 10 May 2007 | By travelheart24 | Views [527] | Comments [7]
Hello all! Sorry it's been so long since I've written, good Lord a lot has happened... where to begin? I've wrapped up my first trip! The first 5 days were a bit rocky, but after that I felt like I got in a bit of a groove. At least I wasn't stressing ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 | By mazystar | Views [355] | Comments [7]
I had a fantastic day exploring the city of Guangzhou today. I awoke at 8am and had breakfast in the hotel resturant. I'm not a morning person at all, but there's nothing like a free breakfast to tempt you into getting up early! The breakfast here ... Read more >
Wed, 21 Mar 2007 | By travelheart24 | Views [301] | Comments [7]
I've been in China for 5 days now and I already find myself thinking like an ... Aussie?? All of our trainers and 5 of the trainees are Aussie and after hearing the accent over and over (plus the Brits who are almost the same) I find myself hearing the ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
Sun, 29 Jul 2007 | By carol | Views [232] | Comments [7]
One of my students called Wuhan “a stove”, another called it “an oven.” Wikipedia refers to it as “a furnace.” In any case, you get the idea--it's hot! Not just hot, but really really hot and muggy. . . ugh. The first week here was awful. I didn't want ... Read more >
Tags: the weather
