Destination: China
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Fri, 3 Mar 2006 | By solbeam | Views [1132]
I’m in the mood for a story. And this one is particularly good, because it *literally* stomps on any pride I’ve ever held in assuming myself a culturally sensitive individual. But having recognized that my heaviest burden is ego itself, I’ve come to ... Read more >
Tags: laughter, tibet
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
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [832] | Comments [1]
I traveled to the other side of the world to find McDonald's, Starbucks, and
Wal-Mart. Seeing young men wearing
baseball hats, middle aged men wearing business suits, young women wearing
cowboy boots, and older women wearing their "Sunday ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
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
Sat, 8 Mar 2008 | By sarahandphil | Views [1053] | Comments [6]
Hi everyone, Well we've arrived in China safe and sound. But not before we collected some more ‘travel experiences’ to tell you about… After our 7 hour wait at the border on Tuesday, we finally boarded the 6pm sleeper bus to Kunming and ... Read more >
Tags: on the road
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 >
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 | By nomadnorrie | Views [2710] | 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
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 | By bundynbeaches | Views [290] | Comments [1]
In the last few weeks work has taken me in to Inner Mongolia Province and out to the Tibetan / Qinghai plateau. The coal mine we work with in Zhunge'er is only a three to thirty three hour drive - depending on snow, ice, trucks, bicycles, potholes and ... Read more >
Sun, 2 Aug 2009 | By muoy | Views [147] | Comments [3]
Tom booked a tour for me to go to a nearby city called Suzhou today. Suzhou is about 1.5 hours outside of Shanghai and it's absolutely beautiful!!! I think this is my favorite city so far!!! Suzhou has two of the most famous gardens in China (there ... Read more >
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
Mon, 6 Oct 2008 | By mazystar | Views [251] | 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, 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
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
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 >
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 | By emadilema | Views [305]
Cherie, Rod and I finally met up again in Yang Shuo which is a small town outside of Guilin - and this time we have managed to actually find a relatively small town to chill out in!! For the first couple of days we did exactly that - chill out, read books, ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sun, 28 Oct 2007 | By felix_and_stephanie | Views [520] | Comments [6]
By Felix Fung: Back from Guilin ! What a trip it was! Words cannot describe the beauty that we saw so we'll just let the pictures do the talking. Some highlights: 1. Soaking in the absolutely stunning scenery as we traveled from Guilin ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
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
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
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
Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bundynbeaches | Views [1929] | 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 >
Mon, 6 Aug 2007 | By carol | Views [782] | Comments [5]
No, not in your pants but for your foot massage . . . My weekly treat is a pedicure/foot massage along with a neck, shoulder and back massage. This 90 minute event is wonderful. It is so relaxing and relieves all the neck and shoulder stress after ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
Sun, 7 Dec 2008 | By mazystar | Views [225] | Comments [5]
I've been in Shanghai now for just under 24hrs and I'm already exhausted. When I first got here I really wasn't sure what I was going to do, but in the short time I've been here...I've done HEAPS! Yesterday evenings' flight from Xiamen to Shanghai ... Read more >
Fri, 13 Jul 2007 | By nige | Views [223] | Comments [5]
... so i was always going to like it:) we didnt get much time to spend here, but i think ill have to go back. yes, the pollution is bad, and yes its dirty, but within the choas i found some kind of familiarity - dont know what that says about me. Bec ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 | By carol | Views [319] | Comments [4]
We are a group of about 30 teachers—and it seems like 29 know how to use chopsticks. Maybe it isn't so but I do feel like I am the only one who can't use them very well. Forks are always available but I have decided when in Rome . . . or in this case, ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 | By carol | Views [311] | Comments [4]
It's good even if most the time I am not sure what it is I am eating. Ok, the fact that I don't have to go the store, haul groceries home, cook dinner and then wash dishes afterwards does not change the fact that the food is tasty. These aspects only ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
