Destination: China

A little late, but finally some news from China!

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 | By arendse_worldnomad | Views [681] | Comments [1]

We started off in Beijing, I won't say too much about it because it is too long ago now and I can't remeber everything and it's not all that important. Suffice to say that we had an absolutely incredible time, went to see the Summer Palace, The Great ... Read more >

Gallery: West Yunnan

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 | By becci_hodge | Photo Gallery

Ancient Tea Road Westwards

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 | By becci_hodge | Views [1389]

In the morning, I watched the 60th anniversary of "New" China on the CCTV website.  The live pictures streamed onto my laptop of the ethnic minority floats of Yunnan province and Tibet.  By the afternoon, I was on my way to Shenzhen to catch ... Read more >

Not much really

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 | By gandd | Views [389]

Sorry haven't been up to much at ALL!Golden week has finished and you can defendantly tell the difference in amount of people around!! School groups start again today which is great as it gives us something to do. Dion is off to an area which is about ... Read more >

Gallery: Swiss Cheese Climbing Day

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 | By gandd | Photo Gallery

John Lennon you are a beautiful man...er were that is.

Fri, 9 Oct 2009 | By joshuapatterson23 | Views [1219] | Comments [5] | Video

Now I mean no disrespect to John Lennon, I actually tend to enjoy thoroughly the music of the Beatles. Just because Yoko and John broke up what is arguably the greatest band of all time, I am not bitter, well a little but whatever. So I am actually ... Read more >

Mt Qomalangma!

Fri, 9 Oct 2009 | By shorn | Views [630]

Back in Chengdu now after a week long group tour in Tibet. The tour was surprisingly good, as far as those kind of things go - really good group of people on the tour, which is always the most important thing. There are many things left in the world ... Read more >

Gallery: Tibet

Fri, 9 Oct 2009 | By shorn | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Qingdao At Night

Tue, 6 Oct 2009 | By joshuapatterson23 | Photo Gallery

Flying today

Tue, 6 Oct 2009 | By coralhorton | Views [296] | Comments [1]

Nothing new to report.....Flying later today....As expected the 'stuff up' with the train tickets at the begining of the 'holiday' will cost me even more money, so rather than that cost being absorbed by the organisers of the trip (who caused the 'stuff ... Read more >

If you take a Chinese city and add 3 Mcdonalds' is it still Chinese

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 | By joshuapatterson23 | Views [494] | Comments [2]

This is the question that I have asked myself since I arrived in Qingdao. It is the most westernized city that I have seen in China so far. I don't me westernized because they have indoor plumbing, but westernized because they have adds for 300 USD ... Read more >

Gallery: Qingdao

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 | By joshuapatterson23 | Photo Gallery

Beijng Again

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 | By coralhorton | Views [318] | Comments [1]

I cannot tell you the wonderment at seeing our train cabin for two nights, and the amount of baggage the four of us had...All I could do was laugh...but with me climbing on the top bunk and stashing and stowing what we could up top and some under the ... Read more >

Qingdao Ho!

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 | By godohell | Views [703]

We're leaving today. I still need to pack, hence me being up at the crack of 6:30 am. I don't know that I will be able to post. I'm still waffling about bringing my laptop or not seeing as we're staying in hostels and I'm not positive that I really ... Read more >

Tags: josh patterson, laptop, packing, pictures, qingdao, vacation

Golden Week

Sun, 4 Oct 2009 | By gandd | Views [365]

From the 1st of Oct it has been one massive celebration for the Chinese. They have a week long holiday and the 1st was also National day. There was the massive parade in Tienanmen Square which took most of the day. Here in Yangshuo we had massive ... Read more >