Destination: China

Wielki Mur

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 | By magda | Views [730]

Nam też trudno w to uwierzyć, ale faktem jest, że Wielki Mur to było najbardziej wyludnione miejsce jakie odwiedziliśmy w Chinach. Bo jakoś tak się składa, że ogromna część turystów indywidualnych i praktycznie wszystkie wycieczki, jadą oglądać Mur do ... Read more >

Once There Were Warriors

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 | By ryanandjo | Views [2799] | Comments [3]

Xi'an is a huge city in Shaanxi province at the end of the Silk Road and much bigger than we expected, although after 3 weeks in a country of 1.3 billion we should be getting used to the size of places by now or maybe we would ... Read more >

Tags: guangzhou, guilin, karsts, terracotta warriors, xian, yangshuo

SAGA again

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 | By coralhorton | Views [294] | Comments [1]

No Martin we did not get a well earned rest after the Kora!...it was just time and sleep that made us feel better...Every day has been jammed packed with sight seeing or driving. We left Guge Kingdom for the LONG drive back to Darchen with a sight ... Read more >

3 intense days of Whitewater

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 | By gandd | Views [407]

So we have been sent home early as we weren't needed for the 2day hike around the rice terraces of Longji. But we're super glad to come home for some R and R after 3 intense days of whitewater. We had 19 students and 2 teachers spread out between 11 ... Read more >

To Qingdao we will go

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 | By joshuapatterson23 | Views [662] | Comments [4] | Video

     Well I can tell you after 7 half-days of work I am ready for a vacation. I just can't wait till...wait what's that you say, I have 8 days of vacation coming up. They will begin on October the 1st which is like 4 days from now. Wow that is a relief ... Read more >

Gallery: Shigatse to Everest

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 | By gretch_costa | Photo Gallery

Pekin

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 | By magda | Views [500]

Pewni specjaliści obliczyli, że oddychanie pekińskim powietrzem przez dobę równe jest wypaleniu 70 papierosów. Z tą właśnie myślą, oraz z głowami pełnymi obrazów Pekinu szczelnie zakrytego smogiem, jakie znaliśmy z tv, ruszyliśmy do stolicy Państwa Środka.... Read more >

Soon To Be National Holiday

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 | By godohell | Views [497]

HA! You thought I had given up on my blogging again, didn't you? DIDN'T YOU?!? You know what I'm talking about, coworkers . Not much has been going on . I've been teaching and learning, eating, sleeping, listening to music. Teaching's a pain in the ... Read more >

Tags: boring days, chicken hearts, chinese friends, confucius, coworkers, cute, haley, heads up 7 up, national holiday

Gallery: Lhasa to Shigatse

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 | By gretch_costa | Photo Gallery

Guge Kingdom and recovery

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 | By coralhorton | Views [401] | Comments [2]

Today we all woke to better spirits and less sore limbs and bottoms. The Sun is shining we are in T shirts at lower altitude (3300???m approx)and the world looks good again. We took off this morning for Guge...Martin and Gabrielle will recall the old ... Read more >

I guess I'm a local celebrity, kind've like in Ann Arbor

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 | By relivethefire | Views [715]

http://bbs.ly.ha.cn/dispbbs.asp?boardid=29&id=2118079&page=2&star=1 Copy and paste this link into your web browser. Apparently some dude took a photo of me when I was outside of the french grocery store.   The captions are translated as ... Read more >

Tags: daily life

My next trip will be a cruise!

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 | By coralhorton | Views [335] | Comments [4]

I dont know if I can summarise the last few days but I will try. We left Saga on dirt roads...6 hours and no lunch later we arrived at Paryang. This was getting primitive now. Us three girls shared and used our sleeping bags on the hard Tibetan mattresses.... Read more >

Man the Shakespeare guy was pretty good.

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 | By joshuapatterson23 | Views [706] | Comments [7]

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." - Juliet Capulet      I have an enourmous responsibility. Since I have all freshman students the majority do not have English names. So they have requested ... Read more >

Gallery: Ziyuan

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 | By gandd | Photo Gallery

We left Yangshuo and it was AMAZING!!!!!!

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 | By gandd | Views [573]

Wow it was sooooo amazing to leave the hustle and bustle of a small tourist town into the big wide world of China. First we went to Ziyuan. We stayed the night and ate some very spicy food but it was great. we had a team meeting over a few beers to ... Read more >