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Mon, 15 Sep 2014 | By adaptive | Views [507] | Comments [1]
I went out to look for a payphone to call my host and tell her I was in the city. It was more difficult than I thought to ask the train station guards.
I walked up to three of them and tried my best to ask for a public phone, they thought I wanted ... Read more >
Tags: mcflurry, payphone
Mon, 15 Sep 2014 | By adaptive | Views [464]
So it was me and a group of others these last few day. We were all solo travelers and wanted to see the same things. They came from Argentina, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, France, and more. And as soon as I got comfortable in Beijing it was time to ... Read more >
Tags: chengde
Sun, 14 Sep 2014 | By evekrishnendrani | Views [494] | Video | Scholarship Entry
I'm an American female, 31 years old, who has been working in Beijing as an academic researcher in nature conservation. I'm 57kg, 170cm tall, light brown hair. I have lived in Beijing for 2 years. I can speak Chinese at an intermediate level. Please ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Film Scholarship to Mexico
Sun, 14 Sep 2014 | By adaptive | Views [488]
I didn't do what I said I was going to do. I went to the Summer Palace with my new group of friends. We walked around for 9 hours in a gorgeous park and building complex that looks like Leafy Gardens in Rollercoaster Tycoon. And my legs ... Read more >
Tags: sore, summer palace
Sun, 14 Sep 2014 | By deepika | Views [287]
Time: 10 P.M.
Place: The Place, Beijing, China
Dilemma: What to do now?
As I ran up and down, hailing for taxis in that very-posh but non-English speaking set up, the buccaneer in me remained unfazed. However, the prudence was a little ... Read more >
Sat, 13 Sep 2014 | By adaptive | Views [614] | Comments [3]
Good morning!
I was too tired to post yesterday because I went to the Great Wall at Balading. My new friend Vera (from Russia) and I took a train to the site. The ride was beautiful but we don't understand really why everyone runs to the train.... Read more >
Tags: lost, the great wall
Fri, 12 Sep 2014 | By awhitcombe | Views [465] | Video | Scholarship Entry
Hi, I'm Alex. For the past three years I have been taking a Media Production degree at the University of Lincoln (I graduated yesterday with a 1st). In the last two years I have been freelancing as a film producer/director, mostly in the corporate sector.... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Film Scholarship to Mexico
Thu, 11 Sep 2014 | By adaptive | Views [527] | Comments [1]
There is so much to say already but short story for now....
United airlines has the softest napkins.
I successfully used a foreign subway and walked to my destination with no problems.
I've checked into my room.
The street smells ... Read more >
Tags: arrived
Wed, 10 Sep 2014 | By daveonhols | Views [651]
We've passed through fifty four tunnels on the way out of Beijing. Rumour has it that we will psas through over sixty in total before we are out into open country.
The sky is blue, with only a hint of grey-ish smog overhead. ... Read more >
Tags: beijing, china, hebei, train, trans-mongolian
Tue, 9 Sep 2014 | By daveonhols | Views [644]
As with Shanghai, this was not my first time in Beijing, and I have already seen the main sights. I decided to spend the first day wandering the old lanes and back alleys, known as "hutongs", to get a feel for the ancient fabric of this historic ... Read more >
Tags: beijing, china, hutongs, ticket
Tue, 9 Sep 2014 | By daveonhols | Views [594]
11:22. The departure from Beijing. Train K3. 847 miles. Twenty Eight hours. The real adventure begins. Through the great wall, into inner mongolia, the Gobi desert and across the border into Mongolia, over the vast ... Read more >
Tags: beijing, china, mongolia, train, trans-mongolia trans-siberian, ub, ulan bator
Mon, 8 Sep 2014 | By daveonhols | Views [384]
In the west we have a saying - "All roads lead to Rome". The Chinese these days have the same saying, but I have been told that in older times, the Chinese equivalent was "All roads lead to Beijing". For me on this day, that seemed apt. ... Read more >
Tags: beijing qingdao train beer tsingtao
Sun, 7 Sep 2014 | By daveonhols | Views [386]
It was an early start, and the sky was still a dark slate gray. The plan was a simple one, take a taxi to the train station. For whatever reason, the taxi driver decided to negotiate. We should wait twenty minutes first, and he would ... Read more >
Tags: china qingdao tsingtao beer train
Sat, 6 Sep 2014 | By daveonhols | Views [503]
Vast, grand, cavernous. Our train pulled into Shanghai's Hongqiao station. Newly built, but next to the old airport, Hongqiao is typical of the probably dozens of new, huge, railway stations being built across the country. China's central ... Read more >
Tags: shanghai china food train
Fri, 5 Sep 2014 | By daveonhols | Views [813]
If a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, then perhaps a seven thousand mile train journey should start with a metaphorical one hour hop from Hangzhou to Shanghai.
It was arguably a Chinese train that brought me to Singapore, ... Read more >
Tags: china, hangzhou, shanghai, train
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