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Sun, 17 Feb 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [661]
of my eight and a half hour long train ride from Dali to Kunming, watching terraced gardens and mud walled houses, feeling completely content with my decision to stay up all night in order to sleep the whole train ride, I started to hallucinate. ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [844]
After I visited Yunnan Province, I realized it is most foreigners favorite place to visit in China. This information came from an informal poll that I inadvertantly conducted. Basically, when asked where I went on the Spring Festival vacation, my ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Thu, 14 Feb 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [587] | Comments [1]
Mario is opinionated. Mario is smart. Mario gets a kick out of arguing. But he is not hot-headed. After traveling with him for about a month and learning a lot about him in the last five that we've been living together in Beijing, I realized these ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 | By tim_and_sam | Views [7564] | 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: mountains, tibet
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 | By jojo2go | Views [550]
Well, I finally made it into Tibet after my flight was delayed for 2 consecutive days due to a "sandstorm". I did think it strange that the bad weather was delayed by a sandstorm and just put it to bad english translation by the Chinese staff ... Read more >
Tags: the great outdoors, tibet
Sun, 10 Feb 2008 | By thetravelingtwin | Views [649]
The most important place for me to be is where I am right now. Now is the only thing that matters. This day, this moment in time, is all that exists. The rest of my life is smoke and mirrors, shadows and dust, a mirage of dreams and memories zipping ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Sun, 10 Feb 2008 | By jojo2go | Views [408]
I picked up my plane ticket to Tibet today. They also showed me a photocopy of the TTB permit, but I wasn't allowed a copy. The driver will present it to the check-in officer when I'm at the airport. It's a bit secretive really and wonder if you can ... Read more >
Tags: The Planning Phase
Sat, 9 Feb 2008 | By tim_and_sam | Photo Gallery
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Sat, 9 Feb 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [1208]
One of the nights we spent with You, we were debating about watching a movie or doing something with the potential of being equally unfulfilling when we discovered we had cards. There is a phenomenon in China of playing cards in the streets and leaving ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 | By bundynbeaches | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 8 Feb 2008 | By dereckwang | Views [437]
JIMINGYI Travel notes - The dak thousand years ago. The morning wind in the west small town - sand city cooled my face as I stepped down the train , the wind is light and comfortablely soothe every inch of my skin , hands are glad to be bathed ... Read more >
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 | By bundynbeaches | Views [2203] | Comments [2] | Video
Everywhere you look in this area you see either coal, coal dust or coal smoke. Shanxi Province is one of the main coal producing regions in China and everything from the power stations to the stove in the earth house on the outside of the city is fueled ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Thu, 7 Feb 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [788] | Comments [1]
A little more planning went into the visit to Chengdu. We were aware of the relatively large size of this city. Mario sniffed out the best couch surfer to stay with for the new year. All I wanted for the Chinese New Year was to be in China. My ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Thu, 7 Feb 2008 | By jojo2go | Views [732]
Happy New Year! To all those gracious rats and mice out there, this is your year. Although, it's been advised in many articles that I've read that I (being a 'horse'), do not get on with rats. So my dear brother, if you're reading this (if you didn't ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
Wed, 6 Feb 2008 | By jojo2go | Views [996]
So we finally booked our way to Tibet with Sim's Cozy Travel, which is a travel agency within the hostel I'm staying at - Sim's Cosy Garden Hostel, but more on the hostel in a moment. The service lady was actually Tibetan and asked her about travelling ... Read more >
Tags: the planning phase, tibet
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