Destination: China

Llegada a China

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 | By guillermoafonso | Views [740] | Comments [2]

Primeros momentos en China... La frontera se dio bien. El tren y sus vagones son todos de fabricacion rusa, asi que estaba familiarizado con el entorno. Pero hay mucha diferencia entre la filosofia rusa y la mongola. El vagon de tercera clase ruso (platzkartny) ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

New Picture Site

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 | By thesanders | Views [448] | Comments [1]

Instead of the using flicker we have decided to move photos over to Picture Trails.  Flicker did not show the uploaded pictures on our end and that led to countless frustration.  That being said, we are not completely up and running on Picture Trails ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Gallery: Beijing and the Great Wall

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 | By busyliz | Photo Gallery

Beijing

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 | By nomadnorrie | Views [484]

I'm back in Beijing now. Last night I came back on the same bullet like train that I went to Shanghai on. I had a batch of four 1 hour lessons this morning at my language school, that's the same as every weekday scheduled for the next month. I am making ... Read more >

Tags: Food & eating

Cooking experiments

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [1309] | Comments [1]

I just tried to cook Mexican food with Chinese ingredients. Results: no bueno. I don't think it's the fault of the ingredients. I made pico de gallo, and they are exactly the same -- cilantro, tomatoes, onions, salt, pepper, white vinegar. I ... Read more >

Tags: Food & eating

Gallery: Autumn

Tue, 9 Oct 2007 | By alilaurel | Photo Gallery

Everybodies kung fu fighting

Mon, 8 Oct 2007 | By emadilema | Views [5806] | Comments [12]

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

Gallery: Chinese Medicine Hospital

Mon, 8 Oct 2007 | By alilaurel | Photo Gallery

Shanghai F1

Sun, 7 Oct 2007 | By nomadnorrie | Views [1216] | Comments [1]

When the Formula 1 Grand Prix started I was quite excited about the prospect of Lewis either extending his lead or winning the driver's championship in Shanghai. Sadly neither happened. The F1 circuit in Shanghai is only accessible by road (or ... Read more >

Tags: Adrenaline

Gallery: Shanghai - F1

Sun, 7 Oct 2007 | By nomadnorrie | Photo Gallery

NamTso lake....one of my highlights.

Sun, 7 Oct 2007 | By rebmason80 | Views [1289]

Nam Tso lake...absolutley beautiful and definately one of the highlights of my trip. Ant and i took a bus to get there, a mere four hours away..the shortest bus journey so far but the highest. I had to pop my ears so much along the way and not surprisingly ... Read more >

Tags: adventures, tibet

THE FROG

Sat, 6 Oct 2007 | By jaegbbb | Views [521]

in fact i stayed very veggie well mostly veggie apart from an odd bit of fish..during the whole trip..its just that we went to one of hotpot restaurants http://www.sinica.edu.tw/tit/dining/0196_HotPot.html (a link to a site showing this ... Read more >

Tags: Food & eating

Gallery: on the wall

Sat, 6 Oct 2007 | By jaegbbb | Photo Gallery

Beijing

Sat, 6 Oct 2007 | By busyliz | Views [574] | Comments [2]

Beijing is loud, confusing and busy, and today very wet. We arrived last night and had a delicious Chinese food dinner of Peking duck and other specialties. Today we explored the Forbidden City in a little downpour. The temples were really big and impressive.... Read more >

Tags: Culture

National Day Week Part II - The Two 'cycooters

Sat, 6 Oct 2007 | By chinapies | Views [770]

I will start today's blog by generating some hate-mail with the following statement:   FRANCE - 20    ALL BLACKS - 18   Let the hate-mail flow!   Riiight, anyhow, lemme continue the National Day story from the last post. (It ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures