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Goodness! Gracious! Great Walls of Fire! groan

Tue, 9 Jan 2007 | By oddgrue | Views [435]

Howie here... We were picked up at our fantastic hotel (Shangri-La in Beijing) by our intrepid tour guide and his sidekick driver on January 9 and were off (!) to see the great wall of China. The weather was much better than we expected (as was the ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing

January 9th: Overview

Tue, 9 Jan 2007 | By oddgrue | Views [331]

January 9th we were dragged to a jade factory tour, hiked the Great Wall for a couple of hours, had lunch at a really bad "friendship" restaurant (for tourists - not our choice), did the Sacred Walk and saw the Ming tombs, and then saw a Kung ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing

Brrr!

Mon, 8 Jan 2007 | By oddgrue | Views [485]

(Guest Writer: Howie Fitzgerald) Our timing during this trip, relatively speaking, has been good. Beijing is normally a very cold and dreary city in January, but we were fortunate enough to have weather in the 30s and we enjoyed sunshine for the most ... Read more >

Tags: Shopping

The Pearl Factory

Mon, 8 Jan 2007 | By oddgrue | Views [889]

No tour is complete without being dragged to factories where the locals pander their wares. The first we were brought to was a pearl factory. For those of you who don't know how these things work, it goes like this: your tour guide brings you to a ... Read more >

Tags: Shopping

Howie's so Handy!

Mon, 8 Jan 2007 | By oddgrue | Views [393]

Howie used to work in an exchange student program and interacted with lots of Japanese high school girls. There was one who had such a major crush on him. When I accompanied them all on a trip to Disneyland, I got some serious evil eye from her. Anyway, ... Read more >

Tags: People

January 8th: Overview

Mon, 8 Jan 2007 | By oddgrue | Views [309]

January 8th: Went to the Forbidden City, a pearl factory, had an amazing lunch, went to the Summer Palace, went to the Golden Resources Shopping Mall, and found a coat for mom.

Tags: Sightseeing

Departure and Travel to Beijing

Sun, 7 Jan 2007 | By oddgrue | Views [407]

We got all our packing done at a reasonable hour. Marnee came over to keep us company while we threw stuff in bags. We got to the airport way earlier than we needed to and then found out that our flight had been delayed. It wasn't too bad, though.... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Gallery: Di Swierc

Thu, 4 Jan 2007 | By di_swierc | Photo Gallery

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Mount Emei China

Mon, 1 Jan 2007 | By warrenr | Views [989]

WORLD HERITAGE LIST - China MOUNT EMEI : Mount Emei is located in the mid-south part of Sichuan Province, the transitional belt from the Sichuan Basin to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The highest peak of Mount Emei is Wanfo Peak (meaning tens of thousands ... Read more >

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