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Mon, 13 May 2013 | By scholarships | Views [34465] | Comments [16]
First of all, thank you all for waiting so patiently as we completed our deliberations on the final shortlist. Each year, you seem to make the job of judging just a bit more difficult - and this year was no exception. As well as taking us on your personal ... Read more >
Mon, 6 May 2013 | By moresbbb | Views [1447] | Comments [2]
Among the frenzied ruckus of blaring music, ballroom dancing, opera singing, and endless chatter in Peoples Park Chengdu is found a network of paths intersecting through the trees. People young and old gather here and shuffle up and down the pathway ... Read more >
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Mon, 6 May 2013 | By moresbbb | Photo Gallery
Chengdu 2013
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Mon, 22 Apr 2013 | By col_n_sue | Views [502]
Our trip to CHina is drawing to an end and I think I am ready to go home.
had a wonderful time and many great memories and experiences and met a lot of interesting people (not that I understood most of them though)
yesterday was probably our ... Read more >
Sat, 20 Apr 2013 | By col_n_sue | Views [493] | Comments [1]
Tonight we are at dahzai on the Dragons Back rice terraces and the views are fabulous even in the mist that has rolled in.
we left Yangshuo at 10 this morning and it took 4.5 hours of rally driving to get here. Then a 50 minute walk up a very ... Read more >
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By col_n_sue | Views [523]
We are sadly combing to the end of our 4 nights at the Village Retreat. It has been refreshing to stay here in this quiet spot about 2km from Yangshuo.
We are surrounded by the striking karsts. Striking - not in the sense that the karsts ... Read more >
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By yinny | Views [229] | Scholarship Entry
We had been travelling on the Trans-Mongolian train from Moscow, with a few days stopover in Mongolia. Green vegetables did not feature prominently in Mongolian cuisine. We were starting to worry irrationally about the possibility of falling victim to ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By kelleyfoyt | Views [1657] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
I strained my ears to hear, but I wasn't convinced I wanted to listen. The air was quiet, so I watched. There was a lump in my stomach and I hadn't worked out how I felt. My gaze was fixed ahead of me where a dozen or so people surrounded a horizontal ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By vasanti | Views [245] | Scholarship Entry
As I find myself waking up on the other side of the planet in Beijing, China, I ask myself...."what have I done?". This is around 6 am, May 2008, when I have just entered this totally unknown world and what would become the GREATEST adventure of my ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By carrie105 | Views [209] | Scholarship Entry
Chengdu is best known for being the home of the pandas. It’s also known as being home to some of the spiciest food in China. Wanting to sample the local cuisine I arrived at a hot-pot restaurant. As soon as I walked through the door everyone looked at ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By sensorytravels | Views [424] | Scholarship Entry
We ventured into the banquet hall of East Market Restaurant on East Broadway, a grand venue for a delectable Sunday dim sum brunch. It was my first time eating in New York City’s China Town and I was intrigued by the city’s culinary streets that never ... Read more >
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By col_n_sue | Views [455] | Comments [2]
Today was magnificent, rafting down the river near Yangshuo, though I think our photos will not present the landscape well, because it was foggy (not smoggy) for most of the day. But the place is constantly surprising, with huge mounds popping ... Read more >
Tue, 16 Apr 2013 | By col_n_sue | Views [492]
I am sitting on our king sized bed typing this up, looking out the window of the Yangshuo River Retrat to the nearby mountains (I wouldn't be able to see them through the mist if they were further away.)
We only just arrived here in Yangshou, in amongst ... Read more >
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 | By col_n_sue | Views [516] | Comments [1]
You will no doubt have guessed from the title we have been cruising the three gorges. They are quite stunning, and we have had great weather (though still a little hazy as always).
The dam was quite controversial but now that it has been completed ... Read more >
Fri, 12 Apr 2013 | By col_n_sue | Views [733]
Nothing much to report today.
Went for a walk around the centre of Wuhan and had a coffee (Starbucks is omnipresent).
Ladies were dancing in their pyjamas in the city mall. Some had swords but we only saw them putting the swords away.
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