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Sat, 22 Sep 2012 | By laris | Views [620]
Tomorrow Hangzhou will become the 5th destination in my list. We are leaving tomorrow morning in a fast train -whatever it is-, that promise to arrive just 56 minutes after departing from Shanghai's train station. The weather was pretty bad this ... Read more >
Tags: china, propaganda poster centre., shanghai
Sat, 22 Sep 2012 | By laris | Views [595]
"Food has an important place in Chinese culture". I don't know where I read this- and at this time of the day is even harder to remember details- but it's not difficult to agree. Food is everywhere in China. Whatever direction you look your ... Read more >
Tags: china, food, shanghai
Sat, 22 Sep 2012 | By laris | Views [546]
We finally changed hostels after three nights in Shanghai. The biggest difference is the cleanness. The new hostel is much nicer that we regret a little of staying in the other one for so long. * The biggest surprise in China is the blocked pages.... Read more >
Tags: china, shanghai
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 | By mmanddb | Views [470] | Comments [1]
WOAH I’m getting worse at this blogging thing. Sorry everyone! Thanks to those still checking. So we are still alive and starting to live life again! Both of us have colds now though :( but a little more free time, yay!
So updates updates.... Read more >
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 | By johnsteel | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 | By johnsteel | Views [741]
If you want to see the future of human kind – visit China.
The building and construction happening in most cities and
regional centres is enormous and astounding. Driving to Hangzhou airport, there
were forests of skyscrapers that stretch as far ... Read more >
Tue, 18 Sep 2012 | By where_iz | Photo Gallery
TRIP DATE 11 SEPT 2012 TO 17 SEPT 2012
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Mon, 17 Sep 2012 | By piglet | Views [3000]
Returning to Hong Kong tomorrow after 17 days on the road. I will have travelled all the way from the historical capital of Tang dynasty China (Xian, then known as Chang An) in central/eastern China to almost the western border of China. ... Read more >
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 | By piglet | Views [3953]
Apparently this is the translation (from Uighur) of "Taklamakan", the desert which we crossed today travelling from Kuqa 库车 to Hetian 和田 in 11 hours. The Taklamakan desert is so known because of its almost complete lack of vegetation and animal ... Read more >
Sun, 16 Sep 2012 | By piglet | Views [3105]
Many of you will know my fondness for local street food - in my view, the best way to get to know a city and its people. (I know this isn't particularly original; Anthony Bourdain has said the same).
My street market explorations started ... Read more >
Sat, 15 Sep 2012 | By piglet | Views [798]
Stopped by a typical Turpan village farm today for lunch. Like most farms in the region, they grow grapes which yields them around RMB 30k profit per year. To supplement their income during the tourist season, they open their home to tourists ... Read more >
Sat, 15 Sep 2012 | By piglet | Views [2220]
Thoughts of Ozymandias came into mind as I visited the Gaochang ancient city 高昌古城ruins and Jiaohe ancient city 交河故城 ruins in Turpan 吐鲁番. Both cities had once thrived as early as 2000+ years ago (in the case of Jiaohe) and have since disappeared ... Read more >
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 | By piglet | Views [1972] | Comments [1]
Dinner at Urumqi 乌鲁木齐 tonight was at a local restaurant (no foreign tourists seen and most of the staff only spoke the Uighur language). Almost Hansel and Gretel-like in its decor and charm.
The food is perceptibly less Han and has ... Read more >
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 | By piglet | Views [2229]
Landed in Urumqi this evening, flying in from Dunhuang. Greeted at the airport by our guide and driver both of Uighur origin. Our driver is quite the cutest guy I have seen in a long time with typical Uighur faintly exotic eurasian features. Something ... Read more >
Wed, 12 Sep 2012 | By piglet | Views [2225]
Today (Day 11) ended with "high tea" (aka late lunch) in Yangguan 阳关 town, a very pleasant leafy little enclave that has prospered on the back of growing grapes. Throughout Yangguan town are vineyards - they grow mostly green grapes which are ... Read more >
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