Destination: China

Lost a room key in Urumqi

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 | By noflyzone | Views [678]

Enjoyable Urumqui After our Nanning experience (anonymous town we killed a day in), we didn't dare hope for too much in Urumqi, especially as it's another "difficult" part of China, with heavy army presence and instructions all over the ... Read more >

She sells Xi'an

Fri, 5 Nov 2010 | By noflyzone | Views [1065]

Xi'An is one of the most exotically named cities we've visited and also one of the most dramatic to arrive in.  Immediately after exiting the identikit Chinese Train Station one is confronted by an immense wall stretching, like China, from east to ... Read more >

Photos: Xi marks the spot

Fri, 5 Nov 2010 | By noflyzone | Photo Gallery

Photos: China

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 | By niviosabine | Photo Gallery

Two-bet

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 | By noflyzone | Views [712]

The Tibetan culture we're allowed to see seems to be defined very narrowly by religion, so we end up traipsing around a succession of temples and so forth.  They are magnificent, with a series of fantastic gold statues and mandalas. But seeing lots ... Read more >

Photos: Xiamen

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 | By lha | Photo Gallery

XIAMEN

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 | By lha | Views [908]

Well, I'm back and sorry for taking so long with checking in here and penning my latest happenings.  Life has been quite busy for me since last I wrote. K, for the October 1 Holidays I went to Xiamen, Fujian Province.  October 1 is China's National ... Read more >

Tags: xiamen

Photos: Pumpkin + School

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 | By samvanneilson | Photo Gallery

Halloween

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 | By samvanneilson | Views [425] | Comments [2]

Hello everyone who is reading this! This most certainly contains Halloween goings on but i will fill you in on the other happenings first. Nothing much is going on! Been working, eating, sleeping the usual. I have been out with a girl a few times but ... Read more >

Tags: costume, darts, halloween, pumpkin

Photos: Tibeten culture

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 | By noflyzone | Photo Gallery

I'd like Tibet you've been waiting for this

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 | By noflyzone | Views [1199]

5,250m away from sea level and still we're craning our necks to look at mountains another 3,000m up.  Welcome to the roof of the world.  We'd had tantalising glimpses of the high himalaya ever since arriving in Kathmandu valley, but the vistas on offer ... Read more >

Photos: On top of the world

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 | By noflyzone | Photo Gallery

Photos: ShantouJieyangPuning

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 | By jay2008 | Photo Gallery

Professor Liao

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 | By thatgirlkate | Views [590]

September 30, 2010 Professor Liao’s class always keeps me interested. There is nothing quite like learning about a historic event from a person who has witnessed it. It always impresses me when people overcome really awful situations, and instead of ... Read more >

Homesickness and Panhandlers

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 | By thatgirlkate | Views [728]

September 29, 2010 Amanda and I spent a good amount of time today again at the bookstore right off campus, but today they were very adamant about us needing to buy a drink if we wanted to work there. The girl literally told us to get out unless we ... Read more >