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 | Qinggang Jialong Si
2009-11-05, Qinggang, China. By: tgerber | | Well not much has been happening here over the last week and a half as we are all recovering from the H1N1 flue. We have not had any programs for this time and a lot of people are getting a bit board... |
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 | Yunnan Provience - Week Thirty.
2009-11-01, Lijiang, China. By: aarond | | When living in China you hear the Provience of Yunnan being thrown around a lot. This is where they say the best of the best traveling is done in China. Located just south of Tibet, this is as close... |
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 | Sichuan Provience - Week Thirty.
2009-10-30, Chengdu, China. By: aarond | | This past weekend Michele and I went to Western China for my last trip in China. We started the first leg of the trip in China's third largest city - Chengdu. The city itself wasn't much to write ab... |
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| Pigs can't fly
2009-10-31, Lanzhou, China. By: tgerber | | Pigs can’t fly I found that out the other day. You may remember from my last update on my trip to Xiahe I was feeling crook. When I returned to Lanzhou I found out that three other people where also... |
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| East West and now South
2009-10-25, Xiahe, China. By: tgerber | | East, West and now South. This weekend a small group of four of use decided to utilize the first weekend free that we have had since arriving here and head down south to the local Tibetan Autonomous ... |
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| Up the Hexi corridor and all that.
2009-10-21, Lanzhou, China. By: tgerber | | Our trip up the Hexi Corridor west to the city of Dunhuang started on Monday morning hardly giving me any time to recover from my Beijing trip two days prior. The one thousand kilometer Hexi corridor,... |
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| Beijing - Week Twenty Eight.
2009-10-19, Beijing, China. By: aarond | | Wow, week Twenty Eight, I can't believe it. Well with only about four weekends left in China I've been trying to see as much around the city that I can - working away at my list. That said, Shawn an... |
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| Back from Beijing.
2009-10-11, Beijing Shi, China. By: tgerber | | For the last twelve years my wife has kept on telling me that I married wonder woman, well I might have to start agreeing with her as traveling all the way to China four months pregnant with our 1 ¾ ... |
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 | My food experiences in Beijing
2008-09-08, Beijing, China. By: andrewjeff | | China had never been very high on my list of places to visit. I ended up going for work to lend travel support to my client’s global meeting. It would mean 5 days of work in a very nice hotel: the G... |
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 | China last day/night
2009-09-28, Nanning, China. By: mynewlife | | As I lied in bed last night I realized this would be either my last night in China or at least for a while and so I decided to go out. I visited a entertainment family/show style restaurant/bar/disco ... |
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 | Four weeks ---- gone..
2009-09-28, Lanzhou, China. By: tgerber | | Sunday we where taken out of town to visit Xing Longshan Mountain (兴隆山). This mountain is unique as it has untouched virgin forest, a rarity around Lanzhou. In the past blogs I ... |
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 | A close call.
2009-09-26, Lanzhou, China. By: tgerber | | I know the key rules of travel in a foreign country.
Never take with you more cash than you really need.
Never carry your credit cards or pin cards around.
Always be vigilant in busses and crow... |
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| We won 1st Prize
2009-09-26, Lanzhou, China. By: tgerber | | So over the last few weeks I have been talking about this dance performance that we have been practicing for, well in summery on Tuesday night we won 1st Prize. ļ So now we are famous - in our own s... |
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| My live is full of extreames here
2009-09-21, Lanzhou, China. By: tgerber | | [b]So my life is full of extremes[/b] at the moment – but maybe that is the cost of living in China. One moment I am sitting in class trying to remember the tone of a Chinese word, then one hour late... |
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 | I can count to four in Chinese now - wow..
2009-09-10, Lanzhou, China. By: tgerber | | Since our visit to the worse Zoo in the world and our pretty cool weekend we have been busy studying Chinese character and trying to pronounce the various basics of Chinese. The learning style is als... |
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 | A few things of Note
2009-09-07, Lanzhou, China. By: tgerber | | [b]Ok I was planning on only writing a travel blog once a week[/b] but a few things of not have happened over the last two days. In summery (which I will write about in more detail below) the key ite... |
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| My First Impression of Lanzhou
2009-03-06, Lanzhou, China. By: tgerber | | Half asleep or unconscious, I feel the flight attendant shaking me awake, in broken English he tells me we are about to land in Lanzhou and so I should really put my shoes back on. This is great becau... |
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| I survived the first week in Lanzhou
2009-09-05, Lanzhou, China. By: tgerber | |
[b]They do thing different here in China[/b]
I found that out on the first day when I foolishly decided to walk across the pedestrian crossing when the green man was on… mental note it is probably ... |
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| Beijing - Week Nineteen.
2009-08-09, Beijing, China. By: aarond | | This week I had a relaxing week at home. Friday night we made dumplings with some of the co-workers. It was a great time and gave us a nice visual of how hard it is to make those things...
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| Shanghai - Week Sixteen.
2009-07-26, Shanghai, China. By: aarond | | This weekend I went for a short trip to Shanghai to check out one of the three largest cities in China. After first appearence I was amazed at the modern look of the city and it almost reminded me of... |
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