 | Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City
2008-05-15, Beijing, China. By: rodman12 | | A visit to Beijing has to included Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. The day started early with breakfast at the Peninsula Hotel and the bus leaving at 9:00am. We were dropped off a couple of ... |
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 | Exploring Beijing
2008-04-18, Beijing, China. By: rodman12 | | Today is Friday and our Adventures by Disney opening reception is tonight. Since I had an opportunity to explore the area near the Peninsula Hotel the night before I was ready to show my wife and dau... |
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 | Beginnings of Our China Trip
2008-04-17, Beijing, China. By: rodman12 | | As a Disney cast-member in Florida I have access to a few perks. We get complimentary admission to the theme parks and can experience new rides and attractions before the general public. But one per... |
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 | The fox-hole and the wedding.
2008-05-13, Tangshan, China. By: valminx | | Life plods on out here…. You become accustomed to the same strange things happening day in day out and it becomes a sort of ‘normal weirdness’. Everyday we see things that in the west would make you s... |
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 | Arrival
2008-05-13, Shanghai, China. By: laowai | | I have arrived in Shanghai. The start of my second China adventure. After one semester back at USC, I have returned for the summer to teach English in Yangshuo. Having only lived in urban China, I ... |
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 | Duck
2008-05-04, Beijing, China. By: frankieboy | | Beijing
The first thing that I noticed about Beijing was the pollution. Holy Moly was it bad. You could see it engulfed the entire city and at night it was a bit eerie. It cleared up a bit the next... |
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| The drunk and the dead.
2008-04-15, Tangshan, China. By: valminx | | Well, it’s been a while since my last update, life’s been lazily plodding along here, but a few newsworthy events have happened that may be worth listing. The first two involve those poor souls sadly ... |
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 | The Iconic Checklist
2008-03-24, Beijing, China. By: mala | | I am a collector and list-maker by nature. While some people collect stamps or beanie babies, I collect iconic locations and the sights in and around Beijing rank high on any traveler's list.
It wa... |
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 | Beijing
2008-03-23, Beijing, China. By: valminx | | Having been to the 'Great' wall we decided to see what else is really 'great' about China so decided on a weekend of culture. First off we got up early on sunday - after falling into bed at 3 am we fe... |
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 | Xi'an and Beyond?
2008-03-16, Xi'an, China. By: mala | | Having made it to Xi'an, our most westerly destination, it's difficult not to consider the possibility of continuing on. An ancient capital, start of the famous Silk Road, one of the final "civilized"... |
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 | Chinese Hospitality
2008-03-12, Shanghai, China. By: mala | | In the transportation hub of Guangzhou our trip took an unexpected turn. Here we parted way with the girls who were homesick and Chinasick, which I understand is a common malady of travelers to the Mi... |
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 | Cutlure Not Cultured
2008-03-02, Yangshuo, China. By: mala | | Two thousand years of continuous Chinese culture has produced many notable things such as paper money, mechanical clocks, the wheelbarrow. There is evidence that the Chinese were experimenting with fl... |
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| A trip to the sea.
2008-03-03, Qinhuangdao, China. By: valminx | | Well, not content with our last little jaunt (an attempt to do what many nomadic tribes failed to do – assault the Great Wall of China), we thought we could do with another nice relaxing break – this ... |
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| That Great Wall
2008-02-26, Beijing, China. By: valminx | | You know when you get these 'great ideas' in your head and then afterwards think 'why the .... did i want to do this?' Well i had one of those moments last week. Sitting quietly chatting about differe... |
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 | The flying Red Flag
2005-08-17, Beijing, China. By: travelalex | | Wow, China was amazing (we left the airport, sure we didn’t get further than the car park, but we left the airport, that constitutes as a visit). It was the most depressing airport we’ve ever been to.... |
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| A series of improbable events.
2008-02-14, Tangshan, China. By: valminx | | Well, spring festival has come and gone, and a series of improbable and sinister events has come to pass! Pig turns to rat! Tangshan explodes! Monkey walks on water! What could have caused these auspi... |
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| Spring broken...
2008-01-29, Tangshan, China. By: valminx | | Spring break approaches… all of China prepares for a holiday. The schools have broken up for vacation. So as teachers we have it pretty easy right? WRONG!!!! I suppose the advantage of working for a l... |
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| The ancient city of Dali
2008-01-21, Dali, China. By: AEnglish84 | | After 2 days we headed Northwest to Dali. A city with a lot of influence from Budhism. Old town Dali is surrounded by a massive wall that protected the city from outsiders during ancient time. We spen... |
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| The Begining of the 5 Week Adventure
2008-01-18, Kunming, China. By: AEnglish84 | | Greetings. This is an update of my travels. I have been on the road for over 10 days. Daniel and I flew out of Shenzhen and landed in Yunnan, the provience in the far south west. In Kunming, the c... |
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| A weekend of culture
2008-01-18, Beijing, China. By: valminx | | We often go to Beijing for a night on the weekends but last weekend due to middle school exams i had the Monday off so we decided to make it a 2 nighter!! Oh such excitment - i could hardly control my... |
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 | Goodbye China
2007-12-26, shenzhen, China. By: smithy2006 | | it was a bit sad that my final day in china ended so quietly as i had so much fun for 7 weeks... it is an amazing country, the people are so friendly, as a tourist you are still very much an alien to ... |
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| In Conclusion
2008-01-07, Beijing, China. By: laowai | | Laying restless in my bed back in the states, I can’t help but think how quickly my time in China passed and how I can’t believe I’m really home. Unfortunately, I did not update my journal once durin... |
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 | Chinese Roundup...
2007-12-19, Guilin, China. By: smithy2006 | | As i'm a little behind on the journal and i can actually bore myself with my last week of China i will do a quick round up... so here it goes!
18th... Got train and arrived in Gulin, free food as a... |
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 | Christmas and New year
2008-01-01, Tangshan, China. By: valminx | | As we have said China does not celebrate Christmas, well not in any way like we do. We were intending to work but because of exams etc we ended up having the day off anyways, so thought 'what the heck... |
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| The Chinese medical process!
2007-12-28, Tangshan, China. By: valminx | | Well, where to begin? For the last couple of months i have not been well, constant coughing and as soon as i think im over it then it starts again. I have lost my voice a few times sneezed lots etc (y... |
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 | Kunming 2 times...
2007-12-17, Kunming, China. By: smithy2006 | | It was a great feeling coming back into Kunming... for the first time in a while... i could get off a bus in a city and know exactly where i was going! Off the bus... on the 64 and then straight into ... |
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 | Dali Update
2007-12-14, Dali, China. By: smithy2006 | | So i arrived in to Dali a little later than anticipated (the 13th) but every cloud has a silver lining as the views from Kunming and Dali on the train were amazing and would have been a sea of blackne... |
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| Kunming Roundup
2007-12-12, Kunming, China. By: smithy2006 | | I got a bit lazy in Kunming so this is a small round up of how lazy i actually was...
Sunday (9th Dec): Hungover... Watched DVD, went to Wal-mart, played (Dice) drinking game in the evening with fr... |
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 | Long Sleep and a Saturday night on the town!
2007-12-08, Kunming, China. By: smithy2006 | | After a long sleep and a couple of DVD's, i was heading out to a resturant with 2 Norwegian guys, i had originally met in Chengdu. We headed to a Hot pot place and checked out the menu, the menu was m... |
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 | 22 hour mission to Kunming from Chengdu
2007-12-07, Kunming, China. By: smithy2006 | | This is report of my journey or mission you could call it on my 22 hour train journey from Kunming to Chengdu, just to make it a but spicy i decided to take a hard seat which cost under 5 pounds... an... |
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 | Big Buddha...
2007-12-05, Leshan, China. By: smithy2006 | | Random day on the road today... set off with an American Couple who had nicely paid the majority of the bus rental... the buddha was exactly what it says on the tin... bloody huge and is very impressi... |
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 | Chengdu Roundup...
2007-12-04, Chengdu, China. By: smithy2006 | | First day (3rd), started off as a lazy day... i did absolutely nothing but advice 2 english girls on what to do for their trip, beer o'clock was around 3 so it was a good day, ate 3 times at the hoste... |
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| I've been in country too long...
2007-12-08, Tangshan, China. By: valminx | | It’s strange how the mental compass turns. That indicator of sanity that points to the north of normality… They say you base sanity on those around here so out here you can’t help but spiral out of co... |
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| anyone out there want to come here?
2007-12-08, Tangshan, China. By: valminx | | Hey all,
The company we're working with are going to be neading some more english teachers soon - is anyone out there masochistic enough to come join us?
Give us an email is you need any details. |
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 | Quiet Day on the Boat
2007-11-30, Yichang, China. By: smithy2006 | | Woke up pretty early doors this morning... no hangover though... the wine must have been a good yield! Had a shower in the worst Wash Room i will probably ever go in ever again (maybe not), it was pra... |
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 | Shiver me timbers...
2007-11-29, Yichang, China. By: smithy2006 | | Another early start (6:30), well it was actually later than that as today i realised that since i had began my trip my watch has been 10 mins slow... god knows how i haven't missed a train so far. On ... |
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 | Correction!!
2007-10-02, YangShuo, China. By: ScooterrC | | I was just told by my loving Fiancee' that my Chinese is not good. She is from He Bei, north of Bei Jing. Hehe...I can't wait until we go to Central America, my second home. Actually, my third now,... |
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| Vacation in Yang Shuo
2007-10-02, YangShuo, China. By: ScooterrC | | In October, 07, my honey and I decided to go to Yang Shuo and do all the touristy things. We did West Street, day and night. Mornings are much less crowded, afternoons are full of foreigners, and ev... |
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 | Anyone got a boat ticket?!
2007-11-28, Wuhan, China. By: smithy2006 | | Today i set myself a target of booking a boat trip to Chongqing... how hard could that be in a port... mmm!
You may be suprised to hear that the ticket was never purchased... only found 2 places th... |
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 | Where am i going?????
2007-11-27, Wuhan, China. By: smithy2006 | | Set off early doors from the hostel in a 6 seater mini bus type thing, after 20 mins transferring to a bus on dual Carriageway (no ticket needed, Money changing hands between people... already dubiou... |
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 | First Day of Organisational Nightmare...
2007-11-26, Tunxi, China. By: smithy2006 | | In some ways you should plan well in advance but then... that takes the excitement out of everything! on this part of my journey (east to west) my final destination being Chengdu i was finding a littl... |
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 | Mission up the Mountain...
2007-11-25, Huangshan, China. By: smithy2006 | | So off i went at 6 in the morning to hike up Huangshan Mountain, was fit as a fiddle as i had had so much sleep, it ended up being quite a mission to get there, i was a bit dubious about the bus price... |
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