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| Next Stop: Suzhou #5
2001-07-12, Hangzhou, China. By: thunder | | It is Friday and we leave this morning for Suzhou known for its long history as a center for arts; calligraphy and painting and also has many gardens. Its 1:20am and I just finished a hand written... |
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| A Tourist's Perspective #4
2001-07-09, Beijing, China. By: thunder | | During the first week in Beijing as I had mentioned, our group was
carted off daily to various tourist destinations. As I walked around the Forbidden City which was an official headquarters for the... |
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| Daily Life in Hangzhou #3
2001-07-07, Hangzhou, China. By: thunder | | It is now the third week of my trip to China and there is so much to
write as every moment is an experience. Everyday is filled with activity and study filled with sightseeing and note-taking. Night... |
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| Arrival and initial impressions #1
2001-07-04, Beijing, China. By: thunder | | As I am writing this my thoughts are filled with both speculation and ambivalence. I have mentioned to some fellow classmates that for me this trip has been a lifelong dream.
Previously I had fa... |
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| Introduction To Shanghai #1
2003-10-18, Shanghai, China. By: thunder | | Saturday, October 18, 2003
Introduction to Shanghai
As most of you are aware, I have been planning to live and work in Shanghai for quite some time. My prior academic studies and person... |
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 | Beijing Express
2003-09-13, Beijing, China. By: Flyin_scot | | Touched down in Hong Kong after a very smooth flight with Cathay Pacific. It had only been for 2 hours but verything about the flight was first class! But the best thing was saved to last, arriving i... |
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 | The trip gets political
2003-06-14, China, China. By: FlorAguil | | Dearest Everybody,
Im sure you were all wondering where all of my well known political fervor had gone to, well it is intact I assure you, although I have to say that it appears that the chinese pe... |
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| Food and other weird funky stuff.
1999-06-06, Shanghai, China. By: FlorAguil | | Dearest Everybody,
I hope you are all doing great.
So, the adventure continues...
Summer time is most definitely HERE.. Its REALLY REALLY HOT.
Exploring the city with my camera is the bes... |
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| Travelling without a guide
1999-06-01, Shanghai, China. By: FlorAguil | | Dearest Everybody,
I hope you will forgive me for not writing to each one of you individually, but due to lack of time I have to write to all of you together in the form of a journal. I have though... |
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 | Itinerary
2003-03-25, Shanghai, China. By: iqjourney | | Itinerary May 2003 - May 2004
Revised 3/12 2003
May 1.......................Departure Shanghai, China
May 1-16................. Myanmar(Burma)
May 16-30..... |
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 | Roof of the world
2003-04-01, Tibet, China. By: iqjourney | | Tibetans belong to the Mongoloid family of peoples. Nomadic tribes who migrated from the north and settled to sedentary cultivation of Tibet’s river valleys. My grand grandfather was a Mongol, so this... |
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 | Off we go to the Wizard
2003-03-30, Shanghai, China. By: iqjourney | | Off we go to the Wizard......
I just love this expression from the Wizard of Oz, the film with the young Judy Garland.
I guess you all know the story about Dorothy and her friends; the lion who l... |
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| Presentation
2003-03-22, Shanghai, China. By: iqjourney | | One can dare to sail uncharted waters or travel the well-trodden paths.
The fact remains; life is a journey and we must travel it well.
We have chosen the former path and our Yearlong Journey A... |
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 | A week in Beijing
2003-03-15, Beijing, China. By: gard | | This is a travelogue about the trip that my wife, Nikki, and I took to China (Beijing, Xi’an and Hong Kong) in the period from March 15th to March 29th 2003. We first spent 7 days in Beijing and we go... |
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 | The terra-cotta warriors
2003-03-22, Xi'an, China. By: gard | | Going to Xi’an by train
Time went fast in Beijing and all of a sudden we had reached Saturday March 22nd. We had decided to take the train to get to our destination and we bought our train tickets ... |
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 | China
2001-12-07, Shenzhen, China. By: pedro | | I went for the first time to the People's Republic of China on December 7, 2001. I was visiting Hong Kong for the second time and because since my first stay there I was willing to visit China, I've a... |
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 | Beijing in Review
2002-04-02, Beijing, China. By: hawkinsd | | I heard Beijing described as the London of China, in as much as it is spread over a wide distance and has lots of fog – although Beijing’s fog is in fact smoky pollution and London never really gets f... |
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| Hangzhou in Review
2002-03-28, Hangzhou, China. By: hawkinsd | | There are no direct flights to mainland China, so I had to go back to Hong Kong to catch the flight to Hangzhou. Taiwan and China have a strange relationship. Taiwan (who call themselves the Republic ... |
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 | Spitter's Paradise
2002-07-23, Beijing, China. By: djsproule | | We arrived safely in Beijing last week and have enjoyed a period of culture shock, as could be expected. The pure density of people is something very new to us. Many of them have apparent respirator... |
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 | Bamboo rat hotpot?
2002-02-27, Yangshuo, China. By: dan | | China. You have to love it. Pick and mix restaurants are everywhere, you just point at what you want and then they stir fry it all up, so you have baskets of fresh vegetables, some sausages, kebabs et... |
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| Happy New Year!
2002-02-13, Lhasa, China. By: dan | | Tashi Delay!
I arrived in Xigatse on the 11th, which is called something like Gutor in Tibetan. On this day only, the monks from the Xigatse monastery perform the dance of the Mahakala, which was ... |
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