 | Homeward bound..
2009-11-22, Lanzhou, China. By: tgerber | | Well my time is up here in China, I have seen and experienced so many aspects that I will need a few weeks to churn it all out.
So probably by the time you read this I am ether on a plane or waiting ... |
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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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| 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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 | 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'm never paying more then $2 for a meal again!!!
2009-09-16, Lanzhou, China. By: tgerber | | When I get back to Australia I can just imagine my wife’s embarrassment/frustration when I go out to a restaurant.. if the meal costs more then $1.50 I will not be interested. Well that is about the... |
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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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