November 14th 2009  Asia » China » Liaoning » Dalian » Jinshitan
This blog is a continuation of our weekend trip with Fairy. After we left the rural villages we drove to a huge apple farm where we had some lunch and toured the area. After we drove to Bing Yu Villag ... 14 photos [full story]

November 14th 2009  Asia » China » Liaoning » Dalian » Jinshitan
We joined the biker crowd in October. Who would have thought that this would have been our mode of transportation in China! Many of the locals and quite a few of the teaching staff have bikes, which ... 14 photos [full story]

October 3rd 2009  Asia » China » Liaoning » Dalian » Jinshitan
Day 5 - the final day of the trip saw us leave the boat after breakfast with our Chong Qing guide Jeff. He took us to a few places in the city and then to the airport, It was a bit disappointing becau ... 16 photos [full story]

October 3rd 2009  Asia » China » Liaoning » Dalian » Jinshitan
Day 4: The excursion today is the the city of Feng Du (city of the dead). Ancient Chinese belief is that when a person dies, they automatically go to hell, but there is a special way to get out of hel ... 22 photos [full story]

October 3rd 2009  Asia » China » Liaoning » Dalian » Jinshitan
Day 2 of our travels: Todays excursion is on a small tributary of the Yangtze (Chang Jiang) River called the Shennong stream. It is well known in China for the 'trekkers'. Because the wat ... 26 photos [full story]

October 2nd 2009  Asia » China » Liaoning » Dalian » Jinshitan
Our cruise down the Yangtze River was amazing. We started out on Monday morning 5:40 a.m. to catch a flight from Dalian to Wuhan - about a 2 hour flight. There we were met by a guide who took the 4 of ... 16 photos [full story]

September 21st 2009  Asia » China » Liaoning » Dalian » Jinshitan
One of the great pleasures of our second year is running into students from last year that are now in Grade 10. They seem genuinely happy to see us and they seem to find it amusing that I am staying h ... 12 photos [full story]