Blogs from Qinghai Lake, Qinghai, China, Asia

Travelling along Qinghai provice is one of the trips that I absolutely recommend, to experience, while travelling in China. This time I have visited Qinghai lake. I stayed actually in the city of Xining which is about five hours away to the western side of the city. I was quite impressed to see that even in this part of China the cities have been transformed and the construction sites, I found in this city, were massive. Luckily, I discovered a little and cozy guesthouse slightly detached from the horrible concrete hub of the place. It was still traditional with all the ancient decorations and that inimitable ambiance that it is only found in the authentic part of this ever changing country. I loved that room with a bit of dirtiness, those feded curtains and sand stained ... read more

Happy Summer to everyone. Hope all of you are safe from the up-coming hurricane Irene, and that you and your belongings have not been affected by the East Coast Earthquake. It has been a whole semester since my last entry, and yes, I am still teaching in China, and I have signed another year's contract. 5 years have passed since I have signed my first contract at Taizhou Teachers College. Though I have stored 1,000s of photos from 10,000s of miles of travels across this vast country of China, it has actually become more difficult and frustrating to post the entries. Time has become limited, since I am involved in many more college and city activities, and above all, the slow and un-reliable computer speed is simply driving me crazy. The photos up-load slowly, and often, ... read more