To be completed - but please access the link: The Olympic Torch in Nanchang: John Nanchang China number 185 [View Full Entry]

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It seems like a world away from where we are now, in India (which we'll get to), but here is a blog about Xian, the last stop in China, before we went back to chill out in Hong Kong at Lauren and Rob's (while they were on the otherside of the world). Another overnight train from Beijing and we arrived in Xian, an ancient walled city that used to be the capital of China. It now has 3 million people, but it seemed really small and neat and tidy, compared to the amazingly massive, expansive Beijing. The walls are all still [View Full Entry]

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Nu er vi kommet til Kina. Det tog et doegn for os at flyve hertil, da vi havde diverse mellemlandinger i den forkerte retning. Saa da vi endelig kom frem var vi fuldstaendig smadrede, og kunne naesten ikke holde oejnene aabne. Det hostel vi bor paa er af bedre standard, og man sover faktisk for en sjaelden gangs skyld med god hovedpude, og for foerste gang med noget der minder om en rigtig dyne. Det har man ogsaa brug for, da temperaturen her er noget lavere end vi er vant til - mellem 18 og 24 grader cirka. Derudover er der [View Full Entry]

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Indescribable Tibet How to describe Tibet? I have heard it called “Shangri La”, and I have heard it called “The Rooftop of the World”, but there is really no accurate way to describe this amazing and mysterious place in a few simple words or even paragraphs. It is an absolutely amazing place that time seems to have forgotten. It features some of the most breathtaking man-made, and natural sites in the world, and as a whole, has the friendliest people I have ever met. They seem to smile and laugh more than any other people in the world. The sky in [View Full Entry]

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Chengdu teahouses When I took a trip to Chengdu, one of the things I planned to do was visit one of Chengdu's tea houses. I am a lover of Chinese tea, and living in Guilin, we don't have many traditional tea houses, and so I wanted to check out what a real traditional tea house was like. There are a lot of teahouses scattered throughout Chengdu. I think I'd like to live there just to attempt to try them all out. It'd take a lifetime, but time well spent I believe. Drinking tea has become quintessential part of Chengdu people’s daily [View Full Entry]

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Leshan Giant Buddha I have been dreaming of visiting the Leshan Giant Buddha for many years. Finally in 2006 I got my chance. I took a tour to Chengdu with China Odyssey Tours. It was wonderful! I didn't know it, but the Leshan Giant Buddha is actually an entire park like area. It is located near Leshan City, which is near Chengdu City. The Giant statue is not actually of The Buddha, but of Maitreya, a fat laughing Bodhisattva who symbolizes brightness and happiness. The park in which the Giant Buddha rests is located in the mountains, so the area is [View Full Entry]

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Zigong Dinosaur Museum You may not know this about me, but I was an archaeology major in college. Before any archaeologists, or palentologsts get bent out of shape, I know that dinosaurs are not archaeology. I only wanted to say, that I love history, and especially dig sites. When I went to Chengdu in 2006 I wanted to stop at the Zigong Dinosaur museum. It's one of the three largest dinosaur museums in the world. Located at the Da Shanpu dinosaur fossils dig site, this area has the largest collection of dinosaur fossils from the mid-Jurassic period ever discovered. Fossils from [View Full Entry]

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A cyclone struck a wide low land area in Burma. More than 100,000 corpses, many still lay lying, rotting in drowned fields. Stench and terror in the air, aid slow to come, but coming indeed. A frantic mother, fear, terror, saddness, wretched tears in eyes, holds her young daughter, all amidst the quiet, deathly scene. A figment of reality. Reality, that means: it IS, it IS happening, right now. A gigantic crustal plate of the earth, like the ones upon which the buildings we are in are founded, shifts a mere 7 meters and in another place 13 meters. All [View Full Entry]

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We thought a bit of a female perspective might be a good idea so I took the camera with me for one of my times walking around Wuhan, getting lost, and finding new and interesting places. I did, however, begin my trek on the bus. I started my morning at 9 am by getting on our normal bus, the 586. I hopped off at the wonderful little park with the windmill that was in earlier entries. This left me walking on Minzu DaDao (big road) and is a short walk to one of my favourite haunts, the mall with the Carrefour [View Full Entry]

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Hi there folks. Well, it's almost 2AM in Beijing, and my body just decided to realize it's in China, so I'm wide awake, and thought I would fill you in on our trevails in the process of getting here. Thankfully, we stayed in KC the night before the trip so we didn't have to tack on an additional few hours to an already long trip. We had some issues with the weight limits for bags in going through KCI (they're really sensitive about 6lbs and I think some of these burly union workers need to suck it up). Thus, we all [View Full Entry]

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