http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/CharM/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from CharM en-us Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:17:32 BST Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:17:32 BST I AM REALLY ASHAMED OF MYSELF FOR GETTING BEHIND IN SENDING OUT BLOGS. I HAVE THEM ALL WRITTEN. BUT I HAD PROBLEMS GETTING MY PICTURES ONTO DISCS. BUT YOU'LL BE GETTING MORE NOW THAT I CAN ADD PICTURES. AS MANY OF YOU KNOW I AM BACK IN INDIA TEACHING VOLUNTEER AT KODAI INTERNTIONAL SCHOOL FOR ONE SEMESTSER YOU CAN LOOK IT UP AT WWW.KIS.IN . IT'S AT KODAI CANAL IN THE MOUNTAINS AND I http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Zhejiang/Hangzhou/blog-277454.html First of all Shanghai is huge. Maybe that is stating the obvious fact it has twice as many skyscrappers as NYC but one can ride on a bus for a an awful long time that looks on the map to be quite near. Being so large it is also very conjested. So much so that I'm not so sure that I actually couldn't have walked to the places I spent several hours busing to. I stayed in the area they call http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-276484.html Most Three Gorge tours start in Chongqing used to be Chunking before Mao started changing things. Short history lesson source LP In 1958 the Chinese adopted a system of writing their language using the Roman alphabet known as pinyin. The original idea was to eventually do away with characters. However tradition dies hard and the idea was abandoned. Nowadays most don't even know how http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Yangtze-River/blog-273031.html SPECIAL NOTE MY SON JEFF HAS BEEN ENCOURAGING ME TO SEND MORE PICTURES WITH MY BLOGS. WHEN I BEGAN THIS SITE ONLY ALLOWED SO MANY BUT THAT HAS CHANGED. SO THIS TIME I HAVE INCLUDED MANY MORE PHOTOS. THIS IS A LOT OF WORK FOR ME SO I REALLY WANT TO KNOW FROM YOU WHETHER OR NOT YOU LIKE SEEING BUNCHES OF PHOTOS LIKE THIS. IS THIS TOO MUCH WAS 34 JUST RIGHT OR TOO LITTLE LET ME KN http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Yunnan/Lijiang/blog-272413.html For the past 40 years one of the places I have always longed to see was the Li River area. It is that part of China that we always see in pictures with these mountains rising from the ground many times looking like they are standing alone next to others of different sizes and shapes. They extend all along this beautiful winding river and into the surrounding valleys. I can honestly say e http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Yangshuo/blog-272142.html My first stop in China was the province of Guangxi west of Guangzhou. That is if one doesn't count Macao and Hong Kong which apparently even the Chinese don't in some ways i.e. no visas necessary different rules and even a different feeling. One commentator stated that nothing would please Beijing better than to have Shanghai surpass Hong Kong as the supercity of China. That tells http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangxi/Guilin/blog-271470.html Caveat Almost anyone can take better pictures than I of big buildings. If you want to see Hong Kong today it's there on the net and done far better than I. So those photos I share with you are the one's you probably won't see on a travelogue but have somehow struck me as 'memorable'. Remember you can double click on the pictures and they enlarge. enjoyHi All this is the firs http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-268247.html