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                    <title>Nanjing and a Closer Look at China</title>
                    <description>Finally finally finishing my blog about China It is much harder to write about trips as you get farther from the experience so I apologize in advance if this is vague.I spent more time in Nanjing than I did in any other part of China because bf39s mother39s family is from there. This experience was like a homsetay because I was staying with an Aunts family. In Chinese cities most people l</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Nanjing/blog-715696.html</link>
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                    <title>Twin City</title>
                    <description>The second stop on my China tour was the beautiful city of Hangzhou in the province of the same name. Hangzhou is a tourist destination both for the Chinese and for international travelers due to the ancient temples gardens and famous longqing green tea. Though the majority of travelers did seem to be from other parts of China there were quite a few Japanese and Koreans in the crowd. The city </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hangzhou-/blog-657507.html</link>
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                    <title>Neon City Shanghai</title>
                    <description>There are many ways to travel sometimes you are alone and surrounded by strange things sometimes you have a purpose and a specific endpoint sometimes you are simply along for the ride. My most recent trip to China was of the third variety. I was lucky enough to visit with my boyfriend to meet his family and see the city where he was born. Due to these circumstances I had an amazing trip that I</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-657497.html</link>
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                    <title>Mountain Top Frolic</title>
                    <description>This is my belated blog entry about my trip to Macchu Picchu. It was beautiful breathtaking impressive and very much fun. We took the trains in one day and hung out for an overnight before heading up to MP for the day. After MP we spent a day enjoying the tourist attractions of the town meaning the hot springs. Also everything in Aguas Calientes costs 15 soles during the off season.In Per</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Aguas-Calientes/blog-625807.html</link>
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                    <title>Arco Iris and Llama Sightings</title>
                    <description>It took a border crossing and 18 hours on a bus before I made it to Cusco a city of rainbows and llamas. Cusco isn39t huge but it has a lot to offer. Vegetarian restaurants handmade alpaca wool  crafts parks cafes tourist attractions and the hawkers that come with them. The dining in Cusco is good and there is a lot of Cuy available though it will cost you if you choose to eat it. Cuy i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Cusco/Cusco/blog-556042.html</link>
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                    <title>Hotel Arica</title>
                    <description>This weeks is the final week of my SIT program. I left Valparaso on Tuesday to return to the home base in Arica once again. Our ISP projects were due on the 9th and with luck and some surprisingly efficient Chilean girls I had it printed and bound within a matter of minutes before it was due. For me this was a real surprise because it seems that many times when you walk into a heladeria and as</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Arica-and-Parinacota/Arica/blog-552417.html</link>
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                    <title>A visit to Santiago Thanksgiving and Isla Negra</title>
                    <description>This past week was very eventful and on top of all the things that are happening I have to write a 25 page research paper in Spanish and analyze my data. My ISP is over attitudes and knowledge about HIVAIDS and testing among college students in Chile. I have been handing out surveys to classes of university students who have volunteered tons of useful information for me. Now I get to analyze all</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Valparaiso-Region/Valparaiso/blog-550096.html</link>
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                    <title>El Arte de Retrasar Las Cosas</title>
                    <description>Of all of the places I have traveled I think Valparaso is one of my favorites certainly in the top 5. It is hard to say what makes any place so special and there is a distinct reason to call any one of them special. Maybe for me in this moment it has to do with the independence of living in our apartment here. It is not really an immersion experience but we have been speaking spanish most </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Valparaiso-Region/Valparaiso/blog-547918.html</link>
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                    <title>Cerro Muralla Sorpresa</title>
                    <description>Valparaso is full of surprises. Everything is a cerro hill and so there are houses stacked on top of each other and between are narrow streets full of blind curves. Stairs and claustrophobiainducing alleys run between the houses and suddenly open out onto incredible vistas of Valparaso and Via del Mar in the distance. This city has a surprise around every corner whether it is a cafe </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Valparaiso-Region/Valparaiso/blog-547294.html</link>
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                    <title>Lautaro Tierra de las poetas</title>
                    <description>The past few days have been unreal very busy and very fun. First there was the village study last thursday and friday. Next I had several days in Pucn an adorable westernized mountain town near the Villarrica Volcn. Finally the arrival in Valparaso where I am now settling into my apartment and enjoying an incredible view. But more on Valparaso another day because I will have nearly</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Araucania/Pucon/blog-545717.html</link>
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                    <title>Mari Mari Ayiful</title>
                    <description>I have made a change from the Atacama desert to the rainy green South of Chile in the Araucana region. It is home to the Mapuche whose medicine and cosmovision are the focus of the final academic excursion for my program. Most of our classes and almuerzas have been in a Ruka which is a traditional Mapuche house made of a wooden frame and straw with a fire pit in the center. They are very coz</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Araucania/Temuco/blog-543939.html</link>
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                    <title>Arica Siempre Arica</title>
                    <description>Today was my last morning to wake up in Arica. The alarm on my cell phone went off at 430 am and at 5 I was getting on a bus to the airport. My host mom and sister Camila left me with the rest of the students in my program at the gate to Campus Saucache and now I am back in the Santiago airport waiting for the second leg of my flight to Temuco. Sitting in this airport is all too familiar after </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Arica-and-Parinacota/Arica/blog-542483.html</link>
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                    <title>Playa Chinchorro by the Morro</title>
                    <description>After my trip to Tacna last weekend I was really content to hang out in Arica and not do too much this weekend. Of course I have 700 proyectos ensayos y tareas that I need to do for my classes in my final two weeks of real school. That's right two weeks until we take out last trip Temuco and then begin our Independent Study Projects ISPs. I can't believe we are at this point in the progra</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Arica-and-Parinacota/Arica/blog-539884.html</link>
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                    <title>La Frontera</title>
                    <description>This weekend my program crossed the northern border of Chile over into Peru. We had some lectures over health in Per and a lot of more hands on experience for example we went to a program of education and free HIV testing for pregnant women.  Even though we were only an hour or so away from Arica there were some obvious differences in culture and economic status from Chile. Also the everpr</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Tacna/Tacna/blog-538216.html</link>
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                    <title>Primavera Agro and Puerto</title>
                    <description>This is the beginning of spring in Chile or two weeks in actually. But you can definitely feel that the air is a touch warmer people go to the beach on the weekends and I have seen nongringos wearing flipflops. Unfortunately the lovely weather came at a time when my classes are kicking into high gear with tests essays and various other tarea. This is because with one month of Chile under </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Arica-and-Parinacota/Arica/blog-536605.html</link>
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                    <title>Altiplano Adventures</title>
                    <description>This week I went on my first excursion with SIT. On Tuesday we drove up to Putre a town in the altiplano high plains of the Andes. Putre is at 3500 meters 11400 ft above sea level meaning that there is little oxygen and a high risk of altitude sickness. On our climb up into the Andes on narrow roads bordered by cliffs or desert gorges we stopped several times to help our bodies acclimate</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Arica-and-Parinacota/Lauca-National-Park/blog-534289.html</link>
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                    <title>Feliz Bicentenario Chile</title>
                    <description>The 18th of September is Chile's independence celebration and I am lucky enough to be here for the 200th anniversary. The Bicentenario demands a 4 day weekend with Friday and Monday off lots of food friends family cueca and vino The Chileans are super patriotic and wear their traditional clothes to dance the cueca all day long. It is a highly choreographed dance of flirtation but you stil</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Arica-and-Parinacota/Arica/blog-532955.html</link>
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                    <title>Back To School</title>
                    <description>On my first day of classes here in Arica I discovered a very special aspect of my campus Alpacas. On the Velasquez campus of Universidad de Tarapaca live two adorable alpacas. Who new university in Chile was so awesome I began classes in Spanish and various aspects of public health last week. Our schedule changes daily and many of our classes involve trips to the center of town to clinics an</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Arica-and-Parinacota/Arica/blog-530629.html</link>
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                    <title>The Layover</title>
                    <description>This semester I will be studying public health and spanish in Chile. My program SIT's Chile Public Health Traditional Medicine and Community Empowerment  is based in Arica a city less than an hour south of the Peruvian border and near the Bolivian border. It is located at the end of the Azapa valley in the middle of the Atacama desert. On the west side of Arica are a series of beaches on t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Arica-and-Parinacota/Arica/blog-529074.html</link>
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