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                    <title>33NORTHERN LAOS</title>
                    <description>33 NORTHERN CENTRAL LAOS. THE SHOCK OF LAOS. It is amazing how two neighboring countries can be so different. After the noise highrise chaos hustle and bustle of China arriving in more laid back Laos was a welcome change. You even notice at the airport especially after going thru Chinese immigration TWICE at two different airports in China . Here the locals smile at you instead of gr</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/North/blog-691140.html</link>
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                    <title>32XIAMEN AREASOUTH CHINA</title>
                    <description>XIAMEN AND GUYANGYU ISLAND INCLUDES SIDE TRIPS TO HAKKA ROUNDHOUSES QUANGZHOU AND CHONGWU. XIAMEN I spent about 9 days traveling in south China before the mad Chinese holiday season started. Close to the mainland connected by bridge in a large bay is the island city of Xiamen pron. Sharmin a place I have always wanted to visit and so far it has lived up to its reputation. The hote</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Fujian/Xiamen/blog-690359.html</link>
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                    <title>31TAIZHOU TEACHERS COLLEGE AND YANGZHOU CITY</title>
                    <description>TAIZHOU TEACHERS COLLEGE The college is about 1 or 2 kilometers from centre of city in and OK area with some basic shops out the front with some water gardens and big fir trees inside. The apartment is close to the sports field and concert hall and is comfortable and livable A bit like a mini version of my last mansion in Shaoxing. Most utilities work with a few minor problems as is </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Taizhou/blog-666743.html</link>
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                    <title>30 TAIZHOUNEAR SHANGHAI</title>
                    <description>TAIZHOU CITYSOUTH CHINA The new college I teach at is a smaller university in smallish city near where the old and new Grand Canal met the Yangtze River north of Shanghai3 hours away Called Taizhou in Jiangsu province. It is one of the many medium sized cities on the huge Shanghai delta and very flat and not on the tourist track. It does have parks around a square waterwaycanal area </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Taizhou/blog-666735.html</link>
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                    <title>29GANSUSILK ROAD4</title>
                    <description>XIAHE A bus ride from Lanzhou took me up to another unique place high in the mountains were the air is also thin and sky is dark blue and clear. This is the largest Tibetan monastery town outside of Tibet.. it also has a large population of Chinese and Hui Muslims. It was a small laid back town surrounded by barren hills being the start of winter. The air was clear and crisp but warm in the sun </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Gansu/blog-666728.html</link>
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                    <title>28GANSUSILK ROAD 3</title>
                    <description>Gansu is a long province east of Xinjiang where the Silk Road tracks bottleneck between the mountains of the Tibetan plateau and mountains of Mongolia .The area is called the Hexi Corridor Hershe and is mostly stony desert with oasis towns along its length. Strong winds here have made it a major wind farm area of China with thousands of huge wind turbines along the rail tracks. DUNH</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Gansu/blog-666725.html</link>
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                    <title>27XINJIANGSILK ROAD 2</title>
                    <description>SILK ROAD TRIP 2010 TULUFANEast Xinjiang. Another highlight of the silk Road is the old area of Tulufan which is the third lowest depression in the world and below sea level. It has very little snow or rain but plenty of underground rivers from the snow mountains a long way away for growing lots of food. Grapes and melons from the Mediterranean area especially grow well here. The area is also v</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Xinjiang/Kashgar/blog-666716.html</link>
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                    <title>26XINJIANGSILK ROAD 1</title>
                    <description>SILK ROAD TRIP 2010URUMQI KASHGAR AND WESTERN BORDER AREAURUMQIArrived at Urumqi in middle of night in terminal that was like enclosed bus shelter without seats so sleeping there not option. only paid about 20 more than expected in hotel with clean sterile white walls so next morning with help of the same taxi driver moved to a youth hostel style hotel with writing all over walls. There were </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Xinjiang/Kashgar/blog-666715.html</link>
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                    <title>25BEIJING REVISITED</title>
                    <description>BEIJING BEFORE AND AFTER TRIP TO SILK ROAD IN OCTOBER 2010 The next 4 chapters Chapters 26 to 29 are of my one month trip  started 101010along the Silk Road from the western border in Xinjiang to lower Gansu province. I flew into Beijing and left from Beijing THE FIRST TWO DAYS IN BEIJINGThe weather was good for my first 2 days in Beijing in spite of arriving at night with rainon the last</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-666381.html</link>
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                    <title>CHAPTER 24SAIGON SOUTH VIETNAM</title>
                    <description>CHAPTER 24SAIGON SOUTH VIETNAMArrived here a few days before Chinese New Years Day the day I have to leave. I was not sure what to expect in this festive time could be interesting chaotic or both.Saigon or Ho Chi Mihn City is the southern city who lost out to Hanoi in the north in 1975. Even thought the Americans where here for a long time and it is easier to get around and even though it is</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-485859.html</link>
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                    <title>CHAPTER 23HOI ANCENTRAL VIETNAM</title>
                    <description>CHAPTER 23 HOI AN CENTRAL VIETNAMHoi An in Central Vietnam where it starts to get a bit more tropical humid but no rain and pleasant mostly so far. A bit like home really except for the buildings and people. Hoi An is very popular and a great place for walking and taking heaps more photos. Its a small town about 2 or 4 kiometres depending on which map you read up a river from a long whi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/South-Central-Coast/Quang-Nam/Hoi-An/blog-485623.html</link>
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                    <title>CHAPTER 22HUECENTRAL VIETNAM</title>
                    <description>CHAPTER 22HUECENTRAL VIETNAMARRIVING IN HANOIOn Tuesday 26 January 2010 I left freezing Shanghai and arrived in warm Hanoi North Vietnam where I have been before. This time I wanted to see Central Vietnam.I arrived in Hanoi at 2AM in the morning Getting from Hanoi airport to the hotel area is a real hassle even in daylight hours so I decided to catch a local hour flight only 73 to Cent</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Thua-Thien-Hu-/Hue/blog-482432.html</link>
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                    <title>CHAPTER 21LAST DAYS SHAOXING AREACHINA</title>
                    <description>CHAPTER 21LAST DAYS SHAOXING AREACHINAOn my final days in Shaoxing area I just explored couple of places and took a ride on one of the many double decker buses nothing exciting but my first since the 1970s. I also visited the statue dedicated to Da Yu. He was the guy who thousands of years ago tamed the swamps rivers and floods. The sticky fertile soil  was good for agriculture but hard to</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Zhejiang/Shaoxing/blog-471433.html</link>
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                    <title>CHAPTER 20ANCHANG WATER TOWN  DRYING CLOTHES AND FOOD</title>
                    <description>CHAPTER 20 ANCHANG WATER TOWN  DRYING CLOTHES AND FOODAnchang is a water town about an hour outside Shaoxing. It has present old wooden buildings along one long canal basically and is being modernized into a new tourist area. It still has enough old areas to make a worthwhile visit.It is also sausage making time in Anchang and other places too but it seems to be more noticeable here. S</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Zhejiang/Shaoxing/blog-470258.html</link>
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                    <title>CHAPTER 18MORE SHAOXING</title>
                    <description>CHAPTER 18MORE SHAOXINGMORE SHAOXINGThe much bigger and more interesting city of Shaoxing is a pleasant diversion on my few months here. It is relatively modern but not too crowded and semi touristy but mostly famous for the locals than international travelers. The main city centre is about a square kilometer surrounded by a circular canal sort of like a mote with other canals crisscro</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Zhejiang/Shaoxing/blog-468599.html</link>
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                    <title>CHAPTER 19SHANGYU AND STUDENTS</title>
                    <description>CHAPTER 19SHANGYU AND STUDENTSMy time teaching at Shangyu is coming to an end. It has been a hard time for me with the two apartments in the two cities and one of the worst winters here in years. Also being sick with minor complaints a lot of the time has no helped either. I have not seen any other places this time except Hangzhou and since China is still very cold even in Southern China I ha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-468616.html</link>
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                    <title>Chapter 17HANGZHOU</title>
                    <description>Chapter 17HANGZHOUI have managed to get to this garden city twice on two of my long weekends so far. It is about an hour away from me and one of the must see places of China.It appeared impressive to Marco Polo when the famous Italian traveler visited the city centuries ago. According to Marco Polo Hangzhou was Without doubt the finest and most splendid city the world... There </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hangzhou-/blog-459266.html</link>
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                    <title>Chapter 16A New Start  Back in China</title>
                    <description>CHAPTER 16 A NEW START IN CHINAAfter a year back home from teaching in South Korea including holidays in North Vietnam and CambodiaSee Blog Chapters 3 to 15 I am now teaching again in China. In September of 2009 I returned to China for my forth teaching trip. See Chapters 1 and 2 of this blog for summary of first 2 trips to China. A TALE OF TWO CITIES SHANGYU AND SHAOXINGI now work at a sma</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Zhejiang/Shaoxing/blog-447206.html</link>
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                    <title>15NORTH VIETNAM HOLIDAY</title>
                    <description>15NORTH VIETNAM HOLIDAYI left Korea 28th September 2008 for a quick holiday in North Vietnam before going home. I was unsure if I would be ready for it or not since I knew it would be more intense than Korea. I also only planned to spend my laidback two weeks around the north of Vietnam only. I would like to see the other areas further south during other future winter vacations</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/blog-330248.html</link>
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                    <title>14LAST DAYSODDS AND ENDS</title>
                    <description>14LAST DAYSODDS AND ENDSIt is almost time to leave Korea now so here are a few final mixed photos. Some are old ones as well.My final trips were around Daegu city area of Mount Palgongsan and in the city centre where I took a few street and park scene photos. I also walked around the village and school area and took heaps more photosas usual.PALGONGSAN AREAOur Korean friend Big Brother </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Gyeongsangbuk-do/Gunwi-County/blog-314787.html</link>
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