http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Qinghai/Xining/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Qinghai , Xining en-us Wed, 22 May 2013 14:06:50 +0000 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:06:50 +0000 Xining has a center very crowed full of shops especially Mobile phones.ltspangtltspangt I visit two Buddhist temples that are pretty hide in town. I was surprised to find one of them just surrounded by a Shopping mall and the police stations. ltspangtThen I entered to a local market where I bought fruit and vegetables. Here the stores for fruit and vegetables are different ones. I a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Qinghai/Xining/blog-721416.html Today I got up with a little bit of a cold so I was taking it mellow.ltspangtltspangt Traveling could be exhausted and without the language a tough job. So today was my day off.ltspangtI used it to do download footage write and meet people in the hostel. Hostels are amazing interesting places. Marc Auge will define them as nonplaces but I disagree. They have their own identity. Th http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Qinghai/Xining/blog-720949.html In this TravelBlog 132 Part II of my visit to the Province of Qinghai I am introducing the GREAT MOSQUE of Xining Qinghai39s capital city. After some research here is some additional information about this least visited and poorest of the China39s provincesQinghai is bordered by Tibet Xinjiang Gansu and Sichuan at an average altitude of more than 13000 feet on the Tibetan plateau http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Qinghai/Xining/blog-636854.html I went to Qinghai province last week for Fall break on a whim with a backpack and a sleeping bag boots and the notion of camping. Well I never used the sleeping bag it was colder there then I expected and due to events on the train ride there I was not feeling up to the challenge.I took a train from Beijing on the 24th of October two Sundays ago and because I bought my ticket that Friday there http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Qinghai/Xining/blog-543276.html Well folks it has been a little while since I have sent an update on my travels. There are a few reasons for this one the internet places are few and far between and second I have not been real interested in sitting in front of a computer. This usually happens to me after a few months away I get tired and just spend a few days sitting back and watching the world go by. No photos and no internet http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Qinghai/Xining/blog-504940.html Seeks dreams in Qinghai Most beautiful oil cauliflower paddies http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Qinghai/Xining/blog-485974.html From Chengdu we travelled further to north currently we are in Xining. Here the weather is really wintery now freezing nights mountains we can really feel the proximity of the Himalayas. Our mission in Xining was to acclimatise to higher altitude currently at 2200 m and to arrange our travel permits and tour to Tibet. They say the closer you arrange the trip to Tibet the cheaper the price ge http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Qinghai/Xining/blog-460798.html The T 9662 tto Lanzhou was comfortable. We had the wide bedded soft sleeper with clean sheets and a cool but not cold cabin. We boarded and slumped onto our seats. We chatted for a while but soon could not do so any longer and drifted off to sleep at 2330hrs. We rumbled and clacked into the night and woke refreshed at 0630. The train halted at exactly 0700 at Lanzhou. There was the usual scrum http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Qinghai/Xining/blog-456824.html My friends and I went to Qinling mountains in April. it's a really wonderful place and we were so lucky could see a wild giant panda exciting I found a very good trip report about this placeshare it. If you are interested in it you can read it at herehttpwww.mammalwatching.comindex.html http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Qinghai/Xining/blog-409335.html Day 1 July 7 2008I am on a train to Xining the capital of Qinghai Province. I will be here for the next ten days or so teaching English to children in the countryside. After arriving at the train station we will take a bus to Ledu County.This is all part of the Summer Service Learning Program sponsored by the Poverty Alleviation Office at Tsinghua University. My traveling companions include one http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Qinghai/Xining/blog-372749.html Xining the capital of Qinghai province turned out to be already more wild than expected. It was far less modern than the other cities. The most obvious sign for this were the missing chain stores of Mc Donalds KFC and Starbucks. We arrived after a comfortable night on the train. Chinese sleeper trains are of good quality with open 6 berths compartments and clean bed sheets. There is also a wak http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Qinghai/Xining/blog-357082.html On our last day in Tibet we visited the family of our guide in their small village between Lhasa and Shigatse. The village was shielded from the road by a high embankment and consisted of about thirty families. The small traditional houses were without running water or indoor plumbing. Our guide showed us the very public place outdoors designated for bathing. Though there was a sm http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Qinghai/Xining/blog-272051.html A day in transitI had a bit of a sleep in this morning which was great I think I need to catch up on some sleep after all those late nights drinking in Beijing. So I headed out got some breakfast and packed up and headed towards the long distance bus station for my bus to Xining. To refresh your memory I was heading to Xining to maximise my chances of getting a permit to Tibet and as I said yest http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Qinghai/Xining/blog-225898.html