http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China en-us Sun, 26 May 2013 04:52:10 +0000 Sun, 26 May 2013 04:52:10 +0000 For the May Holiday we ended up going to Guilin Yangshou for 7 days.Day 1 To GuilinWe caught our flight to Shanghai and the connecting flight to Guilin Airport arriving in the evening. We caught a shuttle bus into the city and taxi39ed to our hotel. The taxi39s were all asking extravagant pricies upwards of 10x normal rates. And we ended up giving up and settling on 30 RMB as no taxi w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guangxi/Yangshuo/blog-787752.html May 25 2013 Jianyang Chengdu We held a blindness prevention screening clinic at a community health center in Jianyang. These county level health centers are an important node in the battle against cataract blindness and of the screenings we did 4050 of eyes had advanced cataracts and we some some patients who had had cataract surgery with very poor results. The need was reinforced again t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-787741.html May 25 2012 Chengdu Just a quick update after a bit of silence on the blog. The silence had to do with lack of internet access or time to update the blog. Lots happened in the last few days which I39ll summarize quickly but then detail later. We completed negotiations with the hospital and were successful at coming to an agreement after some challenges. This is seen as an historic event in http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-787740.html Hi AllSeems like forever since I39ve done a blog.So got a call from our foreign affairs department asking if we39d like to go on a trip to Luoxi national park in Dongkou county courtesy of the local government. Well obviously we said yes. Set off from Shaoyang at around 3pm Friday afternoon on a 2 12 hour trip from Shaoyang to Dongkou. The journey did take a little bit longer as we came ac http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hunan/Shaoyang/blog-787736.html New hostel I love it It is right in literally in Wulan square . It is also conveniently located just about a 8 minute walk to my favorite vegetarian restaurant in town I slept like a rock last night for the first time in over a week and got up around 9 am. Even though the weather forecast said it was going to reach 90 degrees today I was still set on going to the botanical gardens. I http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hangzhou-/blog-787600.html Mt Lushan is located in the north of Jiangxi Province with the Changjiang River flowing by in the north and the Poyang Lake lying in the southeast. Known as the most beautiful mountain under heaven its scenic area covers an area of 302 square kilometers including 16 natural wonders 474 scenic spots and 171 peaks standing on rolling mountain ranges. The highest peak of the mountain is the Gre http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangxi/blog-787539.html Some tourists would like to do something instructive to local people when they travel to a certain place. Then what tourists can do for local people when travel to Tibet Tibet is reputed as the last pure land on earth partly because of pure spiritual world of Tibetan people and partly because of wellpreserved environment. When tourists make a tour to Tibet they are appreciated to protect the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/blog-787479.html QinghaiTibet Railway the only railway to Tibet is one of the worlds top 25 iconic rails according to the USbased Society of International Railway Travelers that has published a list of the world39s top 25 iconic rail adventures. The list includes a variety of trains from the firstclass Golden Eagle TransSiberian Express which crosses eight time zones from Europe to Asia to India39s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/blog-787478.html Some tourists would like to do something instructive to local people when they travel to a certain place. Then what tourists can do for local people when travel to Tibet Tibet is reputed as the last pure land on earth partly because of pure spiritual world of Tibetan people and partly because of wellpreserved environment. When tourists make a tour to Tibet they are appreciated to protect the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/blog-787477.html QinghaiTibet Railway the only railway to Tibet is one of the worlds top 25 iconic rails according to the USbased Society of International Railway Travelers that has published a list of the world39s top 25 iconic rail adventures. The list includes a variety of trains from the firstclass Golden Eagle TransSiberian Express which crosses eight time zones from Europe to Asia to India39s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/blog-787476.html Some tourists would like to do something instructive to local people when they travel to a certain place. Then what tourists can do for local people when travel to Tibet Tibet is reputed as the last pure land on earth partly because of pure spiritual world of Tibetan people and partly because of wellpreserved environment. When tourists make a tour to Tibet they are appreciated to protect the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/blog-787475.html QinghaiTibet Railway the only railway to Tibet is one of the worlds top 25 iconic rails according to the USbased Society of International Railway Travelers that has published a list of the world39s top 25 iconic rail adventures. The list includes a variety of trains from the firstclass Golden Eagle TransSiberian Express which crosses eight time zones from Europe to Asia to India39s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/blog-787474.html QinghaiTibet Railway the only railway to Tibet is one of the worlds top 25 iconic rails according to the USbased Society of International Railway Travelers that has published a list of the world39s top 25 iconic rail adventures. The list includes a variety of trains from the firstclass Golden Eagle TransSiberian Express which crosses eight time zones from Europe to Asia to India39s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/blog-787473.html QinghaiTibet Railway the only railway to Tibet is one of the worlds top 25 iconic rails according to the USbased Society of International Railway Travelers that has published a list of the world39s top 25 iconic rail adventures. The list includes a variety of trains from the firstclass Golden Eagle TransSiberian Express which crosses eight time zones from Europe to Asia to India39s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/blog-787472.html Some tourists would like to do something instructive to local people when they travel to a certain place. Then what tourists can do for local people when travel to Tibet Tibet is reputed as the last pure land on earth partly because of pure spiritual world of Tibetan people and partly because of wellpreserved environment. When tourists make a tour to Tibet they are appreciated to protect the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/blog-787471.html QinghaiTibet Railway the only railway to Tibet is one of the worlds top 25 iconic rails according to the USbased Society of International Railway Travelers that has published a list of the world39s top 25 iconic rail adventures. The list includes a variety of trains from the firstclass Golden Eagle TransSiberian Express which crosses eight time zones from Europe to Asia to India39s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/blog-787470.html Some tourists would like to do something instructive to local people when they travel to a certain place. Then what tourists can do for local people when travel to Tibet Tibet is reputed as the last pure land on earth partly because of pure spiritual world of Tibetan people and partly because of wellpreserved environment. When tourists make a tour to Tibet they are appreciated to protect the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/blog-787469.html QinghaiTibet Railway the only railway to Tibet is one of the worlds top 25 iconic rails according to the USbased Society of International Railway Travelers that has published a list of the world39s top 25 iconic rail adventures. The list includes a variety of trains from the firstclass Golden Eagle TransSiberian Express which crosses eight time zones from Europe to Asia to India39s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/blog-787468.html Tibet Tour. In the northwest of China Qinghai Lake lying on the Tibetan Plateau is called green lake blue sea or fairyland because of the marvelous natural beauty reflected on it. Covering an area of 4583 sq km Qinghai Lake is the largest inland and saltwater lake in China. It rests 4500 meters above sea level on the QinghaiTibet Plateau surrounded by four mountain ranges. The lake http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Kham/blog-787386.html People choose to have Tibet travel attracted by the beautiful scenery and unique culture there. They travel to Everest Base Campto view the highest mountain in the world. As we all know the color of snow is pure but once when the Chinese climbers arrived the Himalayas they found that there is some rose color snow in the ice world with the elevation of 5000 meters. So how was it formed Why it http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Everest/blog-787379.html