Blogs from Heilongjiang, China, Asia - page 3

Hi All, Brought tears to my eyes today. What can you say? Mankinds cruelty knows no bounds. The horrors of what the Japanese did in World War II are on full display here. The museum is very informative and interesting, how much do you know about the Japanese invasion of China, but it does seem to harbour a little resentment and doesn't really give out a message of forgiveness. The disgusting war crimes commited by the Japanese shouldn't be forgotten but at the same time they should be forgiven. Most of the personnel that worked here, I use that term loosely, escaped trial because of the USA's thirst for knowledge on biological and chemical weapons. if any of you are unsure as to what happened here follow the link Enjoy the photos and Jah bless http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%C3%A0_731 ... read more

Hi All, Another Chinese city and another zoo. It was a bit more of a safari park than a zoo really. Boy are those cats big. One even attacked the minibus we was in. It was good to see these animals but again the ones that were in the cages didn't seem to have that much room. It was extremely cold again today and I gave up wanting to walk around because I lost the feelings in my feet. Enjoy the photos Jah Bless... read more

I made an impulse decision and made a weekend trip to Harbin right after our weekend trip to Beijing! I will only be in China for one year and I know that every holiday I plan for the rest of my life will likely be somewhere HOT, so I figured I should check Harbin off my list now. It was a VERY quick turnaround but well worth it! Harbin is a city that is in the very, very far north of China and is close the border with Russia. It gets VERY cold. Every year, for the last 13 years, it has hosted a huge Ice Festival and is now world famous for it. We took the train up Friday after school. Hard sleepers in China are very different from soft sleepers. In a soft sleeper ... read more

01-01-2012 This is our last kind of day in India. Generally we aren't counting it as a day as such as we have the stress and hassle of getting to the airport, lugging our 35 kilos of baggage around and basically have no plans to do anything exciting. We were lucky enough to drop the bags at the tourist centre whilst we plodded about Connaught Place to bide the time we had left. The flight was in the evening so everything was pretty much relaxed. We just managed to squeeze on the metro in the afternoon so were not looking forward to a repeat trying to get to the airport link later in the evening. Luckily we got a cab drop to the airport metro link as a final gesture from the tourist office. The China ... read more

It has been an animal-packed few days! As promised yesterday, we saw sea lions, beluga whales and much much more at Polarland! The fun bits came, however, in the Chinese-ness of the visitors. We went to watch the sea lion show but it was absolutely packed with Chinese school children! The show was clever, although a little noisy in true Chinese style. After the show, we had a look around the place and saw allsorts of other winter animals, including arctic foxes, polar bears and sharks! It was a little on the small side but lovely to see nonetheless. We had a quiet evening in the hotel with a big darts match between the boys in the family! This morning, we had hoped to wake up to a snowy world - the one thing that has ... read more