New Friends

We met this nice couple at a cafe outside the Silk Market. They are from Austria. Peter is a pilot and Astrid is a stewardess. Astrid worked as a nanny for several years in the Va Highlands area of Atlanta.

Beijing/Peking, China

October 13th 2011
Hi Everybody! In this blog, I am going to let the photos tell the story. I am starting with the train from Ulan Bator. The landscape changed many times as we traveled across the Gobi Desert to Beijing. Walt thought that it would be better if I published the blogs for Beijing and Tibet after leaving China. The Communist government blocks many internet sites including Facebook, Firefox, newspap ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet » Friendship Highway

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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