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Wednesday, 6 Feb 2008 | Views [683]
The giant Pandas in Chengdu are my favorite attraction in China so far.
I stayed in Chengdu for 5 days thinking I could climb the nearby Emei mountain, the smaller Qingcheng mountain and visit the Giant Panda research base. The Pandas ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2008 | Views [1663]
Finally I have found some time to sit down, have a breather and write something. Traveling by plane, train and boat, I went south from Beijing, then east and back west plotting an angular S on the map. My mad-looking route basically ensured that I ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Saturday, 12 Jan 2008 | Views [1261]
Shenyang
I went to Shenyang principally to visit a museum called 18 September. In 1931 the Japanese occupied Shenyang from the north, the museum is supposed to be a very good place to see how the Japanese army treated the locals. I hopped off the ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Thursday, 3 Jan 2008 | Views [387]
Trying to organise a place to stay in ShanHaiGuan before buying the train ticket caused a lot of confusion at my hotel. The day before leaving I wanted to book accommodation, that day the only English speaking staff member was not working. Trying to ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Monday, 24 Dec 2007 | Views [165]
I was invited out to dinner a few days before xmas with a South Korean guy called Joseph. That was after I spent an evening drinking cold beer in a cold hotel lobby with him and the owner of my hotel. It was a bit of a triumph for me because we talked ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Sunday, 16 Dec 2007 | Views [604]
I've not been doing much lately apart from going to Mandarin classes and watching classic Zhang Yimou (director of Hero) films at night. Today the weather was clear so I decided do something outside, although the sun was shining it made very little ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Saturday, 10 Nov 2007 | Views [481] | Comments [2]
Beijing Hikers Club (2)
The Great Wall hike was very good indeed, tiring but excellent. From 15km west of Mutianyu to Mutianyu was a hard walk and two thirds of it were over sections that have not been reconstructed. I had an English guy, Steve, ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Saturday, 10 Nov 2007 | Views [182]
Beijing city pollution, is it really as bad as everyone says? Well, for the first week that I was here I was wandering around looking up at the clear blue sky thinking perhaps not. We had several days where the weather was just fine, better even ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Thursday, 8 Nov 2007 | Views [136]
I went to the Opera last Sunday night. I was still feeling really ill but I'd paid for my ticket so I decided to go anyway. There were so few people in the audience that I felt embarrassed for the performers. I don't think they did a bad job, one ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Sunday, 4 Nov 2007 | Views [600]
I've started to get a little more adventurous when ordering meals in restaurants, I've been eating a bit too much Beef noodle soup. Ordering Beef is easy because it is very common, almost every restaurant serves it. Some restaurants are run by Muslims ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
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