Trip: Chillin' in China
There are [26] stories from my trip: Chillin' in China
CHINA | Saturday, 29 May 2010 | Views [902]
We'd come back down to 2000m at Jiayuguan from 4000m at Jingtieshan iron ore mine and had time to kill this morning, so I went for a look around..............
I walked out of the hotel for a while in the general direction of the Jiayuguan Fort ... Read more >
Tags: china, ultralight, wall
CHINA | Saturday, 29 May 2010 | Photo Gallery
See all 27 photos >>
CHINA | Saturday, 20 Mar 2010 | Views [1408] | Comments [4]
I only had a five day break between jobs so it was always going to be a quick trip. The travel agency was nervous about getting the required Tibet Travel Permits for us because in the last few years a Tibetan religious festival at the end of the ... Read more >
Tags: lhasa, monasteries, monks, tibet, yak
CHINA | Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010 | Photo Gallery
See all 48 photos >>
Tags: lhasa, palace, tempes, tibet
CHINA | Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010 | Views [1001]
Back on the trains again, this time across the Qinghai Plateau and in to Tibet. The Chinese are very proud of this rail line - as they are of most things they get right - but it is certainly a interesting trip. There are commentaries along the way letting ... Read more >
Tags: ice, snow, tibet, trains, yak
CHINA | Tuesday, 16 Mar 2010 | Photo Gallery
See all 12 photos >>
Tags: ice, snow, train, yak
CHINA | Monday, 2 Feb 2009 | Photo Gallery
Ice and Snow Festival
See all 20 photos >>
CHINA | Monday, 2 Feb 2009 | Views [1594] | Comments [1]
Last winter was my first northern hemisphere winter, and come Xmas holidays last year, the last direction I was going to head was further north(I went south to Sanya on Hainan island instead). This year I thought I had better go while I am still so close.... Read more >
Tags: china, harbin, ice, snow
CHINA | Tuesday, 29 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
See all 24 photos >>
CHINA | Tuesday, 29 Jul 2008 | Views [1052]
With only a few days left in the area a few of us ( a Chinese born Kiwi from Australia, a West Australian and his Chinese bride and yours truly) decided on a road trip out to see what there was to see down the road towards Taiyuan. Every exit on the ... Read more >
Tags: culture, people, walls
CHINA | Wednesday, 25 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
Zhunge'er & Tanjianshan
See all 18 photos >>
CHINA | Wednesday, 25 Jun 2008 | Views [1146] | Comments [1]
In the last few weeks work has taken me in to Inner Mongolia Province and out to the Tibetan / Qinghai plateau. The coal mine we work with in Zhunge'er is only a three to thirty three hour drive - depending on snow, ice, trucks, bicycles, potholes and ... Read more >
CHINA | Tuesday, 20 May 2008 | Views [19110] | Comments [4]
After a three hour trip through some fairly scenic country over a heap of rivers and through a heap more tunnels, (this is why the people in Sichuan couldn't get in or out - same road system) I ended up in Tuxin then got the shuttle up to Tangkou. A ... Read more >
CHINA | Sunday, 18 May 2008 | Views [1044]
Straight after work on Saturday it was home, throw some clothes in the pack, then taxi to the train station. That's where you sit in the corner and get stared at, or mother's drag their kids over to practice both sentences they know in english. It doesn't ... Read more >
CHINA | Sunday, 18 May 2008 | Photo Gallery
See all 49 photos >>
CHINA | Sunday, 18 May 2008 | Photo Gallery
West Lake
See all 13 photos >>
CHINA | Friday, 8 Feb 2008 | Photo Gallery
See all 8 photos >>
CHINA | Friday, 8 Feb 2008 | Views [1941] | Comments [2] | Video
Everywhere you look in this area you see either coal, coal dust or coal smoke. Shanxi Province is one of the main coal producing regions in China and everything from the power stations to the stove in the earth house on the outside of the city is fueled ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
CHINA | Saturday, 26 Jan 2008 | Photo Gallery
Work
See all 9 photos >>
CHINA | Monday, 29 Oct 2007 | Views [1175] | Comments [1]
Pack a healthy sense of humour Avoid air travel in October. The fog will cause you grief a lot of the time. It's a good time to go check out the Great Wall though. Trains are a safe, efficient and comfortable way to go (if you get a soft sleeper). ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Tips
1 2 Next >
