CHINA | Saturday, 6 Oct 2007 | Views [504] | Comments [2]
Beijing is loud, confusing and busy, and today very wet. We arrived last night and had a delicious Chinese food dinner of Peking duck and other specialties. Today we explored the Forbidden City in a little downpour. The temples were really big and impressive.... Read more >
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MONGOLIA | Wednesday, 3 Oct 2007 | Views [448]
Ulan Bator is much more western than Russia. People speak English and signs are sometimes in English too. We went to a monastery and saw kids as young as 6 learning Tibetian Buddhism and little else. We also saw huge gold Buddah's and spun the 108 prayer ... Read more >
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FINLAND | Monday, 17 Sep 2007 | Views [469] | Comments [1]
Finland is cold, clean and closed...since it is Sunday. I attended mass at the beautiful cathedral this morning as it was closed to visitors and then took a ferry over to the island where Sweden once had a jail. It was really cool on the island; you could ... Read more >
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