The Great Wall Of China
Once you heard we were going to visit China you knew there’d be a Great Wall photo (or twenty). Let’s just get this over and done with, shall we? We opted to take a tour all the way out to Simatai – a three hour drive from Beijing – to hike the Great Wall. It Read the Rest…
School In Beijing
We’ve all had our ups and downs during this trip but just around our 7-month anniversary BigB’s downs were getting longer and more frequent. My social child was starving for kid company.
Heavenly Temple Of Heaven
Visiting China with children and not going to Beijing would be wrong. Visiting Beijing and not going to see the Temple of Heaven would be silly. It seemed like a good idea to be in Beijing for the May 1st holiday until I went looking for accommodation. The YHA/Hosteling International hostel I’d chosen for us Read the Rest…
The Big Crush at the Big Buddha
This is the Big Buddha at Leshan. At 71 metres high and over 1,300 years old, this is one impressive statue. The problem, though, is that so many people want to oogle the stone behemoth. We’d probably have taken the time to see the Big Buddha anyway, but we also needed to extend our Chinese Read the Rest…
Hiking Mt Emei in Sichuan China – Day 2
This is the temple where we spent the night on our 2-day hike of Mt. Emei (Emei Shan) in Sichuan, China. The complex is pretty large and although the temple is not the most elaborate or picturesque on the mountain it did have decent rooms, a dining room and (drumroll!) hot showers. Our kids were Read the Rest…
Exercising Baboons
We first “discovered” outdoor exercise equipment such as that in the photo above in Santiago, Chile. My kids were immediately hooked on what they refer to as big kid playground stuff. We’ve seen it in parks, playgrounds and on streets in Chile, Peru, Argentina, Thailand and now, in China. We were walking back to Read the Rest…
Eggs, Nest, Chicken
In Chengdu we stopped at a western-style restaurant for dinner. As we’re traveling we do try to eat locally, especially at markets, but every so often we need to feed the kids familiar food to perk up their mood or just give them a chance to carbo-load on bread or pasta. In this case, we Read the Rest…
Hiking Mt Emei in Sichuan China – Day 1
This is a trail map for Mt Emei (Emei Shan) in Western Sichuan. I say “a” trail map because it is one of three that I’ve seen – all of which are different. The hike from START to END (as marked on the map above) might have been 45km or it could have been as Read the Rest…
Tea In Chengdu
You have to like a city where one of the major tourist attractions is called the “Wuhou Temple”. Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan province in central China, you’ve probably heard of it because of its’ native pandas. Damn pandas.
Views of Nanjing
It seems that every Chinese city of any size has a hotel or office tower where you can go look out on the expanse of the city. This is Nanjing from the top of one such.
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