Drunken Chinese Dudes
I stepped into the elevator and realized that I was really tired. It had been a long travel day: a three-hour bus journey, four hours in Lanzhou and then a six-hour train journey from Lanzhou to Zhangye. My eyes closed in a mini-power-nap. The elevator stopped at the third floor and two short, squat, middle-aged Read the Rest…
Independent Travel In China
What was I so worried about? Before we came to China I was genuinely concerned about visiting this vast and diverse country. I think the language was my biggest fear. Language and lettering. As a (self-acknowleged) control freak I think I was bothered that I’d potentially be truly lost all the time.
The Farmer Who Discovered The Terracotta Warriors
On our bus ride from central Xi’an to the Terracotta Warriors Museum our tour guide, Helen, shared with us some information about the history of Xi’an and the surrounding area. She cracked herself up when she searched for the English word for rooster and then, giggling, explained that China is shaped like a rooster and Read the Rest…
First Chinese Toilet Signs
I have to admit that we had a bit of a drought in humorous toilet signage after leaving Bangkok. I was sad that this little photo-blog series would have to come to an end. But folks at Rock and Wood International hostel in Shanghai saved the day with the following on their main floor public Read the Rest…
Riding The Maglev In Shanghai
It feels utterly nerdy and geeky to buy tickets for a train for no other reason than to ride that specific train. The image of a classic British anorak-wearing, bespectacled trainspotter was not far from my mind as Murph was buying our tickets for the Maglev to Shanghai’s Pudong airport. We weren’t flying out of Read the Rest…
Buying Train Tickets In China
China’s new super-fast trains are a fantastic way to travel. My guidebook (Rough Guide China 2008 ) lists the journey time from Shanghai to Nanjing as four hours. Hah! It now takes one hour thirty minutes traveling at mostly 248 km/h all the way. As we got off the train yesterday, BigB questioned why America Read the Rest…
Five Funky Things About Macau
I hadn’t planned on visiting Macau at all, but my Vegas-loving husband had other ideas.
Not For Everyone
In my mid-trip guest post for the TheVacationGals, I end by saying that a trip such as ours is not for everyone. That comment has bugged me since because I don’t clarify why I think this is the case.
Phase III: China
This is the part of our trip that I’ve been fearing the most: we’re in China.
Origami In Hue
Just inside the square of the main palace at the Citadel or Imperial City in Hue, Vietnam, there are a pair of massive bronze urns filled with rain water. Unsurprisingly, as with fountains and other such water features in any city, people throw loose change into the urns for good luck. When CAM peeked into Read the Rest…
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