Posted in China, Travel, tagged China, Shaolin temple, Travel on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
welcome
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Chris and I made it pack safe and sound to Anyang from the Shaolin Temple. With a frigid welcome by a Siberian winds, too!
After looking through the few pictures I took, my suspicions were confirmed. I am templed out. (Nearly all the pictures inside the temple Chris took). After you’ve [...]
Posted in China, Travel, tagged China, Shaolin temple, Travel on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Weeee! Chris and I are headed to the Shaolin Temple for the weekend to check out the famous kung-fu monks we’ve been hearing so much about. The temple is also surrounded by mountains, which gives us a much needed break from the flat concrete and smoggy haze of Anyang. Now, if we can manage to [...]
Posted in China, Travel, tagged China, Qingdao, Travel on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chris and I spent two weeks in Qingdao soaking in the beach, cafes, pizza, and English-language bookshops. We meandered through the parks, the Tsingtao Beer Brewery museum, and took a ferry to a nearby island to explore a different beach. But most of the two weeks was simply relaxing in the atmosphere of this very [...]
Posted in China, Travel, tagged China, Yantai, swimsuit, swimwear on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In this small coastal city, Chris and I noticed something odd about the Doodles. Besides that it’s socially acceptable for old, bei jiu gut men to wear clinging, leave-nothing-to-the-imagination speedos or almost-speedos (the swimsuit equivalent of boxer briefs), they travel in packs. Hoards. You see this in Anyang. Minus the speedos. Groups of five, eight, [...]
Posted in China, Travel, tagged China, Dandong, Korean War, Museum to Commemorate U.S. Aggression on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
**The next few posts will be highlights from our trip so far**
After a few-hour nap following our 7:17 AM arrival in Dandong from Beijing, Chris and I zigzagged around the small river city until we found the Museum to Commemorate U.S. Aggression (also known as the Korean War).
The museum is set on a large hill [...]
Posted in China, Travel, tagged Beijing, China, Dandon, Qingdao, Travel, Yantai on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chris and I are now on the last stop of our Summer Tour, the delightful seaside city of Qingdao. We’ve had a great trip so far from the historical sightseeing in Beijing to hiking up the Great Wall near Dandong. Our only bust so far has been in Dalian, which is soooooo not the awesome [...]
Posted in China, Travel, tagged Beijing, China, Travel on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because of classes, Chris and I could only spend two full days in Beijing. No worries, though, because we’ll be going back at some point. The reason for our impromptu trip was Chris’s soon-expiring passport needed to be renewed by the end of the month so Friday morning we spent over twenty minutes (and a [...]
Posted in China, Travel, tagged Beijing, China, Donghuanmen, Travel on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Near where Chris and I stayed in Beijing is the Donhuamen Night Market (which I’m pretty sure NBC did a segment on during the Olympics). Vendors at this market, in their red aprons and hats, sell omnipresent noodle dishes, steamed or fried dumplings, and skewers. Skewers everywhere with their poky little ends wanting to take [...]
I haven’t updated in a while but I have a good reason!
Chris and I are in Beijing!
A week or so ago, the incompetent toolbox in the school’s foreign affairs office told him he needed to renew his passport before the end of June otherwise he won’t get his resident permit and so will be banished [...]
Posted in China, Travel, tagged China, photos, vacation on March 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Finally! We now have the last legs for our Spring Festival Holiday up on Snapfish. Whew. We’re not to blame this time- it was the Snapfish’s fault for refusing to upload. Sigh… but Dali and Lijiang are up now. Hope you likey! (Dali was my favorite city).
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