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Missing China

Monday, July 19, 2010

Well, I’ve been gone from China almost exactly a year now (couple more weeks). It’s much harder keeping up with Chinese when you don’t hear / see it a lot. Looking at websites isn’t very useful.
I’ve spent some time online chatting with friends, which does help quite a bit. Also, reasing some text material. Not [...]

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Eating Desert at Beijing Airport

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Here’s a picture of a desert that I had in Beijing Airport last August, when leaving for India. It was a Korean restaurant, and judging from the staff’s reactions after I ordered it, I doubt that anyone else had ordered it in a long while…
However, it tasted pretty good…
for “beans” over shaved ice.   [...]

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Another Great Wall treck

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Since I’m travelling with another student from Harbin, he wanted to go to the great wall, etc. We ended up doing the same 10k trek that I did in January. This time, the wall was full of tourists, so you see people all the time. Also, there were people selling books, fans+, postcards, ice water, [...]

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Soft sleepers, train tickets

Friday, August 24, 2007

Immediately after arriving in Xi’an, we got train tickets back to Beijing. This is the end of the summer (busiest travel season), and it’s almost impossible to get tickets within a few days. The only thing available was a soft sleeper compartment, which is the most expensive. It cost (around) 450rmb from Xi’an to Beijing. [...]

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Xi’an

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Xi’an (pronounced as two syllables, and written (in Pinyin) with a quote mark to separate the syllables, means West Peace. It was the capital of China for quite a while. My history knowledge doesn’t go much farther than that.
It’s famous for it’s Terracotta Warriors, which are pottery statues that were made to accompany the emperor [...]

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