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Turning 4 Weeks in China from a Negative to a Positive
Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 8 January 2012
There seems to be a common theme among travelers that visiting China is an eye opening experience. Between the initial culture shock, adaptation to the local cuisine, and frequent run-ins with the thick smog, China is often considered to be a love it or hate it destination. Th
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The Friday Photo: Black Swan, Gold Carp
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 6 January 2012
At the panda sanctuary in Chengdu, the city where we spent Halloween, the lake is full of koi carp. Scatter food on the surface of the water and they come...
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Authentic Sichuan Recipes from China
Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 12 December 2011
One of my not-so-secret travel obsessions is taking cooking classes in new cultures. Discovering new cuisines and the proper way to make them is something that I find absolutely fascinating, and is likely one of the few tourism jobs
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Chengdu Dancing Stars…What to do on a hot summer afternoon…
Blog: Travel China and the World - 4 June 2011
I have encountered (very often) interesting activities performed in various Chinese city parks. One of them has always been public dances — you do not have to wait long or stroll through too many parks before you encounter a place … Continue reading →
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Adorable Pandas in China – Have You Been Here?
Blog: Vagobond.com - 10 May 2011
These two pandas seemed to be having a rather nice day at the Panda preserve in Chengdu, China. Everyone loves pandas. From this pic you can see why.
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Photo Favorite: Electronics Mall in China
Blog: GoBackpacking - 27 February 2011
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Photo Favorite: Lost In Translation
Blog: GoBackpacking - 14 February 2011
The Chinese would do well to hire a few English teachers to help with their sign translations.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 27 tutorials, private forum, audio interviews, and more.Use discount code "tbs25" to get 25% off a Premium membership.
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Photo Essay: Panda Bears of Chengdu
Blog: GoBackpacking - 10 February 2011
During my visit to Chengdu, I spent a morning at the Panda Breeding and Research Base.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog.Memberships includes written lessons, forum, audio interviews, and more.Use discount code "tbs25" to get 25% off a Premium membership.
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Souvenir Saturday: Dragon Tea Cup
Blog: GoBackpacking - 29 January 2011
During my time in Chengdu, China I drank a lot of tea. Once I realized the tea shop people love to have tourists do a tea tasting with them, I ducked into those shops left and right. When I was getting ready to leave the city, I figured a tea cup would be the perfect [...]---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog.Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Weekend Fun at People’s Park in Chengdu
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 10 December 2010
Chengdu is known as one of the most laid back cities in China and it certainly lived up to its reputation. The fifth largest city in China it is a thriving metropolis with a small town laid back feel. Yes, I said it. A city with a population of 13 million can have a small town laid-back feel to it. Life seems very good in Chengdu.Weekend Fun at People’s Park in Chengdu is a post from: The Planet D: Canada's Adventure Couple
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Giant Pandas, Living the Life in Chengdu
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 6 December 2010
They are the goodwill ambassador of China and official image of the Beijing Olympics. When thinking of China it is almost impossible not to picture the Giant Panda. We arrived at the Giant Panda Research Centre at 8 am sharp in time for the opening. Being China, we were expecting the pandas to be in small enclosures on display for tourists to snap their many shots. But like everything in China so far, we were proven wrong and the conditions were the exact opposite.
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Sichuan Hot Pot, A Sizzling Night out in China
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 3 December 2010
One of the most exciting meals we have had during our travels is the Chinese hot pot in Sichuan Province. Known as the province of flavour, Sichuan is famous for it’s over the top spices. We hopped in a taxi with our hand written directions in Mandarin guiding our driver to the neighbourhood Hot Pot restaurant where the festivities began.
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China's National Treasure - Chengdu Panda Reserve
Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 26 September 2010
There are many differences in traveling around China than in Japan. While too many to list in this post itself, and is reserved for a future post topic, there is one that is very striking between the two nations.
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Photo Essay: Tea Tasting in China
Blog: GoBackpacking - 2 September 2010
I was excited to reach China where tea drinking is the norm.--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Snapshot: Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Base
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 21 May 2010
Updated (6/6): Planning a trip to Chengdu? Check out my new Chengdu travel guide for more information. Can you say you’ve been to China if you haven’t seen pandas? Frankly, yes. But they’re still darn cute, especially when they are eating.
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On Craving Western Food
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 19 May 2010
I don’t need to look at my passport stamps to know that I have now been out of the United States for going on nine months. It will be 11 1/2 by the time I step off of the plane in Newark in July.
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The monkeys
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 19 February 2010
5th Oct I awake around 5:30 before dawn. Outside the monastery is bathed in the deep blue of early morning, everything is incredible still and peaceful, illuminated golden buddha statues smile silently inside the temple. Chanting, gongs and drums sound with the breaking of the day. At breakfast Jess and Tierney are feeling [...]
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Night on Monkey Mountain
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 6 February 2010
Travel, it lends itself well to the psychopath. Vampiric, parasitic an intra species predator moving from one place to the next sheding a tattered reputation and shattered lives like an old skin, continually starting anew with the innocent and the unsuspecting. Swarming like dung flies they tend to congregate in certain places, places of desperation [...]
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The big bad Buddha and other misadventures
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 26 January 2010
2nd of October Today myself, Paul, Stephen, Kung Fool and an Australia couple waste the entire day traveling in a cramped minivan to see the worlds largest buddha. Yeah its pretty much exactly what it says on the tin, a large giant buddha, the only notable thing distinguishing it from the ten thousand other buddhas [...]
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Sick in Chengdu
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 23 January 2010
1st Oct If people were forced to think of one word to describe me then stubborn Im sure must feature highly on many peoples list. Ok well perhaps several less neutral adjectives may ultimately win out but it would surely feature up there somewhere. It was this tenacity which saw me trudging through along the [...]
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The Happy Laowai
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 12 January 2010
I have hit bottom, achieved clear, I move as an enlightened budda amidst the all encircling chaos, the stares and the piercing gaze of suspicion. The pointed finger, the overheard whisper “waigoren!” flow through and around me, I remain unperturbed like a rock in a stream. Furtive whispers of “the ghost” echo about the marketplace, [...]
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Between the mad and the brave
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 2 January 2010
30th Sept I gave Ofir a sidelong glance, he too was holding his chin in his hand, his mouth had disappear into a tightened pink squiggle and his brow creased with concern and concentration. Hmmm I said looking back towards the collection of unintelligible shapes on the menu, how about that one I said pointing [...]
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Onward to Chengdu
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 17 December 2009
28th of September There is something wrong, Im not quite sure what exactly yet but the act of packing my backpack shouldnt usually leave me gasping for breath on my bed like some landed fish. Even allowing for the ever present snorer less than one meter away, Ive slept as well as can be expected [...]
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Expat Life in Chengdu, China
Blog: GoBackpacking - 22 October 2009
"During last year's earthquake I was on Qing Cheng Shan which is one of the birthplaces of Daoism."Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier) No related posts.
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A Backpacker’s Guide To Massages In Asia
Blog: GoBackpacking - 1 September 2009
I quickly became a connoisseur during my time in Asia. Your Free Subscriber Download Download "Dare Me!" now. Enjoy 17 off-the-wall adventures from a RTW trip.
