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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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The Golden Dragon that could
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 7 June 2010
The road from Songpan was maybe the most beautiful but also the most difficult I’ve ever travelled. The 320 km bus ride is supposed to take around ten hours, but the road, which snakes through the mountains of northern Sichuan and eventually passes through Wenchuan, the epicentre of the 2008 earthquake, is still being rebuilt, [...]
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Making a living
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 30 May 2010
The next stop after Jiuzhaigou was Songpan, a small Tibetan town in northern Sichuan that’s popular with backpackers as a launching pad for horse treks out into the surrounding mountains and valleys. There’s a distinct sense that this whole region of northern Sichuan has been marked off for tourism, and eventually Songpan will probably also [...]
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Snapshot: The Largest Buddha in the World (& Other Superlatives)
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 28 May 2010
Updated (6/6): Planning a trip to Leshan? Check out my Leshan travel guide for more information. Visiting the largest stone Buddha statue in the world in Leshan, outside of Chengdu, made us wonder about other “superlative Buddhas” around Asia.
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Jiuzhaigou
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 26 May 2010
After a 30 hour train ride from Beijing to Chengdu, and with our passports once again locked away at the PSB for visa processing, we took the bus ten hours northwards, to Jiuzhaigou National Park. I’d seen pictures from the park with scenes so gorgeous that I assumed they had to be photoshopped. But the [...]
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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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Holy Shan!
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 17 May 2010
Updated (6/6): Planning a trip to Emei Shan? Check out my Emei Shan travel guide for more information. I made it nearly two years in China without visiting one of China’s holy mountains, but I finally succumbed on my recent trip to Sichuan.
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Snapshot: A Friendly Game of Majiang
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 14 May 2010
Before I left for Sichuan, I heard that the province was famous for its teahouses. But I couldn’t possibly have imagined just how ubiquitous they were. In Chengdu, every park has a teahouse or two where men and women congregate in the fresh air to drink tea, read newspapers and play cards or majiang.
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A Tibetan Experience in Jiuzhaigou
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 12 May 2010
One of the unofficial perks of my teaching program is an instant community of fellow travelers with plenty of advice about traveling in Asia. A quick rummage through my e-mail inbox would turn up travel tips from fellow teachers that helped me plan many of my recent trips: Fujian, Gansu, Japan and more.
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Jiuzhaigou in Photos
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 10 May 2010
The highlight of my trip to Sichuan last week was, hands down, Jiuzhaigou National Park.
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Dazu: An Under-Visited Treasure of Sichuan
Blog: GoBackpacking - 11 March 2010
Most people who come to Sichuan either do so because they are about to head to Tibet on a trek, or to visit Chengdu and its surrounding tourist attractions, especially the pandas and Lei Shan and Emei Shan, two large standing Buddhas. Few ever go see Dazu Rock Carvings, which is [...]Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plus audio interviews and a blog.
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Does Nightlife Exist in Rural China? Kind of…
Blog: GoBackpacking - 3 March 2010
KTV is the Chinese karaoke (sometimes actually said as ka li OK).Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plus audio interviews and a blog.
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The Smartest Ethnic Group in China
Blog: GoBackpacking - 25 February 2010
I’m not usually one to broadcast my religion as I travel, but around Christmas time, as people continuously asked me how I celebrate the holiday, I began to tell them I was Jewish. To date, every single person to whom I have told I am Jewish has responded with the same thing: [...]Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plus audio interviews and a blog.
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The Oddities of a Rural Chinese Office
Blog: GoBackpacking - 4 February 2010
For those of you who thought siestas were only for people working in Spain, you’ve obviously never worked in Sichuan before. Indeed, each day my microfinance organization has between 12 PM and 3 PM off for lunch, and a good xiuxi, or rest. This is the kind of thing that you [...]Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plus audio interviews and a blog.
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Did You Know You Could Get Pins and Needles in Your Trachea?: Eating in Sichuan, China
Blog: GoBackpacking - 15 January 2010
This is the second post in a 2-part series about culture and food in Sichuan, China. Manners Manners certainly differ across countries, but by American standards, some Chinese manners are, um, severely lacking. For example, everyone screams fu yuan! (”waiter”), to get attention in a restaurant.
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Fish Eyes and Chicken Feet: Hospitality and Eating in Sichuan, China
Blog: GoBackpacking - 14 January 2010
The role of filling cups of tea falls to the youngest woman at the table.Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plus audio interviews and a blog.
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Southern Sichuan: Kangding-Litang-Yading-Zhongdian
Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 20 November 2009
Or: The Way Down South Recieving an email from Tal and Einat (friends from Israel) that they were going to stay in Litang for a couple of days, and having planned to meet them, I got myself a bus ticket to Litang. 86RMB 8-10hours, 6:00AM. all in all, Kangding is a nice peacefull town, and it’s [...]
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Manigango-Dege-Baiyu-Ganzi-Kangding
Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 12 November 2009
Manigango is two streets, that’s all. spending the night we caught a morning minivan for Dege. generally the drivers ask 50RMB, we said the bus was 40, so we went for 40. regular leaving time is around 10:00AM. the ride to Dege is beautiful, and very different from other rides we had. previous rides had very beautiful [...]
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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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