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1 Measuring 440, 000 square meters, Tiananmen Square is the largest open-air square in the world. It can hold about one million people for public celebration or gatherings. In the square tourists can climb the Tiananmen Rostrum, watch the daily national flag raising ceremony eary in the morning (the time varies subject to the sunrise), visit the National [...]
As an internationally well-known ancient and young metropolis, Beijing, the great capital city of the People’s Republic of China, is called Jing for short. It lies on the northwest of the Huabei Plain, around 150 kilometers to the northwest of Bohai Sea. Measuring over 16, 800 square kilometers, Beijing has a total population of approximately [...]
The journey from Beijing to Shanghai by train is nine hundred and nine miles. You can do it in comfort, overnight, taking twelve hours on an express sleeper, or you can travel for twenty-four hours, stopping at every station, in ‘hard seat’ class. Can you guess which we ended up doing? There were 118 hard seats [...]
Hello, or indeed, Shang-hello. Since we last updated, we went to the Muslin quarter in Xi’an, which was awesome, full of souvenir shops and food stalls. We went inside a Chinese style mosque, which was a bit bizzare to say the least. Emma (R) put her buff over her hair so all the men thought [...]
Contrary to popular belief, I am in fact not dead. So no more need to worry and send out concerned emails because this kid is safe and rocking in the P.R.C. My life has been insanely busy with misadventures, broken puppies, Lithuanian Vikings, American archaeologists, an 84-year-old Cosmopolitan woman and classes (these stories, all true, [...]
After another fulfilling and rewarding day of world class consulting, Yang Kai and I decide to celebrate by not eating at the Silverland hotel buffet. We boldly went to the restaurant across the street instead. Kai knows how much I hate fish, and with today’s smoked herring episode still fresh in our minds (hey, we [...]
Hi all its my birthday today so I’m looking forward to seeing you at the secret party that Erica has arranged in Shanghai. If you want any details of the location write to E and she will let you know. Anyway I hope that today everyone will be donning their red beards, long wigs and [...]
We made it!! 30 hours on the train. With 6 of those waiting a the border between Mongolia and China. I was sightly worried when Mongolian Passport control did not think it was me in my Passport! He made me stand up, take off my glasses and wait. I thought “shit I might be turned [...]
Disaster. Dan is sick. Fever, chills. Urgent bathroom visits. We’re in a beautiful town, Tongren, but staying in the nastiest hotel in China. Mold on the ceiling, wall paper in shreds. Only one precarious electrical outlet already supplying the TV, the lamp and the water heater with intermittent juice. They don’t give us a key [...]
So we said our rapid goodbyes to India, in a typicaly crazy car journey, shared with an aussie who was on his way to interview nelson mandella and desmond tutu (thats what he said, but i saw no proof, you can be anybody you want when on your on the road).flew at 11. 50 pm, [...]
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