Posts Tagged ‘chengdu’
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7 October 2009 tagged airport, bananas, beer, bracelet, cafe, chengdu, china, coffee, computer, diary, dinner, employees, flight, friends, grafitti, group, guide, headphones, hostel, hotel, ipod, japanese, lhasa, lunch, mall, meat, military, monasteries, night, online, photography, photos, pictures, police, potala palace, rain, rickshaw, tattoo, temples, tibet, town, train, travel, wifi, xian with no comments
day 176 – i spent the morning at the hotel an said goodbye to hokuto (he was flying back to chengdu). i had two more days in lhasa by myself, but the guide had to go to the airport with hokuto, so i just spent the afternoon wandering around town. i wanted to take some [...]
In buddhism, rants, travel on
6 October 2009 tagged altitude, altitude sickness, apples, beer, breakfast, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, cards, celebration, chengdu, chess, china, climbing, coffee shop, crowd, customs, dalai lama, delay, dreprung monastery, event, festival, flight, foreigners, guide, headache, immigration, kimchi jiggae, korean food, lhasa, markets, military, norblingka, painkillers, painting, passport, performance, photography, photos, plane, police, potala palace, praying, rain, riot gear, security, shorton festival, sleep, steak, summer palace, tibet, travel, tree, yak with no comments
day 171 – today it rained all day. i’d been spending a lot of money in china, so i decided to stay at the hotel. i chatted online and played chess all day. day 172 – i packed, checked out of the hotel and went with hokuto to catch our flight to lhasa. customs and [...]
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5 October 2009 tagged argument, beer, breeding, buddha, buddhist, carving, chengdu, chess, china, chinese, crowds, dormitory, feet, giant buddha, girls, group, hostel, hotel, japanese, pandas, permit, photos, room, staff, stairs, statue, tibet, travel, traveler, visa with no comments
day 166 – i spent much of the day trying to sort out permits and tour options for tibet. the hostel had lots of information and quite a few people were using chengdu as their jumping point for entry into tibet. i didn’t have much luck finding anyone straight away. i emailed some of the [...]
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4 October 2009 tagged argument, bananas, beer, blog, border, breakfast, buffalos, bus, carriage, chengdu, china, computer, conductor, dormitory, girl, hanoi, hiking, homestay, hostel, hotel, immigration, internet cafe, ipod, kids, kinetic, linux, lunch, minibus, money, muddy, nanning, pancakes, photography, photos, pictures, prostitute, rain, research, restaurant, rice paddies, sapa, sleeper, star wars, taxi, tibet, ticket, torch, track, train, train station, travel, tv, ubuntu, vietnam, villages, visa, waterfall with no comments
day 161 – we woke up to a massive pancake breakfast that our hungry group couldn’t finish. the pancakes were piled high and we devoured them with bananas, honey and various jams. a little girl was playing on the fence across from our homestay, and when i spotted her, i ran across the road with [...]