Posts Tagged ‘china’
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15 May 2010 tagged b&w, beijing, black, chairman, china, face, forbidden city, guard, mao, mao tse tung, photo, photography, picture, portrait, terracotta warriors, travel, white with no comments
top – a guard and chairman mau – close up middle – the terracotta warriors bottom – a guard at the forbidden city
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13 May 2010 tagged buddhism, buddhist, burning, characters, china, chinese, fire, incense, photo, photography, picture, smoke, sticks, travel, writing with no comments
top – incense sticks, burning in a buddhist temple middle – lighting incense sticks bottom – wooden panels of chinese writing
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12 May 2010 tagged buddha, buddhism, buddhist, candle, cheng du, china, cliff, fire, girl, matches, photo, photography, picture, statue with no comments
top – a girl lights some candles at a buddhist temple middle – a giant buddha carved into the cliff bottom – candles
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11 May 2010 tagged b&w, bamboo, black, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, cheng du, china, cliff, panda, photo, photography, picture, statue, tshirt, white with no comments
top – a panda eats breakfast middle – t-shirt says what??? bottom – a giant buddha carved into a cliff
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1 May 2010 tagged baksheesh, bill clinton, breakfast, bus, china, chinese girl, christina, city, cleric, dal lake, dharamsala, driver, email, fighting, girl, hill, hindu, hindu temple, hotel, houseboat, india, jammu, jeep, kashmir, korea, laundry, lazy, mcleod ganj, moghul gardens, mohammad, mosque, movie, pants, photo, poem, shop, socks, soldiers, srinigar, st valentines day, tea, tour, un compound, war with no comments
day 351 – st valentine’s day – i had breakfast and spent the morning writing a st valentine’s day poem for christina. i edited a photo and put the poem on it. then i went out with mohammad on a tour of srinigar city. we spent the day looking at mosques, the moghul gardens (which [...]
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9 October 2009 tagged beer, beijing, black market, china, city, czech restaurant, group, horse riding, hostel, hotel, immigration, interpol, ipod, korea, lunch, meals, mongolia, movie, northface, passport, pickpocket, poker, police, police report, policewoman, railway, shopping, spanish, taxi, terelj national park, theft, tour, tourists, train, trans-mongolian, travel, trek, ulaan bataar, wifi, wolverine with no comments
day 186 – i got an early start today. i got a cab to the train station and began the trip to ulaan bataar. i shared a compartment with two guys (nick and van) and we chatted a lot to pass the time. the first two meals on the train were free, which was cool, [...]
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8 October 2009 tagged address, advice, aggressive, asia, bank, banpo village, bbq, beer, beijing, bicycle, china, coffee, digs, dinner, drum tower, drunk, dutch, embass, evil eye, expensive, forbidden city, hookah, india, korea, korean, matriarchal, mongolia, muslim quarter, netherlands, olympics, passport, peter, photography, photos, pizza, rain, restaurant, subway, taxi, terracotta warriors, tibet, ticket, tienanmin square, tour, tourist market, train, travel, traveler, visa, xian internet cafe with no comments
day 181 – i booked my train to beijing and a terracotta warrior tour. i walked down to the drum tower and took some photos. then i walked around the muslim quarter, bought some dried pineapple, took photos and walked back to the hotel. that evening i met a couple of dutch travelers and we [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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13 August 2009 tagged airport, australia, australian, beer, black hmong, boat, bracelet, breakfast, brits, buffet breakfast, cat ba island, cat cat waterfall, cataract, catholic, catholic church, chess, china, chinese, clothes, coffee, computer, costume, craig, crucifix, cruise, dinner, drink, duckpack, editing, engine, eye, facebook, foreigners, format, girl, guide, halong bay, handicrafts, hanoi, hike, hiking, hmong, homestay, hotel, illiterate, junk, kayak, korea, limestone caves, mall, market, matilda, mobile phone, monkey island, mosquito net, motorbikes, mountain vilage, nanning, netbook, operating system, pool table, portraits, privacy, red hmong, rice paddies, sapa, shower, software, souvenirs, storage, sunset, swimming, ticket, tourists, track, train, vietnam, village, weather, wifi, windows, women, xp with 1 comment
day 156 – today was the last day on the island, and i had to leave early. after breakfast we checked out and were met by a boat which would take us to halong bay. we crossed cat ba island and ended up on a chinese style ‘junk’ which would be home for the final [...]
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3 July 2009 tagged american troops, annika, backpacker, band, beer, bike, blind, border, breakfast, buddhism, bullet, cambodia, cao dai great temple, ceremony, china, church, city hall, coffee, confucianism, cu chi tunnels, cult, dinner, embassy, eva, german girls, handicapped workshop, hawkers, helmet, hindu temple, ho chi minh city, incense, lightning, lonely planet, massage, minsk, motorbike, motorcycle, music, north vietnam, notre dame, opera house, palace, practice, prayer, rain, rifles, riverfront, saigon, scam, souvenir, spectacle, storm, tanks, taoism, taxi, temple, thunder, tour, traffic, tunnel tour, tunnels, underground, vendors, viet cong, vietnam, vietnam war, weather, wifi with 1 comment
day 121 – my room had wifi, so i did some stuff online, including chatting with friends. i had breakfast and wandered down to have another crack at finding a bike. i spoke to a motorbike taxi guy and he spoke really good english. when i told him what i wanted, he pointed straight at [...]
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28 June 2009 tagged alarm, angor wat, annika, anz, atm, aung san suu kyi, australia, bangkok, bayon, beer, bicycle, birthday, book, bribe, burma, bus, cambodia, china, citizenship, crocodile, curry, dead fish, dinner, dr fish, ernesto che guvera, eva, feet, fish, free burma, german girls, guesthouse, guitar, happy pizza, hotel, immigration, karaoke, khao san road, little india, market, markus zusak, motorbike, passport, phnom penh, ploy, poipet, refugees, scam, sex slaves, siem reap, singlet, ta promh, thai border, thailand, the messenger, tibetan market, tshirt, tuk tuk, university campus, visa, weather with no comments
day 111 – today was a very lazy day. i stayed in khao san road all day reading my book. in the afternoon ploy called me and asked if i’d be interested in going out. as it turns out, today was aung san suu kyi’s birthday and there was a small gathering at one of [...]
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10 September 2008 tagged atlantic, australia, cartoons, china, earth, internet, kids, map, ocean, tool, tunnel, website with no comments
thanks to american cartoons, i was one of many aussie kids who thought that if i tunneled through the earth, i’d come out at china. well, i know that’s not true now … thanks to this useful map tunneling tool. i actually discovered that australia would fit in the north atlantic ocean … and we [...]