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Posts Tagged ‘chinese’

photos from china

top – incense sticks, burning in a buddhist temple middle – lighting incense sticks bottom – wooden panels of chinese writing

travel diary – day 255

day 251 – today was hot, so i spent a lazy day in alice springs. i had an early coffee and talked to the owner of a didgeridoo store. the owner was a didj player and i got some advice from him. afterwards i got online, catching up on some chess games and had dinner. [...]

travel diary – day 170

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 [...]

travel diary – day 160

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 [...]

travel diary – day 55

day 54 – the ride to bago was long and shitty. travel by bus in myanmar is incredibly frustrating. most of the buses are used chinese and japanese junks. they’re old, dirty, rattly and uncomfortable. added to that is the fact that the driver and crew fill the bus with as much luggage and as [...]

holy crap, i’m blocked!

would you believe that! apparently, my website (as well as millions of others i assume) are blocked in mainland china. how did i find out? i went to www.greatfirewallofchina.org and tested my site … my understanding of how this works is that the chinese government uses filters … so, for some reason, my site doesn’t [...]