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Travel Photo of the Day 5/26/2009 Guilin China at Sunrise

May 26, 2009

The Travel Photo of the Day for 5/26/2009 is of Guilin China at sunrise and was taken by cardamom

Guilin is a city in China that is located over 10,000 square miles and has a population of nearly 1.5 million people. This is the Li River seen from its west bank. The first settlement in the [...]

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Travel Photo of the Day 5/18/2009 Huangshan China

May 18, 2009

The Travel Photo of the Day for 5/18/2009 is of Huangshan China and was taken by B_cool

Photo credit: B_cool
Huangshan is a city in the Chinese province of Anhui. It’s located in the Huangshan Mountains and, as you can see here, it’s one of the most beautiful locations in the entire country of China. This [...]

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Book Review: Murderers in Mausoleums

April 28, 2009

As Jeffrey Tayler points out in his new book Murderers in Mausoleums: Riding the Back Roads of Empire Between Moscow and Beijing, we hear a whole lot about Moscow and Beijing in the news these days – and thousands more tourists visit each city every month – but we don’t hear much at all about [...]

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Stone Forest in Yunan China – Travel Photo of the Day 3/31/2009

March 31, 2009

The Travel Photo of the Day for 3/31/2009 is of the Stone Forest in Yunan China and was taken by lapin.lapin
Photo credit: lapin.lapin
Shilin, which is in Chinese means Stone Forest, is located approximately 50 miles from Kunming in southwestern China. The area got its name for the stone structures that are in [...]

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Book Review Beijing Confidential by Jan Wong

March 24, 2009

With this decade’s Olympic interest in Beijing having already reached its peak, I still found a lot of reasons to read Jan Wong’s Beijing Confidential: Lost and Found in the Forbidden City. Jan Wong is not exactly a local, but she’s of Chinese origin and has spent many years both living in and reporting about [...]

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Serve the People: Jen Lin-Liu on Cooking in China

October 9, 2008

Plenty of travelers are also big fans of eating, and especially of trying the local cuisine – which makes Jen Lin-Liu’s new book Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China sound very interesting. Since Lin-Liu has gone on to found the Black Sesame Cooking School in Beijing, she seems the right person to write [...]

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Travel Hot Spots – 11 Volcanic Regions Around the World

September 11, 2008

Rabaul Caldera, Papua New Guinea
The Rabaul Caldera on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea erupted in 1937, 1944, and 1994. In the 1994 eruption, the two craters of Tavurvur and Vulcan erupted simultaneously, covering the nearby town of Rabaul in ash and causing the evacuation of about 90,000 people. The volcanic activity [...]

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Post-Olympics China Ready for Tourists

September 5, 2008

For most of us the Beijing Olympics are now just one of those fading memories of too many hours spent staring at the television, but Chinese officials are hoping that predictions of a boom in tourism following the Olympic Games turn out to be true. Tourism is a growing industry in China and hopes that [...]

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On a Boat With Mr Ding’s Chicken Feet – Book Review

August 7, 2008

ravelers who teach English as a second language to get around are a dime a dozen, and more of them are producing books about their experiences: but Gillian Kendall’s Mr Ding’s Chicken Feet is a bit more than “just another English teacher’s trip”.

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China Travels: Where Underpants Come From

June 26, 2008

In the tradition of WhereAmIWearing.com, New Zealand writer Joe Bennett bought a pack of five pieces of underwear from his local mega-market and then wondered where they really came from. Thus began a journey into China and beyond to find out Where Underpants Come From, subtitled From Checkout to Cotton Field – Travels Through the [...]

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Get Etiquette Tips from Going Dutch in Beijing

June 12, 2008

It’s always good to know something about the etiquette and customs of the country you’re going to travel to – and Mark McCrum’s newest book Going Dutch in Beijing: How to Behave Properly When Far Away From Home is an entertaining way to get informed.

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