China travel stories

Silk Road

Moscow Oh Moscow, Moscow, at the train station it is still the same incredible mixture of homeless people, extravagantly dressed women, smell of urine, babushkas with cloth bags and bunch of exh...

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Traveling in Tibet

Letter 1 OK, I have seen Everest and Potala, and I am in Tibet, now I can die in peace, but not from altitude sickness, I almost do not feel any symptoms. Alex Sept. 28, 2000 Letter 2 OK, OK, I ...

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China: Best airport layover I have ever had.

Finally...the adventure begins. Thailand here I come! Yet first Jeff and I had a 10 hour layover in Shanghai. By taking China Eastern and having this layover in the Pudong Airport we saved ...

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Arrived in China

I landed in Beijing on Thursday morning and took a connecting flight to Jinan. Once in Jinan I was met by two teenage chinese boys who drove me to Jinan central bus station. After running across a ...

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For all the dumplings in Shandong

So it’s been a while since my last blog entry and many strange and wonderful things have happened to me since then...The foreign teachers were all invited to a welcome party which I foolishly tho...

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