I have finally reached my destination. Not to view the marvelous Olympics, but to head East to Tibet. I arrived in the magnificient Shanghai Podang International Airport, which is truly a showpiece. After NOT finding my name on a paper sign as i exited the customs area, I could have panicked, fallen on my [...]

The Bottle Women of Beijing You can’t help but notice these people around because if you are anywhere near your last drop of water in a bottle they suddenly appear out of no where and take the bottle from you. It works well for both parties…you don’t have to haul it around until you find a [...]

Welcome to Lhasa Though before I began gushing about the wonders of Tibet I should preface this by saying that I was on a tour. I’m not talking about a massive bus, wearing matching jackets and following a flag or plastic flower. Actually, it was just Jason and I, set up with a Tibetan guide and [...]

Its hard to believe we have only been here 1 month. It’s feeling like home every day and we have done so much without even leaving Wuhan during that period. Travel China Tours Wuhan Hubei In 2 weeks, we will be heading back to Xian for our summer traveling adventure. We leave here next week, stay overnight [...]

I spent the entire week of June 2 with a bad case of the sniffles that started around the time I was in Hangzhou. I noticed some stuffiness before the trip, but that’s when it got really bad. Hangzhou travel,China This week seemed to go by even faster than the one before. Sunday was taken up [...]

CHENGDU, CHINA — As the search-and-rescue effort across the mountainous quake zone continued for a ninth day, hope of finding more survivors grew increasingly dim. But small miracles abound. 5.12.08 7.8M Earthquake in Sichuan China As reported the rescue of a 60-year-old woman it identified as Wang Liqun, a retiree who had survived on rainwater. State media reported [...]

CHENGDU, SICHUAN PROVINCE, PRC — 5 million people whose homes were destroyed in last week’s earthquake in soutwest of China, while the confirmed death toll rose to more than 40,000 and the number is still growing. The State Council raised the overall confirmed death toll to 40,075, most of those in Sichuan province and more than [...]

More than 32,000 people were dead and 22,000 were injured because of the earthquake till now.  Here are some pictures.   A teacher was dead when she decided to rescue her student. She saved 13 students and dead for saving 14th. Crashed buildings are everywhere. Concrete building looks like fragile glass infront of this earthquake. Lots of [...]

Crowds around the Bell Tower Area at the time of earthquake video. Earthquake happened on May 12, 2008. Around 2PM, I had a smoke break after lunch. When I sat in front of my computer, its screen started waving from left to right and right to left again. I felt like cigarratte sickness happened on me [...]

I was woken up by the guide shaking me and saying that we were about to leave. I hadn’t even packed. I had a little bit of time so I headed back up to the room to sort out my crap attempt at packing. After that and a little lye down I headed over to [...]