Posted in China, Tibet on Oct 12th, 2007 1 Comment »
Our last day in Beijing was quite a whirlwind. We started promptly at 9am with a short subway ride with our group to Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. Tiananmen is massive and serves it’s purpose well by being very impressive and overwhelming in size. As Brian mentioned before, we came into [...]
Posted in China on Oct 9th, 2007 No Comments »
I found an internet cafe with USB so I was able to upload a few photos, but the speeds are still pre-broadband here (like, less than 28.8k) so there are just a few for now and we’ll update more when we get a chance. Some proof of the Information Gravel Road speeds in China:
When [...]
Posted in China on Oct 8th, 2007 No Comments »
Today we drove out to the Mutianyu section of the wall, which is a little further outside of the city than other sections, and is thus less crowded. This section has been mostly restored to show what it originally had looked like, so we weren’t climbing on the original stones, but it was still [...]
Posted in China on Oct 7th, 2007 4 Comments »
There is something about Beijing… something in the air, you can almost taste it… wait, you can taste it, it IS the air. My nose and throat itch with every breath, and when you go inside to get away from it everybody is smoking. Even in supposedly non-smoking places like this internet cafe [...]
Posted in China, India, Nepal, South Korea, Tibet on Oct 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Or close to it anyway… Ever since our 10 week excursion around Europe Kim and I have longed to take a more extended vacation. Not that we haven’t had a good time on our long weekends. We just want to explore the cultures in places we travel to in more depth and breadth than that [...]