China Travel Stories

Chengde

Date: 2008-10-24 18:46:00

A special place in your heart always exists for your first travel experience, that first day when you do things you would not normally do, when you find that the beaten path is boring and the world is full of things to find just for the finding. The first places you visit as a traveler you visit for the visiting sake, for the experience of knowing yourself in relation to this new and amazing coun ... View Details

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What to Remember When Wrestling an Inner Mongolian Horseman

Date: 2008-10-23 1:47:00

The man I wrestled that day in Inner Mongolia was about a foot shorter than me, at least a hundred pounds lighter, and seemed only slightly weaker than the horse I'd just seen him ride around the vast expanse of the Mongolian Steppe. The interesting thing about him was that just as the match began he looked up into my face which was so high above him that I was blocking out the noon sun, an ... View Details

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Searching for Lao She

Date: 2008-10-23 1:45:00

Some time ago I found myself in Beijing with six hours to spare while I waited for a train. As I walked around the city, I wondered about whether or not there was anything in Beijing that I had never seen. To me, walking around the city is very much like walking through the silent halls of a library. This volume tells of adventure, this of pain and romance, this of struggle and death, this of t ... View Details

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