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		<title>Great Wall Impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great Wall Impressions Our ‘hands down’ favorite aspect of Beijing was our 10km hike on the Great Wall! We followed the advice of friends and chose this full-day excursion that provided us five hours of appreciation for one of the ‘new seven wonders of the world.’ This section of the wall included both reconstructed and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangzhouherald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9348879&amp;post=3360&amp;subd=hangzhouherald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beijing Landmarks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beijing Landmarks Beijing is a grand capital city! The expansive formal public places formed of wide-open spaces and traditional Chinese architecture are quite moving. Perhaps most familiar is Tian&#8217;anmen Square, reportedly the largest public open space in the world. The magnificent rostrum (podium) and permanent parade viewing stands make for a striking governmental statement – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangzhouherald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9348879&amp;post=3346&amp;subd=hangzhouherald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Break Travels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Fall Semester drew to a close, we were all ready for a break because we had not taken time-off during the Christmas holiday. Quickly the restaurants and shops near our campus were closing for the Spring Festival/Chinese New Year break, and our surroundings becoming a ghost town, so we were anxious to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangzhouherald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9348879&amp;post=1252&amp;subd=hangzhouherald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Hong Kong…China Journey, Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaving on an overnight train to Shenzhen, we began our trek heading south in search of warm weather. Jeff and I had waited three hours in line for train tickets the week before (train travel is very popular with the Chinese), purchasing our only option of sleeper seats in two separate cabins. Tanner &#38; I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangzhouherald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9348879&amp;post=1150&amp;subd=hangzhouherald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On to Kunming…China Journey, Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our veteran American teacher friends recommended Kunming, Dali and Lijiang, all in the Yunnan province so we decided to make this the focus of our journey. At LP’s suggestion we found a centrally located nice hotel in Kunming, the ‘City of Eternal Spring,’ for $40/night including breakfast! Just down the street we found a Western [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangzhouherald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9348879&amp;post=1162&amp;subd=hangzhouherald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daze in Dali&#8230; China Journey, Part Three</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a long bus ride from Kunming, we arrived in the city of Xiaguan, the “New Dali.” We had been advised by guidebooks and other travelers to just hop on a bus and bust outta there, straight to the old town. We took a taxi instead for around the same price as 3 people on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangzhouherald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9348879&amp;post=1187&amp;subd=hangzhouherald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On to Lijiang…China Journey, Part Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaving Dali we took a cheap minibus ride en route for Lijiang. The bus which held 19 passengers began with only about a dozen so we had lots of extra room for our backpacks and food bag, but as we continued out of town, the lady bus conductor continued to solicit riders as we stopped [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangzhouherald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9348879&amp;post=1203&amp;subd=hangzhouherald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things to Do around Chengdu…China Journey, Part Five</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arriving late in Chengdu, we hurried to bed in order to get an early start on our highlight in this city…pandas! Reaching the Giant Panda Research Base for opening at 8 am, we scurried to find the designated feeding sites. We delighted in seeing pandas consuming loads of bamboo stalks for breakfast. Some preferred the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangzhouherald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9348879&amp;post=1223&amp;subd=hangzhouherald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Down the Yangtze…China Journey, Part Six</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Chinese tours continued to ease our traveling anxieties, we found one to join taking in the magnificent Three Gorges along the Yangtze River that per LP “ranks among the nation’s top scenic marvels.” (The fabled Yangtze is the mightiest in China and the world’s third longest river.) Leaving Chengdu by public bus, a man [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangzhouherald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9348879&amp;post=1243&amp;subd=hangzhouherald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas in CHINA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We decided to jump right in&#8230;bought a tree and got it up and decorated the week after Thanksgiving with a Tree Trimming party!&#8230;began playing carols night and day&#8230;and wore our red and green clothes to class. I was so ready, I started talking about Christmas in all my classes&#8230;playing &#8216;It&#8217;s the Most Wonderful Time of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangzhouherald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9348879&amp;post=1135&amp;subd=hangzhouherald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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