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Something that I notice right away as I look through our pictures from Shanghai to refresh my memory and get ready to blog my heart out…our pictures are not stellar. Shanghai was days 16-19, our last three days in China, and we were tired. China had been nonstop tourist-ing every day and after our first four nights in Beijing we were staying two nights in...
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I didn’t know a whole lot about China when I was planning our trip. Heck, I didn’t even want to go to China so I’m not sure how it turned out that I was in charge of planning, but I did know that China had Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, the landscape that inspired The Hallelujah Mountains in Avatar. If I was going to China, that sounded...
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Our journey to Shangri-La began in Hutiaoxia or Tiger Leaping Gorge Town, where we pulled over in a busy parking area, hugged Denise good-bye and met Sarah amid cars honking and trying to back out of spaces and the couple that ran across the street to ask us about bus schedules and hiking…in Spanish. Scott and the kids were able to not only have a conversation, but...
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This year has taught me that when we disembark on the tarmac it is usually a sign of impending good adventure. This was true in Tanzania, the Galapagos and now Lijiang in China’s Yunnan province. Yunnan is located in southwest China in the eastern part of the Himalayas, sharing a border with Burma, Laos, and Vietnam in the south and Tibet in the northwest. The...
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We arrived in Xi’an on our seventh day in China. Even if you have no interest in China you’ve probably heard of Xi’an. No? What about the Terra Cotta Warriors? I thought so. Even my kids knew about the Terra Cotta Warriors and listed them as a reason for visiting China. Obviously, Xi’an is very popular on the Chinese tourist circuit because of the Terra Cotta...
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