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Photo Friday #17: China

October 29, 2010 China

Arriving back into Beijing from Ulaanbaatar, I was dismayed to see that the sky was yellow as my Air China flight descended over the city. The smog was so bad I couldn’t even see the airport until a few seconds before the plane’s wheels touched down. Considering I was planning to go to the Great [...]

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Beijing blue skies

September 13, 2010 China

On my last morning in Beijing before leaving for Mongolia (at least, until I return in October), I woke to clear and almost fresh air. The sky was blue rather than pallid with haze, and the trees lining the street near the hostel were losing their leaves on the slight breeze. So rather than take [...]

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Mongolian visa in Beijing

September 12, 2010 China

Considering the website for the Mongolian consulate in Australia actually recommends you pick up your visa in Beijing, I figured that getting my Mongolian visa in China would be a piece of cake. Thankfully, I was right! Although like all things bureaucratic, it takes some patience. Where The Mongolian embassy is located just around the [...]

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Beijing: The Facts

September 9, 2010 China

It’s expensive Particularly when compared with the rest of the country (not including Shanghai), Beijing is mind-boggling expensive. A bed in a 12-person dorm costs 90RMB (about $15), which is astronomical considering I didn’t pay more than 25RMB (about $4) in the south. Food is also more expensive, unless you want to eat off the [...]

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Photo Friday #9: China

August 20, 2010 China

In Guangzhou, China, on the other side of a tangle of flyovers and the concrete mess of subway station renovations in preparation for the Asian Games, is Shamian Island, a peaceful enclave full of colonial buildings on the Pearl River. It was the only place I made an effort to visit during my unexpected time [...]

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Hong Kong in pictures

July 30, 2010 China

I spent my entire flight from Qatar to Hong Kong looking around at all the calm and sleeping passengers and wondering ‘don’t they know what we’re in for?!?!’ But for all my worrying about flying into a typhoon (I don’t advise you YouTube Hong Kong landing videos right before flying), we landed so smoothly I [...]

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