July 2012
54 posts
Gchat is down. What is this nonsense.
Recap of Lijiang
Figured I’d synthesis a blog post out of some emails I sent today, seeing as I have the rest of the day free and nothing else to do..
We arrived in Guilin this morning. This province is in the south-east part of the country and shares a boarder with Vietnam. It’s really gorgeous here, but as my camera is unfortunately dead there’ll be no photos from me till after Guiling and...
Chengdu, Sichuan
This morning we woke up around 5am in order to catch our flight out out of Chengdu and into Kunming. I was sad to leave Sichuan, because I really did enjoy my time there a lot more than I enjoyed Beijing, and made some good friends at the University there. I am glad that I have internet again though, as we’re staying the night in a relatively upscale hotel here in Kunming. So far I’m...
Anonymous asked: Do a lot of people stop you to take a picture with you in China?
Taxis
Two observaions about taxis:
1) It’s really hard to get one to stop for you. Particularly around Tsinghua, because they keep driving past our group and stopping a little later on to pick up Chinese people. QQ Not sure if it’s racism (“I don’t want to drive that group of white/black kids, I’ll go pick up that Chinese guy over there”) or if it’s convenience...
dharmathroughkarma asked: How is the air pollution in China?
