China Day 1: Dulles to Beijing
Saturday, April 25, 2009
It’s the first day of a 10 day adventure with traveling partners Mickey, Donna, and Dr. Craven’s group from Milford High. The rest of the group is flying…
It’s the first day of a 10 day adventure with traveling partners Mickey, Donna, and Dr. Craven’s group from Milford High. The rest of the group is flying…
After breakfast at the Beijing Kaiheng Century Hotel, Day 2 gets started with a bus ride to Tiananmen Square. It’s a holiday in China so the square is…
Day 3 begins with a tour of Beijing Banner Jadeware City, a workshop where artisans make jade carvings. Like all of these tours they end with shopping for…
Today is our last day in Beijing, so while the bus is loading up I have some time to take a few pictures of the street in front…
The overnight train to Xi’an seems like it was made for a great night’s sleep. Gently rocking over the rails, I should have been out cold. But instead,…
Day 6 starts with a visit to the Xi’an Cultural Exchange Museum … … And then on to the Dayan Ta Great Wild Goose Pagoda … After lunch…
I’m up early thanks to a rooster crowing outside the hotel. Last night we arrived in Guilin after dark and had no idea what the city looked like. …
A short post today. Day 8 is mostly a travel day. We board the bus to Guilin Airport and then take Shanghai Airlines flight 9336 to Shanghai Hongchou…
Sunrise on Day 9 reveals Shanghai as a complex combination of modern high-rise apartments buildings and older neighborhoods. On a dark and dreary morning we start with a…
Many Chinese begin the day with Tai Chi, so we’re up early visiting a park to watch. We spend the rest of the morning discussing Chinese life with…
Our 10 day trip Beijing, Xi’an, Guilin, and Shanghai compressed to about 2 minutes … Technical details: Videotaped with a Canon HV-10 HDV camcorder and edited using iMovie.