Tag: travel
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China – It’s love! – Photos
Here’s what I love about China (besides the ridiculously amazing people I meet around every corner) — In just a couple of weeks, I have hiked 22 towers of the great wall, partied all night in Shanghai’s raucous clubs, visited an ancient fishing community, sunbathed on a beach on a tiny, colonial island, visited Fujian…
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Cangyan Shan and the kindness of strangers
My Mom sent me an email the other day – she had picked up a book I left behind by Ryszard Kapuściński, a Polish journalist, and someone I idolize. In this book (Travels with Heredotus), Kapuscinski writes this about travel: “Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.”…
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Cangyan Shan – Photos
Facing the hanging temple of Cangyan Shan Looking up towards the main “Hanging Temple” A sculpture with prayer ribbons Two of my new friends! Incense smoke from the main temple complex Some veggies in the interior courtyard of the temple My new favorite people — Read more about them! Looking out from the temple A…
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China – Not what I expected
Four days into my stay in Beijing, China, and I have to say, it’s simply not what I expected. I’m exposing my ignorance about China here, but I thought it would feel infinitely more restrictive than it does – and so far, its felt more like spending time in any city, outside of the ever-present…
Sarah PecK 