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Three-sixty-five days of travel. I wished.

October China trip photos

Here are the photos from my trips to Beijing and Chengdu.

Dangling Panda

Having lunch break at Jinli Street after visiting the Chengdu Panda Research Center. It's been raining all day so it's cold! Brrr...

More photos to follow, including an 'illegal' shot of baby pandas!

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Kao Ya in Beijing

Well, a trip to Beijing is not complete without a meal of kao ya (roast duck). Had some last night, together with a whole bunch of other great dishes.

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Pu-er & chrysanthemum tea

Pretty good tea in the cutest teapot! Great for my stomach after the food poisoning from too much Wangfujing street food last night.

Can't stop posting to Posterous, a cure for my withdrawal symptoms from not having access to social networking apps...

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Tofu dinner

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At 'One Tea One Seat' near the Guomau station. Good stuff!

Social network vacuum

Boarded the Airasia flight for Tianjin in the morning, arrived in Beijing close to 6pm. While the flight had the usual turbulence, the journey from Tianjin to Beijing took me longer than I'd thought. You can get a RMB10 shuttle bus outside the Tianjin airport to the Tianjin Railway station. The bus ride is about 30-45 minutes with traffic. Then you can take the bullet train to Beijing for about RMB58 for a 2nd class seat. It takes about 30 minutes but you might have to wait a little for the next available train. Trains depart every half hour. Once at the Beijing South Station, it is connected to the city subway system which is great but battling the rush hour crowd was daunting!

And it's a social network vacuum here in Beijing for an English-speaking, Facebook-Twitter-Foursquare user like me. Google works, as does Google Apps. But I can't load Posterous on the browser, nor Picasa. So much for sharing info about my vacation! So I'm going to follow some advice I found online by posting my updates via email to Posterous. If this works, then Posterous - you are awesome.

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Zero fares to Beijing

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Big thank you to Airasia & the wonderful ladies who has been helping with my bookings! Mmuuaaxx!

Seafood Farewell

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Had farewell dinner with Li Ping before her move to Bogor, Indonesia...

Sri Lanka July 2010

The trip was in July but I'd just realized that I have been completely ignoring this blog, originally intended for some travel photos and stuff.

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See the whole album in Picasa

2010 Sri Lanka

Melbourne and Canberra

2nd trip to Australia. This time for Melbourne (stayed with Cindy & Kenneth's family for a little holiday) and Canberra (visit Environmental Assurance Australia's office).

2010 06 Melbourne

 

Posted June 30, 2010