July 13 Today we had a blitz tour of shanghai with our guide Heidi. She is a local and was full of facts and figures. I was just trying to imagine shanghai as it must have been before WW II and the Revolution. The Bund was amazing. We did have a little trouble getting her […]
We have just returned from a day at the Expo – go on line and have a look – see if you can find the China pavilion. It was breath taking. I hadn’t the energy to stand in line for anything else. Jim and Patti went to the Iraeli one and stood in line for 45 […]
> > So we are back in GuiLin aafter another 6 hour drive with a brief stop noodles in a town a little before Yangshuo. > > The orphanage visit went well – only about 1 1/2 hours. The director Mr. Oh came to the hotel to meet us and then guide us to the […]
We are up now – 7 am! We meet the guide in an hour and the off to see the town and the finding place. We are supposed to take the director and a couple of his staff to lunch. it will be early because we have to be back Guilin by 6:30. Just as […]
July 11 This morning we parted from out travel group with great waves of emotion. We all had tears in our eys and the some of the girls were up until 11 last night swimming lat at the Guilin Sheraton. They just couldn’t give up the closeness. The bonding has been amazing. the 12 girls […]
July 9 and 10 Each night we are so tired we reach the hotel and collapse into a deep sleep. Yesterday we took a 4 hour river boat tour on the Li river – from Guilin to Yanshuo. It’s scenery is the most famous in China. The valley was once an under water sea. We […]
July 7 Dear readers, Today we visited the panda research resort to of course see a baby panda. HOW EXCITING!!!!!!!!!! When we got there a lot of kids were hoping off bus with excitement because a lot of them were going to hold a baby panda. I was also very excited about the pandas because […]
June 30 Long flight from Boston – Arrived in Beijing at 2:30 in the afternoon – were picked up by a college student guide named Rita. (Everyone we meet – students and guides who speak English – has given themselves an English name. So far we have Rita and Nancy – a charming Beijing guide.) We […]
July 6 We got to ChengDu in Sichuan this evening. Less hot here than Xian. We haven’t had much internet access so the blog may get choppy as I load the days I have in WORD. Just got in from a quick and late dinner at at street restaurant a couple of blocks up from […]
July 1 Awoke yesterday at 6am to make a 9am flight to DC. Picked up Patti and left DC at 12:1 5 on a Boeing 777. Arrived Beijing 2:30 pm after a long but very comofrtable flight. (Not too bad as to seats but the food was among the more marginal aiplane meals I have had the […]