Mongolia
We took the train from Beijing to the Mongolian border. The trains in Mongolia use a different rail gauge from China, so at the border they take the train into a workshop (and with everyone aboard) jack the carriage up …
Category: Travel
Forbidden Kung Fu
In Beijing I joined up with a small group tour. The tour lasted 3 weeks and took us from Beijing to St. Petersburg. There were 14 other people on the tour, plus the tour leader. It was a really fun …
Total Eclipse of the Terracotta Pandas
After Huang Shan, I visited Chengdu in Sichuan Province. On July 22 there was an eclipse in some parts of the world. I saw a partial eclipse in Turkey and basically there was nothing to see, so I wasn’t holding …