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In my new busy-student lifestyle, any trip downtown must be made the most of! So when we planned to go downtown for an event at a new bar two weeks ago, we knew we wanted to seize the opportunity to have a delicious meal, too. A bit of Internet research led me to Da Gui, [...]
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This was meant to appear last week as the final post as my series on Guizhou, but then I went to Richmond and forgot the charger to my laptop. So without further ado, the dragons and dragon boats of Shibing, Guizhou: Theundisputed highlight of our trip — a visit to the tiny town of Shibing [...]
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This is the second in an occasional series of “Expense Reports” where I use my recent trips to examine the highly variable costs of travel in China. The first report covered the costs of Sichuan travel. In a Nutshell Trip Length: 6 days/7 nights Total Cost: 679 RMB ($100) Per Day: 113 RMB ($17) Starting [...]
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This week, I’m turning the spotlight on Guizhou, one of China’s least-famous provinces. Read my introduction to Guizhou and then subscribe to my RSS feed to automatically receive the rest of the posts in the series! Guizhou has all the staples of Chinese cuisine — noodles, hotpot — but puts its own distinctive hot-and-sour spin [...]
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In Guizhou’s villages, thick ribbons of writing adorn even the most ramshackle buildings. Sometimes they are painted onto the bricks, sometimes they are written on fabric signs and pinned across a wall. Ever-present dust and faded colors make them easy to ignore. But they reward a moment’s scrutiny, for these inconspicuous strips of text are [...]
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Guizhou (贵州) is surely one of China’s least-famous provinces, at least among Western travelers. It lacks the famous karsts of Guangxi, the celebrated cuisine of Sichuan, or the political problems Xinjiang and Tibet. Once-obscure Qinghai leaped into prominence under tragic circumstances, when it was ravaged by an earthquake earlier this year. So far, no similar tragedy [...]
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When I first heard about CouchSurfing, it seemed a little crazy and potentially dangerous. Stay with a random person you met online instead of in a hostel or hotel? Sure, you might save a little money — but at what cost? Lately, however, I’ve been seeing more and more accounts of CouchSurfing success, from the [...]
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