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No matter where you are in the world, you’ve got to be at least somewhat fit if you want to enjoy hiking. My guest post today at Twenty-Something Travel is about adding exercise to your travel to-do list. When I was a kid, I absolutely hated hiking. My mother loves to tell the story of [...]
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The main purpose of my trip to Anhui a week ago was to visit friends whose students were performing a musical. But on last year’s trip to Anhui, I didn’t have the chance to climb the famous Yellow Mountains (Huangshan, 黄山), and this trip offered a good opportunity to remedy that deficit, as well. Since we were [...]
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Updated (6/6): Planning a trip to Emei Shan? Check out my Emei Shan travel guide for more information. I made it nearly two years in China without visiting one of China’s holy mountains, but I finally succumbed on my recent trip to Sichuan. After plans to visit Songpan fell through, we headed off to Emei Shan [...]
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Updated (6/6): Planning a trip to Jiuzhaigou? Check out my Jiuzhaigou travel guide for more information. The highlight of my trip to Sichuan last week was, hands down, Jiuzhaigou National Park. Rather than try to describe this beautiful place, I will let the pictures speak for themselves. Tips for making the most of your visit: [...]
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This is the second of two posts about my adventure hiking Tiger Leaping Gorge. Monday’s post describes the beginning of this not-so-easy trek. After a pretty tough hike on day one, Lily and I didn’t know what to expect from day two in Tiger Leaping Gorge. We decided to team up with a couple of [...]
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The extent to which I underestimated Tiger Leaping Gorge can be measured in pounds: 2.7 pounds, to be precise. That’s the weight of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 944-page tome Team of Rivals, which I mistakenly thought would be a good hiking accessory. As we left our big packs at the beginning of the trail, I eliminated [...]
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A few hours north of Beijing, the Great Wall snakes unobtrusively along mountain ridges, the grey and tan of the stones blending into the brown mountains. If you aren’t looking for it, you might never know that it was there. But from atop the wall, it appears to go on forever, dipping out of sight [...]
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As mentioned below, I spent part of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday in Dehang (德夯), in western Hunan Province. This beautiful village is located approximately 550 km west of Changsha, near the border with Guizhou and Chongqing. To get there, I took an eight-hour overnight train to Jishou, the gateway city to Dehang and many [...]
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I just got back from two days in Dehang, a small village nestled in the mountains of western Hunan Province. Historically, it was an agricultural community belonging to the Miao minority group, also known as the Hmong. Now, the center of the village has been spiffed up for tourists, with plenty of shops, restaurants and [...]
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