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Snapshot: Gansu Grasslands

by Jessica Marsden on October 15, 2010

After a rough week of homework and a 10-minute speech in Chinese, this photo depicts exactly what I would like to be doing right now. I got this snapshot as part of a batch of photos from my August 2009 trip to Gansu and Qinghai that showed up in my e-mail this week. It was [...]

Tagged as: blogsherpa, China, Gansu, Langmusi

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My Favorite Places of 2009

by Jessica Marsden on December 31, 2009

2009 was a busy year for travel in the To China… and Beyond! household-of-one. As I embark on myfirst big trip of 2010, I’ve been thinking about the best trips I took in 2009. 5. Xi’an: My December trip to Xi’an was actually my second visit to the city. I went there on my first [...]

Tagged as: Dehang, India, Langmusi, Malaysia, Varanasi, Xiahe, Xian

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Top 5 Foods of Western China

by Jessica Marsden on October 7, 2009

This is the third post of a weeklong series recapping my August trip to the western Chinese provinces of Gansu and Qinghai. See the first and second posts in the series. Many of the foods we encountered in western China bore little, if any, resemblance to what one thinks of as “Chinese food”. Yes, we [...]

Tagged as: food, Langmusi, Lanzhou, Tongren, Western China (Aug. '09), Xiahe

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Coming up: The October 1st Holiday

by Jessica Marsden on September 7, 2009

The Chinese blogosphere is abuzz with news about the impending National Day holiday, which this year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. Last week, central Beijing closed down for rehearsals of the parade that will take place at Tiananmen Square. Chinese news agencies reported that the military would be celebrating the [...]

Tagged as: Beijing, Dehang, Golden Week, holidays, Langmusi, October 1, off the beaten path, Wenhai Ecolodge

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Slideshow: Langmusi Trek

by Jessica Marsden on August 29, 2009

Langmusi, a tiny Tibetan town along the Gansu-Sichuan border, initially seems like an unlikely draw for tourists both Western and Chinese. It’s not much more than a one-street town, with a couple of small monasteries. But it is a terrific jumping-off point for explorations of Tibetan nomad culture in the mountains around town. An enterprising [...]

Tagged as: Gansu Province, hiking, Langmusi, slideshow, Western China (Aug. '09)

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Getting to Langmusi and Xiahe

by Jessica Marsden on August 14, 2009

Our trip through western China is progressing, and going well. So well that Internet access and blogging hasn’t been a top priority. But in case any readers are following in our footsteps, I wanted to write a quick post about actually getting to Langmusi and Xiahe in the Tibetan area of southern Gansu Province. Both [...]

Tagged as: blogsherpa, bus, China, Gansu, Langmusi, Western China (Aug. '09), Xiahe

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