Wednesday, January 26, 2005

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After Emei Shan I returned to Chengdu and then on December 27 winged on to Tibet. From the airport we drove straight to Samye Monastery and...

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The next day I took a bus to Emei Shan, about three hours from Chengdu. Spent the rest of the day visiting the temples a the base of the mou...
Tuesday, January 25, 2005

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On to Chengdu the next morning, December 20. The plane was jammed and like all domestic Air China flights there was simply not enough leg ro...

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Flew down to Beijing Saturday morning, December 18. Called my friend Ms R, who had a day off from work, and proceeded to the huge computer s...
Friday, December 17, 2004

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Just heard from Sevgi in Istanbul. A few months ago she went to Syria for a vacation. She says she is spending the Holidays in Libya. As a T...
Thursday, December 16, 2004

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The Life of Zanabazar continued: The spring after Zanabazar’s birth Gegen Setsen Khan came to visit Gomdorj and his wife and new son. As ...
Wednesday, December 15, 2004

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Since I have been back in Ulaan Baatar I have continued working on the guide to locales connected with Zanabazar, the first Bogd Gegen of Mo...
Monday, December 06, 2004

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It seems like the Manhole People of UIaan Baatar are still alive it not entirely well. According to the December 2 UB Post there are now 10,...

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Saturday morning dawned clear and all looked well for Ulaan Baatar. The plane left right on time at 12:15 pm and arrived in Ulaan Baatar two...
Sunday, December 05, 2004

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My plane which left from New York on Wednesday was supposed to arrive in Beijing Thursday evening, but with the delay it did not arrive till...
Friday, December 03, 2004

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When I left Beijing in the first week of September I bought a quarter of a kilo of green tea and a quarter of a kilo of oolong tea. After ne...
Saturday, September 11, 2004

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From Beijing I flew to Shanghai and got a non-stop flight to San Francisco, where I popped on a non-stop flight to Pittsburgh. From Pittsbur...
Friday, September 10, 2004

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From Ulaan Baatar I blew into Beijing. I called my friend Rahila, who I had met several years earlier in Urumqi, in Xinjiang Province of Wes...
Thursday, September 09, 2004

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In an earlier post from Wurzburg, Germany, I noted that Chinese are rapidly becoming the world’s most ubiquitous tourists. This can only inc...

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From Berlin (Germany) I winged eastward to Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, via Moscow. In Mongolia my first stop was the new Buddhist temple being c...