Huangshan and Nanjing: A Medley of Experiences
After bidding our Anqing host families farewell, we hopped a bus to the foot of Huangshan, or Yellow Mountain. The following morning, we rode out to the mountain, where we experienced a wealth of people queuing up to take the cable car up the mountain. For me, at least, this was a time where the....
New Friends in Anqing
We have been in the city of Anqing for only 11 days and it already feels like home to me. Anqing is a “small” city of 700,000 people and even though I come from a town in Ohio with only 1,670 people, I still feel comfortable here. The fact that my host sister’s middle....
Lijiang Free Travel
November 2-9, 2013 This week we were in Lijiang, which is located in the Yunnan Province聽of southwestern China. Much of our group chose to go their separate ways for this week of independent travel. Two groups tackled the hike of Tiger Leaping Gorge while another group decided to stay behind in Lijiang to explore the....
Western Travels
This was another whirlwind week for us as we travelled roughly 3,000 miles. On Monday we said goodbye to Xiahe, which had gotten some snow on the mountain tops during the night. During the day we made a stop in Binglingi where we took a boat ride on the Yellow River to visit grottoes with....
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Western Travel: Week One
This week was a wonderful week for this 91短视频 cross-cultural group! On Monday we traveled to Qingchengshan to climb a Daoist mountain. The scenery and energy there was spectacular. We climbed to the top, or at least, a top, where we ate lunch at a Daoist temple. On the way down exhaustion set in for....
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Adventures in ancient China
“Adventure is out there!!!” 聽This phrase has been adopted by nearly everyone in our group while exploring China and all it’s exciting and historical locations or even just walking around our host city of Nanchong, in most cases we find it. This last weekend we had the privilege of visiting and staying in the ancient....
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Agriculture and Guangan
On Friday (Sept. 20) we had the unique experience of visiting a farm located about a thirty minute drive outside of downtown Nanchong.聽 After our morning language classes, we piled into four vans and drove to the outside of the city.聽 Before long the paved road ended and we turned abruptly onto a dirt road....