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Buying trip of chinese antique furniture in Shanghai China

Date: 2012-1-7 5:52:00 by philipsong Tags: Antique Market antiques China Expo Hunting Pudong Shanghai warehouse Chinese Antique Chinese Antique Furniture Chinese Antiques Chinese Antique Furniture Antique Chinese Chinese Antique Ceramic Porcelain Eastern curio Pottery chinese

After about a 45 minute taxi ride, our first furniture vendor, Royal (the English name he has taken), greeted us at an intersection in his part of the metropolis and then drove us in his van to his furniture warehouse. His warehouse offered us rows and rows of stacked furniture to choose from. Not being air conditioned, the place was hot, humid, dimly lit and dusty; ah, warehouse shopp

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Settling into life in Wenshan

Date: 2011-11-27 9:30:00 by bruceandtrish2 Tags: China Yunnan Wenshan

We’ve done lots of market shopping now and are getting used to all the filth and weird smells. We’ve walked through the sections where they keep all the live chickens, ducks and rabbits in cages and fish in big sinks. We’ve even seen dog being cut up but we don’t want to eat it!

 

We were in a spice shop in the market and I blew chilli powde

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Our first weeks in Wenshan

Date: 2011-11-27 9:27:00 by bruceandtrish2 Tags: China Yunnan Wenshan

Since moving to Wenshan in Yunnan province, we have met really good people who have been super welcoming and helped us settle in. Some are locals and others are from the US.

In the first few days in Wenshan I had to organise mobile phones, internet access, bank accounts and learn how to arrange all the things we need. It

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Our China adventure - Arriving in China

Date: 2011-11-27 9:22:00 by bruceandtrish2 Tags: China Yunnan Wenshan

Our family in Kunming

We flew out of Perth bound for China in June. So much to organise and yay, we’re away!

 

We flew from Perth to Bangkok and from Bangkok to Kunming and stayed with our friends

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An Awe -Some Journey

Date: 2011-5-30 0:23:00 by trails Tags: China Beijing Forbidden City Great Wall of China

The Imperial splendour

 
Beijing 2009: China has been around centuries with travelers flocking by land or sea to its boundaries and writing about its art, culture, architectur

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