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Frog Soup
Date: 2008-3-12 1:47:00 by Carl Tags: Chinese Food Tibet train travel Tibet
The first day I arrived in Hang Zhou I was just getting over my flu. My friends, an assortment of Chinese and Koreans, suggested I go with them for a walk around West Lake. My appetite had returned that morning. They'd all seen me eat a hearty breakfast. It was late autumn and a light mist hung above the lake, accompanied by a fine rain and low clouds. We walked along the shore and watched fish
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The Hanging Monastery
Date: 2008-3-12 1:44:00 by Carl Tags: Hanging Monastery Tibet Namtso Lake
About 20 miles south of Datong, in Shanxi Province, our taxi broke down. Smoke poured out from the engine. ?We had a busted water pump. We'd arrived in Datong from Inner Mongolia by train earlier in the day, several hours before dawn. Excited to see the Hanging Monastery at the base of Mt. Hengshan (the northern Hengshan, not the southern one) we booked our taxi right away and left fr
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