We made it into the bird’s nest!  After so many years of taking pictures from faraway, we finally made it inside Beijing’s National Stadium also affectionately known as the Bird’s Nest since it resembles just that. The athlete both for men’s and women’s 200 meters was qualifying on that day.  Most of the ones participating [...]

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Although completed overshadowed by the Terracotta warriors and the Wild Goose Pagoda, this museum is nevertheless one of the “must-sees” in Xi’an. The Shaanxi museum probably houses the oldest man-made stuff in the world!  It covers over 150,000 years of Shaanxi’s history and has artefacts from all the Chinese dynasties- Qin to Qing. It will [...]

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I’m very sad to hear so much of the media lambast China for not letting aid workers into the country after the 7.9 earthquake in Sichuan Province last week. It’s not that they’re not allowing them in- it’s that there are so many foot soldiers on the ground already and the transport system is a [...]

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