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22 décembre 2007

Made in China

Made in China
Last days in China before heading to Laos... Last trips on Chinese trains as well, which nonetheless constitute a great experience! Sharing for some 18 hours a small living space with Chinese people is very fascinating: how much they can eat, what they...
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19 décembre 2007

Le pied a l'etrier

Le pied a l'etrier
Being sick, I have no shame considering it to be justified that the 2 following posts will be in French (and mostly directly copied from my notebook... ;) Me voici de retour de 5 jours en randonnees equestres dans le Sichuan du Nord, la ou les premiers...
14 décembre 2007

Salvation army

Salvation army
Not that easy to travel in China nowadays. As I mentioned it previously, trains are currently crowded with soldiers heading to their base camps all over the country. To get to Xi'an, I had to take a ride on a tuk-tuk for half an hour, walk across muddy...
11 décembre 2007

Pingyao

Pingyao
Pingyao, patrimoine mondial de l' Unesco depuis 1997 et ancienne cite Ming, magnifiquement preservee derriere ses remparts de pierres. Dommage que le brouillard empechait de l apprecier a sa juste valeur... cela dit, cela conferait a la ville un air tres...
10 décembre 2007

Froid de canard (laque)

Froid de canard (laque)
Les premiers neiges sont tombees sur Datong, petite ville provinciale proche de la Mongolie interieure. Principalement productrice de charbon et bastion de l' armee chinoise, la ville n'est pas veritablement attrayante de prime abord. Le froid et la neige...
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8 décembre 2007

Go west

Tonight I am heading to the West, closed to Inner Mongolia, to the city of Datong. I am quite sad leaving Beijing, since I have been positively surprised by it. Indeed, I had never been really keen on big cities and more generally on China but I reckon...
7 décembre 2007

Beijing 2008

Beijing 2008
When talking about pictures, photographers and tourists, the Yapenese band style would pop up immediately. Masses of Japenese tourists standing in front of the tiny Manneken Pis gives a pretty good image of their artistic skills... Well, but have you...
5 décembre 2007

The long March...

The long March...
4 décembre 2007

Permis de tuer

2 things you realise when you arrive in Beijing, is that, if you want to go from one point to another, by not using a car, you incur a even higher risk of dying from a crash. Je m' explique: If you are a pedestrian, forget about your own safety. Crossing...
3 décembre 2007

The Middle Empire

The Middle Empire
1 billion of inhabitants. 2 billions of slanty eyes. And me and my own slanty eyes, in the middle. Already on the plane, I felt like being in China. There were maybe only 4 Western people and you could not really say at first glance that I was one of...
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