We woke up just after sunrise and found a completely changed scenery. Farm fields had been swapped for arid land and sand dunes. We arrived at the Lanzhou train station about 6am and were trying to make a bus to Xiahe at about 7. While we were on the bus, the landscape transformed even more….
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We headed from Huashan to Xi’an to spend a night there and celebrate Louisa’s birthday. On our first afternoon there, we showered and did some laundry, which definitely needed to happen after Huashan. We basically did all of my favorite things I did the last time I was there. I even found the same jia…
We got the train from Luoyang to Huashan North Station, which was as short taxi ride away from our hostel.
After being on the train all afternoon and evening, we finally made it from Qingdao to Luoyang. It was about 10 or 11pm when we made it to our hostel. We were pretty hungry and James had already scouted out a street food market, so we headed there for a late night meal. This place had some…
This is the first part of the next group of blog posts about my travels at the end of my year abroad. The first place I went was to Qingdao in Shandong province. I also happened to be there on my 21st birthday! We arrived at about 2am, because we got a cheap, late-night flight….
Where I Went Shanghai, China Qingdao, Shandong, China Luoyang, Henan, China Huashan and Xi’an, Shaanxi, China Xiahe, Zhangye, Dunhuang, and Jiayuguan, Gansu, China Xining and Qinghai Lake, China For the last half of the month I was backpacking around China. Blog posts about everywhere I went to come! Best on InstagramThis one is from Qinghai…
Yesterday was my 21st birthday. Incidentally I’ve been to 21 foreign countries before my 21st. I figured this was a good time to reflect on good and life-changing times.I am so grateful for these experiences and memories. It’s been quite the wild ride these past few years. Who knows how many countries I’ll have been…
I’m heading off in a couple of hours to backpack around China. This is what I’m taking with me. I’m taking a 35L Karrimor backpack and a 10L stuff-stack Quechua backpack. I’m taking my clothes in my packing cubes, which I got from Amazon – they’re the Amazon basics brand. I originally wanted the Eagle…
On Thursday night, we booked a room at the Etour hostel near People’s Square subway station in Shanghai, then the next morning we headed to catch a train. We arrived around midday and after a quick rest, we set out. an old theatre near where we were staying We spent the rest of the day…
The past couple of weeks have been pretty essay-heavy, so this weekend I got some university work done, but I also enjoyed spending the long holiday weekend here in Hangzhou. This is my neighborhood fruit shop. I love the way it looks at night. Take out delivery drivers line up to get their orders…