This entire blog post will be dedicated to just one stop, in just one location. I know that isn’t usually my style but in this specific case, I can’t help it. This ranks up there in my Top 5 Travel Destinations of All-Time, and I took a billion pictures, and I couldn’t narrow them downContinue reading “Adventures in Xinjiang: Kashgar Old City”
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Adventures in Xinjiang: Flaming Mountains & Ancient Cities
After our journeys through the grasslands it was time to catch a flight to our next part of the Xinjiang; a place where greens of the grasslands would be replaced by the warm browns of sand and clay… Turpan! تۇرپان Turpan 吐魯番 is located in the middle of Xinjiang, in the Turpan Basin which liesContinue reading “Adventures in Xinjiang: Flaming Mountains & Ancient Cities”
Adventures in Xinjiang: Ancient Trails, a Sandstorm, and a Kazakh Wedding!
Though I love seeing big cities when I travel – London, Budapest, Cape Town, Stockholm, Quito – there’s always something extra special about the days I get to spend out in nature. I try to plan my trips to include at least one hike, at least one day where I am not surrounded by anyContinue reading “Adventures in Xinjiang: Ancient Trails, a Sandstorm, and a Kazakh Wedding!”
Adventures in Xinjiang: Lavender (Space) Blue & Laghman
When touring through a region as large (truly, just….massive) as Xinjiang, you’ve got to take the negatives along with the positives. Negative: after having just finished a full day of driving to get to the desert, the next step was another 8+ hours in the van to get to our next destination. Positive: just lookContinue reading “Adventures in Xinjiang: Lavender (Space) Blue & Laghman”
Adventures in Xinjiang: Grasslands and Ghost Cities
(To read the first part of this trip, click here!) The pictures from the beginning of this blog post will look completely different from the pictures at the end, and that’s one of the things I absolutely love about traveling around this country. Before moving to China, I ignorantly didn’t know a lot about theContinue reading “Adventures in Xinjiang: Grasslands and Ghost Cities”
Adventures in Xinjiang: Lake Monsters and Fairylands
After returning home from Sanya, I packed up my backpack for what would be the longest and most epic of my summer 2021 travels: a 15-day trip to Xinjiang. Now, before I get into it, a note: these next few blog posts are ones I have been unsure of how to begin. Visiting this partContinue reading “Adventures in Xinjiang: Lake Monsters and Fairylands”
Summertime in Sanya: Rainforests & Romance
(To read Part I of this trip, click here!) The nice thing about staying at a resort with a private beach (silly, silly, silly – what is this life?!) is being able to pop down for some sun and a swim truly whenever you want. Just finished breakfast? Go for a morning swim. Everyone elseContinue reading “Summertime in Sanya: Rainforests & Romance”
Summertime in Sanya: Luhuitou Park
Something I’ve found interesting about moving abroad is learning about all of the new “must-see” places within a country that I had never even heard of before living here. If you’d asked me where in China would be worth a visit a few years ago, I probably would have replied: “Umm… Beijing… Shanghai… and… whereverContinue reading “Summertime in Sanya: Luhuitou Park”
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Happy Madie
Over a three day weekend in early May, I decided to once again take advantage of one of the (many) travel organizations I follow on WeChat and get out of Shanghai for a bit. I booked a weekend hiking trip out to 安吉县 Anji County in the 浙江 Zhejiang Province. Quick Chinese geography lesson: ZhejiangContinue reading “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Happy Madie”
Journey to the West(ern Sichuan Region) : Part IV!
Welcome to the fourth (and final!) installment of my Spring Break 2021 trip out west! Let’s wrap this thing up so we can move on to the six other places I traveled to in the past year, shall we? (One of these days I will be better about actually writing these things on time. Maybe.Continue reading “Journey to the West(ern Sichuan Region) : Part IV!”
Adventure in the Great Wide Somewhere 