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Shanghai: The Clean Clothes Captial of the world

Although Shanghai is the largest city in China with over 20 million people, sometimes it was easy to forget that we were in a sprawling metropolis. We did do a little sightseeing in Shanghai

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“Venice of Shanghai” Zhujiajiao, China

Throughout our travels in China, Beau and I were surprised to see so many new modern cities with flashing neon lights and tall skyscrapers in the middle of nowhere. So after our Yangtzee river tour

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Yangtzee River Cruise and the 3 Gorges Dam

During our Yangtze river cruise, we took a day trip up the Long Men Gorge. This was a nice excursion up a tributary that may have given us a glimpse of what the Yangtze looked like prior to D

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A cruise on the Yangtze -kind of like downtown Vegas?

I can compare our Yangtzee river cruise to downtown Las Vegas. I'm not talking the strip with the pretty hotels and even prettier people. I'm talking downtown with Casinos like

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Just being Koi in Chengdu, China

Wandering around the lush bamboo forest of Chengdu Giant Panda Research Center in search of the next cute panda was hard work. Ok not hard work, just slippery and hazardous when you are wearing

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Thankful for Pandas: Chengdu, China

For Thanksgiving (a US holiday), we thought we would give you something warm, cuddly and cute.... Pandas! Who doesn't love pandas? They are so cute that they don't even look real. It was hard fo

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Where’s your food vortex?

Food vortex? Yes, food vortex, I just invented a term. (I Googled it, no matches... it's mine) I was surfing the internet taking full advantage of the rare occurrence of fast internet and &

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A look through our lenses; a photo essay of Barkhor Square in Lhasa

Beau and I did go to Tibet. We understand that there are strong political issues surrounding Tibet. We do have our own opinions on these issues but we are choosing not to discuss them on this foru

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