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Monday, June 04, 2007

Day 16 - Fudan University and Other Lectures

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Today was a whirlwind day of meetings and lectures. It began at Fudan University with a briefing by the Director of the Center for American ...
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Day 15 - Yunnan University and Travel to Shanghai

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Our time in Kunming has been very short compared with other cities. The last part of our stay consisted of a morning at Kunming University ...

Day 14 - The Stone Forest

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Even though we have been in mainland China for 10 days, it feels like we have seen very little outside of city life. Today we drove to the ...
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Day 13 - Travel to Kunming

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We said our goodbyes to Lhasa this morning and left for Kunming. The most exciting part of the morning was the bus ride from Lhasa to the a...
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Day 12 - More of Lhasa

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We spent our morning today touring the Jokhang Temple. This is the holiest temple in Tibet, and we were fortunate enough to be in Lhasa dur...

Finally Back Home

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Dear Friends, I returned home shortly after midnight last night. Unfortunately, since my post on Day 11 , I have been unable to access my b...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Day 11 - There Are No Words

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Today we drove 3 hours southwest of Lhasa, into the mountains to picnic at Yamdrok Lake, one of the three holiest lakes in Tibet. On the w...
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Saturday, May 26, 2007

Day 10 - Capital of the Roof of the World

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Lhasa has been Tibet's Capital since the 7 th century. Today we visited some of its oldest and most splendid sites. Our first hour thi...
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Day 9 - Flag Raising in Tian'an Men and Travel to Lhasa

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Our day yesterday largely consisted of domestic travel, but it began very early (4:15 am!) with a cab ride to Tian'an Men Square where ...
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Friday, May 25, 2007

Day 8 continued - Summer Palace

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Once again I missed an evening of blogging. We were all feeling a bit giddy last night and needed some rest to adjust to the altitude. Firs...
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