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The notoriety of being blonde in China

January 13, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Ok, my apologies as I know I promised that my next post would continue on my series of Shanghai’s lovely neighborhoods and focus on the ultra modern, chic Pudong. But as I was sorting through my mass of pictures (I took over 800 in just nine days in China!), I found some others that were hysterical and reminded me of a great post topic. Namely, the notoriety of being blonde in China (or basically anywhere in Asia!). For those who […]

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Categories: Beijing, China, CULTURE, Shanghai, The Great Wall, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: Beijing, China, CULTURE, Humor, life, Shanghai, thirdeyemom, Travel

Fall on the Wall: Part III Walking the Wall

November 24, 2011 by thirdeyemom

Author’s note: This is the last post on a three-part series on my hike to the Great Wall of China. To read my earlier posts, click here: Fall on the Wall: Part I and Fall on the Wall: Part II. We arrived on top of the Great Wall of China at Jiankou, after two and a half hours of hard climbing up, to see one of the most impressive, spectacular man-made phenomenons I’d ever seen. I’d been to Machu Picchu, the ancient […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, Beijing, China, CULTURE, The Great Wall, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Trekking/Hiking • Tags: China, CULTURE, Hiking, Jiantou, mutianyu, The Great Wall, thirdeyemom, Travel

Walk along the Wall with me!

November 22, 2011 by thirdeyemom

Ok…these may not be the best videos but I thought they were worth sharing with you so you can get a sense of what the unrestored section of the Wall is like at Jiantou. Here are two relatively short clips I recorded with my iPhone upon taking my first steps along the Great Wall of China at Jiantou. Sorry if they are rather unprofessional or my commentary is a bit silly! I decided to suck in my pride a bit and […]

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Fall on the Great Wall: Part II The Climb Up

November 21, 2011 by thirdeyemom

Author’s note: This is part two of three posts on my visit to China’s Great Wall. To read my earlier post, click here. The fog nestled tightly around the mountains above, giving off an eerie, surreal setting for undoubtably China’s most spectacular man-made wonder. I was perplexed and felt rather naive in my earlier belief that the Great Wall of China was built on flat land. “You mean to tell me that the wall is way up there, built along […]

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Fall on the Great Wall: Part 1

November 19, 2011 by thirdeyemom

He who has not climbed the Great Wall is not a true man. – Mao Zedong Photo above of the Great Wall of China at Badaling, the most heavily visited and fully restored part of the wall. Photo credited to Wikipedia Commons (Free images). As a diehard wanderlust whose main goal in life is to see the greatest and latest of this amazing world, I’d always set my sights on leaving my footprints across the Great Wall of China. Like Machu Picchu, Ancient Rome, the […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, Beijing, China, CULTURE, The Great Wall, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Trekking/Hiking • Tags: Badaling, Beijing, China, CULTURE, jiankou, mutianyu, Photography, The Great Wall, thirdeyemom, Travel

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Category Archives: The Great Wall

The notoriety of being blonde in China

Fall on the Wall: Part III Walking the Wall

Walk along the Wall with me!

Fall on the Great Wall: Part II The Climb Up

Fall on the Great Wall: Part 1

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