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Weekly Photo Challenge: Chinese Fleeting Moments

June 29, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Ok, I couldn’t resist and had to do another entry for this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge. The challenge asks that we present some of our favorite street photography. Here are my picks of my most favorite, magical fleeting moments captured in time during my trip last fall to China. Hope you enjoy! Again, there will be no commentary as if I’m doing my job right, then the pictures should paint a thousand words, right? About these ads

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Categories: Beijing, BLOGGING, China, CULTURE, Shanghai, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Beijing, China, CULTURE, Photography, postaday, Shanghai, thirdeyemom, Travel

Our trip to a Chinese Water Village, Part 3 The Goods

January 23, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Author’s note: This is the last art on a three post series on my trip to a Chinese Water Village. After a fascinating two-hour speed tour through lovely Zhouzhuang, it was time to head out and catch our ride back into Shanghai before the horrendous weekend traffic arrived. Our tour guide Gloria told us that traffic in urban cities was particularly bad on Fridays because many of the migrant factory workers returned home to their villages. It was nearing […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, China, CULTURE, HUMAN RIGHTS, Shanghai, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: China, CULTURE, Shanghai, thirdeyemom, Travel, Zhouzhuang

Our Trip to a Chinese Water Village: Part II Arrival

January 22, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Author’s Note: This is part two of a three part series. To read the first post, click here. I hope I didn’t leave you hanging too much in my last post! (ha ha). Obviously I made it to the water village in one piece, despite the insanely dangerous driving of our hired rookie cabbie. My stomach felt a bit queasy upon our arrival an hour an a half later. But I was happy to be alive. The water village of Zhouzhuang […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, China, CULTURE, Shanghai, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: China, CULTURE, life, Shanghai, thirdeyemom, Travel, Water Village, Zhou Zhuang

Our trip to a Chinese Water Village, Part I Getting There

January 21, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Who ever said that getting there is half the fun is hugely wrong. Getting there or anywhere in China, alive, is the best part. Our young rookie cab driver testing it out. Officially there is one death every seven minutes (in China). Road crashes cost 1 percent to 3 percent of the country’s GDP every year. China, with four times the population of the United States, has today only one-third the number of vehicles and yet it has twice […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, China, CULTURE, Shanghai, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: China, Chinese water village, CULTURE, Driving, life, Shanghai, thirdeyemom, Travel

The ultimate ride: The Bund Sightseeing Tunnel

January 18, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Author’s note: In my last post on Pudong, I mentioned that the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel needed an entire post in itself. As promised, here it is! Hope you enjoy a trip through Chinese Disneyland! There are several ways to reach Pudong from the Bund. You can take a long taxi ride, swerving in and out through intense Shanghai traffic. If you want the more scenic route you can take a ferry across the Huangpu river. Or, you can get your […]

Categories: China, CULTURE, Shanghai, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: Bund Sightseeing tunnel, China, CULTURE, Shanghai, thirdeyemom, Travel

Simply Shanghai: Life around the streets

January 17, 2012 by thirdeyemom

A lot of time when you think about Shanghai, you expect things to all be modern and new. My last post on Pudong goes to show how far China has come in the last twenty-five years. However, as you step away from the famous Bund and Pudong districts, you are suddenly back in the thick of real, live China. We spent our time in Shanghai on foot and never took a cab once except for the hired driver we […]

Categories: China, CULTURE, Shanghai, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: China, CULTURE, life, Shanghai, thirdeyemom, Travel

Shanghai ‘hoods: Pudong

January 15, 2012 by thirdeyemom

There is a saying that goes “I’ve saved the best for last“. In my series on Shanghai ‘hoods, the last one is Pudong. But in my opinion, I’m not so sure it is the best. It is by far, the newest and most modern part of Shanghai and at night, the lights are so spectacular and out of this world, that it is hard to not believe that this Disneylandish looking place would be so strange. But that is how I […]

Categories: China, CULTURE, Shanghai, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: China, CULTURE, Shanghai, thirdeyemom, Travel

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 […]

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

Shanghai ‘hoods: The French Concession

January 12, 2012 by thirdeyemom

One of my favorite ‘hoods in Shanghai is the fashionable, serene French Concession. Although you won’t find the name “French Concession” written on any Chinese maps, it is easily identified by the dramatic change in scenery as the city landscape changes from traffic-heavy, congested streets full of a mismatch of style into the elegant tree-lined streets awash in art deco and old-world residential charm. It practically feels like you are stepping into France except for of course the constant reminders […]

Categories: China, CULTURE, Shanghai, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: China, CULTURE, French Concession, life, Shanghai, thirdeyemom, Travel

Shanghai ‘hoods: Old Town

January 10, 2012 by thirdeyemom

The cosmopolitan city of Shanghai is one of those bewitching places that casts a spell over the freshly minted Chinese tourist. It is city that perfectly displays the contradictions and paradoxes of China itself. Like a jigsaw puzzle of mismatched pieces, Shanghai’s distinct and unique neighborhoods continue to fascinate and confuse the unexpected tourist who had initially thought they understood what China is all about. From the old-world European charm of the Bund to the ultra-modern over-the-top skyscrapers of Pudong, […]

Categories: China, CULTURE, Shanghai, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: China, CULTURE, Old Town, Shanghai, thirdeyemom, Travel

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