The rain had been coming down from last night so I had to start walking with my hood on. There were a couple of foreigners in the area who I was able to ask to direct me to the subway, since now I was in a new area not planned from my original hostel.I didnt realize I was behind the Russian Embassy last nite. I wanted to take a picture of the gates and flag but decided not to chance it with the many police there. To take the stairs to the subway you had to first ...

The rain had been coming down from last night so I had to start walking with my hood on. There were a couple of foreigners in the area who I was able to ask to direct me to the subway, since now I was in a new area not planned from my original hostel. I didnt realize I was behind the Russian Embassy last nite. I wanted to take a picture of the gates and flag but decided not to chance it with the many police there. To take the stairs to the subway you had to first...

We have a three day holiday for Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving), or 5.5 days if you count the weekend and friday night. I decided to goto China again for chuseok, since getting the China visa was such a hassle but for $25 extra you could get a double entry visa. This time I would spend a day in Beijing doing some extra stuff I didnt see on my first trip in 2010, and then a few days in Inner Mongolia Province in the north, bording the Country of Mongolia.I took a fr...

We have a three day holiday for Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving), or 5.5 days if you count the weekend and friday night. I decided to goto China again for chuseok, since getting the China visa was such a hassle but for $25 extra you could get a double entry visa. This time I would spend a day in Beijing doing some extra stuff I didnt see on my first trip in 2010, and then a few days in Inner Mongolia Province in the north, bording the Country of Mongolia. I took a ...

Here is a post blog private email about my trip to China. I purposely left out anything about politics or government so as not to get my tour guide in trouble with authorities but there is more stuff I needed to talk about from my trip.There is an underlying tension between the ethnic chinese and ethnic uyghars living in Xinjiang. The government has been paying ethnic chinese to take vacations and to resettle in xinjiang province. This is changing the demographic...