Today I went to the Great Wall with the Freshman class of Beijing Sports University. We went to the Wall at Badaling, a very touristy area. It was okay, but not amazing. It is strange to stand on one of the Seven Wonders of the...
Read MoreI arrived back in Beijing at the Beijing Sports University exhausted after delayed flights and bad airline “food.” The true delay was that some of my classmates decided to bring much of Tibet back with them in their...
Read MoreWe spent our first 2 days in Xi Ning, which is actually Northern China/Northern Tibet. We have been driving by van through Northern China into Tibet, stopping at monasteries, and meeting people. Today I saw the Yellow River,...
Read MoreEverything here smells like Yak. The smell I have been mistaking for Yak for the past few days is actually the smell of urine mixed with clay. The “bathrooms” here are actually sometimes semi-enclosed spaces of...
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