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Category: (US/Canada)
... containing a rain slicker I had purchased in China from one of those street vendors who always appear when it starts to rain. I unzip it. Eeeuw. It lets out a smell of plastic and something reminiscent ...Created on 18 October 2012 -
Category: (Apps, Gear and Tech)
... had purchased in China from one of those street vendors who always appear when it starts to rain. I unzip it. Eeeuw. It lets out a smell of plastic and something reminiscent of spoiled fish. I shake it ...Created on 18 October 2012 -
Category: (People We've Met)
A man, who was minding his Yak (not shown) in Yunnan Province, China near the Tibetan Plateau. ...Created on 15 June 2012 -
Category: (Apps, Gear and Tech)
... stroking the case like Ricardo might caress the cheek of Lana Turner. "Fine leather from Italy or you can also have this--made in China" as he groped a plastic iPad cover that might have been made from ...Created on 24 January 2012 -
Category: (Apps, Gear and Tech)
... had it not been tethered down. But the iPhone was the heartthrob at CES. Like flukes on a whale, companies, many from the Shenzhen region of China, where iStuff is made, are riding the back of Apple and ...Created on 17 January 2012 -
Category: (Video)
ENWbZjeOJo0 Bejing is like a Sichuan Face Changing ritual, a routine in Chinese Opera in which a performer waves his cape and changes brightly-colored masks instantly, as many as 20 times in a few minutes. ...Created on 20 April 2011 -
Category: (Video)
... plans to restore its architectural heritage. It did so beautifully. But plans became more than a touch grandiose after Portugal ceded it to China and in 2010 Macau belts "Look at me now!" Money fleeing ...Created on 05 October 2010 -
Category: (Asia)
I had a dream that the Grand Lisboa tower, a hotel-casino that now dominates the skyline of Macau, came alive one night, pulled itself from its mooring, marched across China's Pearl River Delta and, ...Created on 26 January 2010 -
Category: (Connected Traveler Radio)
... Bai Wedding: We go to a wedding in Yunnan Province, China.Yunnan_China_A_Wedding The Way To Shangri-La: On the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, China has named this place Shangri-la.Shangri-La_in_Yunnan ...Created on 16 April 2009 -
Category: (Asia)
These types of fishing nets can only be found in China and at Ft. Cochin, in the southern part of India. ...Created on 11 December 2008 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... and Adelson have a big time presence in Chinese Macau, which has already surpassed Las Vegas in gambling revenues. As China's middle class grows, so will its outbound travel and so will Wynn's and Adelson's ...Created on 21 January 2008 -
Category: (Europe)
... left, diagonal, no stopping, whatever it takes to get there. Everyone for himself. There is a big difference in places like Thailand or China where the crowds are just as large, but where people meander ...Created on 23 November 2007 -
Category: (Video)
... spoke “Shangri-la” to him. But the Shangri-la of Capra’s snow machine and Hilton’s imagination is a valley hidden amidst the peaks and wooly yaks of the Tibetan Plateau and China lays claim to that: ...Created on 31 October 2006 -
Category: (Good Travel)
... China to develop media for videos, books, websites and the like. http://connectedtraveler.com/Media/MekongStrategy.wmv The latest project, with the sponsorship of the Asian Development Bank, outlines ...Created on 20 September 2006 -
Category: (Good Travel)
... shells you can buy on China Beach in Vietnam are intact and beautiful because live mollusks were extracted from them in the Philippines, where they were harvested. In the American Southwest, some of ...Created on 18 September 2006 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... chickens are dumb. If a chicken can do it, even a mental incompetent can do it." I begin my search on Mott and Canal, on the edge of Chinatown. I walk up to one of those ...Created on 17 August 2006 -
Category: (Asia)
We are at a wedding, in China. But it doesn't look very Chinese. This is a Bai wedding on the shores of Lake Erhai in Yunnan Province. Yunnan is in the far south near Thailand. It is one of the most un-Chinese ...Created on 04 August 2006 -
Category: (Asia)
... is very clean for China. It even has a few tidy toilets. (It is easy to find a restroom in most of China because you can smell them a block away). The countryside around Guilin is remindful of Bali. ...Created on 04 August 2006 -
Category: (Essays)
... on and on.for about 100 minutes. China, it seems, is embracing the rhythms of western economics and culture faster than China's leaders would like to admit. In a similar musical assault in Brazil a ...Created on 04 August 2006 -
Category: (Asia)
... night at an Indian restaurant. Some see Hong Kong withering as China hedges its bets on Shanghai. Hong Kong money is building many of these highrises, however. The Shanghai Museum is a gem, one of ...Created on 03 August 2006