From August the 1st, the prohibition will be carried on that foreigners go travelling to Everest, Ngari and other Chinese border areas.News comes from http://www.tibettravel.org

Na een luie ochtend vertrokken we pas om 13.00 uur uti Makkum. Na zo'n 3,5 uur kwamen we weer aan in Staveren. Na nog een laatste gezamelijke maaltijd werd het tijd om afscheid te nemen van de schipper en gingen we met de pont naar Enkhuizen om daar de trein naar Amsterdam te nemen.

Before flying back to Hanoi, we stopped to hike up Marble Mountain, a series of grottoes with a nice lookout over China Beach and Danang in the distance.  During the American war, the caves were used as a Viet Cong hospital, oddly quite close to one of the Americans' largest air bases.  From the main cave, where a large buddha carving and small cement temple were built, my Dad, finace and I climbed further through a narrow gap and up smooth irregular marble boulders to reach th...

My short visit to Sichuan Province during summer of 2005

I stayed at Sally's Cafe and Hostel after finding its listing inside "Let's Go China" guidebook. Unfortunately, my guidebooks (both Lonely Planet and Let's Go) did not have a map of Kangding so I asked someone to point out how to get to Nanwu Temple which the hostel is located next to. The walk took about 15 minutes. The hostel is located up a little hill and the owner placed signs around the street to indicate its location. The hostel features shared rooms with Tibetan styled beds (s...