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I’m in Thailand. Hallelujah. It was definitely time to move on and Thailand is exactly what I needed. I’ve been thinking alot about Tibet as I spend my days relaxing in Bangkok, though.
The beginning of the kora at Gandan monastery, Tibet
We spent a couple of days this week hunting down local buses that would take us to a few monasteries outside of Lhasa. One was Sera monastery, where we saw some monks in heated philosophical debate, and the other was Gandan monastery, which was simply AMAZING!! It was without a doubt one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been and we were lucky enough to walk the kora around the monastery with mostly Tibetan people on pilgrimages from all over Tibet. [read on]
Late night shoe repair, Beijing
I've been in Beijing for 8 days now and although I wasn't exactly excited about spending another week of my vacation here it was exactly ... [Continue reading this entry] 
It took two trips to Beijing, but I finally made it to The Great Wall. Yesterday I hiked 10 kilometers on one of the less developed stretches of ... [Continue reading this entry] 
It's over.
I made it through a month of Kung Fu training in China without any broken bones or major injuries. Every part of my body was screaming ... [Continue reading this entry] 
Entrance to the Shaolin Temple
The Shaolin Temple is only 9 kilometers from my Kung Fu school. It is said that Kung Fu began in the Shaolin Temple and ... [Continue reading this entry] 
It's been a long week. We loaded up two buses last Friday with all of our belongings and a ridiculous amount of swords and drove about an hour ... [Continue reading this entry] 
Everything hurts. Everything. The first day I arrived at the Kung Fu training center, the two cheery German boys across the hall from me told me on ... [Continue reading this entry] 
I'm now in Xi'an which, like Pingyao, is a city surrounded by an ancient wall. Xi'an was the capital of China thousands of years ago, but today it ... [Continue reading this entry] 
At least in my opinion.
We left Beijing last night around 11:30pm, an hour and a half later than our scheduled departure time, on the way to Pingyao, ... [Continue reading this entry] 
Amanda