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China Travel Reads

Travel Reads > China

• Visiting my accountant in Pakistan Part 1: Kashgar, the journey begins [Ming Khor]
“Eating my way through the ancient silk road to reach my accountant.”

• Chongqing: The Anthony Bourdain episode that never was [Randomwire]
“Though Anthony Bourdain visited neighbouring Chengdu twice—once for No Reservations (2006) and again for Parts Unknown (2016), he never visited Chongqing (重庆), which is a shame because I think it would have been right in his wheelhouse. This is what I imagine he might have written if he had.”

• The Gobi was easy. China is complicated. [Ride with Ian]
“Biking to Japan Week #48.”

• Hiking the old Tibetan village and potato picking – the Chinese way [Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones]

• Into the wild [Tales of the Orient by Simon Ostheimer]
“How a side journey on the way to climb one of China’s most famous peaks, became an adventure all of its own.”

• China broke our brains [Brent and Michael Are Going Places]
“We expected to be shocked and transformed. We were.”

• Walking Zhengzhou (China) [Chris Arnade Walks the World]
“A rust belt city, without the rust.”

• A week in Chengdu [Asia Sentinel]
“Our traveling correspondent finds a native animal almost too cute to bear.”

• Digging for the deeper story in Yunnan’s “Tibet Disneyland” [Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones]

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