Travels In Qinghai Province
We are leaving town early, on the advice of the driver who is anxious the road ahead may be bad. It is a beautiful morning, the sun just creeping over the valley walls. We boiled water and milk, ate bland fried bread, and left the hotel smoothly. The shops haven’t opened yet, though the street […]
The Qinghai Quanxi – Travelling In China
It is one of the real joys of traveling, when one finds ones self in a string of friends, families, contacts and compadres! This is guanxi. It makes all the difference. I had a pretty stressful departure from Beijing, where I timed my airport arrival to perfection, to find that I had got the wrong […]