China- the Revenge

After about a year and a half, I'm back in China. Because of my lack of final exams this term, I'm spending about 3 weeks here. I wasn't planning on blogging, but after the overly eventful past 48 hours since stepping off the plane, I feel obligated to as least keep some sort of documentation.

This will be a miniature version of summer 2007. Instead of 3 months, I have 3 weeks. Thus, everything is condensed. I started in Shanghai like before. Tomorrow, I leave for a two week history tour of China- Luyang, Xi'an, Pinyao, and Beijing. Xi'an and Beijing I went to last time. The others are smaller cities with ancient carved caves and cobblestone streets frozen in time (or so says Lonely Planet).

After coming back on the 30th, I'll probably take a short trip to Nanjing for the sake of nostalgia.

I think I will travel lighter this time around, so I will not bring my laptop. Thus, many of the entries will be posted after my journey ends. I will, however, keep documentation on paper, and of course take many pictures. I might even scan pages from my Moleskine if they are interesting enough.

Stay tuned.