Qinghai | Todd and Ziqin's Travels

DAY FOUR OF EXPLORING THE QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU

February 3, 2015 / No Comments / Posted in: China, Qinghai

The next morning we left the local inn and headed to the adjacent Gansu Province to check out another site–张掖丹霞 (Danxia Mountains in Zhangye). On our way to the destination, we began to chitchat with our Continue Reading

DAY TWO OF EXPLORING THE QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU-

January 27, 2015 / No Comments / Posted in: China, Qinghai, Xining

The night in the camp was fine with all the modern technology, namely the electric blankets. Still it took us a few minutes to warm up under the blankets. So far, altitude sickness had not bothered Continue Reading

DAY ONE OF EXPLORING THE QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU–Wifey‘s Side of Story

January 23, 2015 / No Comments / Posted in: China, Qinghai

Alright, in my husband’s post, he said he was sitting in a tent right now typing his article. You might wonder what I was doing at that moment. Let me tell you, I was taking Continue Reading

The Train from Xining to Lhasa, Tibet

June 27, 2014 / No Comments / Posted in: China, Lhasa, Qinghai, Tibet, Xining

We took the train from Xining to Lhasa starting yesterday and arrived today. All the pictures I took from the train were taken with my cell phone because I was too lazy to pull out Continue Reading

The Rest of the Xining Tour

June 24, 2014 / No Comments / Posted in: Asia, China, Gansu, Qinghai, Xining, Zhangye

I call this the Xining tour because that is where it started. We traveled to places outside Xining though. We even left the Qinghai province and traveled up to Gansu province close to the border Continue Reading

Day One of Exploring the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

June 21, 2014 / 1 Comment / Posted in: Asia, China, Qinghai, Uncategorized

I am sitting in a tent right now typing this, though if you are reading it that means I published it when we got back to internet somewhere (update: we are still in the tent, Continue Reading

Day One in Xining, not much to share

June 19, 2014 / 2 Comments / Posted in: Asia, China, Qinghai, Xining

So we spent our first day in Xining. We didn’t really see much today, our tour of the sites around here starts tomorrow. We just went and checked out the city, we saw a temple Continue Reading