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Sometimes a video is better than a thousand words, and this might be the case. I took this with a photocamera while I was wandering around Zhongdian’s streets. This city is the southeasternmost corner of Tibet and is most commonly know between the Chinese as “Shangri La”. I turned around a corner in the cobbled paved old city, and this is what I found. Sorry for the low quality resolution, but sometimes it’s better to capture the glimpse of a moment, rather than have it just stuck into my head. FREE TIBET!!

I decided to put together a brief How To of traveling in China. This really just covers up the basics,  expect more random tutorials in the future. Everything is based on my own experience, or better, the one of a person with no knowledge of Chinese language and a pretty good sense of adventure and travel. Yes, because if you are looking for a relaxed, 5 star Chinese experience you can surely get that, but at the risk of spoiling it all of its true sense. Because China is a place that you really can’t understand if you don’t dive deep into it and its people. (more…)

I am probably not the most informed nor adapt person to talk about this, but living in China at the moment I seriously want to spend a few lines on this. The tibetan disorders of the past few days have, once again, put China and Tibet under the international spotlight. People are now debating about boycotting the Olyimpics, that same people that in Italy, a few months back, even refused to meet the Dalai Lama during his visit. The same old tired bullshit from the same old rascal politicians that doesn’t surprise nor impress me. And now they talk about boycotting the Games just because the fire of protest is getting closer and closer to their fat asses… this is just utterly revolting.

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