Posts Tagged ‘china’
In case you haven’t seen this (it’s been out for awhile) well, it’s quite a stunner. A young man, Christoph Rehage, sets off on a year-long journey across northern China, on foot! One thing I can say about it, besides the amazing visual style, is it will likely make you rethink your opinion that your pile of dishes in the sink is a monumental task.
Matador Network has an enlightening interview with this Mr. Rehage for your reading pleasure. His best quote, when asked about the obstacles he had to overcome:
[The] foot-pains being the first one. Then there are all kinds of different pains to follow, hopelessness and self-doubt being the most difficult to overcome. It sounds a bit tacky, but the biggest obstacle is always within ourselves.
He of course made it, and traversed well over 4000 kilometers in the process.
Enjoy the vid, and have a great weekend!
It’s always good to memorize a few words of a country’s language before setting off on your trip, if not only to appear polite when your visiting.
Mandarin Chinese is arguably one of the world’s most difficult languages to learn as an English speaker. Fortunately The Travel Linguist has taken it upon themselves to help untangle your tongue just in time for your trip to China. Included are such time-honored classics as “hello”, “goodbye”, “thank you”, “do you speak English” and the always timeless, “where is the bathroom?”
Romanticism runs high when envisioning the Silk Road, the network of trade routes across Asia that connected Europe and Northern Africa with China in the first millennium. It’s hard not to dream of camel caravans traversing great dusty deserts and starlit crescent moons with veiled and quiet nomads paying their debt to history.
The route itself dates as far back as 3000 B.C., with its heyday being between the 1st century B.C. and the 10th century A.D. The land route (there was a maritime route as well) spanned Northern China, the giant Taklamakan Desert, Persia and the Middle East, Constantinople ending in points along the Mediterranean, namely Rome and Venice.
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