Once in a while I see something that makes my heart melt a little bit. That’s what happened yesterday while I was sitting and people watching at Baita Gongyuan, a large stupa that has the most enormous prayer wheel I’ve ever seen! There are constantly people here, circling the stupa, turning the many…
“Xuanguan!” the bus ticket-collecter exclaimed to me when I said I was headed to Luobiao. “Yes!” I exclaimed excitedly, “Xuanguan!” I paid my 22 yuan and settled into a 2.5 hour bus trip down a river gorge into what felt like the middle of nowhere. I don’t think it was, really, as the bus seemed…
One question us travelers get asked a lot is “How many countries have you been to?” The problem is, I don’t know how to answer that question. Ok, so for me, depending on how I count, it could be anywhere between 33 and 43. (Yes, I actually wrote them all down and counted them…