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Location: Beijing
Nick and the team bid a hearty "Ni Hao" from Beijing and give a general
introduction the the whole Around The World 1999 endeavor.
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Location: Beijing
Todd provides a detailed account of the Team's experience of Beijing,
including trips to Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.
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Location: Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province
Chanda recounts some of the events in Beijing, the trip to the Great Wall,
and the journey onward into Zhangjiakou.
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Location: Dongxing, Inner Mongolia
As the trip continues into Inner Mongolia, Earle reveals the details of the
first mechanical difficulty of the trip and answers a question submitted by
email.
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Location: Zhongwei, Ningxia Province
After traveling west from Beijing to Baotou, the Team turns southwest and
travels several hundred miles to Zhongwei. Doug recounts the details of
this leg of the China trip.
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Location: Lanzhou, Gansu Province
Continuing in a southwesterly direction, the Team makes the trip from
Zhongwei to Lanzhou. At this point they are deep into the interior of
Mainland China and very close the the Tibetan Plateau. Jeff checks in with
a few highlights.
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Location: Xining, Qinghai Province
The Team leaves Lanzhou and begins the trip up into the higher altitudes of
the Tibetan Plateau. In this rather long entry, Nick covers the trip from
Lanzhou to Xining, and provides a detailed answer to a question submitted
by email.
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Location: Dulan, Qinghai Province
Pressing onwards into Tibet, the team covers the distance from Xining to
Dulan. Nick provides another longish entry and answers another email
question. More Land Rover tech stuff here, too.
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Location: Golmud, Qinghai Province
Still covering the distance into Tibet, the team travels from Dulan to
Golmud. Todd provides some information about this leg of the trip, some
interesting local color, and some info about how the Rovers are doing now
that they're operating above 10,000 ft.
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Location: Golmud, Qinghai Province
Chanda tells a cute little story about a trip to the Golmud marketplace and
some interesting foodstuffs she ran into.
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Location: Pagnag, Tibet
Earle tells the story of the ride out of Golmud, over the Tibetan
highlands, and into Pagnag. Then Nick checks in and answers a question
about how he prepared the Rovers. Lots of interesting detail here for all
of you Land Rover nerds enthusiasts.
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Location: Lhasa, Tibet
Picking up where Earle left off, Doug covers the second half of the stretch
from Golmud, continuing on into Lhasa.
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Location: Lhasa, Tibet
Doug adds some information to his October 25th report, and then Jeff
rejoins the team and checks in with some interesting experiences from
Chengdu and Lhasa.
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Location: Xigaze, Tibet
Todd provides this journal entry, covering the trip from Lhasa to Xigaze.
This entry is light on hard data and heavy on Todd's subjective impressions
of what it was like to travel through Tibet and interact with the people
who live there, giving a personal perspective to global news events.
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Location: Xegar, Tibet
Chanda covers the frip from Xigaze to Xegar. As with Todd's
entries from this region, Chanda describes her impressions of the Tibetan
people and their unfortunate political and cultural situation.
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Location: Xegar, Tibet
Doug covers the trip into this remote region of Tibet near Mt Everest.
Unfortunately Earle and Nick got really sick during this leg of the trip.
Fortunately this leg of the trip was still very spectacular. There were
also some interesting mechanical difficulties here. Quite a story.
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Location: Rongpu, Tibet
Completing the China section of the journals, Earle relates his experience
of being at the "Rim of the World", although he and Nick were still a
little under the weather at this point.
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