BEIJING, China — On my first trip to China, which was about ten years ago, I was told that the Chinese people eat everything that has legs except a table. Long ago, the people were so poor that they ate anything they could find that [...]
When Dick Jensen, director of Murdock Escorted Tours ask me to go to China for a month to be the escort of three groups coming from the United States, I had no idea I would be traveling with a group of young kids performing for [...]
SOMEWHERE IN HONG KONG— I dropped into Dick Jensen's office (Director of Murdock Escorted Tours) one day, and he asked me if I would like to go to China for a month. Before I could think about it, yes was out of my mouth. I [...]
As many of you know I have been on my journey back to health for the past five years as I have lost 110 lbs and put exercise and healthy eating into my life. I am always interested in what people are doing to keep healthy. [...]
A group from LDS Travel left Salt Lake City, Utah on March 26, 2009 on a grand, two week, adventure to China. Our first stop, Guilin. Guilin This is the view out our Hotel window. Guilin (guayleen) is The Riviera of China located in southeast [...]
BEIJING — For years, Peking (which is the old name for Beijing) was the Forbidden City, home of the Empires of China. In the early 1900s, that era ended and China started on a new path that has led it to be on the world [...]
As I travel the world, I am always amazed to see concepts that people think of and then go on to create. When traveling to the Longi Rice Terrace, one is brought to wonder and amazement to see what has been created on the side [...]
For two weeks I am staying in a beautiful town in Southern China call Yangshuo. Here you see a lovely lake in the middle of the town with the most unusual mountain behind it that I say looks like the back of a camel. There are [...]
China has a culture that is over 5000 years old and many of the traditions have been passed down for thousands of years. The Chinese enjoy a plentiful breadbasket today, but for many years food was very scarce and many even starved. China is geographically [...]
It was always my dream to go to China and celebrate the Chinese lunar New Year. That opportunity came to me in 2013. I was the tour guide for a company that wanted to go to China and Thailand. After our tour, I flew to [...]
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